Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne is the 46th animated Peanuts special, and the first to be released on Apple TV+.
When Lucy feels responsible for the van Pelts' blanket-hating grandmother being unable to make it to their home for the holidays, she (with Linus' assistance) sets out to prove that she's a likable person by throwing her own New Year's Eve party.
This is the second Peanuts special themed after New Year's, the first having been 1986's Happy New Year, Charlie Brown.
This special contains examples of:
- Art Evolution: This is the first special to be animated by WildBrain studios with the characters being more expressive and having more fluidity in their movements. There is also a greater attention to more dynamic lighting and scenery colors just like the 2015 movie.
- A Day in the Limelight: This special focuses on the van Pelt siblings. Particularly Lucy.
- The Bus Came Back: Spike appears for the first time in this special since I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown.
- Butt-Monkey: Charlie Brown, Linus and Spike.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite appearing in The Snoopy Show, Linus and Lucy's brother Rerun is absent in this special.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Despite her New Year's Eve party being a bust, Lucy learns that she is loved and that her grandmother will most likely be able to visit for her birthday (much to Linus' horror). Meanwhile, thanks to Lucy, Charlie Brown is able to finally fulfill a New Year's resolution.
- Jerkass Realization: Lucy comes to realize her desire of making the New Year Eve perfect, let her little brother called her out for her actions and the whole party to be destroyed in the process. She blames herself for this, only wanting to show that she is lovable.
- Mic Drop: After Linus gives Lucy "The Reason You Suck" Speech (see Rage Breaking Point) using the mic, he drops it before leaving.
- New Year Has Come: The special takes place mostly on New Year's Eve, as Lucy plans a big, extravagant party to prove she's likable.
- Out of Focus: Charlie Brown is relegated to having a supporting role in this special.
- Paying in Coins: Lucy is able to rent a run-down ballroom for her party with all of the nickels Charlie Brown has paid her throughout the year.
- Photo Memento: The B-plot is Spike trying to get a group photo of his siblings as they reunite for New Year's Eve.
- Rage Breaking Point: Linus has been dealing with Lucy's misgivings and Never My Fault tendencies up to the night of her party, but he finally snaps when Lucy holds him responsible for her party going wrong.Linus: Lucy, I've done everything I can to make you happy. I worked all night, all week even. And now you're saying I'm ruining everything. Me? This could've been a fun party, but it's you and your perfect rules that have turned a perfectly good holiday into a perfectly terrible party. [...] That's right. I said it. This party is terrible! I hereby quit your terrible party committee. You can find someone else to take for granted. I'm done.
- Stealth Pun: The blonde girl with Franklin that brings tapioca pudding to the party is a minor character from the comic strips named....Tapioca Pudding.
- You Are Not Alone: After hearing about Lucy's ordeal, Charlie Brown empathizes with her and rounds up the rest of the kids in the neighborhood to reassure her that she is loved and can turn to her friends with her woes whenever she is feeling down.
