Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Dinner Actually Looks Pretty Good to Local Runner
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A local runner watching the animated classic “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” this weekend failed to see the problem with the unorthodox meal served in a pivotal scene, Dumb Runner has learned.
“I dunno, looks pretty good to me,” said Bill Melendez, 37, an avid runner and three-time marathon finisher. “I’d eat that.”
In the scene, Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy, a dog, scramble to prepare food for several guests who have invited themselves to Brown’s home for Thanksgiving dinner. The best they can manage, given their short time frame and their status as children and a dog, is a meal consisting of buttered toast, popcorn, pretzels, and jelly beans.
One guest, Peppermint Patty, reacts to the meal with disdain.
“What kind of a Thanksgiving dinner is this?” she asks. “Where's the mashed potatoes? Where's the cranberry sauce? Where's the pumpkin pie?”
Melendez, who said he “loves a traditional Thanksgiving dinner as much as the next person,” said he didn’t understand Patty’s grousing.
“I look at that table and I see carbs, man,” he said. “Carbs and salt, thanks to the pretzels. That’s some good stuff.”
“I don’t see the problem.”
Reached for comment, a representative of the estate of Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip and writer of the Thanksgiving special, told Dumb Runner, “Wah-wah-wah, wah wah wah-wah.”
