Another Peanuts special? Yes. The Apple TV specials produced by WildBrain continue. Of note, Peanuts has been sold again, kind of. Previously, since 2017 Peanuts was sold to Canadian media company DHX now known as WildBrain. That meant they owned 80% with 20% still being owned by the Schulz family. There is still a tight grip by the family on it. WildBrain sold a share to Sony Music Entertainment Japan 49% of the 80% share would be owned by them. In 2025, WB (I'm doing shorthand) sold their share to Sony Pictures Entertainment so SMEJ and SPE own 80% now. This doesn't change much of what's going on with Peanuts and the streaming specials by WildBrian and streaming on Apple TV (no longer Plus) will continue. (Unless you are reading this in the future and everything has moved to Tubi or ESPN or whatever)
Sorry for that, but did want to put some news in this. This special is the 53rd Peanuts animated special and 8th for Apple TV (the streaming service that is named after Apple TV and used to have a Plus). From July 31, 2026. It's called "Snoopy Presents: There's No Place Like Home, Snoopy" and as always the "Snoopy Presents" title bugs me and always will, unless I get abducted and my brain has been swapped. The rest of the title, at least, feels more Peanuts style, even if they went with Snoopy instead of Charlie Brown.
The special starts with some Woodstock stuff. A good way to lead us to some Snoopy flying his doghouse stuff. It's a pretty long sequence of mostly no dialogue. Eventually it leads to Sally Brown and Charlie Brown working on making a yard sell. Snoopy even has some stuff to sell. Charlie Brown has stuff to sell, but he's kind of attached. Sally is oddly efficient and taking command which is odd to me.
Sally's selling seems to do well. This special decides to remember Milo, one of the Goose Eggs. A baseball team of younger kids Charlie Brown ran into when he was running away from the EPA after he bit a tree. They really haven't been seen in a long time in Peanuts media. Snoopy has a hard time selling his stuff as it seems nobody has any taste and he storms off. Charlie Brown is attached to his stuff and really doesn't seem to want to sell it.
You've heard of red shirt Shaggy, well here's red shirt, Charlie Brown/ Copyright WildBrain
That will come into play later. Charlie Brown goes in the house too and the sale is over. That's when Snoopy finds out the plot of this special. Sally has sold his doghouse. She doesn't remember who she sold it to either. The pop style song with montage of Snoopy missing his doghouse is not something I was expecting. It's little jarring, not a bad song per say, it is a jarring for something. I also do question the need to have a whole montage of Snoopy loving his doghouse, I think that's already understood.
Are you sure it's not just invisible? / Copyright WildBrain
Woodstock and some other birds try to make him a new dog house, but it's made with sticks and not every strong for a Snoopy. Charlie Brown decides to help him and buy a new doghouse. Snoopy doesn't like any single doghouse in that store which is the conveniently unnatural doghouse store it seems.
I do like this special seems to be more focused on Charlie Brown, it's kind of nice to see him not pushed to the side here. Even with the Snoopy stuff. There's a good focus on him in this and it's kind of fun. Charlie Brown and Snoopy decide to go on the hunt to just find the doghouse. They run into Peppermint Patty and Marcie who don't have doghouse. There's also a long awkward pause.
Who is that? / Copyright Peanuts
There's another montage of Snoopy looking around with Charlie Brown and not finding the dog house. Rerun is there for a moment too, we point and smile then he's gone and we move on. We also get a Lucy getting licked by a dog germs moment. (They are playing the greatest hits) Sadly, no doghouse. They get another leads with Milo who bought a bunch of stuff, including things to make Snoopy feel more anguish. He does have the doghouse that he and the other Goose Eggs into a club house. Milo refuses to give it back.
They've gone by the "no givesy-backsy" rule/ Copyright WildBrain
Charlie Brown ends up finding Franklin who gives him the home is where the heart is thing. That to make him not seem too wise they had him get it from a cereal box. That gives Charlie Brown an idea to give that stuff he didn't want to give up earlier (see) to the Goose Eggs for the doghouse back. Then he was able to present it to Snoopy for a great return. What a ..what do you mean there's like 5 more minutes left? Ohh well they to take off the stuff the Goose Eggs put on the house and it collapses.
Then it seems everyone else has come to help rebuild Snoopy's house. They use that song again. Snoopy's doghouse is fine and alright again. They say the title. Then Snoopy decides to sleep in Charlie Brown's bed with Charlie Brown. That's it.
Good night/ Copyright Peanuts
One thing to note, this special is shorter than the past specials for Apple TV have been. It's 31 minutes. The extra 5 minutes you see on Apple TV are credits in different languages. It's slightly longer than older TV specials. I do think this was good decision. This special, like a lot of Peanuts specials, does have some filler moments, but I think having them be longer made them have more stuff going on that didn't fit. The previous special at summer camp was a little too long.
The animation here was different too, it looked more like "The Snoopy Show" the WildBrain Peanuts show on Apple TV. It does make one wonder if it was a just a special episode of that show or not. I like how it looked. I do like how the past specials looked in the art style they were going for, but I think this charming in its own way. I liked how the sequence where Snoopy was looking for house looked.
My personal look at these newer specials is that one problem I have with them is they feel they skew way too young in how they feel. I'm not a person who says Peanuts isn't something that children can read and watch, but these always feel they are going out of their way to skew to really young children. "The Snoopy Show" series really has the feeling that it would be a show for Nick Jr. Peanuts was always something really for a general audience, because it started in newspapers.
The story was fine and the way it was done is great for a really young kid to get into Peanuts. The idea was done better in the strip itself where Snoopy's house burned down and he had to deal the aftermath of that. I think Charlie Brown's arc in the special was fine, but I think something , again about all these Apple specials is that they so seem to something to character that seems a little off.
I found the use of the Goose Eggs, mostly Milo, interesting but also kind of a giveaway and then having Franklin give advice was kind of random. I always feel these specials have a story then try to put Peanuts characters into the story and fit them in their way and not the other way around where it's story made for Peanuts. This one is stranger as a I said, Peanuts did the whole Snoopy losing his dog house in a much more visceral way in the strips in 1966 , so they had a groundwork if they didn't want to follow that exactly, they'd at least have something of an idea to fit the characters in the roles.
Yeah and there's a moral of home is where the heart is, and not the home itself. Which is fine, but a little simplified, again feeling like it was for preschoolers. Yeah a house is a house and stuff is stuff, the real thing that makes it a home isn't that and that's a nice message. It's not a message you'd go and say to someone whose house just burnt down or something.
The song they used twice was a little surprising. It's not the kind of song you expect in Peanuts. It also was kind of the nose for the message.
Did I hate it? No. Did I love it? No. I think it was fine, it's pretty alright as a special for Peanuts and feels like it works well for young children. The other part of me that just loves seeing Peanuts characters likes seeing Peanuts characters so it was fine for that. It's good for family viewing and hopefully leads people into watching older Peanuts media and reading the strips which is something I always want, new Peanuts fans.
That's it for now, tune in next time when I accidently sell a priceless diamond for 5 cents.
