The Peanuts Lookback : She's a Good Skate , Charlie Brown

The Flashback  Peanuts 

    Since it's winter,still that means ice skating,  That takes us to Charlie Brown.  For note: this specail airs every year ABC plays it with  "Happy New Year Charlie Brown"  (watch ABC make us look stupid this year) but it's not a Holiday special so it fits in these set of lookbacks.   She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown came out in February of 1980. (honestly we didn't know the date until now and that's some good timing guess here)  
         This special is about Peppermint Patty (yay!) and it starts with her ice skating with Snoopy as her coach.  (Some of you are surprised that  P.P ice skates)    Peppermint Patty is having problems staying up class  because she's been getting up at 4:30AM  each morning to practice Ice Skating. (That's crazy not even local news should be on at that time)
 

  Sleep loss also causes Sandal wearing in snow / copyright peanuts 

    We some of her training with Snoopy at the early time in the morning . (Snoopy is not Snoppy without is morning cofee)  Meanwhile , some hockey players  begin to bug Peppermint Patty (and they keep calling her beautiful , which is the weirdest insult ever )  She and Snoppy take out the whole 10 hockey kids in 2 pushes.   You know  Snoopy is a pretty ruthless coach too.   Marcie helps Peppermint Patty with her dress for the skating competition , though she was more drafted into it by Peppermint Patty. 

                                                 

                      Fabrics Notions  right next to Mom's  Deli ... with the best foods /Copyright Peanuts
  When Marcie ,who repeatably said, that she wasn't good at sewing  the dress turns out bad.

                                                             

                                          Either that or a new fashion trend/ Copyright Penaunts
   Luckly , Snoopy saves the day , since he is a good tailor and dress maker (of course he is)  She also wants  help with her hair.  She didn't like the wig Snoopy suggested so she gives that up.  Now it's the day the competition  Snoopy has the new job of Zamboni driver (Snoopy runs the entire U.S economy)   There's also the "hey we paid to watch a special so we are going to see the whole competition set of scenes" until we get to see Peppermint Patty's turn.  Something goes wrong though as her tape (aww the 80's)  does what tapes do  and falls apart.  If she doesn't get music quick she could be disqualified.   Woodstock saves the day as he whistles a tune (the sound of an angel ).

                                                   

                                                 "Darn it , I wish I brought another tape" /copyright Peanuts
    She wins (if this was Charlie Brown.. on the other hand...)

Pretty much, it's nice to have a Peppermint Patty focused episode and the  music in the background is nice plus it had it's funny parts and it's interesting to see P.P doing something that's not either being conflicted about her feelings for Chuck or baseball.

 wait! we have more after the Jump


    This special was based off a set of comic strips in the  Peanuts  in 1974. There are some differences for instance there's a hair incident.

 copyright United Press Syndicate/Peanuts 

   She asks Chuck ,since his Dad is a barber to arrange it for his dad to give her a haircut and apparently forgets to tell him she's a girl. 

 Also there's a twist  where life turns against Peppermint Patty , yep she did better in the special since it the comic it was a roller skating championship. 

 copyright Peanuts  United Press Syndicate

 The wig does make an appearance in the special. It kind of fits that Peppermint Patty could confuse the two things. 

The dress thing matches the comic to a tee. 

 copyright United Press Syndicate/Peanuts 

If you want to read the whole set of them it runs from November 4,1974 to December 7, 1974 

Thanks for reading,that's our lookback  tune in next time  when we learn that Linus is a tango dancer, in There's a rose in my mouth ,Charlie Brown" .(If that was real oh if that was real)