Life-long Peanuts fans and professional fussbudgets Molly Lewis & Josh A. Cagan discuss and dissect the animated specials. Podcast art by Lar deSouza.
Animator & writer Leigh Lahav brings a fresh perspective on Christmas, America, Stranger Things, and more in our annual revisit of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
TALKING POINTS
- Snoopy, the Hello Kitty of North America;
- like when Neo learns Kung Fu in The Matrix, except it's Christmas;
- Googling "tweening," a totally SFW animation term;
- a giant silver bottle brush as tall as a man that you have to handle with gloves;
- dunking your hapless husband in a big old tank of America;
- Hot Judah Macabee, your next Halloween costume.
Our guest is Leigh Lahav, a writer, animator, director, and YouTube sensation. Watch her fantastic Stranger Things / CB Christmas mashup on her YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/onlyleigh |
@leighlahav.
EXTRA CREDIT
Blandishment by Ken Plume.
Podcast art by Lar DeSouza.
Peanuts Gallery is a proud member of Waffle Media.
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Our guests are Renée Colvert & Allegra Ringo, hosts of Can I Pet Your Dog?
A dog goes away, and comes back, and goes away, and comes back. Also, he punches two children in the face.
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Children ride escalators, and a girl doesn't know how eggs work. Also, a bird has a swingin' bachelor pad.
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A bird and a dog try to find a stolen nest. Also, a dirty child is lonely.
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A bird and a dog try to find a stolen nest. Also, a dirty child is lonely.
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An awful child invites herself over to her weak-willed friends' house, and is upset that she is force-fed starch. Also, a dog and a chair fight to death. Joseph Scrimshaw joins us.
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YA authors Kayla Cagan & Amy Spalding (& Banjo L. Cagan, silently) join us for a spirited roundtable about 1973's There's No Time For Love, Charlie Brown — a salty indictment of pop art, in which we learn about the disappointments of the public school system, as well as the theory of transitive kissing.
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A boy runs for student body president. A girl can't open her locker. Also, a dog wears sunglasses, and prepares himself a well-balanced breakfast (though not at the same time).
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Angela Webber (of The Doubleclicks) joins us for an review of 1971's aerosol-obsessed "Play It Again, Charlie Brown."
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For our two-part HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR, Nicole Dieker and Andy Cownden join us to talk about Eric Schaeffer's popular stage adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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We review the 1969 feature film "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" with special guest Allie Goertz!
