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''It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'' is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip ''Peanuts'' by Charles M. Schulz. A Halloween special, it was the third ''Peanuts'' special (and second holiday-themed special, following ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'') to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez. It was also the first ''Peanuts'' special to use the titular pattern of a short phrase, followed by "Charlie Brown", a pattern which would remain the norm for almost all subsequent ''Peanuts'' specials. Its initial broadcast took place on October 27, 1966, on CBS, preempting ''My Three Sons''. CBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001, where it now airs annually during the Halloween season. Until 2013 ABC broadcast, ''You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown'' aired immediately after ''It's the Great Pumpkin'', as if to emphasize the proximity of Halloween to Election Day. Also, the Great Pumpkin is mentioned in ''You're Not Elected''. The special aired twice in 2014 and 2015. The first time, ABC aired ''Toy Story of Terror'' with ''The Great Pumpkin'' following afterward. The second time was the more traditional airing with ''You're Not Elected'' following afterwards. The program was nominated for an Emmy Award. It has been issued on home video several times, including a ''Remastered Deluxe Edition'' of the special released by Warner Home Video on September 2, 2008, with the bonus feature ''It's Magic, Charlie Brown'' which was released in 1981. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, a retrospective book was published in 2006. ''It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic'' includes the entire script, never-before-seen photographs, storyboard excerpts, and interviews with the original child actors who provided the voices of the ''Peanuts'' gang. A history of the program and the various religious interpretations of Linus' sincere belief in the Great Pumpkin are explained in the 2015 book, ''A Charlie Brown Religion''.〔Lind, Stephen (2015). A Charlie Brown Religion (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi).〕 ==Plot== With autumn already in full swing, the Peanuts gang prepares for Halloween. Linus van Pelt writes his annual letter to The Great Pumpkin, despite Charlie Brown's disbelief, Snoopy's laughter, Patty's assurance that the Great Pumpkin is a fake, and even his own sister Lucy's violent threat to make her brother stop. Only Sally, Charlie Brown's younger sister, who is smitten with Linus, supports him. When Linus goes out to mail the letter but cannot reach the mailbox, Lucy refuses to help him; so he uses his blanket to open the box, and throws in the letter. On Halloween night, the gang (including Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally) goes trick-or-treating. On the way, they stop at the pumpkin patch to ridicule Linus' missing the festivities, just as he did last year. Undeterred, Linus is convinced that the Great Pumpkin will come, and even persuades Sally to remain with him to wait. During trick-or-treating, the kids receive assorted candy, apples, gum, cookies, money, and popcorn balls — except for Charlie Brown (who mistakenly cuts several holes in a sheet for his costume), who for some reason is given a rock from every house they visit. After trick-or-treating and another visit to the pumpkin patch, the gang goes to Violet's Halloween party. Meanwhile, Snoopy, wearing his World War I flying ace costume, climbs aboard his doghouse (imagining it to be a Sopwith Camel fighter plane) to fight with the Red Baron. After a fierce but losing battle, Snoopy makes his way across "the countryside" to briefly crash the Halloween party, where he is entertained by Schroeder's playing of World War I tunes on his piano, and then goes to the pumpkin patch. When Linus sees a shadowy figure rising from the moonlit patch, he assumes the Great Pumpkin has arrived, and faints. When Sally sees that it is only Snoopy, she furiously yells at Linus for making her miss the trick-or-treating activities as well as the Halloween party festivities as the kids come to get her. As they leave, and still convinced that the Great Pumpkin will materialize, Linus promises to put in a good word for them. At 4:00 AM the next morning (November 1), Lucy realizes that Linus is not in his bed. She finds her brother asleep in the pumpkin patch, shivering. She brings him home, takes off his shoes, and puts him to bed. Later, Charlie Brown and Linus are leaning against a wall, commiserating about the previous night's disappointments. Charlie Brown attempts to console his friend, admitting that he himself has done stupid things in his life also; this only infuriates Linus, who sets off on an angry rant vowing that the Great Pumpkin will come to the pumpkin patch next year, as Charlie Brown listens with an annoyed look on his face and the credits roll. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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