 It's the great pumpkin Charles
It's the Great Pumpkin,Charlie Brown.(1966).
There are not many cartoons that epitomize not just Halloween but that Autumnal feeling, where the leaves are falling, signaling that summer is over and winter is a looming...Linus is writing to the great pumpkin,who he hopes will get his letter,and then deliver him presents on Halloween night and all he has to do is hang around the pumpkin patch all evening...All the rest of the gang are getting ready to go to the big Halloween party after they have been trick or treating... Amazingly all Charlie Brown ever seems to get is a rock,then again Charlie's costume is a white sheet covered in eye hole slots... Snoopy's costume on the over hand,is slightly more impressive , as he is dressed as a World War One fighter pilot,which then leads to a great sequence as we see Snoopy, sitting a top his dog kennel, flying through the skies of France, looking to fight the Red Baron... Unfortunately Snoopy is shot down and tries to evade capture after a crash landing...Only to be mistaken as the great pumpkin by Linus... There are not many cartoons that can capture a sense of melancholy or a particular season,but It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown manages to do both as is a firm favourite anytime of the year...
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