Chris Queen “A Charlie Brown Christmas”: An Appreciation

I don’t know exactly when I became a fan of Charlie Brown and the “Peanuts” Although I don’t know the names of these characters, I can recall them being an integral part of my elementary school years. One thing that I do know is this: Charlie Brown Christmas This holiday season, it has been a major part of my holiday celebrations.

As children, we watched every year. Charlie Brown Christmas When it was first broadcast on television. It was always on CBS, and Peter Paul candies sponsored it — I still remember the York Peppermint Patty and “Sometimes you feel like a nut” commercials.

But it wasn’t just on TV that I experienced Charlie Brown Christmas. The book and the recording contained the majority of the script. I probably listened to it more often than Christmastime. I can still quote most of the dialogue from the characters to this day.

There’s so much that drew me to the “Peanuts” Comic strip and to Charlie Brown Christmas. As a precocious kid, I understood many of the references in those comics that many of my peers didn’t. Charlie Brown, the child who managed to be both different and still fit in, was someone I could relate with. Like the “Peanuts” characters, I wasn’t afraid to wax theological from time to time.

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In fact, it’s all those things that made Charlie Brown Christmas An unlikely success. The ball started rolling when Lee Mendelson, a television production producer, wanted to film a documentary about Charles M. Schulz. “Peanuts” creator. A Coca-Cola advertising executive was seeking a project to be involved in during the current recession.