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#2104071 - 10/21/16 03:52 PM
The Great Pumpkin debate (not that sort of debate)
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So this season's airing of Charlie Brown's It's The Great Pumpkin special is the 50th anniversary. I grew up watching The Great Pumpkin, I took the kiddos to see the new Peanuts movie (not the best but they enjoyed it) and I seriously loved the Peanuts Gang then and now. This morning on the radio there was a huge debate about whether or not The Great Pumpkin was "appropriate for the children of today's society"
I literally OMG's in the car ..... Seriously. What are your thoughts? Do you think the Peanuts Gang are a "bunch of renegade bullies" and are portrayed in a way that makes "children uncomfortable"?
Maybe it's just me but I have never had an issue with the Peanuts and even though there is an undertone of teasing Charlie Brown in the end I always felt they were all friends and they came together at the end of the shows in a positive way.
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#2104073 - 10/21/16 04:09 PM
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Just another chapter in this PC "everyone gets a trophy" world.
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#2104075 - 10/21/16 04:13 PM
Re: The Great Pumpkin debate (not that sort of debate)
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I'm offended. :heads off to find a safe space:
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#2104083 - 10/21/16 04:29 PM
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I'm offended. :heads off to find a safe space: Your offense offends me. :heads off to the pumpkin patch:
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#2104088 - 10/21/16 04:47 PM
Re: The Great Pumpkin debate (not that sort of debate)
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That explains why Met Life dumped them after 30+ years
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#2104092 - 10/21/16 05:10 PM
Re: The Great Pumpkin debate (not that sort of debate)
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I think it's still totally appropriate. Yeah, Charlie Brown has trouble with his costume and doesn't get the best treats. But Charlie Brown has always represented the kid who tries and tries and still ends up frustrated. All of the Peanuts gang represent kid behavior you still see today - and the message is very wholesome.
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#2104094 - 10/21/16 05:11 PM
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Oh for crying out loud....I shudder to think what this generation will be like as adults.
Love The Great Pumpkin and a Charlie Brown Christmas too. Classics!
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#2104099 - 10/21/16 05:23 PM
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#2104104 - 10/21/16 05:37 PM
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people seriously need to get their heads out of their posteriors...go freaking find a way to bring drinking water to drought infected areas, feed the hungry, end homelessness...but seriously, what's next? can't have Fat Albert because it is demeaning to call an overweight person fat? can't have weird Harold because calling someone weird hurts their feelings? Superman is off limits because it doesn't allow for gender neutrality? sheesh...
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#2104108 - 10/21/16 05:40 PM
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Oh for crying out loud....I shudder to think what this generation will be like as adults.
Love The Great Pumpkin and a Charlie Brown Christmas too. Classics! utilizing the term The "Great" Pumpkin can hurt the feeling of the lesser pumpkins as such would mess with the all get a trophy theory that has been ingrained in this society. now do not get me started in the offensiveness of the term "Christmas"
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#2104109 - 10/21/16 05:42 PM
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Harold is only weird due to his marijuana consumption and lack of White Castles in his walking distance.
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#2104115 - 10/21/16 05:51 PM
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people seriously need to get their heads out of their posteriors...go freaking find a way to bring drinking water to drought infected areas, feed the hungry, end homelessness...but seriously, what's next? can't have Fat calorically challenged Albert because it is demeaning to call an overweight person fat? can't have weird Harold because calling someone weird hurts their feelings? Superman is off limits because it doesn't allow for gender neutrality? sheesh...
You are so insensitive Happy....
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#2104118 - 10/21/16 06:03 PM
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Oh for crying out loud....I shudder to think what this generation will be like as adults.
Love The Great Pumpkin and a Charlie Brown Christmas too. Classics! utilizing the term The "Great" Pumpkin can hurt the feeling of the lesser pumpkins as such would mess with the all get a trophy theory that has been ingrained in this society. now do not get me started in the offensiveness of the term "Christmas" That's it. I'm heading off to the CFPB website to file a complaint about Fair Labeling.
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#2104126 - 10/21/16 06:40 PM
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Oh for crying out loud....I shudder to think what this generation will be like as adults.
Love The Great Pumpkin and a Charlie Brown Christmas too. Classics! This assumes they will ever turn into "adults"...
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#2104147 - 10/21/16 07:25 PM
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Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will scare me for life! and what about that dog fighting beagle!!! We all know flying dogs can not shoot bullets from their paws!! Think of the children.
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#2104154 - 10/21/16 07:50 PM
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and what about that dog fighting beagle!!! We all know flying dogs can not shoot bullets from their paws!! Think of the children. There needs to be an investigation as to how the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm turned Snoopy into such a war monger. 
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#2104159 - 10/21/16 08:02 PM
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Oh, come on - that is just crazy !!!!! I also heard that Met Life is changing it's mascot and Snoopy won't be in the Thanksgiving Parade anymore. I'm not sure if he'll be in this year's or not. Boo-Hoo!
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#2104180 - 10/21/16 10:22 PM
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These people don't have much trouble in their lives if this is all they can think of to complain about. They should be counting their blessings.
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#2104187 - 10/22/16 02:01 PM
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#2104196 - 10/24/16 12:57 PM
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#2104326 - 10/24/16 07:27 PM
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Ahhhhh Thank You BOL peeps. I was beginning to think it was ME. I could not believe it - and how people were so enraged by it. So right it is a new generation of participation trophy babies
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#2104599 - 10/25/16 09:59 PM
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participation trophy babies. HA!
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#2104640 - 10/26/16 01:41 PM
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#2104669 - 10/26/16 02:31 PM
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^^^
What you have all said, I agree.
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