- Actors: Todd Barbee, Melanie Kohn, Stephen Shea, Linda Ercoli, Lynn Mortensen.
- Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC.
- Language: English.
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
- Not Rated. Run Time: 25 minutes.
Springtime means laughtime for the "Peanuts" gang in this animated tale. Frying Easter eggs, a "rigged" egg hunt, and an appearance by the Easter Beagle and his feathered assistant are just some of the treats in store. 25 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono, Portuguese Dolby Digital mono; featurette. Also includes the bonus program "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown" (1976).The thirteenth installment in the evergreen Charlie Brown animated series, this is a delightful romp through the rites of spring. The running gag that holds this string of episodic misadventures together is Peppermint Patty's futile attempts at explaining how to make Easter eggs to Marcy. Highlights of this rather surreal Peanuts outing include Snoopy's dancing with little bunny rabbits inside a kaleidoscope, Sally heading to the mall to purchase a pair of platform shoes (this video was made in 1974), and Woodstock's lavishly equipped bachelor-pad birdhouse. As with the be
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More Holiday Fun with the Peanuts Gang,
Easter’s coming, and the gang is trying to get ready for it in different ways. Sally wants a new pair of shoes. Peppermint Patty is trying to teach Marcy how to color eggs. Snoopy wants to do a good deed for Woodstock. Charlie Brown is upset by the site of Christmas pre-sales at the local department store. And Linus is telling everyone about the Easter Beagle who rises up on Easter morning to give eggs to all the children. Will this familiar sounding tale have the same outcome as the Great Pumpkin?
This disc’s bonus feature is “It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown.” Sally has to give a report on this obscure holiday, and it gets the gang in the mood to participate. As a surprise to Charlie Brown, his baseball team decides to spruce up the baseball field will all kinds of new plants with surprising and humorous results.
Once again, I’ve never seen these two specials before getting this disc yet was utterly charmed by them both. While I was a little surprised and disappointed that the Easter one didn’t reference the Biblical story ala A Charlie Brown Christmas, that’s a minor point. I loved every minute of Arbor Day. It’s a more coherent story and has some classic moments. Plus I learned a little more about this holiday. (I confess, my knowledge was about like Sally’s at the beginning, so anything was better then nothing.)
If you’ve bought other Peanuts DVD’s you know exactly what to expect here. The picture and sound quality are good, but there aren’t any extras.
While extras would be nice, these discs are certainly fun the way they are. Any Peanuts fan will want this disc to continue their collection of these holiday classics.
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|I think this movie is awesome!,
Don’t believe the “bad press!” I think this mini-movie is hysterical. Woodstock’s “groovy pad” is the ultimate. And you can’t help but love the fact that you end up wanting to smack Marcy for being so dense. My friends and I (average age – 25) love “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown.” I definitely recommend it for any Peanuts fan.
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|A classic, enjoyable Peanuts special,
“Easter Beagle” is one of the classic Peanuts TVspecials, and still makes for fun viewing, even more than a quartercentury after its first broadcast. Although the Easter theme seems a bit tenuous at points, we and our kids enjoy watching the Peanuts gang’s antics. Indeed, some of the “surreal” bits (such as the dancing in the department store) are some of the kids’ favorite scenes. And Peppermint Patty’s repeated “AAAAAAUUGH!” at Marcie’s various egg-cooking mistakes never fails to throw our 6-year-old into the giggles. END
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