It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is the 12th prime-time animated TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz. In the United States, it debuted on CBS on April 9, 1974 at 8 PM. Thereafter, CBS aired it each Easter season from 1974 to 2000. ABC repeated the special in some years during the period 2001 through 2014. and has paired with Charlie Brown's All Stars! on ABC since 2009 until 2014.

Dialogue

 * [first lines]
 * Marcie: I got the eggs, sir, just like you asked.
 * Peppermint Patty: Great. Come on in, Marcie. [Marcie enters] But *please* quit calling me "sir". I'll show you how we color eggs. You get eggs ready and I'll mixed up all of the colors. [whistles]
 * Marcie: [frying the first batch of eggs] Uh, sir, how do we color the eggs after we've fried them?
 * Peppermint Patty: Agh, agh, agh… Aaaugh!


 * Sally: See? Linus was right. There is an Easter Beagle.
 * Lucy: Some Easter Beagle! He gave me my own egg!
 * Marcie: What do we do with the Easter eggs now that we have them, sir?
 * Peppermint Patty: We eat them. We put a little salt on them, and we eat them.
 * Marcie: [eats her egg, still with the shell on, and gulps down] Tastes terrible, sir!

Voice cast

 * Todd Barbee – Charlie Brown
 * Melanie Kohn – Lucy van Pelt
 * Stephen Shea – Linus van Pelt
 * Greg Felton – Schroeder
 * Linda Ercoli – Peppermint Patty
 * Lynn Mortensen – Sally Brown
 * Jimmy Ahrens – Marcie
 * Bill Melendez – Snoopy/Woodstock