Snoopy Speaks! And Other Times Peanuts Broke Its Own Rules - Cynical Adult Watches Cartoons

⚡EDIT 12 9 2022 Hello and welcome to all the new viewers! This video has taken off beyond what I ever could have expected, and I'm incredibly grateful to every one of you. If you're new here, or if you haven't already, please take a moment to like, subscribe, and comment - that kind of engagement helps the channel grow, and helps me bring you the fun stuff I have in the works.

Speaking of commenting, your comments have been amazing! I could spend the rest of my life just talking to Peanuts fans. And so many of you have been sharing moments of your own - it turns out that you saw and heard the adults a lot more times than I realized! I'll be revisiting this topic very soon, tracking down as many of those moments as I can - and believe me, I'll be crediting everyone who contributed!

EDIT 12 13 2022 I want to thank you all again for your comments. I've enjoyed hearing from all of you, but I'm going to have to step away from responding to every comment for now, until I get my next video done. No spoilers, but it involves the animated The Hobbit, The Simpsons, and Batman...⚡

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Ever since A Charlie Brown Christmas, the rules of the animated Peanuts specials have been well-established: Snoopy never speaks, adults are never seen onscreen, and if those offscreen adults speak, all you hear is a “bwahbwah bwah, bwah bwah bwahbwah bwahhhh” sound. But each of those rules has been broken, more than once.

Chapters
0:00 Intro: The Rules
0:58 Your New Favorite Thing
2:50 Rule 3: Adults Are Not Heard
4:58 Rule 2: Adults Are Not seen
6:34 My Theory
8:48 PARENT SIGHTING!
9:47 Rule 1: Snoopy Does Not Speak
12:03 The Stages Of Snoopy
14:51 The Rules Of The Comics
16:00 My New Face

This video necessitated much more research than usual; I want to extend special thanks to the following:
The Peanuts Wiki was invaluable for keeping facts and dates straight. It was thanks to this wiki that I learned about Mr and Mrs Van Pelt appearing in Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Peanu...
Images of Peanuts merchandise were provided by Caren Pilgrim of CollectPeanuts.com. The site has a vast collection of modern and vintage Peanuts merchandise for sale. https://collectpeanuts.com/
Shoutout to Seattle’s legendary Scarecrow Video, frequently the only place I was able to find some of the more obscure specials. I will give so much money to whoever releases a box set of all the Melendez/Mendelson Peanuts specials. Maybe it could come in a box shaped like Snoopy’s doghouse, and some of the more significant specials and movies could have commentary by Jean Schulz and some Peanuts historians, I dunno, just spitballing…
https://blog.scarecrow.com/

I have much more to talk about on the subject of Peanuts and Charles Schulz. I swear, there is a tape of my high school production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown! You’ll never guess who I played…

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