Kid Life Lessons With Love From Peanuts
You’re welcome
Before television offered hundreds of channels 24/7 in never-ending children’s options, the ’70s television golden era stretched in kid glorious majesty. Where I grew up, that meant hilarious and engaging children’s programs sprinkled sparingly across three TV stations throughout the year where said stations pretty much all signed off by midnight.
Peanuts, with lead character Charlie Brown, exemplified a classic cartoon staple of the era. A consistent television program-insert at specific yearly intervals. And no matter how many times those specials aired over the years, they had to be watched in their entirety.
Every. Time.
I’m sure this is where my soft spot for cartoons submerged with adult themes and subtext lost on kids began. Because “Good grief, Charlie Brown,” how could one miss learning that:-
