Franklin is finally getting his own “Peanuts” special, over 50 years after being introduced

I love this. I hadn't remembered that Franklin was not at the Thanksgiving table. I like his backstory too.

R1 he was at the table, he was just sat by himself on the opposite side of everyone else.

R1 they sat him on the opposite side of the table. None of the other kids sat next to him and he had to sit on a beach chair while the rest of them had dinner table seats.

What about the lesbians? When are they getting their show?

The Thanksgiving edition is BY FAR my favorite of the Charlie Brown specials. There's just something about that sad, dry-ass mess of a holiday meal Charlie Brown and Snoopy cook and serve up, is just so... perfect. Especially when we see Snoopy pull out that motherfucking GRAND turkey, slices it up, and puts it on his best China with all the yummy sides, just kills me every damn time. Snoopy wasn't 'bout to share that meal with his drip of an owner and his goofy-ass friends. You could tell he wanted to brain Peppermint Patty with one of those lawn chairs. Over the decades I have actually fantasized about serving my own guests the way Snoopy chunks those plates like Frisbees.

And the wishbone scene at the very end is just the most adorable thing ever. Love me some Woodstock.

Good on that Cali teacher, and good on Charles Schultz. I'll be watching this new special, and hoping it's not as gawdawful as that Pilgrim one.

I love it, too, R1, and look forward to seeing this.

Of course he is.

😴🥱😴🥱😴🥱

Charlie.....Brown? Surely that's Franklin?

I hope it's good but I hope it has also a story besides "Racism." Franklin deserves a plot! I don't think black viewers just want to watch the lone black kid get micro-agressed for half an hour. Which makes me think this special is being made for white viewers - to make them realize how Franklin was side-lined. And I suppose that has its place. But give the rest of us a good proper story beyond that please. The soap box derby sounds cute though. Whatever, as long as Lucy is still a cunt I'll be happy

Claudine Gay pencilled in to write the script.

R10 or for all viewers who love Peanuts… your weird obsession with segregating viewers is outdated.

R10, I'm sure they'll do both. It has to be entertaining,.after all.

It’s a children’s cartoon. Don’t politicize it.

R14 never watched the old Charlie Brown shows it seems

Does Pig-Pen have an "origin story"?

I think we know most of the kids backgrounds and their home lives but never Stanley.

This will soon be followed by another special about yet another marginilized figure from the 1970s which will be titled, Charlie Brown presents: Welcome Home BONNIE FRANKLIN!!!

A cartoon character experienced racism?

2024 America

Who wore the strap-on? Marcie or Peppermint Patty?

No one watches this shit. Woke Hollywood wonders why it keeps failing.

Franklin threw the second brick at Stonewall.

Is Mindy Kaling involved in this?

[quote]“After more than 50 years since being introduced, the first Black “Peanuts” character will get his proper due in a new streaming special on Apple TV+.

JUSTICE FOR GUNTHER.

He had more lines on Friends than Franklin ever has.

Oh please. If he switched with Charlie Brown someone would say, “Look! Linus, Marcy and Charlie Brown get a whole side to themselves and Franklin gets rammed in between 2 other people! Charlie B even has a comfy beach chair!

Marcy is on a hard, uncomfortable, collapsible metal church chair. That’s how they treated dykes back then.

R16, but later on, he became Pig Bottom at SF's Castro.

I can't wait to see the million youtube videos of fat magas outraged with titles like "WOKE Hollywood RUINS CHARLIE BROWN"

I love chocolate-covered Peanuts.

Most of this is about very liberal (woke) whites, rather than black resentment/aggression. I see it in middle-aged white women more than young'ins.

R3, why are they all eating erect penises?

Are people going to have issues when it’s revealed that Franklin is on the downlow and that he grew up with a fetish for white, bald men?

R18

It’s out now!

“ Franklin Armstrong, who was first introduced to primetime viewers in 1973’s “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.”

While the cartoon’s inclusion of diversity was welcomed in the aftermath of the tumultuous Civil Rights Movement, the show hit a sour note with viewers by segregating its only Black character from the rest of the Peanuts gang — having him seated by himself on a beach chair on the opposite side of the table, during what would’ve otherwise been a festive dinner scene.

But the recently released trailer for the upcoming special takes the racist undertones of yester-century head on with a plot twist. This time, when the Peanuts crew sits down for a similar group meal, there’s a seat at the table for Franklin.

“Hey, Franklin, we saved you a seat over here,” Linus van Pelt says, motioning to a place next to Charlie Brown.”

Idk why but when I read this it made me cry a little. The thought of them finally giving him a place besides them at the table is touching.

I guess it’s all about perspective. Our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners were always crowded with relatives. When I was a kid, I envied Franklin getting one whole side of the table to himself. He wasn’t being bumped by the person sitting next to him.

So random, I watched ten minutes of this last night (it was super late and I needed to get to bed). Having only seen that small amount of it, I thought it was great. The animation is a notable step up from the old specials but done in a way that respects the established style.

So where is Pigpen in the T-giving show? Why do they call him that? Doesn't he have a name?

I don't see him in that table scene with any food or even a chair so lucky Franklin for getting hi stuff there.

If P-pen wasn't there, do they call him after Chuck's grandma says to him "they all can come to her house" or is G-ma's place off limits to some?

R35 go touch grass

R35 I liked it too. It’s so sweet and tender and innocent while also honest, just like it’s always been.

I loved loved loved how toward the end we see Franklin actually bonding and chatting with the other kids, who are liking him, and he realizes no one is perfect but we are better together than apart. And then when he goes to sit on the opposite side of the table by himself (a throwback to the Thanksgiving special) the kids tell him they saved a seat by them for him to sit, essentially correcting what the Thanksgiving episode did.

It was very sweet.