A Charlie Brown Christmas was the first Peanuts special, capitalizing on the popularity of the comic strip in 1965. By this point, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts had been running for 15 years with the same basic premise: here are some children, one of them has a dog. Not much happens in a typical Peanuts plot. The larger world of the children barely exists.
The appeal of Peanuts was, and still is, in simply being with these children and understanding their rhythms. As Umberto Eco wrote in the New
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