A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973 TV Short)

Todd Barbee: Charlie Brown

Quotes 

• Charlie Brown : We've got ANOTHER holiday to worry about. It seems Thanksgiving Day is upon us.

  Sally Brown : I haven't even finished eating all of my Halloween candy!

  Linus van Pelt : Sally, Thanksgiving is a very important holiday. Ours was the first country in the world to make a national holiday to give thanks.

  Sally Brown : [to Charlie Brown]  Isn't he the cutest thing?

• [after singing "Over the River and Through the Woods to Grandmother's House We Go"] 

  Charlie Brown : Well, there's only one thing wrong with that.

  Linus van Pelt : What's that, Charlie Brown?

  Charlie Brown : My grandmother lives in a condominium.

• Charlie Brown : I can't cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.

  Linus van Pelt : That's right. I've seen you make toast. You can't butter it, but maybe we can help you. Snoopy, you go out to the garage and make a table we can set up in the backyard.

• Marcie : Don't feel bad, Chuck. Peppermint Patty didn't mean all those things she said. Actually, she really likes you.

  Charlie Brown : I don't feel bad for myself; I just feel bad because I ruined everyone's Thanksgiving.

  Marcie : But Thanksgiving is more than eating, Chuck. You heard what Linus was saying out there. Those early Pilgrims were thankful for what had happened to them, and we should be thankful, too. We should just be thankful for being together. I think that's what they mean by 'Thanksgiving,' Charlie Brown.

• Marcie : He's all yours, Priscilla.

  Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : Priscilla?

  Charlie Brown : Priscilla?

• [first lines] 

  Lucy van Pelt : [holding football]  Charlie Brown! Oh, Charlie Brown!

  Charlie Brown : I can't believe it. She must think I'm the most stupid person alive.

  Lucy van Pelt : Come on, Charlie Brown. I'll hold the ball and you kick it.

  Charlie Brown : Hold it? Ha! You'll pull it away and I'll land flat on my back and kill myself.

  Lucy van Pelt : But Charlie Brown, it's Thanksgiving.

  Charlie Brown : What's that got to do with anything?

  Lucy van Pelt : Well, one of the greatest traditions we have is the Thanksgiving Day football game. And the biggest, most important tradition of all is the kicking off of the football.

  Charlie Brown : Is that right?

  Lucy van Pelt : Absolutely. Come on, Charlie Brown. It's a big honor for you.

  Charlie Brown : Well, if it's that important, a person should never turn down a big honor. Maybe I *should* do it. Besides, she wouldn't try to trick me on a traditional holiday. This time I'm gonna kick that football clear to the moon!

  [he runs to kick the ball, but Lucy pulls it away] 

  Charlie Brown : Aaauuugh!

  [falls flat on his back] 

  Lucy van Pelt : Isn't it peculiar, Charlie Brown, how some traditions just slowly fade away?

• Linus van Pelt : What are you going to do on Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown?

  Charlie Brown : My mother and dad, and Sally and I are all going to my grandmother's for dinner.

  Sally Brown : Why don't you come along, Linus? We can hold hands under the table.

  Linus van Pelt : Blah!

  [he hides himself under his blanket] 

• Sally Brown : What's the matter, big brother?

  Charlie Brown : Nothing. I was just checking the mailbox.

  Sally Brown : What did you expect, a turkey card?

• Charlie Brown : Holidays always depress me.

  Sally Brown : I know what you mean. I went down to buy a turkey tree and all they have are things for Christmas.

  Charlie Brown : For Christmas, already?

• Sally Brown : Do you know what we have to do? We have to write an essay on Stanley Miles.

  Charlie Brown : You mean Miles Standish.

  Sally Brown : I can't keep track of all those names.

• Charlie Brown : [after Snoopy and Woodstock accidentally shoot Snoopy's rifle]  Come on, Snoopy, we don't have any time for this playing around. The guests will be here pretty soon, so please get ready to help serve them.

  [Snoopy sighs a martyred sigh] 

• Charlie Brown : [after getting off the phone with Peppermint Patty for the third time]  I think I'm losing control of the whole world.

  [hangs up the phone] 

  Linus van Pelt : *Now* what's wrong?

  Charlie Brown : Now she's bringing Franklin, too. Peppermint Patty's invited herself, Marcie, and Franklin over for Thanksgiving dinner. And I'm not even going to be home. I'm going to be at my grandmother's.

  Linus van Pelt : Why don't you just call her back and explain it to her?

  Charlie Brown : You can't explain anything to Peppermint Patty because you never get to say anything. I'm doomed. Three guests for Thanksgiving, and I'm not even going to be home. Peppermint Patty will hate me for the rest of my life.

• Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : [entering the living room with Marcie]  Apologies accepted, Chuck ole boy?

  Charlie Brown : Sure.

  Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : There's enough problems in the world already, Chuck, without these stupid misunderstandings. Let's not play lovers' games, Chuck.

  Charlie Brown : [as he and Peppermint Patty shake hands]  I agree.

• Charlie Brown : Good grief, it's four o'clock! We're supposed to be at grandmother's house for Thanksgiving by 4:30.

  [starts dialing on a nearby phone] 

  Charlie Brown : I'd better talk to her and explain my dilemma.