Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown
Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown | |
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Bill Melendez Productions | |
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Network | CBS |
Release | October 30, 1981 |
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Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown is the 22nd
The special was directed by Phil Roman. This is the only time which Charlie Brown was voiced by Grant Wehr and is Wehr's only acting credit. Wehr failed to reprise his role for the subsequent Peanuts cartoons as his voice was reportedly too coarse for the character.[citation needed] Michael Mandy returned as Charlie Brown's voice for the final time in A Charlie Brown Celebration. The special has retrospectively been received negatively.[citation needed]
Synopsis
Charlie Brown is watching a football game on television when he spots a girl in the stands whom he falls in love with. He is then crushed when the game ends, and he feels he may never see her again. Determined to not lose his true love, he enlists Linus to help him find her.
The pair return to the football stadium to try to locate where she was sitting. Charlie Brown remembers she was sitting next to tunnel #13, because that's his lucky number. He has Linus sit where he determined she was sitting to recreate the shot in his head. Charlie Brown and Linus try asking someone in the ticket booth to find out who she is, but no one knows. Someone there suggests they check the season ticket records downtown, and that is where they go. They encounter two girls during the search, but neither are the one they seek.
Finally, they make their way to the Happy Valley Farm, where the third girl lives. Snoopy and Woodstock are already there, and after Snoopy has some major problems getting across the
Linus learns on the phone of another entrance and is warned that the bobcat is actually very sweet but does not like strangers very much. They finally get to the house, where Linus encounters the correct girl, but completely forgets about Charlie Brown and falls for her instead as she carries a
When Linus returns, he talks about how special she is and how they've decided to spend some time together. He is completely oblivious to Charlie Brown's exasperation. A depressed Charlie Brown returns home. The next day, he meets with Linus at the brick wall, who then leaves, as he has been invited to the farm for a family barbecue. After he leaves, Charlie Brown flips through a book of quotes on love, which he carries with him. However, rather than inspiring him, the sayings he reads only depress him further.
Voice cast
- Grant Wehr as Charlie Brown
- Earl Reilly as Linus Van Pelt
- Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock
- Nicole Eggert as First girl
- Jennifer Gaffin as Mary Jo
- Melissa Strawmeyer as Teenager
Home media
Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown was released to
Critical reception
Mick Martin and Marsha Porter's Video Movie Guide gave this TV special two out of five stars as they described it as a "lamentable tale" and blamed the film's character Mary Jo for substituting the Little Red-Haired Girl as Charlie Brown's crush.[3]
References
- ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ISBN 9780786474448.
- ISBN 0-345-36945-9.