A Boy Named Charlie Brown – w/ Allie Goertz

This episode we tackle 1969's A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN, Charlie Brown & the Peanuts gang's first animated feature, in which Charlie Brown is humiliated on a big screen several times over. Special guest Allie Goertz brings with her a wealth of knowledge of sad cartoon characters, to help us round out the 1960s season of The Peanuts Gallery. A Boy Named Charlie Brown is available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube. Topics of discussion include: remaking Finding Dory but with humans; Rod McKuen's "spending your birthday alone in a hotel bar" music; Is there anything sadder than a bath with no bubbles?; the Ocean's 11-style baseball segment = THE BEST; as adults, should we all be making trombone sounds by now?; Lucy finally going full A Clockwork Orange on Charlie Brown, finally; the fabulous Exposition Sisters; plosives for daaaays; theories about how Charlie Brown eats cold cereal; Linus & Snoopy's competition to be CB's shittiest friend; Josh's dog Banjo doesn't give a hoot about your feelings; the keystone to unlocking the Meatlump language; the harpsichord-playing Alter-Schroeder of another town; singing your own lyrics to the Joe Cool song. Our guest Allie Goertz is a musician and comedian, who specializes in sweet & sad songs about TV shows. Her latest release is a concept album about Rick & Morty called Sad Dance Songs. As mentioned in this episode, here is Sarah Shay's recipe for the #DogRoy: Vodka, St. Germaine, root beer, lemon, on ice served in a glass mug. Questions? Comments? Tweet them to @PeanutsPodcast. Got a suggestion for a better name for the Jew's Harp / Austin Powers' Harp? Also tweet them at us at @PeanutsPodcast – On Josh's birthday (11/13/16) he will choose a winner! Josh and Molly wrote a holiday musical a couple years ago, inspired in no small part by the Peanuts holiday specials. It's available to stream or purchase on Bandcamp. Thank you for listening & tweeting at this pair of blockheads! We really appreciate it. This episode was reblandished in May 2017 by Ken Plume - asitecalledfred.com/kenplume