Our seventh installment of our fun of (kind of ) celebrating the 65th anniversary of The Peanuts coming out. As you know , our criteria is to not look at holiday specials and thankyou August for not having a Holiday , I guess.
Our special we are lookback at this time is "It's a Mystery , Charlie Brown" (ahh why not It's Murder , Charlie Brown , it's not real but it should have been ). This special came out on CBS in February 1974. Woodstock's nest goes missing one afternoon (probably a Tuesday) and he consults Snoopy to help him.
He looks shocked / Copyrights Peanuts
Poor Pigpen /Copyright Peanuts
Then they visit Peppermint Patty , who thinks they are playing cops and robbers and she plays the robber . This causes Snoopy and Woodstock to leave . (Never shoot your guests that makes them leave) They then notice footprints at Woodstock's tree (open 24 hours) and followed them to the school. They enter the school from an open window and see the nest labeled as 'Prehistoric Bird's Nest' they grab it and return it. The next day Sally is unhappy, when she finds out her science experiment (can you guess what it was? ) is missing. When she tells Charlie Brown he figures out that she took Woodstock's nest. Charlie Brown doesn't want Sally to fight Snoopy ( because he knows Snoopy would win) and takes them to an objective person. (or Lucy , because they couldn't find one)
Judge Lucy , Weekdays at 5 on Channel 32 /Copyright peanuts
Lucy hears the case , Snoopy becomes Woodstock's Lawyer , and eventually finds in case of the bird (Woodstock). Snoopy and Charlie Brown help out a sad Sally (we didn't mean the alliteration) and eventually Snoopy becomes part of her new experiment. The experiment of Pavlov (the nervous system) , to prove if a dog will drool if you ring a bell.
It's a good special , and it's fun to have a Snoopy and Woodstock driven episode for characters who don't talk much, and dialogue added by the characters is fun. Also the scenes of Snoopy's investigation were fun , like Macy not understanding dog talk so she slams the door , and Peppermint Patty wanting to play cops and robbers. Also we love the use of a factual scientific thing.
That's our look at "It's a Mystery Charlie Brown" tune in next time for when Judge Lucy looks after a case about a man not paying his former friend not paying $1000 for watching his cat.
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