The Peanuts Gallery

A Boy Named Charlie Brown – w/ Allie Goertz

Episode Summary

A boy enters a spelling. Also, a dog drinks three glasses of water.

Episode Notes

This episode we tackle 1969's A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN, Charlie Brown & the Peanuts gang's first animated feature, in which Charlie Brown is humiliated on a big screen several times over. Special guest Allie Goertz brings with her a wealth of knowledge of sad cartoon characters, to help us round out the 1960s season of The Peanuts Gallery.

A Boy Named Charlie Brown is available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube.

Topics of discussion include:

• remaking Finding Dory but with humans;
• Rod McKuen's "spending your birthday alone in a hotel bar" music;
• Is there anything sadder than a bath with no bubbles?;
• the Ocean's 11-style baseball segment = THE BEST;
• as adults, should we all be making trombone sounds by now?;
• Lucy finally going full A Clockwork Orange on Charlie Brown, finally;
• the fabulous Exposition Sisters;
• plosives for daaaays;
• theories about how Charlie Brown eats cold cereal;
• Linus & Snoopy's competition to be CB's shittiest friend;
• Josh's dog Banjo doesn't give a hoot about your feelings;
• the keystone to unlocking the Meatlump language;
• the harpsichord-playing Alter-Schroeder of another town;
• singing your own lyrics to the Joe Cool song.

Our guest Allie Goertz is a musician and comedian, who specializes in sweet & sad songs about TV shows. Her latest release is a concept album about Rick & Morty called Sad Dance Songs.

As mentioned in this episode, here is Sarah Shay's recipe for the #DogRoy: Vodka, St. Germaine, root beer, lemon, on ice served in a glass mug.

Questions? Comments? Tweet them to @PeanutsPodcast.

Got a suggestion for a better name for the Jew's Harp / Austin Powers' Harp? Also tweet them at us at @PeanutsPodcast – On Josh's birthday (11/13/16) he will choose a winner!

Josh and Molly wrote a holiday musical a couple years ago, inspired in no small part by the Peanuts holiday specials. It's available to stream or purchase on Bandcamp.

Thank you for listening & tweeting at this pair of blockheads! We really appreciate it.

This episode was reblandished in May 2017 by Ken Plume - asitecalledfred.com/kenplume