Sally wants her big brother, (Ole Charlie Brown) to read her a story because , in her words, he promised her that he would read her story. After she prods Charlie Brown he relents and gets two books : War and Peace or The Pied Piper (Are children supposed to read War and Peace, and what if Sally picked that one would this be called " It's War and Peace , Charlie Brown" ?) Since the title of the special is not with War and Peace , you know Sally picks the 2nd book because it was lighter. Charlie Brown changes rats to mice because Sally didn't like that intro. (Rats are jerks , mice are not) He also changes the story to a more modern small town , over run with mice (sports mice).
The mice dance in victory of their kill/ Copyright Peanuts
The mayor has a strict wear red and white policy/ Copyright Peanuts
The desperate mayor agrees to have Snoopy (the Pied Piper) get to work he even signs Snoopy's contract. (Politics at work?) Snoopy plays his Concertina and he leads the mice in a merry melody and leads the mice out of town. (Though, apparently the city has a low cat population, darn it Bob Barker ) Then Charlie Brown , Snoopy , and some kids there to help Snoopy all go the mayor to collect his reward. The mayor decides he doesn't think he promised such a thing even dis-owning that the contract is real and not even owning up to signing it. (In other words , he's a politician)
Charlie Brown warns the mayor that folks that don't pay a promise will pay in other ways. Snoopy plays his instrument again and the mayor and pals all get enamored and follow Snoopy out of town , never to be seen again. (Hey Snoopy , we have a job for you, we will keep our promise) Charlie tells his sister the moral of the story, to keep your promises. Sally doesn't believe anything like that can happen in real life when : Charlie Brown and Sally hear music outside and see Linus , Lucy, Peppermint Patty , and Franklin all dancing around Snoopy's dog house as he is playing his instrument. Lucy begs Charlie Brown to make him stop.
That's our look at this special , it's a quite interesting one , fun to see the Peanuts characters playing an interesting story. (War and Peace Peanuts would have rocked) The music in the special is a fun mixture of Irish sounding, country, anda few other sounds. It's a nice special based off the story.
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