Talk:A Charlie Brown Christmas

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A Charlie Brown Christmas was a good article, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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[edit] Edits

I'm well aware of the edits made to this special to remove the Coca-Cola sponsorship. However, during the dancing at the rehearsal, there's an obvious jump (the music skips from the refrain partially into the first verse). What was there, and why was it edited?

  • I was watching it tonight and was reminded of how poor the editing was in places, so I would chalk it up to that. Wahkeenah 03:19, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

According to the book, "A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition", Bill Melendez says that a year after the first airing of A Charlie Brown Christmas, they went back and fixed up a few of the scenes in the show that bothered them. Perhaps this explains the odd musical cut. 64.136.26.225, 09:04, 15 December 2005

  • If so, they didn't do very much to it. Wahkeenah 09:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Light bulb turns on Aha! Perhaps this explains what I commented about over at "Talk:A Charlie Brown Christmas (album)" --Nerd42 00:09, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

  • I believe this was actually the second Peanuts TV special. I think the first was baseball-themed and came out the summer before the Christmas show aired. Not sure though. PurpleChez 30 June 2006
    • Close. According to the book, "A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition", what you're thinking of is a documentary about Charles Schultz that was created before the Christmas special. It, however, featured only a few minutes of animation, and was mostly a live-action documentary of the life of Mr. Schultz. Mr. Mendelsson couldn't find a buyer for this documentary at first, but in the process of trying to sell it, they got the bid to do a Christmas special. --Rehcsif 21:52, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

The voice talent for Charlie Brown (Peter Robbins) had an on-screen role in the 1967 Sonny and Cher film Good Times. — Eoghanacht talk 18:38, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Tracy Stratford was with another Lucy (Pam Ferdin) in the "John Forsythe Show".

[edit] Possible add to "Trivia"

Wouldn't it be appropriate to add the overt mention of this special in the Buffy episode "The Replacement"? Snoopydance 17:15, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reasons for delisting

Hi all,

I do not this meets the criteria for a good article because:

  • It has a short lead.
  • It has no inline citations.
  • It has a large trivia sections.
  • It has unaddressed tags.

If you disagree with this evaluation. Please feel free to renominate the article for promotion here.

Thanks, Cedars 16:26, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I had wondered if the article had ever attained GA status in the first place. When I found it, the GA box was (erroneously) placed on the article itself, and so despite not being able to find it in the GA listings, placed it on the talk page anyway in good faith. I suppose your evaluation clears up that little issue anyway! Seb Patrick 17:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it should be deleted. AlbertSM (talk) 01:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Charlie Brown Christmas as narrated by the cast of Scrubs

I had added this: * A Charlie Brown Christmas voiced by the cast of Scrubs at YouTube into the external links section but it was deleted. Is there any proper way to incorporate this into the article or as a link? 63.252.70.69 03:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MUSIC

Does anyone know the name of the jazz piano peice played during the infamous dance scene? Most people think it's Linus and Lucy, but it's not. Anyone know what it is? --Chitomcgee 04:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

  • The first segment played on the theater stage, the one Schroeder is playing when Charlie walks in, is a portion of "Christmas Is Coming". The remaining segments (four of them) are portions of "Linus and Lucy". Wahkeenah 05:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TRIVIA/MISTAKES

The last time I viewed this article was 4 months ago. Since then, I see that the Trivia section has been greatly reduced and the subsection Mistakes has been completely removed. Yet I see no mention of it in the discussion section. That information was very interesting. Why such drastic changes? Kwyjibear 17:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Trivia crackdown. WAVY 10 19:37, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missing Themes

The article refers to missing themes...can anyone elaborate? What parts of the show does the music play? TJ0513 (talk) 19:04, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation needed

How do you enter "citation needed"? I have seen it on several articles.AlbertSM (talk) 01:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)