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What is going on, everyone? Welcome to the Part-Time Nerd
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Podcast with your pals Alan and Rapid Dave. I'm Alan.
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Marty, man. What up?
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Not much. How are you doing?
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Pretty good. I'll say pretty good.
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You should be. You should be. As today we watch it.
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It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Originally released October 27th, 1966.
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What do you got?
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The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the
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Great Pumpkin. As you mentioned, October 27th, 1966. Director Bill Melendez.
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25 minutes long. Animation slash family film. Yeah. Rated G.
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And it's great. Like, this is just pure greatness for me.
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I absolutely love everything about it.
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You put this on your list of top five Halloween movies,
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which is not even a movie. It's 20 minutes long.
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It's real to me, damn it. Who says a movie
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has to be longer than 25 minutes? Okay. I'm just saying.
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It's just a short movie.
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A movie. A movie. A core set of mechanical, structural,
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and creative elements. There you go. Yeah.
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This has all of that.
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You don't even know what any of that means.
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I mean, Charlie Brown is a movie, so deal with it, sucker.
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I've been watching this thing since I can remember. It
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used to air on ABC or whatever, like every single
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year until Apple bought it or whatever. You can still
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watch it. We watched it on YouTube. It's broken up
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into like 10 or 12 movies.
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I actually found one where it's not.
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Oh, nice. Yeah, there's two of them. And I was like,
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I just clicked on the one that I've already watched before.
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And I was like, okay. And you realize how quick
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this thing is when there's not a commercial every minute.
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Oh yeah. Yeah. Like it's, it's quick, but it's so great. Like,
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I mean, it starts off, I, I'd laugh at the
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very first scene. It's, um, Linus and his, his sister,
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Sally going and getting a pumpkin and Linus is having
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to roll it back to the house. Cause the pumpkin
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is bigger than him. Um, she cuts it open and
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starts pulling the guts out. And Linus is like, you
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didn't tell me we were going to kill it.
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That's when you get the first Linus.
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Oh man. But there's just so many, just fun little
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parts in this. Like they got the pile of leaves
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going there and Linus jumps into it. And he's like,
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never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.
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Telling you, giving you life advice at that age.
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So, so much life advice, Charlie Brown's dumb as can be.
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Um, He's not stupid. He's not simple.
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He gets him again with the football.
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Well, he's gullible.
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He's she's like, oh, I've got to sign a contract here.
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He's like, that's just right. We got to sign contracts.
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One has a contract. I can't. He runs. She pulls
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the football away. He busts his ass again. She's like,
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funny thing about that contract. It's not notarized. It's like,
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son of a bitch.
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Then you're looking around like, what the hell does that mean?
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Because you're, you know, five years old.
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Well, that, and then you had, like, later in the
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episode when Sally turns on Linus, and she's all upset
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because she missed Halloween, waiting for the Great Pumpkin. And
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she starts, she's going to sue. She wants restitution. You're
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just like, again, as a kid, you're like, what the
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hell is restitution? You didn't know, but you laughed your
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ass off. Yeah. Right?
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Restitution. I don't think you know.
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What that is. And then just, Charlie Brown is just
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such a punching bag. Like, he's just everybody. Like, even
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when he's a, he's going around trick or treating and
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all the neighbors houses and all the neighbors hate, hate him.
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Like he shows everyone's guy. I got this candy. I
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got this. I got this. I got a rock. Unbelievable.
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Disrespect.
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So much disrespect, but also like he can't cut just
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two holes into a costume for a ghost costume. Uh,
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he's got 15 holes in it.
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Um, he does have a ton.
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He does. When they're at the Halloween party, they're like, Oh,
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you could be our model. He's like, really? Yeah, you'd
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be a perfect model. Aw, shucks. And then they have
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him turn around and they draw a pumpkin's face on
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his bald head.
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Back his big-ass noggin.
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I guess he's just everyone's punching bag. Just, you know,
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get better friends.
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How about that, Charlie Brown? I mean, he accidentally got
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invited to a party. And then Lucy's like, if you
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got invited, that was a mistake. And he's like, what?
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There's two lists, Charlie Brown. One to invite and one
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not to invite. Oh, it's like, dude, what the hell's
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wrong with this? Why did he just, that's the kid
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that needs to go around and just start socking people. Like,
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you know what I mean? Just like you say something
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and all you gotta do is drill one of them
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and that they'll never, they'll never do it again. Any
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of them.
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Well, here's the thing. Pig pens more like than he is.
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And he's filthy as can be. He's got bugs and
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dirt flying around them all the time. And he's, everyone
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loves him more than they love Charlie. Oh, poor Charlie. Oh, Snoopy.
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Snoopy's just great.
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He's good.
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This one. Yeah. World war one fought flying ace.
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Yeah.
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You love it whenever he's as a kid. I just
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loved it. Anytime you saw him doing that a little bit. Um,
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but yeah, everyone's making fun of Linus. Like he's at
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home writing his letter and people are just like in
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line just to, just to make fun of them.
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Like, Hey, number 46, you're up. Atlantis, you moron.
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He's sitting there and he's talking to his old buddy, Chuck,
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old Charlie Brown. And he's like, you know, it's not
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really like we say Santa's real. He's same thing as Santa,
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just for Halloween. You know, he starts talking again. You've
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got so many lines in this that are like, well,
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I just guess that's a different preference in religions and whatever.
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And you're just like, as a kid, you don't understand
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that stuff. But as an adult, you're like, OK, you know.
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and then his sister comes and everyone makes fun of
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me because of you you moron and then another kid
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shows up and is making fun of him and then
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another one and these are just random characters these aren't
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even like staples yeah right it's just all these random
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people it's just a line they're just one at a time.
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I'm not catching strays from some C level character here
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I'll tell you that right now.
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But he just took it. And then, you know, everyone
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goes trick or treating. He's just in the pumpkin patch.
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Just waiting. Thinks he shows up at one time, but
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it's just Snoopy.
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It's Snoopy rising out of the patch.
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Just Snoopy. Um, but yeah, he stays out there all
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night and then you kind of, you get one little
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redeeming factor about Lucy, right? She wakes up in the
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middle of the night, sees her brother's not in bed,
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goes and gets them and takes them inside and tucks
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them in. Um, pulls his shoes off, all that.
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Terrible parents, wherever the hell the parents are. I don't know, man.
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then I do like the... Of course, you got Schroeder
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playing the piano, as you always do. And Snoopy's sitting
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there and he's playing an upbeat song and Snoopy's all dancing.
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And then it gets to a sad part and he
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just starts crying. And he goes back to the upbeat
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part and he's dancing again and back to sad.
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It's a roller coaster of emotions.
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It is, but
it's just, it's so great. Like I
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love everything about this. It's, it will never not be good.
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It will always be good. It's every generation, right? I mean,
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this thing was out for 14 years before we were
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even born. Yeah. Right.
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And, and we said 66, right?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah. So 14. Yeah.
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I was like, yeah. Jesus.
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Jesus.
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Right it kicks off the triple though the triplets you
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know i mean it's the this is the first it's
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the halloween went next up it's thanksgiving then you got
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the christmas all are just great all are legendary uh
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you're right though i mean this is a must watch
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every single year it's just great yeah i remember reading
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peanuts in the newspaper every sunday yeah um big big
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staple in our house big staple.
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Oh yeah huge huge well what kind of we got
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some ratings there.
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We do and i do have a rotten tomato so
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you'll be able to start guessing um If.
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It's not 100, I don't even want to hear it.
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Go on.
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IMDB, 8.1 out of 10. Letterboxd, 4.2 out of 5.
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That leaves Rotten Tomatoes, the wild card. It's not 100.
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I told you it's not 100.
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I know it's not. It's like an 83.
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They only rate... What's that stupid... I can't even think
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of the dumbass movie.
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It's 90. 90. Okay. Respectable.
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Respectable.
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Okay. I'm not going to hate them for that one.
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They probably took points away because it's not a full-length
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film how about.
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It's still lower than nightmare on elm street which is
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just ridiculous but yeah i will.
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Say this i'm looking at google and it's where i
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usually get the rating the year and the genre and
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like i said it's animation slash family well there's one
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word after that it says film.
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Boom I have been redeemed.
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I didn't see it the first time or maybe I didn't.
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I read it, but yeah. So family film, it's a film.
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There you go. 25 minutes long.
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It's the great pumpkin. Charlie Brown is an absolute Halloween classic.
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While Charlie Brown gets rocks instead of candy, Linus spends
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Halloween night waiting in a pumpkin patch for the mysterious
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great pumpkin. Meanwhile, Snoopy becomes a world war one flying
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ace battling the red Baron from Lucy's hilarious antics to
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that unforgettable peanuts humor. This special perfectly captures the magic
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of Halloween as a kid. Nearly 60 years later, it's
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still fun. charming, and packed with nostalgia. It's not officially
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Halloween until you've watched The Great Pumpkin.
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Boom.
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Absolutely.
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There we go.
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And I think they still do show it on NBC
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on Halloween. Like, I think they started, like, that first
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year they did it, And then there was a bunch
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of backlash. So Apple was like, you could get it
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one night.
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Yeah, they did. I don't know what night it is.
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I don't think it's on Halloween, though, this year. Because
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they did mention it. Because they were like, oh, these
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are the days for the special. Someone posted it or whatever.
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But anyways, it probably has already passed.
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Yeah. But yeah, it's Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Classic. Must watch.
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How do you guys feel about it? Do you still
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watch it to this day? Do your kids like it?
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Do your kids' kids like it? Just tell us. Let
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us know. As always, guys, I'm Alan.
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I'm RD. Talk to you later.
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Deuces.