History WesternAnimation / ThisIsAmericaCharlieBrown

* AmusingInjuries: In "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad", Snoopy and his marching band are hit by a locomotive while marching across an upscaled version of the American flag, which results in nothing more than ruined instruments.

* AmusingInjuries: In "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad", Snoopy and his marching band are hit by a locomotive while marching across an upscaled version of the American flag, which doesn't result in anything more than ruined instruments.

* AmusingInjuries: In "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad", Snoopy and his marching band are hit by a locomotive while marching across an upscaled version of the American flag, which doesn't do anything more than ruin their instruments.

* ActuallyIAmHim: After Charlie Brown crashes the Wright Brothers' kite, two men run up to see if he's all right. Charlie Brown worries what the Wright Brothers will say about their kite, only for the two men to reveal that they ''are'' the Wright Brothers.

* ThanksgivingEpisode: "The Mayflower Voyagers" is basically one, which is why it's often been paired with ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownThanksgiving''. In particular, when Creator/{{ABC}} had broadcast rights to the ''Peanuts'' specials, this was done to fill an hour-long time slot.

* AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: In "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad," the Chinese workers are portrayed wearing these.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In "The Birth of the Constitution," Creator/BenjaminFranklin is portrayed doing his kite experiment in 1787 whereas it would actually have occurred more than thirty years earlier.
* BarefootPoverty: As Pilgrims in "The Mayflower Voyagers," many of the ''Peanuts'' kids go barefoot, notwithstanding the occasional animation error in which their bare feet are colored in brown. In "The Birth of the Constitution," Charlie Brown and Marcie are still barefoot, at least most of the time, but the others have shoes throughout.
* BindleStick: Spike has one in "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad." He carries a small cactus and a harmonica inside of it.
* CaughtInASnare: In "The Mayflower Voyagers," a Pilgrim man gets caught in one of these.

** In "The Smithsonian and the Presidency," Charlie Brown and Lucy discover the lunar and command modules from Apollo 10 (nicknamed "Snoopy" and "Charlie Brown," respectively), and a ''Peanuts'' Sunday strip.
** In "The Music and Heroes of America," it is declared that the Music/VinceGuaraldi piece that would be permanently affiliated with the ''Peanuts'' characters through the specials was named "Linus and Lucy" "by coincidence."

* TheFaceless: Despite many adult historical figures being shown and heard, "The Great Inventors" and "The Music and Heroes of America" feature the kids' teacher still being unseen and speaking with "wah-wah" sounds.
* FailedFutureForecast: "The NASA Space Station" is set in "the mid-1990s," when a new NASA space station has been established. This is meant to be the Space Station ''Freedom'', which UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan proposed in 1984. Budget cuts would later kill the project as it was originally envisioned, but it would eventually evolve into the International Space Station, which began construction in 1998.
* GreenAesop: Touched on in "The NASA Space Station," when the gang sees the Earth from space. Later, this theme is focused on more fully in "The Smithsonian and the Presidency," when Teddy Roosevelt's conservationist policies are discussed.
* HistoricalInJoke: In "The Birth of the Constitution," Charlie Brown invents baseball and basketball. [[ItWillNeverCatchOn Lucy regards them with skepticism.]] Later on, she invents American football, and [[RunningGag you can probably guess where that's going]].
* AnImmigrantsTale: Discussed in "The Music and Heroes of America," with the customary late nineteenth-century setting.
* IsThisThingStillOn: In "The NASA Space Station," the news cuts live to the space station just when Lucy and Linus are arguing about the quality of her leadership, with Linus declaring that the whole crew is on the brink of mutiny.
* LastNameBasis: In "The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk," Dolly refers to Charlie Brown as "Mr. Brown," even though they're the same age.

* PeacePipe: Massasoit is shown smoking one with the Pilgrims in "The Mayflower Voyagers."
* PopStarComposer: The one aspect of this series that everyone liked was the music. Rather than the more generic scores used for ''Peanuts'' animation after the death of Music/VinceGuaraldi in 1976, they went back to {{Jazz}}, and brought in different notables to score individual episodes, like George Winston in "The Birth of the Constitution", [[note]]He included a rendition of Guaraldi's pre-''Peanuts'' hit "Cast Your Fate to the Wind"[[/note]] Wynton Marsalis in "The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk", Dave Brubeck in "The NASA Space Station", Dave Grusin in "The Smithsonian and the Presidency" and David Benoit in "The Great Inventors"; Benoit later would take over as the full-time ''Peanuts'' composer. Several of the composers even released albums of their scores.
* {{Retraux}}: At the end of "The Mayflower Voyagers," the gang plays a seventeenth-century version of the "Linus and Lucy" theme, with Schroeder's instrument sounding like a harpsichord since pianos weren't invented yet in 1621.

* RidingIntoTheSunset: The final episode, "The Music and Heroes of America," features the gang walking into the sunset as they hum "Linus and Lucy."

* StalkerShrine: In "The NASA Space Station," Sally's living area is decorated with pictures of Linus.

* TheWildWest: The setting of "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad," obviously.

* PopStarComposer: The one aspect of this series that everyone liked was the music. Rather than the more generic scores used for ''Peanuts'' animation after the death of Music/VinceGuaraldi in 1976, they went back to {{Jazz}}, and brought in different notables to score individual episodes, like George Winston in "The Birth of the Constitution", [[note]]He included a rendition of Guaraldi's pre-''Peanuts'' hit "Cast Your Fate to the Wind"[[/note]] Wynton Marsalis in "The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk", Dave Brubeck in "The NASA Space Station", Dave Grusin in "The Smithsonian and the Presidency" and David Benoit in "The Great Inventors"; Benoit later would take over as the full-time ''Peanuts'' composer. Several of them would later release albums of their scores.

* StockSoundEffect: In "The NASA Space Station", two of Charlie Brown's screams are stock audio of the famous "AUGH!" scream by his first voice actor, Peter Robinson.

''This Is America, Charlie Brown'' is a 1988-89 MiniSeries, in which the ''{{Franchise/Peanuts}}'' cast covers the history of UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates in a kid-friendly fashion. Due to its nature, this is one of the few ''Peanuts'' productions in which adults are seen and heard.

* ThanksgivingEpisode: "The Mayflower Voyagers" is basically one, which is why it's often been paired with ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownThanksgiving''. On television, this was done to fill an hour time slot.

* {{Retraux}}: At the end of "The Mayflower Voyagers," the gang plays a seventeenth-century version of the "Linus and Lucy" theme, with Schroeder's instrument sounding like a harpsicord since pianos weren't invented yet in 1621.

* FailedFutureForecast: "The NASA Space Station" is based on the assumption that the then-current plans for the Space Station ''Freedom'' would go forward as scheduled. Budget cuts would later kill the project as it was originally envisioned, but it would eventually evolve into the International Space Station, which began construction in 1998.

* SpaceStation: "The NASA Space Station" takes place on one, obviously. Specifically, it's set in "the mid-1990s," when a new NASA space station has been established. As detailed above, this is meant to be the Space Station ''Freedom'', which UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan proposed in 1984.

* SpaceStation: "The NASA Space Station" takes place on one, obviously. Specifically, it's set in "the mid-1990s," when a new NASA space station has been established. This is meant to be the Space Station ''Freedom'', which UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan proposed in 1984. Budget cuts would later kill the project as it was originally envisioned, but it would eventually evolve into the International Space Station, which began construction in 1998.