Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
Roy Hart
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
ultramatt2000-1
I loved this special when I was a kid. I found it funny and amusing from Snoopy's antics to Linus' speech. I liked the part where Snoopy is making toast and Woodstock is putting Snoopy's ear in the toaster and puts butter on it. I found it funny and when I saw it with a new set of eyes, I cringed with my brother because I was expecting Snoopy to yell "YEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!"Fortunately that didn't happen and the beagle was unharmed. Yesterday, I was shopping with my mother and I heard some music that sounded like this cartoon and it was it! She thought it was French music, but I told her it was music from the cartoon. She knew it. Speaking of food, popcorn? Pretzels? Buttered Toast? Jelly Beans? That is like the poor man's Thanksgiving. At least something like Pumpkin Pie or Apple Pie will do it. All in all, is great for the whole family, I had fond memories of it and so will you. This has been another "Matthew Praises." Happy Thanksgiving!
Hitchcoc
Peppermint Patty coerces Charlie Brown into inviting her and all her friends to a Thanksgiving dinner. Of course all she does is show up. He is stuck preparing the meal from his vast store of recipes. Toast, popcorn, and jellybeans. Of course, she demands turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, etc. She then berates him in front of his friends. Poor Charlie and his lack of backbone. Snoopy proves to be the real star of this episode with his incredibly positive outlook and resiliency. Everyone forgets that when it comes to accomplishments, he is the only one who pulls his weight. These Peanuts shows were certainly fun and continue to entertain many years later.
TheLittleSongbird
All the Peanuts specials are worth seeing at least once, and a good deal of them are classics. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving to me is not as good as Charlie Brown Christmas and Great Pumpkin as far as their Holiday specials go (and part of it is because Christmas and Halloween resonate a little more with me personally), but it is still a classic and one of the better Peanuts specials.A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving contains some very nicely done animation. It's bright and colourful with detailed backgrounds and charming and never ugly drawings. The music score is both jaunty and whimsical, and the songs are certainly incredibly catchy and have the right amount of emotional impact. Who can't help tingle with warmth during Linus and Lucy? As can be expected, A Charlie Brown Christmas is incredibly well written, the humour is warm and gentle ("what do you expect, a turkey card?") but also hilarious, it's educational which parents will really appreciate and it's filled with charm and heart too, like with the uplifting ending.The story, while simple, is equally funny, charming and heartfelt, while it doesn't have a central message as such like Christmas (for example) or Great Pumpkin's memorable absurdity the meaning of Thanksgiving is still very well put across without preaching. The occasional surreal touch- like Snoopy fighting with the deck chair, which also proved one of the funnier moments too- was welcome and didn't feel out of place.Here the characters are on top form and true to personalities, as a big fan of Snoopy he doesn't disappoint and Charlie and Linus are very likable. Peppermint Patty may not be for all tastes (coming from someone who knows people who find her voice irritating), but is to me a very colourful and entertaining character regardless. The voice acting is fine and well suited, with only the occasional choppiness of Marcie's voice work being a very occasional oddity.Overall, a great Thanksgiving special, and one of the better (and slightly overlooked) Peanuts Holiday specials. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Geeky Randy
A Thanksgiving classic about Peppermint Patty inviting herself, Marcie and Franklin over for Thanksgiving, forcing Charlie Brown to recruit Linus, Snoopy and Woodstock to prepare a big holiday dinner. Tenth prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip PEANUTS. Won an Emmy Award in 1974. You can count on it to be aired every November on ABC, usually back-to-back with the first episode of THIS IS America, CHARLIE BROWN "The Mayflower Voyagers". Like a lot of childhood staples, this has sentimental value to those who grew up with it, but this segment is too brief and dated to really grip those who were introduced to it too late.**½ (out of four)
