Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales (2002)

Sure, what the hell, I’ll watch a seventeen minute special with no narrative drive.

This is just a series of vignettes - no real plot, no throughline, just little Peanuts moments strung together. You get an extremely religious Linus, hopefully not too problematic. You get Snoopy as a chaotic Santa. You get fun little messaging about the season. The animation is shitty in that specific early-2000s way where everything looks cheaper than the 1960s specials. And of course, you get that great Vince Guaraldi-influenced music.

It’s all I needed. It’s all I wanted.

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