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unusual facts about Play It Again, Charlie Brown



1996 United States federal budget

Senate majority whip Trent Lott said, "Now, we feel like Charlie Brown, and Lucy has got the football, and every time you think you're going to get a real budget it's jerked away from you," but characterized the President's plan as a positive development despite the differences remaining between the parties.

Alex Weisman

Alex has performed as Charlie Brown in the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC) at Northwestern University.

Beau Peep

On the forum of the official Beau Peep website, writer Roger Kettle also claims to have been inspired by the American comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, in that like Schulz's creation Charlie Brown, Beau Peep is a "loveable loser."

Chad Webber

Chad Webber was a child actor noted for providing the voice of Charlie Brown in various Peanuts animation films during the early 1970s.

Charles M. Brown

Charles M. Brown (1903–1995) was a long-time U.S. politician in Atlanta, sometimes called Charlie Brown after the Peanuts character, Charlie Brown.

Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales

Warner Home Video released it on its own DVD, with Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? as a bonus feature, released on November 3, 2009 as a CVS Pharmacy exclusive and then solicited to the wider market in 2010.

Don Nottebart

When Lucy gets a hold of a bubble-gum card of Charlie Brown's (fictional) idol Joe Shlabotnik, he offers to trade dozens of cards, including Nottebart's, for Shlabotnik's, but she refuses.

Florence Christian School

The FCS drama class has put on several plays, including Charlie Brown, Cinderella, Cheaper by the Dozen, Anne of Green Gables The King and I, Around the World in Eighty Days and Mary Poppins.

Leo Hallerstam

He has done the voices for several Swedish language dubbed versions of movies and cartoons, including the voice of Charlie Brown.

Place kick

In the comic strip Peanuts, Lucy frequently holds the football to allow Charlie Brown to place kick but invariably pulls it away at the last second.

Play It Again, Charlie Brown

On the final scene, Lucy visits Schroeder again and somehow offends him about Beethoven not making it in Nashville and that he did not have the Nashville sound.

Susanne Crane

Crane had exhibited her work for more than 20 years in Minnesota, including a "Charlie Brown Around Town" statue in 2001 in St. Paul.

Tech noir

Where Altman's subversion of the film noir mythos was so irreverent as to anger many contemporary critics, around the same time Woody Allen was paying affectionate, at points idolatrous homage to the classic mode with Play It Again, Sam (1972).

The Discomfort Zone

Franzen holds up Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoons as an exemplary representation of life of the American middle class in the author's home town of Webster Groves, Missouri, and countless similar towns.


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