A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973 TV Short)

Stephen Shea: Linus van Pelt

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.

• 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] 

• Linus van Pelt : In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit, who brought ninety of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food. Governor William Bradford and Captain Miles Standish were honored guests. Elder William Brewster, who was a minister, said a prayer that went something like this: 'We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land. We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice."

  Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : Amen.

• Linus van Pelt : This is not unlike another famous Thanksgiving episode. Do you remember the story of John Alden, and Priscilla Mullins, and Captain Miles Standish?

  Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : This isn't like that one at all.

• 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.