It's all come down to this. Our final Peanuts special lookback. I didn't really plan the order of the specials as much they free flowed, or I wanted to correlate to certain period of time. We started this with 65th anniversary and due to spaces in time and things, it's taken us until the year of the 70th anniversary to finish this up.
This is Snoopy's Reunion. It first aired on May 1st 1991 on CBS. It is the 2nd to last special to premiere on CBS as, it seemed CBS was getting away from new Peanuts specials. It's a special that wants to give us the back story to the most famous Beagle of all. Snoopy.
It starts at Daisy Hill Puppy Farm with what I could guess is Snoopy's mom, siblings, and Snoopy. There's a farmer (not sure why there's a farmer for puppies, seems like a strange thing farm, guy). These puppies can play instruments (and he wants to sell them? He should have started a band with them) Also strangely enough, this special uses part of the same music used for "Why, Charlie Brown Why?"
A dog band and he's giving them away instead of makings tons of money/Copyright Peanuts
Charlie Brown comes home from losing a game and is depressed. Charlie Brown wishes he had a dog, "Charlie Brown wants a Dog, Rerun". So yes, this an origin story for Charlie Brown getting a dog. So, that means he goes to Daisy Hill Puppy Farm and picks out dog and names him Snoopy, right? WRONG. A girl named Lila picks a dog named Snoopy, yep, the farmer pre-named the dogs. Those being Snoopy, Molly, Belle, Spike, Olaf, Marbles, Rover, and Andy.
Rover is the strangest name on this list/Copyright Peanuts
Eventually, the other pups are picked up by people and taken to their new homes one by one. Well this puppy farm has run out of puppies so, how does that work? Anyway, Snoopy and Lila live together in happiness. The place where Lila lives says that NO DOGS ALLOWED is the rule now, so they have to take him back to the puppy farm.
Well Snoopy. we didn't try to stop this from happening or anything so.../Copyright Peanuts
Now back to Charlie Brown, and he wants to have a dog and keeps talking about wanting a dog. So he looks for a dog in the newspaper and he ends up seeing a place called Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. (I wonder what dog that might be) Confused as to why Charlie Brown wanted a hunting dog, as the ad said, that's not something I was thinking. The farmer lets Charlie Brown buy the last puppy for five dollars. He finds out that the dog's name is Snoopy and Charlie Brown decides to keep the name. (Otherwise, the Charlie Brown and Snoopy show would be called something else) Linus tells him that he got a used dog. Ole Chuck don't care, he loves him anyway.
awww / copyright Peanuts
Charlie Brown built Snoopy a dog house and he does his famous laying on top thing. Charlie Brown trains him and he notices that the dog is a little different. Time skip. Snoopy seems a little sad, and Sally suggests that maybe he misses his brothers and sisters. Charlie Brown tells him they are going to have a reunion. I'm glad Charlie Brown knows where they all live. We see Spike leave his desert home, Olaf leave his farm, Belle leave her house, and the rest leave all taking their instruments.
They go to Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, but they find out that they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. (Guess the puppy farm business didn't do that well) So, the dogs start playing their music in front of the parking garage. Charlie Brown figures out that this was the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. Yep their farm was gone all their memories had been reduced to parking spaces. The dogs don't seem to mind, they had fun. Then Snoopy somehow takes everyone one home on his dog house, because sure why not. Then Linus finishes the special by saying "He's your Dog Charlie Brown" that's a different special, Linus.
If you are Peanuts purist who likes their strong continuity; this special does it's own thing. Like how Snoopy was around before Sally and Linus were born. In the strip, the movie, Snoopy Come Home, and in the special. life is a circus , Charlie Brown says that his parents got him a dog after he got dumped sand on him by kid. There's is a strip where Snoopy and Woodstock find out their own about the puppy farm. Also two siblings were created just for this special, that's Molly and Rover.
None of this takes a way from this special. It's an interesting story to show the origin of Snoopy with Charlie Brown
If you have been reading our Peanuts specials in the order we posted them, I want to thank you for reading. It's taken about 5 years to do this, but it's been an enjoyable experience talking about Peanuts specials. There are so many different ones that have taken their routes and decisions , some good, some weird. We aren't done with the Peanuts , and there are more aspects to specials to talk about as well, and maybe they'll make a new one in the future. So don't think this is the full end. Anyway, thank you for reading. Tune in next time, when we get our dog band together and go on the tour circuit.
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