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To say that It's The Great Pumpkin,Charlie Brown is a priceless classic is how it should be said.

The characters are just classics such as Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Sally, Lucy, Linus and many more.

The Story is about Linus and his mission to meet and greet The Great Pumpkin who is not even real but Linus don't care he believe in The Great Pumpkin.

The Great Pumpkin is a character that brings toys to all good little kids in Linus' mind.

While the other kids like Charlie Brown, Lucy and others go out for Trick or Threat Linus ask Sally to wait with him in The Pumpkin Patch.

My favorite scenes are When Snoopy and Charlie Brown finish racking up leafs Linus is licking on a sucker when he sees the Leafs he said "CHARGE"! He run in full speed and jumps right into the leafs and he turns to Charlie Brown and Snoopy and said "Never Jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker". They then give him a evil look.

My other favorite scene is the classic Lucy pull the football away from Charlie Brown. Just as he is about to kick the ball and he lands right on his back.

The Animation is very solid and is a classic sample of hand drawn animation with great artwork.

The voice work is so solid for a classic like this.

The Music is always a hit with me and nothing more can be say about it Overall It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is a real classic and one of the best Charlie Brown movies far none and if you have not seen it watch it now.

I give It's The Great Pumpkin,Charlie Brown a Perfect 10 out of 10.

There are not many movies or tv programs I watch on a yearly basis because of how ingrained in American culture they are, but this is definitely one of them. While I don't consider it quite as classic as the Peanuts Christmas special, The Great Pumpkin is still a timeless thing that people will always continue to watch whenever Halloween arrives. The story in this centers on Linus believing he is destined to come face to face with The Great Pumpkin; basically the halloween equivalent of Santa Claus who delivers presents and toys to all who have faith in his existence. First things first, he goes with his sister Lucy to a large pumpkin patch in order to pick out a suitable pumpkin to bring home. After finding one, Linus is sad once he discovers the reason his sister wanted it: to kill it and turn it into a jack o' lantern. Later on, Charlie Brown is raking leaves outside when he is approached by Lucy, the latter wanting him to take part in her infamous football gag. Charlie, convinced she's just going to pull it away right when he's about to kick it (like she always does), refuses, but Lucy produces a signed document promising not to pull it away. When Charlie tries to kick it, she pulls it away anyway, saying the document wasn't notorized. Meanwhile, Linus is hard at work trying to write a letter to his beloved Great Pumpkin, with all the other characters mocking and pitying him. Charlie Brown's sister Sally would never laugh at Linus and wants to wait in a pumpkin patch with him for the Great Pumpkin. While the other kids set out to go trick or treating, they stop by the pumpkin patch to make fun of Linus' dumb decision to stay there all night waiting for something that doesn't exist. While trick or treating, Lucy asks for an extra piece of candy for her stupid brother, and Charlie Brown gets nothing but rocks. Sally stays behind and misses trick or treating in favor of being with Linus. Snoopy, dressed as a fighter pilot from World War 1, climbs on top of his doghouse and takes off in search of Manfred von Richthofen; the Red Baron. He is shot down and forced to sneak away from his doghouse through the countryside, eventually coming upon Violet's house and a halloween party. Snoopy listens to Schroeder play the piano and then sneaks out again, this time to the pumpkin patch Linus is waiting in. He rises up from it, and Linus, thinking his savior has finally come, faints in excitement. Sally is enraged and yells at Linus for keeping her up all night waiting for a fictional pumpkin who never showed up. Halloween is gone and she missed all the fun activities. Early in the morning on November first, Lucy goes outside to retrieve her sleeping brother from the pumpkin patch and puts him to bed. When day arrives, Charlie Brown tries to cheer up Linus about the Great Pumpkin not showing up, as he's done stupid things in his life too. Linus takes great offense to this comment and says the Great Pumpkin will definitely show up next year. This is an all time classic. Being the first big halloween special to be shown on tv, this thing essentially invented a genre. During its first broadcast, nearly half of all americans with a television set tuned in to watch this. Just like the Christmas special, they got actual kids to voice the characters, which should be an indication of Schulz's attention to quality. It just wouldn't be authentic enough if they got adults to do it. Not everything you watch on or near halloween needs to be creepy enough to frighten you for a long time, and the success this has had proves that.

...but now that I think about it, it's one of the only Halloween specials I can think of as well!

The Charlie Brown specials vary in quality quite a bit, though in general I think that the older ones are the best. One of the first, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is about the best and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" about the second best. I say second because in one way the previous installment was better--it was more poignant and deep. Their Halloween special is simply fun...although I remember as a young child having my heart break for poor Charlie Brown when folks kept giving him rocks on Halloween while Trick-or- Treating.

Overall, well made, really neat animation and a lot of fun. This one is a classic and is worth seeing with your family year after year...after year.

The gang go trick or treating. As Sally, Charlie's younger sister wants to stay by her sweet baboo Linus, who wants to see the Great Pumpkin Patch or the Santa Claus of the Halloween.

Charlie gets invited to a party thrown by Violet. A first for him despite the fact that he never, hardly ever gets invited. But despite going Trick or Treating, and at the party, all he gets is rocks for candy.

Snoopy in his own imagination acts like he is on assignment as a soldier and using his doghouse for a plane. We all wished that we had a neat imagination like Snoopy.

Still we all know what happens at the end. Won't spoil it for those that have not watched. But it is very sweet and Charlie and Company never have grown old or grown up for that matter as kids turned into adults.

One of the first specials I watched in Color at my Cousin Rose's house in New Jersey. Charlie Brown just wants to fit in with the Peanuts gang as he prepares his Ghost Costume complete with plenty of holes. Lucy wants to win at the apple dunking contest but Snoopy splits the winnings with her. Linus sways impressionable Sally Brown to the Pumpkin Patch to wait up for the "GREAT PUMPKIN" to appear in all his glory giving presents and goody to all. This marks the last episode of the peanuts character Violet who is a dead ringer for Lucy except Violet has her hair in a bun. Charlie Brown's night of Trick or treating is a bust as he collects a bag full of rocks instead of candy. Linus doesn't fair any better as the night wains on with no Great Pumpkin in sight as a livid Sally gives him the business. Just as close to real life as it gets. Will Rachel Maddow get her scoop on Donald Trump's Russian collusion or will the government admit there are aliens from outer space among us? That's why these cartoons are so connected to the average person's taste where as situations happen beyond your control. Sometimes the best laid plans don't always work out but we take these set backs as life lessons to learn from as did illustrator Charles M. Shulz. Mr. Shulz the creator,cartoonist of the Peanuts comic strip was featured in all the national daily papers across the U.S. . Then in the mid 1960's, holiday themed stories/cartoons were produced on the CBS Television network and the popularity of the Peanuts product grew even larger. The hook and appeal was that Shulz insisted that children should provide the voice overs in the cartoons for authenticity. These animations crossed into the advertising world as well with products from Ice cream to Insurance using the Peanuts brand . By viewing these cartoons I found a personal bond with these holiday programs cause when it comes to failures there's a little Charlie Brown in all of us . Childhood can be cruel but Mr. Shulz made these adventures of the Peanuts gang enlightening our senses and reminding us despite our failures in early life we will endure with time and exposure. With failures there's hope and maybe next Halloween The Great Pumpkin will show up?