Good grief: Charlie Brown's Halloween special not airing on TV for the first time since 1966

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I suddenly have a hankerin’ for a Dolly Madison product.

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I’ve seen it once and… I don’t understand the appeal. Is it just an annual ritual that’s only meaningful to those in the US?

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I feel sorry for all the generations whose brains don’t get a flood of dopamine when they hear this intro

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Yeah but that cuts both ways, I remember discovering that “A CBS Special” was not always equal to “A Peanuts Special” (nor, for that matter, “A Rankin-Bass special.”)

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A lot of those were downers.

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Well

  • yes

but also

  • the first one, the Christmas show, was a real work of art

  • Peanuts was a big deal for multiple generations of newspaper comic readers

  • there wasn’t much decent animation on TV back in the day, so anything we had seemed special

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Just buy the dvd at this point or the digital version. I mean we complain about cable the and talk about cutting the cord right?

Change happens. Things move forward. It’s not the end of the world.

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Nice while it lasted. Appelschiste!

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I see what you did there

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Part of the hate is due to their “unique” streaming service - no Android client, no way to cast/Airplay to the bulk of TVs/STBs/streaming sticks, and the premium price for their hardware to stream. Compare and contrast Netflix, Amazon, Disney + etc. Apple TV+ is a ball-ache.

It’s like the really want people to pirate their content.

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Apple TV is available on other TV’s nowadays and no longer exclusive to Apple products.

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It’s on some new TV’s from LG, Sony and Samsung and some STB/Sticks like I mentioned. But no Android client smacks of being churlish.

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