What doesThe Lookback: Winnie the Pooh eat on Thanksgiving?

The Flashback 

       As I have stated before, there are not many Thanksgiving specials out there so it's nice to find one, that's not an episode of a TV show , to write about.  This us to our hero, Winnie the Pooh. (accept him)   Also I didn't know that  Christopher Robin lived in the United States.

"A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving" came out in 1998 and aired on ABC and reran up until 2003. (weird they stopped after they got the Peanuts rights) it also was nominated for the Primetime Emmy for outstanding Children's program.    So was it outstanding?

      Pooh is happy that it's Thanksgiving Day (especially when he found out they don't eat bears on that day) and he invites Christopher Robin the wood's  Thanksgiving dinner.  Pooh is a hurry to prepare for Thanksgiving. (with song)

   Somehow only the top part of C.R is cold/copyright Walt Disney

        The creatures of the 100 Acre Wood  brings something for the meal ,  Rabbit tells them that their meal is wrong , because  honey, acorns and melty chocolate ice-cream aren't part of tradition, and they need to have Turkey , cranberries , pumpkin pie , and etc... without these things it's not the same. (Wait wait , Rabbit wants Turkey?)  Rabbit tells Tigger and Eeyore to gather cranberries, Gopher (good thing's only one gopher) to make pumpkin pie, Owl to clean the dinnerware , Rabbit will decorate, and Pooh and Piglet have to get turkey. (murder?)

 Now go kill ! /Copyright Walt Disney 

   Pooh and Piglet look for turkey and can't seem to find one. (and we get another song, about how terrifying  turkeys are)  While the others stick to their mission. Tigger and Eeyore have to re get their the cranberries after they lost the others due to a hole in a bag and Tigger's jumping, they follow a trail and end up in Pooh and Piglet's turkey trap. Gopher and Owl have finished their jobs and Piglet and Pooh show up with their 'turkey'.  The whole meal plan falls apart after Tigger and Eeyore break out the bag.  Rabbit and the others feel sad that it's been ruined.

   Looks like real Thanksgiving to me /copyright Disney 

    Pooh thinks of an idea to go each of  the other's homes and they invite Rabbit to their newly made Thanksgiving party , with most of the stuff they were going to use in the first place.  (We get another song about Friends).

awwww/copyright Disney 

     This special feels like Thanksgiving , just feels warm watching it (or it's the weather) it's Winnie the Pooh , so it's awesome. The message of Thanksgiving is in this special : that it's not about the food or what kind of food you have , it's about being thankful and friends (or family) and that's really what this special does in a subtle way, except that end song. It also has it's laughs and the songs are very nicely done.   If you are looking for a Thanksgiving special , besides the awesome Peanuts one, well here's one.

 Tune in next time when we find out that Rabbit really does love eating meat!

But First These Messages: Thanksgiving

But First these Messages 

      Happy November! (AKA the month that's not December)  and that means , it's coming! (Yes Only 4 more months to beat the Saint Patrick's Day rush!)  Yes, Thanksgiving. (Oh yeah ,that)    Mostly now Thanksgiving season's commercial air space is used to tell you that ... you can wake up really early to spend some money on stuff while hopefully not being punched in the face for said stuff, because some other person wants that stuff.

" Look at the fragile stuff! "/copyright Target 

   So this is Thanksgiving... But first these messages: 

  Sadly, around the time this was made , we found out that Metlife is changing  up and as part of this they are dropping the Peanuts characters as their mascots, which is disappointing.  

  

Maybe they can work for State Farm, 

 "Like a good Neighbor...Lucy is there" /copyright Metlife. 

   This ad from 1988 : 

 
       Until the end of it , you wouldn't even know it was a commercial , you would think that in the middle of "Murder She Wrote" , CBS  hit a button and is airing the Peanuts.  Until at the end they say "Happy Thanksgiving from Met Life".  That was very nice of Metlife (or Metropolitan Life and Affiliated Companies) to wish us a Happy Thanksgiving.  Now go buy some insurance!

  What do people happen to eat on Thanksgiving? (Goat! )  Oh that's right... Turkey. (No , I said Goat!)


 
  Good thing Marion (I don't know what they are saying) didn't hear them or this would have been their last Thanksgiving.  Butterball says they are always juicy... I bet someone could prove them wrong.   Maybe I like dry turkey...huh Butterball..what about the dry turkey lovers?

Also at the end there:  "We are Beatrice" what?

 Join our cult, your name will be Beatrice, worship our poultry! 

      Gotta buy that  Butterball somewhere. (that's a mean thing to say about Aunt Lois!) 

I guess Walmart?

        
  I have three reasons to visit Walmart, thanks alot Mary, Jerry, Lauren (was Lorry not taken?)   and mmm fixings.   Sure, she's happy now she has extra food, but wait until  your are still eating Thanksgiving stuff in March!

  Cool Whip , was around in 1969.

    
     Hmm Uncle Harry concerns me.... who doesn't want pie?

 Now after dessert it's time for dessert. (you don't understand how this works do you?)

  That poor turkey ... that narrator was giving him  terror of his life and then tells him it's Icecream I mean really.  That's just mean.

  Most of  the commercials here seem to do with food, well except that insurance  commercial, which with all that cool whip you are going to need life insurance.

Now back to our program..  When Thanksgiving Turkeys attack.

CW Announces Mid Season premiere dates

The CW  TVLookFall2016   Midseason

   The CW has released their mid season schedule premiere dates.

•       The new series "Riverdale" debuts on January 26th at 9pmet 
•     Season Finale of  "No Tomorrow " Tuesday  January 17  at 9PMET   
•     Season Finale  of  "Frequency"  Wednesday  January 25th  9PMET 
•     Season Finale of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"  Friday February 3 at 9PMET 
•    "I Zombie"  returns  April 4th 
•    "The 100" returns  February 1st at 9pmet  
•     Series Finale  of "The Vampire Diaries" airs  Friday March 10th

The Dates in depth 

   Monday 

 8PMET  Supergirl 

9PMET    Jane the Virgin 

Tuesdays starting January 24th 

8PMET  The Flash  

9PMET   DC's Legends of Tomorrow  (New Time) 

Wednesdays starting February 1st 

8PMET  Arrow 

9PMET  The 100 (new season) 

Thursdays Starting February 26th 

8PMET  Supernatural 

9PMET   Riverdale 

Fridays starting February 10th 

8PMET  The Vampire Diaries 

9PMET   Reign (new Season) 

Fridays starting March 17th 

8PMET  The Originals (Season Premiere) 

9PMET  Reign  

Tuesday, April 4th 

8pm  I Zombie (new season ) 

9pmet I Zombie (new episode ) 

Tuesdays Starting April 11th 

8PMET The Flash 

9PMET  I Zombie 

press release after the jump

METV Holiday Schedule

METV  Christmas  Classics 

      Classic's network , METV, has released their holiday programming schedule for this season , starting on November 27th.  They will be airing Holiday related programming   every Sunday at 2pm/1c until  Christmas day. 

 (note all times are eastern/central ; mt is same as central and Pt is same as ET) 

Here are the details 

Sunday, November 27th 

2PM | 1C: Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: "Mike's Dream: A Christmas Tale"
3PM | 2C: Little House on the Prairie: "Bless All the Dear Children"

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4
2PM | 1C: Mister Ed: "Ed's Christmas Story"
2:30PM | 1:30C: Touched by an Angel: "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"
3:30PM | 2:30C: Grizzly Adams: "Upon a Starry Night"

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11
2PM | 1C: Petticoat Junction: "Cannonball Christmas"
2:30PM | 1:30C: The Brady Bunch: "The Voice of Christmas"
3:30PM | 2:30C: The Brady Bunch: "A Very Brady Christmas"

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18
2PM | 1C: MacGyver: "The Madonna"
3PM | 2C: The Love Boat: "The Christmas Cruise"

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25
2PM | 1C: The Beverly Hillbillies: "Christmas at the Clampetts"
2:30PM | 1:30C: Gilligan's Island: "Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk"
3PM | 2C: Happy Days: "Guess Who's Coming to Christmas"
3:30PM | 2:30C: Laverne & Shirley: "Christmas Eve at the Bobby Hatch"
4PM | 3C: Family: "Tis the Season"

Also airing  are airing Thanksgiving programming and more Christmas programming  you can find that info here. 

CBS Announces Holiday Programming

CBS  Holidays Christmas 

image from CBS 

       CBS has announced their holiday programming for Thanksgiving until New Year.

Thursday, November 24
 7-10AMET ; Live Mt , Delayed PT )  : Thanksgiving Day Parade

Friday ,November 25
 8PMET  Frosty the  Snowman
8:30pmet  Frosty Returns

Saturday, November 26
8PMET  Robbie the Reindeer
9PMET  The Story of  Santa Claus

Tuesday, November 29
8PMET  Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

Friday, December 2
8PMET  I love Lucy : Christmas Special

Monday, December 5
10PMET   The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

Friday,December 23
8PMET   A Home For The Holidays

Tuesday, December 27
9PMET  The 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

press release after the jump

Fox Announces Winter 2017 Premiere dates

FOX  WinterTV TVLookfall2016

                FOX has announced their winter schedule and premiere dates.  It's new series "Star" gets special premiere  in December , before it starts officially in January.  Also ,  New comedy, "The Mick" gets a New Year's Day premiere.

 Here are some Details :

Wednesday, December 14
8PMET   Empire (Fall Finale)
9PMET   Star (Special Premiere)

January 1st
   8PMET  The Mick (new comedy)  (special premiere)
   8:30PMET   Brookyln Nine-Nine (Winter finale 2 parts)

January 3rd
8:31PMET  The Mick (time period premiere)
9:01PMET  Bones :The Final Chapter (season premiere)

January 5th
8PMET   Hell's Kitchen (New season )

Fridays  starting January 6th
8PMET  Rosewood (Time Period Premiere)
9PMET  Sleepy Hollow (New Season)

Thursdays, starting January 12th
8PMET   Hell's Kitchen  (Time period)
9:01pmet  My Kitchen Rules (Series Premiere)

Sunday, February 5th

10PMET/7PT  24:Legacy (Series Premiere , Part one)

Mondays starting February 6th
8PMET  24: Legacy (Series Premiere , part two )
9:01pmet   APB (Series Premiere)

Thursdays Starting February 9th
8PMET  Masterchef Junior (Series Premiere)
9:01PM  My Kitchen Rules


Press release after the jump

It's A Charlie Brown Lookback: It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown

The Peanuts  The Lookback 

       This special has got to be the most 80's  Peanuts special ever, I mean this ,as most Peanuts specials and comics did stay timeless to a fault and not really showing off a time period.  Though the characters did update to times in subtle ways  : like with Lucy and Sally wearing pants in later strips.  This special goes off the timelessness of Peanuts specials and goes straight for the time it was made, that is "It's  Flashbeagle ,Charlie Brown".
   
     The special doesn't have a plot ,per say, so we won't be doing our normal piece by piece look at the episode. (loudly cheers)  We will take a look at things by segment.
  The First segment  is a few minutes of Peppermint Patty and Marcie in class and of course the things that Peppermint Patty does in class.  Peppermint Patty going to gym class  this gives us our first song called "Get  in shape".


      Apparently this song  inspired by Charles Schulz' daughter  Jill , who was 12 at the time the sequence and the images are based on her as well. Also somebody who wrote this song liked "Hey  Nikki".  (Just be glad this wasn't made in 1997 some one would have been inspired by the Macerana)

   In segment 2 (guess we will call it that ) Snoopy hair dries his ears , while Charlie Brown and Sally are talking about a party.  The Party starts and the kids are playing Simon says (Simon says we are going to take over the world tonight , Pinky) and in true Lucy  style takes over the game and next song starts.  It's called  "Lucy Says"


   This song is inspired by Lucy being the boss. ( Lucy later started a cult where everyone has to dress like her and have wigs like her hair)   After, the song , the party continues and  a Sally wanting Linus to dance with her but Linus refuses scene. Also Snoopy and Woodstock make punch and Charlie Brown sees how they do it  and it grosses him out (Woodstock drinks from the straws and swims in the punch to mix it) and Lucy drinks it not knowing this secret.
   The next song is started by Charlie Brown called the Pig Pen Hoedown (finally the most 80's thing ever , country music!).


 
   We are danced out ! More after the jump.

Freeform Announces Their 25 days of Christmas programming

Freeform  Christmas 

   Even with a name change ,the long tradition that started with Fox Family of 25 Days of Christmas continues and Freeform has announced their schedule.

Here it is :

Thursday, December 1
3:30PMET   Willy Wonka &The Chocolate Factory
6pmet            The Year  Without a Santa Claus
7:05pmet       National Lampoon's  Christmas Vacation
9:15pmet        The Santa Clause
11:20pmet    Tim Burton's  The Nightmare Before Christmas
12:55amet     Rudolph's Shiny  New Year

Friday, December 2
11AMET        Jack  Frost (1979)
12PMET        Willy Wonka &The Chocolate Factory
2:30PMET     The Year  Without a Santa Claus
3:35PMET      Tim Burton's  The Nightmare Before Christmas
5:10PMET       Disney's  A Christmas Carol
7:15PMET    The Santa Clause
9:20PMET      The Polar Express
11:25PMET   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Saturday , December 3
7AMET        Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
8:30AMET  Mickey's Twice Upon a  Christmas
10AMET    Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
12pmet        Disney's  A Christmas Carol
2:05pmet     Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4:40pmet      The Polar Express
6:45pmet       Arthur Christmas
8:50PMET     Elf
10:55PMET   The Holiday

Sunday, December 4
7AMET  'Twas the Night Before Christmas   (one time showing )
7:30AMET  Nestor , the Long-Eared  Christmas Donkey
8AMET   Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
10:05AMET  Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
12:10PMET     I'll be Home for Christmas
4:30PMET      Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
5:35PMET     The Year Without a Santa Claus
6:40PMET      Elf
8:45PMET    National Lampoon's  Christmas Vacation
10:55PMET   Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

Monday, December 5
4PMET   The Year Without a Santa Claus
5PMET    Jingle All the Way
7PMET      National Lampoon's  Christmas Vacation
9PMET     Scrooged
12AMET   Snowglobe

Tuesday, December 6
5PMET  Scrooged
7PMET   The Polor Express
9PMET   The Santa Clause

Wednesday, December 7
5PMET  The Polar Express
7PMET   The Santa Clause
9PMET   Elf
12AMET  The 12 Dates of Christmas

Thursday, December 8
3PMET   Holiday Joy
5PMET   Deck the  Halls
7PMET  Elf
9PMET  Disney's A Christmas Carol
12AMET  Holiday in Handcuffs

Friday, December 9
11AMET   Frosty's Winter Wonderland
11:30AMET Holiday Joy
1:30PMET   Home Alone 3
3:35PMET     Santa Buddies : The Legend of  Santa Paws
5:40PMET    The Search for  Santa Paws
7:45PMET      Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
9:50PMET    Snow Buddies
11:55PMET    Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July


Saturday,  December 10
7AMET  Mickey's Christmas Carol
7:30amet  Santa Buddies : The Legend of  Santa Paws
9:30amet  The Search for  Santa Paws
11:35AMET  Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
1:40PMET   Snow Buddies
3:45PMET   Disney  Pixar's  Toy Story
5:45PMET    Toy Story 2
7:50PMET    Toy Story 3
10:20PMET   Toy Story : That Time Forgot
10:50PMET   Arthur Christmas
12:55AMET   The Year Without a Santa Claus

Sunday, December 11
7AMET       The Little Drummer  Boy
7:30AMET   Home Alone : The Holiday Heist
9:35AMET    A Dennis the Menace Christmas
11:40AMET   The Year Without A Santa Claus
12:45amet     Arthur Christmas
2:50PMET   Disney  Pixar's  Toy Story
4:50pmet    Toy Story 2
6:55PMET   Toy Story 3
9:25pmet    Disney Pixar's Toy Story That Time Forgot
9:55pmet    The Polar Express

Monday, December 12
5:30PMET  Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
7PMET    The Polar Express
9PMET    Elf
12AMET  Christmas Cupid

Tuesday, December 13
3PMET    Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
4:30pmet   Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
7PMET    Elf
9PMET    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
12AMET    Three Days

Wednesday, December 14
3PMET  Home  Alone 3
5PMET   National Lampoon's  Christmas Vacation
7PMET   Arthur Christmas
9PMET    The Santa Clause
12AMET   Santa Baby

Thursday, December 15
7:30AMET  Holiday Joy
11AMET   Snow Buddies
1PMET   Home Alone 3
3PMET   A Dennis the Menace Christmas
5PMET   Arthur Christmas
7PMET   The Santa Clause
9PMET    The Search for Santa Paws
12AMET   Santa Baby 2 : Christmas Baby

Friday, December 16
7AMET  A Dennis the Meance Christmas
9:10AMET  Jack Frost
11:15AMET  The Search for Santa Paws
1:20PMET   Santa Paws 2 : The Santa Pups
3:25PMET    Home Alone : The Holidy  Heist
5:20PMET    Jingle All the Way
7:35PMET   National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
9:45PMET    The Polar Express
11:55PMET    Disney's  A Christmas Carol

Saturday, December 17
7AMET   Rudolph's Shiny New Year
8AMET   Nestor , the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
8:30amet    Jingle All the Way
10:30Amet  Happy Feet
1PMET    Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
2:35PMET   The Polar Express
4:40PMET   National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
6:50PMET  The Santa Clause
9PMET       Disney's Frozen
11:30pm   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


Sunday, December 18
7AMET  Happy Feet
9:30AMET  Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
11:30AMET   Mickey's Christmas  Carol
12PMET   Tim Burton's The Night Before Christmas
1:35pmet  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4:10pmet     Disney's Prep and Landing
4:40pmet     Disney's Prep and  Landing : Naughty vs Nice
5:10pmet   The Santa Clause
7:20pmet    Disney's  Frozen
9:50pmet    Elf

Monday, December 19
7AMET  Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
8:30AMET   A Dennis the Menace Christmas
10:30AMET   Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
12:35PMET  Home Alone 3
2:40PMET   The Search for Santa Paws
4:45Pmet    Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
6:50PMET    Elf
8:55PMET    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
12AMET   Just Friends

Tuesday, December 20
7AMET   The Search for Santa Paws
9:10AMet  Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
11:15AMET  Home Alone 3
1:25PMET   The Holiday
4:30PMET   Santa Claus is  Comin' to Town
5:35PMET    The Year Without a Santa Claus
6:40PMET   National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
8:50PMET    The Santa Clause
12AMET    Holidaze

Wednesday, December 21
7AMET  Snow  Buddies
9AMET    Santa Buddies : The Legend of Santa Paws
11:05AMET  Happy Feet Two
1:10PMET   Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
2:10PMET   The Year Without a Santa Claus
3:15PMET   The Polar Express
5:20PMET    Disney's Prep  and Landing
5:50PMET   Disney's Prep and Landing : Naughty Vs. Nice
6:20PMET   Toy Story  That Time Forgot
6:50PMET    The Santa Clause
8:55PMET   Elf
12AMET    The Mistle-tones

Thursday, December 22
7AMET  Happy Feet
9:30amet Happy Feet Two
11:30amet  The Little Drummer Boy
12pmet     The Polar Express
2:05pmet    Jack Frost
4:10PMET   Frosty's Winter Wonderland
4:40PMET   Toy Story  That Time Forgot
5:10PMET   Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
6:45PMET   Elf
8:55pmet   Jingle All Way
12AMET  Disney's  A Christmas

Friday , December 23
7AMET  Frosty's Winter Wonderland
7:30AMET   Jack Frost  (1998)
11AMET  Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
1PMET   Jingle All the Way
3PMET     Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
4:35PMET   Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
5:40PMET   The Year Without a Santa Claus
6:45PMET    Disney's A Christmas Carol
8:50PMET   The Santa Clause
12AMET   Home Alone : The Holiday Heist

Christmas Eve
7AMET  Jack Frost  (1979)
8:05AMET   Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
9:40AMET   Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
11:15AMET   Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
12:20PMET  The Year Without a Santa Claus
1:25PMET    Arthur Christmas
3:30PMET    The Polar Express
5:35pmet  The Santa Clause
7:40PMET   Elf
9:45PMET  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
11:55pmet   Scrooged

Christmas
7AMET  The Search for Santa Paws
9:10AMET  Santa Buddies : The Legend of  Santa Paws
11:20AMET   Arthur Christmas
1:25PMET   The Polar Express
3:30PMET  Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
4:35PMET  The Year without a Santa Claus
5:40PMET   Elf
7:45PMET  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
9:55PMET    Scrooged


press release after the jump