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Jake Rosen\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Mental_Floss<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>present 14 Blockheaded Facts About A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 5. SNOOPY\u2019S VOICE IS JUST SPED-UP NONSENSE.<\/span><\/strong> 7. CHARLIE BROWN\u2019S HEAD WAS A NIGHTMARE TO ANIMATE.<\/span><\/strong> 10. CBS HATED IT, TOO.<\/span><\/strong> Jake Rosen\u00a0and\u00a0Mental_Floss\u00a0present 14 Blockheaded Facts About A Charlie Brown Christmas.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 5. SNOOPY\u2019S VOICE IS JUST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14055,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053\/revisions\/14055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThe early Peanuts specials made use of both untrained kids and professional actors: Peter Robbins (Charlie Brown) and Christopher Shea (Linus) were working child performers, while the rest of the cast consisted of “regular” kids coached by Melendez in the studio. When Schulz told Melendez that Snoopy couldn\u2019t have any lines in the show\u2014he\u2019s a dog, and Schulz\u2019s dogs didn\u2019t talk\u2014the animator decided to bark and chuff into a microphone himself, then speed up the recording to give it a more emotive quality.<\/p>\n
\nBecause Melendez was unwilling to stray from Schulz\u2019s distinctive character designs\u2014which were never intended to be animated\u2014he found himself in a contentious battle with Charlie Brown\u2019s noggin. Its round shape made it difficult to depict Charlie turning around; as with most of the characters, his arms were too tiny to scratch his head. Snoopy, in contrast, was free of a ball-shaped cranium and became the show\u2019s easiest figure to animate.<\/p>\n
\nAfter toiling on the special for six months, Melendez and Mendelson screened it for CBS executives just three weeks before it was set to air. The mood in the room was less than enthusiastic: the network found it slow and lacking in energy, telling Melendez they weren\u2019t interested in any more specials. To add insult, someone had misspelled Schulz in the credits, adding a \u201cT\u201d to his last name. (Schulz himself thought the whole project was a \u201cdisaster\u201d due to the crude animation.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"