The Easter Beagle & Easter Bunny Specials (1974/1977) — Forgotten Holiday Animation | Stumptown Ethiopian Pairing

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Hi, everyone. Welcome to Real Beans. Today is
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going to be a slightly different episode because
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I'm going to be going off script and I'm going
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to talk to you today about two animated films
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for Easter. One is called The Easter Bunnies
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Coming to Town by the powerhouse troupe that
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gave us Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus is Coming
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to Town, and Rudolph the Red -Nosed Reindeer,
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the Rankin and Bass team. And the other one is
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Charles Schultz's It's the Easter Beagle Charlie
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Brown, which many of you may know that title.
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Charlie Brown has been around for a long time.
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We've had specials for Halloween, Christmas,
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Thanksgiving, New Year's, you name the season.
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They've probably done an episode for it. And
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It's the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown is one of
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the most one of the more underrated films and
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forgotten ones usually, because there's not really
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Easter traditions anymore in terms of TV viewing
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as there were back in the day where you'd have
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a whole weekend of just some sort of holiday
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specials that would come 24 -7 for the week.
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And then to round it all off, I decided to go
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with a slightly more bright coffee. from Stumptown
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and you've heard Stumptown here on the podcast
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before. They're a really good coffee company
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and they're very precise with their single origin
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blend. And this is a single origin called Ethiopian
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Guji. And this is a perfect pairing because like
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the two Easter films that we're going to be discussing,
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there is a tea like floral sweet honey and citrus
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flavor that goes along with this light and elegant
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drink. It is not a dark roast. It's a very light
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roast. And when I was tasting it, I had notes
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of some nectarine and some jasmine, and it was
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a very light, refreshing feel. And I usually
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want a little bit more of a bite, but in this
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respect, I really enjoyed the light texture and
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feel as I was drinking it. And it worked really
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well in my drip machine, but probably the better
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option is going to be the pour over method, which
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you put the filter in, then the grounds. Then
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you take the hot boiling water at about 212 degrees,
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you start the bloom, and then you let the water
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run and do its course until the end, and then
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you have a lovely bright, light cup of coffee.
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Now, Ethiopia Guji, which is what I drank from
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Stumptown, is a little trickier to find, but
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I found mine at the grocery store at Pavilions.
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It was also available at Bristol Farms. You might
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also find it available at Target. And online
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and amazon .com of course, but oh what a taste
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that was I Don't think I've tried it before I've
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seen it on the shelves, but this was the first
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time I thought you know pairing with this more
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light and bright festive Films that we're going
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to be talking about this I thought would be a
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great opportunity to taste it it's one of the
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more expensive coffees on the market of course,
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but I thought what the heck for the podcast.
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I'm gonna go ahead and try it and I'm glad I
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did because it definitely has a nice finish on
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the tongue and If you're looking for a coffee
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that is not going to be too overpowering then
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this is going to be the one to choose this style
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my other Ethiopian blends are lighter and medium
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medium to light -bodied and Easy to use in the
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drip machine. So if you've got a regular coffee
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maker at home, this is going to be perfect you
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can get the grounds already pre -grounded, or
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you can make it yourself with your own coffee
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grinder at home. Whatever you find easiest to
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do. Just a little bit of tidbits on Stumptown.
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Stumptown was founded in 1999 in Portland, Oregon.
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They were pioneers of the direct trade as opposed
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to just fair trade. Direct trade is actually
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contacting and being in touch with the producers
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of the coffee directly at the coffee farms. Now
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because of this you pay a higher price But the
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quality is so much better Over 90 % of the coffee
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that you see on the shelf from them is going
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to be direct trade relationships Now I'll explain
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a little bit about single origin in case you're
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not familiar with it I've talked on this podcast
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before about blends where they take different
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types of coffee beans and put them all together
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in a sort of mishmash But that comes together
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like a puzzle makes something beautiful out of
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a multitude of beans, where a single origin,
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as the name suggests, is just one place, one
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place of terroir, like the soil, the climate,
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the elevation. They all come from one specific
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place, and in this case, Ethiopia. Stump Town
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also has a multitude of Ethiopian single origin
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blends. One is called Mordekoffe, Suke Kuto,
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and Guji, which is the one I drink. Okay, now
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why does this pairing work? As I mentioned before,
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it's Light and bright, and so with the Peanut
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Special we have Vince Giraldi's Jazz Score, which
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is playful, bright, light, easy to listen to.
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And then with the Rankin Bass Specials we have
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the Pastel Colors and Springtime Innocence. All
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of that coming together with the Ethiopian Coffee
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makes it a perfect pairing. As I had mentioned
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before, it's not heavy, it's not deep and dark.
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so it has a little bit more of a joyful, uplifting
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feel like Easter candy is sometimes. Also, the
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floral notes with springtime flowers add a nice
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touch with the coffee. Okay, and with your nice
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cup of coffee, now that you understand the backstory
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of Stumptown's Ethiopian blend, I think it's
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time to start diving into the two films that
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I have watched for this episode. I will start
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off with, because it was my sort of least favorite
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of the two, The Easter Bunny has come into town.
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This arrived in 1977. It's basically a direct
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copy of the film, which I think is much more
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superior. Santa Claus has come into town, complete
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with Fred Astaire being the mailman like he was
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in the first episode. And now he's on a train
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and discussing with the audience about the origins
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of the Easter Bunny. This was Rankin and Bass's
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third and final Easter special. This comes after
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Here Comes Peter Cottontail in 1971. and the
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first Easter Rabbit in 1976, all you can find
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on YouTube, which is where I watch this one,
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because it's a little bit trickier to come by
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unless you've got the big box set on Blu -ray
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of the Rankin and Bass specials. But as I said,
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this one's not as well known as the ones from
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the 60s that we all grew up on with Rudolph and
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Santa Claus coming to town, the Little Drummer
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Boy, and Frosty the Snowman. This is kind of
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a sequel, you could say. Basically, it is the
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characters from the original Santa Claus is coming
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to town have now been put into different characters
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for the Easter Bunny. For example, Sonny the
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bunny is Chris Kringle. The Kidville kids are
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the Kringles. Again, Zooks the bear is the winter
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warlock and so on. This is kind of I felt a little
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bit more kiddy. Friendly than some of the original
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ones because I often felt that with the ones
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from the 60s and perhaps the early 70s There
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was a little bit more for the adults In terms
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of the storyline, it didn't talk down to the
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kids and in this version Which is what I kind
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of was annoying me about it was I felt like they
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were just sort of like Gucci Gucci goo on the
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kids and just being treating them not as serious
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as the older Films did, and so that kind of made
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me feel a little bit like, well, OK, fine. And
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also in this one, we have a villain named Aunt
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Lily Longtooth, who is sort of this uppity aunt
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to the king of this town, and she just wants
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everything to be gray, gloomy, only eat Lima
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beans, nothing else, no colors, no pastels, no
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fun, excitement and. The King is a kid and he
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wants to have fun and have all this interesting
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candies and food. But no, Aunt Lily is a note
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on that. And so she becomes the main villain.
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She's kind of more crusty and kind of over the
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top funny, being all uppity as opposed to Winter
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Warlock in the Santa Claus is Coming to Town
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films. He starts off being really Evil looking
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and scary for kids at the time and even i'll
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go so far as back as rudolph the red nose reindeer
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where you have the abominable snow monster who's
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also very scary for children but here. Aunt lily
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is sort of just a regular person not really scary
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the other character who is kind of an evil person
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is the god suits the bear and just like. Aunt
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Lily, he's not as scary. He's more comic relief
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than anything else. He does turn into like a
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nice bear after he's given some Easter clothes
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from the Easter Bunny. But overall, he's a minor
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character who isn't very scary. Definitely not
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in the same league as Winter Warlock was. Also,
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with this one, there's no clear understanding
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about the villain's motivation. Why does she
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want everything to be gray? Why is she treating
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her nephew who's the king with such or such dismay?
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She just ignores what he wants and all she wants
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is what she wants. But it's not really clear
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as to the motive behind it, as opposed to in
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Santa Claus is coming to town. You had the Baron
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who steps on a toy and hurts his leg and he then
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decrees that there's no more toy makers allowed
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and no more toys for the children because of
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this nonsense that he had to face. As simple
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as that is, it's actually his motivation. There's
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something behind it where there's nothing really
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going for that with Aunt Lily. So there are weak
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stakes involved. Also, the town that's run by
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the orphans, known as Kidville, isn't really
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explained either. So you have this sort of little
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town where all the kids run everything. There's
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a kid mayor, the kid baker, the kid doctor. And
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when Sonny the Bunny comes to town, he takes
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up refuge there. And they open they welcome him
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with open arms but you know it's kind of silly
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kidville with kids only you know fine for the
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kids and for this type of. Film since it wasn't
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really going for anything underneath also ranking
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and bass is known for their stop motion animation
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you see that in. Rudolph the red nose reindeer
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the little drummer boy and so on but here it's
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more smooth stop motion animation you've seen
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that they've grown throughout the years and so
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it's much nicer to look at. And it's also technically
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better in 1977, so there's not as much start
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and stop and motion. Everything is smooth and
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not fidgety, and it looks a little bit better
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and more as if they'd had more of a budget to
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work with for this. But as I said before, this
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one just didn't feel. As charming as the older
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quote quote jankier ones there was something
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about those perhaps it's the nostalgia feel that
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i have for them but i still as i watch the old
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ones to this day there's something there's more
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heart to it and more imagination whereas this
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doesn't have as much imagination with it um you've
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got all the stories from you know who the easter
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bunny is where did he come from and he just happened
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to come upon this town as a little bunny Lost
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in the woods and so the kids take him in and
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he grows up and he's trying to understand the
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ways of the world and then he discovers the eggs
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which then he starts to color them in order to
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hide them from gadzooks the bear when he tries
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to go across to the town where everyone is bored
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and gray. So you get little back stories about
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where everything comes from but it's so fast
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and you know it's not the point really of it's
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a really nice friendly look. at Easter and giving
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to others, making people happy, which is what
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the Easter bunny is for, the Easter baskets and
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how they became to be and Easter bonnets and
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the Easter parades. And you see that kind of
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taking place in the town as they go from gray
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to colors. Much to the dismay of Aunt Lily, who
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has some goofy moments of trying to stop everyone
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from coming up the hill. They build this train.
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Track to go up to make it easier for them to
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get to where they need to go with a lot of eggs
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and I thought that something Off was gonna happen
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with Aunt Lily like she said she was gonna stop
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them make sure they never come back Make sure
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that's the end of the Easter Bunny and I thought
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they were gonna try to blow up the train which
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would have been maybe more heightened and scary
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at that moment, but basically she just throws
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this gooey stuff on the track and it makes the
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choo -choo train stop and but It didn't last
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long so he got the train was able to get out
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of that situation and actually get to the town.
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Stopping aunt Lily's plans and then of course
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you've got the ending where she gets a colored
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egg and she's like oh this is so lovely you're
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so sweet everyone is so nice to me and and she
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of course turns her leaf over and starts anew
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and you know then she becomes the grand lady
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of of the kingdom with the with her nephew as
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the king. The music and it is. OK, you've got
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some cute songs, nothing really memorable. It's
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not like Santa Claus is coming to town. Even
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after watching it for the first time, it was
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like you could still hum these songs where here
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they're kind of similar, but not. They're very
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subpar and I didn't remember any of the songs.
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So that's why I was kind of like a little disappointed
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with this version, because some of the rinkin
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and bass, even if they are kind of jokey and
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cutesy, they still have some heart behind it.
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And some of the songs uh still resonate and are
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still very powerful and popular but not in this
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episode overall the ranking and best charm is
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still there uh it's silly at times and you get
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a little chuckle here and there and maybe a little
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bit like oh isn't that nice but overall this
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is not as memorable as the christmas classics
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so if it's on tv i'd say go ahead and watch it
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you can find this on youtube did watch it's definitely
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good for kids um adults fine but not really as
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good as some of the old original ones are. And
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so I think this one, you kind of get a pass on
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it and not really. And there's a reason why it
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hasn't been as popular as our next film that
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we're going to be talking about, which is It's
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the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, which is from
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1974. And almost everybody knows the Peanuts
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Gang with Charlie Brown, Lucy Linus, Peppermint
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Patty, Marcy. They all make an appearance in
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this special. about Linus telling everybody that
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the Easter Beagle is going to come to town to
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give eggs to all the good little children everywhere,
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very similar to his previous time with the great
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pumpkin Charlie Brown, where he sat in the pumpkin
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patch waiting for the great pumpkin to come and
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bring gifts to all the good little children.
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Here we know the Easter Beagle, so obviously
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that's Snoopy going to be coming in at some point.
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There are some fun moments throughout the way.
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We have a subplot. featuring Peppermint Patty
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and Marcy. Peppermint Patty wants to show Marcy
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how to color eggs for Easter Sunday and the beaning
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behind Easter and what fun it can be to create
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these colorful eggs to be put in baskets and
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hide them and then find them. And Marcy, as scatterbrained
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as she is, she starts to fry the eggs, bake the
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eggs, waffle the eggs, not hard boiled them like
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you're supposed to with these eggs. So it makes
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Peppermint Patty do that famous argh. scream
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that everyone knows about. And and it makes for
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some very fun moments, especially because you're
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watching Marcy just like think she's doing everything
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just right, flipping the eggs while she's frying
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them and putting them into the oven to bake them.
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And she thinks nothing of it. And so, yeah, that
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that makes for a very fun. part of the film.
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Another side story plot line with this is Woodstock's
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bird's nest gets soaking wet and is ruined. So
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he needs a new place to live. So Snoopy goes
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off to find a birdhouse for him. The best part
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is you hear him hear Woodstock in his house,
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hammering away, sawing away. And Snoopy is there
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like sort of like, huh, what's going on? What
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what is that? And then Vince Garaldi has this
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wonderful jazz like bachelor pad sound that sort
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of like make Snoopy go take a look inside and
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he has all of these what would be of that time
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period in the 1970s wallpaper and a sunken living
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room like something you think of as absurd looking
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at just a regular birdhouse from the outside.
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And so that's very funny to me. And then, of
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course, Snoopy breaks in and we have the Charles
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Schultz logic of when the whole house breaks
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apart, there's no furniture or anything inside.
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And what i find wonderful about this film is
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it's so charming and there's many many fun belly
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laugh moments and chat moments this film was
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nominated for most outstanding children special
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it definitely is for children but because it's
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peanuts there's always some. Underlying adult
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humor in there adults can really enjoy this and
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get behind the message of giving loving sharing
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caring and so on and and telling everybody about.
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This tradition and Linus is just trying to tell
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people to you know, don't worry about the eggs
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the Easter beagle will come and give you all
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the eggs this builds up to Sally and Linus waiting
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and of course nothing is happening yet No one's
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coming and Sally is like you've made a fool of
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me again. You did this to me in the pumpkin patch
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Why do I listen to you? And so she's mad at everything
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and then all of a sudden you start hearing this
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really joyous beat of music It starts building,
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building, building, and then suddenly you see
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in the distance Snoopy throwing eggs around for
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everybody, stopping off at all the kids, giving
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them one egg, making them all happy. And of course,
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he gets to Charlie Brown. And as with most Charlie
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Brown episodes, Charlie does not get anything
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because Snoopy has run out of eggs. So he just
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shrugs his shoulder and smiles, leaving Charlie
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Brown to once again have to move on with life.
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Even when something bad goes on, he still moves
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forward. um it would have been nice to uh have
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the eggs but and of course people always point
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out it's like well if snoopy hadn't thrown the
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eggs at the beginning he would have had one left
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over for charlie brown or charlie brown could
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go find one uh that was hidden that snoopy threw
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around and then lucy finds out that the eggs
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that snoopy was using were her eggs because she
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wanted to go out and hide them herself and find
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them herself so it was all her and so you could
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be very proud and have an exciting time and then
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is upset by the fact that her eggs were stolen
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and used for Snoopy. And after 10 weeks go by,
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she's still moping and upset about the whole
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thing. So she goes over to talk with him and
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start to do her put up your dukes with Snoopy.
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One thing that makes This special kind of unique
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and interesting is there's a moment where they
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go to the shopping mall to get Patty peppermint
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Patty needs to get her eggs Sally's looking for
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new shoes to wear because the ones she has are
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too old but she wants something new and once
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they step inside The mall everything is decked
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out for Christmas and it says things like Only
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20 only 246 days till Christmas get now buy now
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showing as many of the specials hint at is the
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over commercialization of the holidays. You definitely
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see that in the Christmas episode and also in
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the Halloween episode. And here it's really just
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right out in the open. And as we've noticed throughout
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the years, Christmas decorations come out earlier
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and earlier. Back when I was a kid, I remember
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them coming out in November. Now they come out
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in August. And so Charles Schultz was onto something
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with this when he put in that only 240 days until
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Christmas get your presents now before it's too
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late. So it's gentle satire mixed in with the
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warm holiday feeling. Now, one of the biggest
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treats of this episode is Vince Garaldi's score.
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It's simply superb. It's a wonderful jazzy and
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classical combination. You have classical music.
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from Beethoven and you have classical music from
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Bach and then you also have Vince Garaldi's jazz
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that you know you've heard the Lucian Linus dance
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music and there's other more upbeat and kind
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of just warmth music happening throughout and
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it really makes the episode shine and recently
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it was discovered that In the vaults of Vince
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Guraldi's music was all of the studio recordings
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of this and they just released it as a new album
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last year. So if you can find that on Apple Music
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or wherever you get your music, I highly recommend
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listening to it. It's so much fun, especially
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if you know the music well and you know Vince
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Guraldi's peanuts music. And one of the nice
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thing is you can find It's the Easter Beagle
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Charlie Brown to watch on Apple TV. They have
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the exclusive rights to all the peanuts episodes
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and and holiday classics, so you can watch them
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there. So very easy to come by. You might be
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able to find them on YouTube or at least scenes
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from it. But I do highly recommend you seek this
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one out if you like Charlie Brown and the Peanuts
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Gang and you also like the upbeat Easter feel.
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This is so the. This is such a delightful film
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and you'd be hard pressed for it to not put a
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smile on your face after you watch it or have
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some hair -raising moments at the end when Snoopy
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comes out as the Easter Beagle and the joyous
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feel that you get from it. Yeah, it's definitely
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something that I feel should be seen. It is one
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of the better Charlie Brown episodes. It's probably
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one of my favorites of the bunch. because I love
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the little like stupid humor of Marcy mixing
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up the eggs and Woodstock's little bachelor pad
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and the 246 days till Christmas over commercialization
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bits. There's some really fun moments to be had
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in this film. So I do recommend that you take
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a look at it if you can. Well, and that's about
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it. So we have the Easter Bunny is coming to
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town. a mediocre kids film, but still has its
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charm and place in history, especially because
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it's a Rankin and Bass special. So if you haven't
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seen it and you love Rankin and Bass, you should
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see it just so you can have that in your library
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and things you've seen. But I do recommend definitely
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getting your hands on. It's Easter Beagle Charlie
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Brown, as it is one of the more successful. And
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also underrated specials from the Charles Schultz
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Library. So go out and take a look. Enjoy yourself
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for this holiday season. If you celebrate Easter,
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have a happy Easter. Be sure you have some candies.
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Hide some eggs if you'd like to. That's always
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one thing I remember from being a kid that I
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kind of missed today is that old fun feeling
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of being able to go out and search for the eggs
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and waking up to the Easter basket from the Easter
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bunny. Up next on Real Beans, we're going to
00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:02.720
have a special treat. Daniel Obershahn is going
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to be joining us and we're going to be talking
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about one of my favorite character actors and
00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:10.750
really underrated. Clifton Webb from the 1940s
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and 50s. We're going to be looking at two of
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his films that he's well known for. One is called
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Laura from 1944. It's a gorgeous black and white
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film noir. And then a hilarious comedy called
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Sitting Pretty. So be sure to check us out on
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our next episode and I'll see you next time.
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