Well, Halloween has come and gone with little fanfare, and has left me regretting the shortcomings of everyone's favorite Youtube. Finding "Garfield's Halloween Adventure" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was no problem, but such Halloween classics as the original "Disney's Halloween Treat" and Bugs Bunny Halloween Special were curiously absent. It's a terrible loss, but the memories of these fine programs will live on.
While we're on the topic of these old animated specials, anyone notice just what a raw deal Charlie Brown got? I mean, honestly; sure, his so-called friends never treated him very well, but it extended beyond just that. Even adults - people who had presumably never met Charlie Brown before in their lives - felt compelled to throw rocks in his trick-or-treat bag. That's just mean.
By the way, following this tangent even further, why does the cast of invisible adults that populates the world of Peanuts seem to completely exclude the children's' parents? And it's not as though we just don't ever hear from them; they don't seem to be present at all. For instance, late Halloween night - long after everyone has gone to sleep - Lucy wakes up and checks to see whether Linus has returned from the pumpkin patch, and finds his bed empty. She then gets dressed and treks out to the pumpkin patch herself to bring him home. Where on earth are their parents when this is happening? No one in their right mind would let their kid go sit in a pumpkin patch alone all Halloween night.
It makes me wonder whether the children of peanuts actually live alone in some kind of frightening society of their own design, free of the constraints placed on them by the adults of this world a la Children of the Corn. Lacking true authority figures, they follow imagined orders issued by disembodied voices, made by the children's' twisted psyches to fill various roles, such as 'teacher' and 'doctor'.
Man, Peanuts was weird.
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