Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! (1986) is the 30th prime-time animated television special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It aired on the CBS network on January 1, 1986. The special focuses on Charlie Brown's difficulty finishing a book report over the holidays.

Dialogue

 * Charlie Brown: I've written an invitation to the Little Red-Haired Girl. I was afraid to call her. It's too late to mail it, so I thought I'd take it to her house, but I'm worried.
 * Linus van Pelt: Why? All you have to do is slip the letter into the mail slot in the front door of the house.
 * Charlie Brown: But what if my hand gets caught in the mail slot?
 * Linus van Pelt: That's ridiculous, Charlie Brown!
 * Charlie Brown: Well then, what if my hand gets caught in the mail slot, and while I'm hanging there, someone opens the door?
 * Linus van Pelt: Charlie Brown, you worry about the most impossible things.


 * Linus van Pelt: Did you turn in your report?
 * Charlie Brown: Yes.
 * Linus van Pelt: What did the teacher say about it? What grade did you get?
 * Charlie Brown: A D minus - the lowest grade without failing.
 * Linus van Pelt: Gee, I'm sorry, Charlie Brown.
 * Charlie Brown: The teacher said it looked like the sort of report that was written after midnight on the last day of Christmas vacation.
 * Linus van Pelt: What did you say?
 * Charlie Brown: What could I say? I congratulated her on her remarkable insight.
 * Linus van Pelt: Did you see what our next assignment is?
 * Charlie Brown: No! What is it?
 * Linus van Pelt: To read "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky.
 * [Charlie Brown faints off his desk]
 * Linus van Pelt: Happy New Year, Charlie Brown.

Cast

 * Chad Allen - Charlie Brown
 * Jeremy Miller - Linus van Pelt
 * Melissa Guzzi - Lucy van Pelt
 * Kristi Baker - Peppermint Paty
 * Elizabeth Lyn Fraser - Sally Brown
 * Aron Mandelbaum - Schroeder
 * Jason Mendelson - Marcie
 * Bill Melendez - Snoopy, Woodstock