{"id":8694,"date":"2020-12-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2020-12-14T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:47:32","slug":"24-days-of-quarantine-day-13-a-charlie-brown-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8694","title":{"rendered":"24 Days of Quarantine Fun – Day 13: A Charlie Brown Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this year, there was a massive online outrage over the purchase of the Peanuts<\/em> specials by Apple. I didn’t follow it too closely, so I think that people assumed this meant that the specials would no longer be shown on TV, and the collective internet freaked the heck out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then Apple confirmed that the specials would still be on TV, and the galaxy was at peace once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> is the only Peanuts special I’ve ever felt compelled to purchase on physical media. Possibly because it’s the only one I would watch annually on TV as a kid. I’m pretty sure I stopped watching it once I outgrew YTV, and that it was completely purged from my mind at that point, because when I started watching it again in recent years, it felt like I was watching it for the first time again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You probably know the special – it’s about Charlie Brown becoming disillusioned by the commercialization of Christmas, and trying to find ways to properly get himself in the holiday spirit. It’s a little preachy, and I think that every holiday special that came after would project the same general message. By the time 1970 rolled around, “the true meaning of Christmas” would be a dead horse, beaten year-after-year by every holiday episode and special ever made. Or at least that’s my perception of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funny thing is, I don’t know how much I actually like<\/em> this special. I watch it because it’s tradition, but I don’t really get a whole lot out of it. There aren’t any especially funny scenes, nothing that really makes me feel particularly strongly in any way, not quotes that I feel compelled to parrot out at every opportunity. Mostly I just spend a lot of time thinking about how much time they pad with that same shot of all the kids dancing in the auditorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I had to make a recommendation… Maybe watch It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown<\/em>, which is the 1990 special. It’s not incredible either, but at least it’s got some jokes. It also has a lot of Peppermint Patty and Marcie, who are my favourite duo of the Peanuts gang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, there was a massive online outrage over the purchase of the Peanuts specials by Apple. I didn’t follow it too closely, so I think that people assumed this meant that the specials would no longer be shown on TV, and the collective internet freaked the heck out. But then Apple confirmed that … Continue reading 24 Days of Quarantine Fun – Day 13: A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-idiot-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}