It's a Lookback, Charlie Brown: Snoopy's Reunion

Peanuts 

   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. 

My Network TV Line Up for the 2020-21 Season

My Network TV  

           My Network TV doesn't have to worry much about the virus messing up any of it's season plans since it is mostly on reruns , anyway.    For the new line up, they are adding more "Law and Order: CI and "Dateline" , "CSI Miami" is leaving the line up.  My Network TV has been in the syndication network service model since 2009, after trying a mixture of telenovelas, reality showand more before then.  It's owned by Fox.  

Here's the line up  (note : in many markets the My Network TV stations air programming at different time ,many later in the evening.)

        Monday
         8PM   Law and Order: SVU
         9PM   Law and Order: SVU

          Tuesday
          8PM   Chicago P.D
          9PM   Chicago PD
     
          Wednesday
          8PM  Dateline
          9PM   Dateline

        Thursday
         8pm  Dateline (new night)
         9pm  Law and Order CI

         Friday
        8pm Law and Order CI (new Night)
       9pm  Law and Order CI (new Night)

One Shot Posts: :So Weird : Rebecca

One Shot Posts   Disney

      This is personally one of my favorite Disney Channel Original series and that is So Weird , I thought it might be a fun idea to write about one of the episodes.

     Background first,  "So Weird" was a Disney Channel series that first premiered in 1999 and ran for 3 seasons. It's about a girl named Fiona Phillips , Fi for short, touring with her mother is who is a singer and her brother with her mother's manager, bus driver, and their son. The series was a paranormal series where Fi would encounter different paranormal things on her journey.  It was slightly darker than other Disney Channel series before it or after it.

         Today we are taking a look at episode 9 which is called "Rebecca".


  Also we don't skip the theme of this show because the theme is awesome.

      The episode starts with Fi (Cara DeLizia)  voicing over on how there' s a long of history of people trying avoid death.  With the question of "If we could live forever , would we want to?"  Well, Disney Channel show went there.  It starts with voices of some girl wanting to see someone but can't because other voices saying no.  Fi's brother , Jack (played by Patrick Levis, who was also in Brink!)  and his friend Clu (played by Erik von Detten, who was Brink in Brink!) are doing some driving test thing while Fi is on her computer.

This is you, reading this post/ Copyright Disney 

           The girl from before shows up wanting to see Molly, Fi and Jack's mother,  (played by Mackenzie Phillips) who does show  up and sees the girl and sees that she looks like someone she knew named Rebecca (title drop)  and the girl says Rebecca is her mother, also the name from a song.   The backstory is that Rebecca disappeared.  Molly wants to see the girl, but she can't see her because reasons.

No Rebecca is my mother's name/ Copyright Disney 

           Fi feels that feels kind of strange. Since Rebecca's daughter said that her mother was that the museum working : Fi and Molly go the museum to see her and a guy mentions a Rebecca but referring to the girl they met.  Fi, Clu, and Jack go searching for the young Rebecca (I think I'm confused) and they see her with some man and woman. Meanwhile, 1999 tech works and Fi asks for a picture of her mother and Rebecca for something.

Technology action power / Copyright Disney 

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Into the Twilight: The Shadow Man

The Flashback 

           We are taking another look at a segment from the 1985 version of "The Twilight Zone"  and thankfully the show has so many segments for us to look at.  This time we are looking at season 1 ,episode 10, segment 1 : The Shadow Man.

          This episode first aired with two other segments included on November 29th 1985.  Some spoilers ahead but not too much.  

           A thirteen year-old boy named Danny Hayes wants to get this girl named Lianna to notice him.  He's a smart kid who has a fear of the dark.  There's  a bully named Eric who likes to mess with Danny because all things with children have to have bullies it's the law!  His mother is annoyed that he's afraid of the dark because he's 13 and we need this plot to get going.  (Hurry up plot!) Anyway, because this is the "Twilight Zone"  a creepy dark figure named The Shadow Man  (roll credits) shows up and tells Danny that he'll never harm anyone who owns the bed he lives under. (Otherwise, it's harming time!)  

I'm the Shadowman , does this hat make me look good?/ Copyright CBS 

          

                  Danny tries to tell his friend about the creepy figure but his friend doesn't believe him because that's the first rule of horror.   Danny overhears that two students were attacked the last night and it sounds like they were attacked by the figure creature thing. The next night, Shadow Man shows up and repeats his lines and goes out again. Danny takes pictures with his instant camera.  Everyone around the school is talking about creepy guy.   While, Danny thinks the same guy is both.   Anyway, back to Danny liking Lianna (brought to you by today's sponsor)   Danny uses the knowledge of "I never harm the person of who's bed I lie"  to go see Lianna and help her with math.  Since Eric is Afraid of the dark and shadow man.  The next day, Eric sees Lianna with Danny and doesn't seem happy.

Hmm did I leave the oven on?/ Copyright CBS 

              Now Peter, Danny's friend, says he kind of believes Danny about the Shadow Man and thinks he should do something to stop it but because Danny is a stupid smart person (someone is smart but also does dumb things) and is happy about the new found popularity he brushes it off. Eric challenges Danny to a fight. Danny wants to fight at  night , because Shadow man.  Shadow man likes to repeat his lines the same time, is that all he can say?   That night, Eric shows up and they were about to fight and the shadow man shows up  and Eric runs tries to get Danny to run but I won't give away the ending.   [Though, if you really want to know then click here ]

Yeah Swing at night and live dangerously / Copyright CBS 

            The ending is pretty interesting  though.  The episode plays very much like a future Goosbumps episode with less restraint because network TV versus show made for children but still. kind of like that.   I do like how the Shadow Man repeating his phrase does come in handy to the ending and yes.  It's not the most gripping episode or interesting but it's serviceable and not bad.  

 That's it for now , tune in next time when say tune in next time again because This is Joshuaonline and we never confuse our readers. 

  

             

      

FALL TV 2020: CBS

CBS TVLookFall2020 

    While Fox and the CW have taken ways to figure out a full fall schedule to figure in minimal disruption due to the virus, CBS has taken a slightly different approach.   CBS does figure in that the schedule may not launch on the traditional week of television launch. 

   'The Amazing Race"  is the only series that has full episodes, due it being delayed from it' s May airing.
 
              The schedule is relatively the same with changes to Sunday and Thursday to replace shows that were canceled in the 2019-2020 season. 

Here' s the schedule new series are highlighted in blue and all Times are ET/PT


Monday
8PM   The Neighborhood
8:30pm   Bob Hearts Abishola
9PM   All Rise
10pm   Bull

Tuesday
8PM  NCIS
9PM   FBI
10PM   FBI Most Wanted

Wednesdays
8pm  Survivor
9pm  The Amazing Race
10pm SEAL Team

Thursday
8pm  Young Sheldon
8:30pm B Positive
9pm  Mom
9:30pm  The Unicorn
10pm    Evil

Friday
8PM  MacGyver
9PM   Magnum P.I
10PM  Blue Bloods

Sunday
7PM   60 Minutes
8PM  The Equalizer 
9PM NCIS: Los Angeles
10PM  NCIS : New Orleans


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Arthur: Season 3: D.W. , All Fired Up / I'd Rather Read it myself

 Arthur  PBS 


                Welcome back to our look at Arthur episodes, in totally random order, because it's the spice of life or something. Anyway, we are doing an episode 3 pairing , both are episode 2 pairings. (We might have gone mad)

  First off, Season 3 first aired back 1998 and has 15 half hour episodes or 30 segments.  Though I won't go to far into the back story of season 3 because  I've covered episodes from this season in the past, before.  Now we continue with our look at two more episodes as I remind myself to calm down on dipping into season 3 so much.

           Episode 2a:  D.W. , All Fired Up'

                The Monologue:  D.W apparently really likes going to school (because she hasn't been corrupted by the system yet, what? Don't look at me like that)  but Arthur remembers one time when D.W didn't like school. (We call that The Great Depression)

               The Episode:  At  D.W's pre-school the teacher announces that they are going to have their first fire drill, which D.W thinks is  going to be a drill made of fire (which sounds pretty cool, actually) until they use Emily to have the teacher explain what a fire drill is to the people in the back. D.W is scared because she thinks they are going to have an actual fire. (That would be more dedicated) Meanwhile, D.W stares at fire at it taunts her very soul.  D.W even has bad fire dreams as it taunts her soul and brain.

I'm the fire! I'm burnin' for you/ Copyright WGBH

 
            The parents figure out that D.W might be a little scared and try to help her get past her fears. Even getting a warden joke in there. They let her help around the house for fire safety learning.  Arthur tries to help her, but she's still nervous as can be.  When the fire drill starts, for real, D.W seems to take some command helping some friends follow along.   D.W seems to get along with it all seems well.

       Pretty simple episode , for  a younger audience it's a great one to show them that fire drills and safety are good things to be prepared for  in case of a real one.  D.W's fears are played well and give a realistic approach while still fitting her character. Yeah, this was one of those strictly younger part of  target audience educational episode, the show has to do sometimes to justify it's PBS existence.


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The CW to release Fall programming in Winter ; has fall plans set up

The CW  TVLookFall2020 

      The CW has taken a move of waiting until winter 2021 to start their season , due the unknown conditions of lock downs and other things surrounding the virus. The Fall line up will be accustions and the conclusion  of the series  "Supernatural" (pending).  If these plans continue , the CW season will stretch into summer 2021.

Coming at some point for their mid season will be new series  "Republic of Doyle" and a remake of "Kung Fu"  also waiting on side are "Roswell, New Mexico", "In the Dark",  "DC's Legends of Tomorrow", "Supergirl", and "Dynasty".


Here is the winter line up  (starting January 2021)  new series in blue  all Times/ ET/PT

Monday
8PM All American
9PM  Black Lightning

Tuesday
8PM  The Flash
9PM  Superman and Lois 


Wednesday
8pm  Riverdale
9pm  Nancy Drew

Thursday
8pm  Walker 
9PM  Legacies

Friday
8PM  Penn & Teller: Fool Us  (New Night)
9pm    Whose Line is it Anyway ?  (New Night )
9:30pm  Whose Line is it anyway?


Sunday
8pm  Batwoman
9pm  Charmed (new night)



Meanwhile, here is what CW has planed for the fall

The final seven episodes of "Supernatural"  which has two episodes yet to film.  They have also brought in the return of "Two Sentence Horror Stories"  from CW Seed.   "The Outpost" and "Pandora" which are summer series.   They also have acquired  two series from sister divisions at CBS All Access "Tell Me A Story"  and  from D.C Universe "Swamp Thing".


Here's that schedule  for fall 2020

Monday
8PM  Whose Line is it Anyway?
8:30pm Whose Line is it Anyway?

Tuesday
8pm  Swamp Thing
9pm   Tell Me A Story

Wednesday
8pm  Two Sentence Horror Stories
8:30pm   Dead Pixels
9pm  Coroner

Thursday
8PM  Supernatural
9pm   The Outpost

Friday
8-8:30pm  World's Funniest Animals
8:30-9pm   World's Funniest Animals
9pm  Penn & Teller: Foll us (encores )

Sunday
8pm Masters of Illusion
8:30pm  Masters of Illusion
9pm  Pandora


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The Last Episode : Everybody Loves Raymond : Same as it Ever Was (The Finale)

The Flashback 

            "Everybody Loves Raymond" as a show was one of the more consistent run series. Many sitcoms get tedious or worse as they continue (not all; mind you) but "Everybody Loves Raymond" seem to hold a sense of consistency through it's 9 seasons on television.  It was one of the highest rated sitcoms and really can't be replicated. The series ended on it's own terms in 2005.

        This is part of our series looking at Last episodes, we brought it back, for May because that's when many series have their finales. Finales are interesting because they have different reasons for existing. Since "Raymond" cast and crew chose to end their show on their own terms they could  do really anything. We look at how this series ended.


       From May 16 2005 this is The Finale (good title)

              The episode starts with Ray coming home from the doctor and says his adenoids have to come out.  He is worried the surgery, while Debra it's no big deal.  Marie, Ray's Mom, comes in and gives him a hug because she's worried.  This last episode is fitting the show's main premise of Ray's family being involved in pretty much anything with mother being there worrying about him. Frank and Robert come over looking for the soup Marie brought for Raymond, as one does. (mmm soup)  Frank and Robert have a different approach to Ray's problem they say he should "man-up" and take care of it.  (Also  Frank doesn't know where adenoids are)

Soup for all of you/ Copyright HBO/ CBS 

       Cut to the hospital waiting room, where Debra, Marie,Frank, Robert,  and Amy are waiting for the end of the surgery.  Another strength to the show where most of the main cast has been intact since day one, even Amy was around in season 1. The main progression of the series was seeing the characters' lives progress and getting to know this family like they were a real family, it's a fun testament to this series strength.

We're watching and Waiting/ Copyright HBO/ CBS 

          A nurse comes out to ask Debra about a difficulty with Ray not waking up from the anesthesia.  This, of course, causes worry. It wasn't long but he's alright. ( Raymond dying would been a series finale of different proportions ) The family is relieved and they agree not to tell Raymond what happened (or Marie, who had left the room for the bathroom earlier)  Through out the series, Ray was shown to be someone who  does take things and make them bigger. Also, even in this episode he was worried about the surgery going badly, so you can see their reasoning for not wanting to tell him what happened.

Copyright CBS 

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