{"id":7621,"date":"2012-12-18T19:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2012-12-18T19:27:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T23:27:13","slug":"a-charlie-brown-christmas-loved-by-almost-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7621","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Charlie Brown Christmas&#8221; Loved by Almost Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z121812charlie_brown.png\" width=\"475\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is considered a classic. \u00a0And rightly so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is the second longest-running animated <strong>Christmas<\/strong> special in television history. \u00a0It won a <strong>Emmy<\/strong> and a <strong>Peabody<\/strong> award. \u00a0The night it premiered on\u00a0<strong>December 9, 1965<\/strong>, 50% of the viewing audience tuned in to<strong> CBS<\/strong> to check out <strong>Charlie Brown<\/strong>, <strong>Snoopy<\/strong> and the rest of the gang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everyone loved <em><strong>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everyone except the executives at <strong>CBS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They hated it. \u00a0Let me rephrase that. \u00a0They hated <strong>everything<\/strong> about it. \u00a0They didn&#8217;t like the <strong>kids&#8217; voices<\/strong>. \u00a0They didn&#8217;t like that there was <strong>no laugh track<\/strong>. \u00a0They didn&#8217;t like the j<strong>azz score<\/strong>. \u00a0They didn&#8217;t like <strong>Linus&#8217; speech<\/strong> at the end about the <strong>true meaning of Christmas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About the only thing that they did like is the fact after they aired\u00a0<strong><em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em><\/strong>, they weren&#8217;t obligated to order any more <strong>Charlie Brown<\/strong> specials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2012\/12\/18\/A-Charlie-Brown-Christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>this post at Neatorama<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eddie_Deezen\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Eddie Deezen<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and you&#8217;ll see how everything the <strong>CBS<\/strong> execs hated, helped to give <em><strong>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/strong><\/em> it&#8217;s charm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, after the ratings, positive reviews and awards started rolling in, the execs at <strong>CBS<\/strong> probably started to like <em><strong>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>just a little bit more&#8230; as evidenced by the more than 30 animated <strong>Charlie Brown<\/strong> specials that have been produced over the years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Charlie Brown Christmas\u00a0is considered a classic. \u00a0And rightly so. 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