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Friday Geek Out: You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

in Geek Out, Theatre

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown started out as a record album in 1966. It was billed as an “Original Album Musical” for MGM’s Leo record label and featured 10 songs by Clark Gesner. The record was adapted into a stage musical, which debuted off-Broadway on March 7, 1967. The musicalization of the classic Peanuts [...]

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Friday Geek Out: Holiday Dance Time

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Everyone could use a sparkly dance for the holiday season and here is the perfect one… And to read the entire Geek Out on A Charlie Brown Christmas, simply go here.

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Charlie Brown Wins!

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I guess we’re a little out of touch. We just saw this ad for the first time this weekend as it aired at the movies ahead of High School Musical 3. Apparently this was one of Coke’s ads for this year’s Super Bowl. Perhaps it is in movie theaters now since the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day [...]

Friday Geek Out: A Charlie Brown Christmas

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Was there any doubt what the Geek Out had to be this Friday before Christmas? It’s the perfect holiday special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Truly a timeless classic, having premiered in 1965 and winning an Emmy and a Peabody Award that year. I watch it multiple times in the holiday season (and sometimes it gets [...]

Thanksgiving Geek Out: Macy’s Parade & Peanuts

in Geek Out

It’s two for the price of one today on this special holiday edition of Geek Out. Two things that always mean Thanksgiving to me: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been part of my Thanksgiving morning for as long as I can remember. I have [...]

Peanuts Redux

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Brian comes up with some very cool things on his site, and this is one that I had to bring over here. An artist with the alias of gNAW, over on a site called Fur Affinity, has been reinventing the classic Peanuts characters as teenagers. I think these are very cool, so I wanted to [...]

Friday Geek Out: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

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It was October 1966 when children first got to visit the pumpkin patch with It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The special makes its yearly appearance next Tuesday (October 30) at 8pm ET on ABC, so it seems the perfect way to finish out this month’s “scary” Geek Outs. Great Pumpkin was the second of [...]

Happy Birthday, Peanuts Gang

in Current Events

October 2, 1950, the very first Peanuts comic strip appeared in seven newspapers. The final Sunday strip ran in papers around the world on February 13, 2000 just hours after Charles Schulz passed away. Happy Birthday to the entire gang!