Recap / Film Reroll Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

Halloween is here. Spookiness and Fear. Fun for all that children call their frightful time of year.

Lucy gets creative for Halloween, with credit to Reddit user dwu2.

Episode 146 of Film Reroll. Based on the 1966 Halloween special.

It's a crisp Halloween evening, smack dab in the middle of Hennepin County, Minnesota. For most of the children in town, that means one thing, and one thing only: tonight, they are getting candy. It's anyone's guess what they might find in their candy-sacks this year as they go trick-or-treating, although for certain blockheads, the odds don't look so good.

But, for one Linus Van Pelt, tonight means one thing, and one thing only. Tonight is the night he is finally going to see the Great Pumpkin arrive in the local pumpkin patch. While everyone has told him in the past he's holding out hope for nothing in particular, he is unshakable in his quest to prove everyone wrong.

And, in the middle of it all, for one certain beagle, anything goes. All in all, it's shaping up to be an ordinary Halloween night.

...right?

It's worth noting that this campaign was an extremely last-minute replacement for Hocus Pocus 2, as someone had gotten sick, thus scuttling those plans. This is also the first campaign to be done off of a traditionally animated movie since Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, and the first campaign to be done off an animated movie period since Toy Story.^note Coincidentally, both Joz-DMed campaigns.

It's also the first single-episode campaign^note not counting The Searchers, as it was a Variety Show, or A Quiet Place, as it was an April Fools' Day episode since Adventure Time.

Starring Andy Hoover as Charlie Brown, Paulo Quiros as Lucy Van Pelt, Lisa Kopitsky as Snoopy, and Joz Vammer as the Dungeon Master.

Followed by A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

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Tropes:

• Aborted Arc: The conflict over whether or not Charlie Brown was actually invited to Violet's party^note which reaches the point where Lucy decides to have the football determine whether or not Charlie Brown can still go gets forgotten about by the time the party happens, as everyone was so focused on trick-or-treating, it became forgotten.
• Actor Allusion: It's implied that Paulo got cast as Lucy due to his reciting of her book report.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Downplayed: As it turns out, Violet didn't intend to invite Charlie Brown to her Halloween party. She had an "Invite" pile and a "Do Not Invite" pile for her invitations, and Charlie Brown got put in the wrong one.
  • In the movie, Lucy wanted to "play" football with Charlie Brown purely for the heck of it, and even promised to not pull it away by giving him a written agreement to not do so^note which Charlie Brown failed to realize was not notarized. Here, she uses the football in order for Charlie Brown to more or less fight for his right to remain invited to Violet's party, and he winds up being tricked into not only thinking Lucy's previous pulls of the ball were to try and help him, but also that he would be a better kicker if he kept his eyes closed.^note It's only because everyone forgot about this by the time trick-or-treating ended that Charlie Brown was still allowed to go.
• Anachronism Stew: Discussed when the Rerollers bring up the Minnesota Vikings before questioning if they were around back in 1966. (For the record, they were. They played their first game five years earlier.)
• Ask a Stupid Question...: In response to Lucy asking him to pick a non-candy-involved night to do his Great Pumpkin shit, Linus points out that doing it on a candy-involved night is the point.
• Batter Up!: Upon realizing Sally went to hang out with Linus at the pumpkin patch, and still worried about witches, Charlie Brown heads over with a baseball bat.
• Bigger on the Inside: Snoopy somehow has space for a typewriter and a wardrobe filled with various costumes in his doghouse.
• Bittersweet Ending: Despite the scare, Linus and Sally weren't kidnapped from the pumpkin patch, but rather were taken to Friender's by their parents. However, Violet's house catches on fire, and no one makes the connection that Snoopy was to blame. Also, Lucy has no idea that Linus and Sally were found, and the movie ends with her running around, while still searching for her brother.
• Black Comedy: Sally mentioning their mom called her "inescapable" causes Charlie Brown to crack that she somehow managed to pull that off on them.
• Book Ends: The campaign both begins and ends with a Van Pelt child being Locked Out of the Loop while in the area of the pumpkin patch.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Sally wants to go as a dinosaur for Halloween, while Charlie Brown tries talking her into being a ghost. She ultimately decides to be a dinosaur ghost.
• Brick Joke:
  • When Lucy talks Snoopy into redoing her intimidation attempt tomorrow, Snoopy pulls out a notepad and pencils her in. Later on, when Charlie Brown unknowingly foils her attempt to scam extra candy, Lucy pulls out her own note pad to pencil Charlie in.
  • In discussing Charlie Brown repeatedly getting rocks, it's brought up how one person became known for including a potato amongst the candy they gave out on Halloween, only for kids to keep taking the potato. Later on, when the kids get treats from the last house on the block, which was giving out homemade goods, that is what Charlie Brown gets instead of a rock. "It's like a rock you can eat."
• Call-Back:
  • Right out of the gate, due to the last-minute change of campaign and how many red flags he was clocking, Andy openly admits he was expecting another Summerspell.
    • When Snoopy is fighting the Red Baron, and everyone admits that, given how Joz DMs, this might actually be plot relevant, Paulo guesses that the Red Baron is actually a man in a hockey mask.
  • Upon hearing Charlie Brown got a rock, Paulo thought he got "The Rock".
  • Paulo mildly reprimands Lisa for having Snoopy put Linus' blanket in his mouth, as it's not a kyber crystal.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • Joz states she didn’t cast Linus or Sally because she felt their plot line was the most boring part of the film. None of the players believe her.
  • When Lucy tries to tell Charlie Brown he was invited to Violet's party by accident, he refuses to fall for it, showing her his invitation to prove otherwise.
• Chekhov's Gun: When talking about the Italian food place in town, Luigi's, Joz mentions it's across the street from a different restaurant, Friender's, which sells schnitzel. This turns out to be where Linus and Sally 'disappeared' to.
• Cuteness Proximity: Exploited: After how bad the first house went during trick or treating, Lucy decides to exploit the fact that they are children, and therefore adorable, by getting the group to appear more cute at the next houses they go to, to better increase their odds at getting good candy. This works splendidly.
• Cutting the Knot:
  • In order to dress up as Woodstock, Snoopy just borrows a bundle of his loose feathers, in addition to some bedsheet scraps and felt.
  • Paulo tries to talk Joz into letting him use "Housekeeping" to roll for Lucy's costume, something Joz wants him to argue for.^note She ultimately allows this, but for looking for materials.
    Paulo: Well, housekeeping involves... ...sewing...
    Joz: Uh- uh huh...
    Paulo: You know, I mean, probably.
• Darker and Edgier: At first, it's downplayed, as some failed Fright Checks early on not only results in Linus becoming convinced that Lucy decapitated the Great Pumpkin, and severed his soul from his body, but Charlie Brown becomes convinced that there's witches in town. For the most part, this doesn't affect the campaign... until the final act, when it comes to light that Linus and Sally vanished from the pumpkin patch.
• Delayed Reaction: Snoopy winds up making his way through three plates of spaghetti before Luigi realizes the "kid" in the bird costume is actually a dog, and approaches him, causing Snoopy to bolt.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Lucy's attempt at intimidating Snoopy over the pumpkin debacle at the start fails because not only does she admit they both know where the other lives, but she accidentally admits Snoopy's stronger than her.
  • When Joz asks Andy to roll a Fright Check for Charlie Brown, as he's talking to Lucy, who was wearing a witch's mask and talking about haunting him, Andy argues that she must've already taken that off by then, so he would be okay... but then rolls anyway "for fun". Cue him failing by 5.
  • After Snoopy bolts from Luigi's due to his cover getting blown, Paulo points out that the restaurant's business model was already fucked due to their promotional event of giving out unlimited spaghetti for those in costume on Halloween.
  • Because Snoopy never put out the funeral pyre he crafted for "Lucy's" pumpkin seeds, it winds up causing Violet's house to catch on fire.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Upon Lucy getting dental floss at the first trick-or-treating location, Paulo contemplates arson.
  • When Lucy tries to scam someone into giving her extra candy for her two brothers that couldn't make it to trick-or-treat, Charlie Brown (due to failing to resist his honesty) clarifies she "misspoke". Lucy decides on the spot she's gonna beat up Charlie Brown later.
• Dissonant Serenity: Snoopy howls and does his famous dance as he ritualistically burns (what he thinks are) Lucy's pumpkin seeds.
• Dull Surprise:
  • Bordering on Seen It All, Charlie Brown is a little too calm upon noting that Lucy tried poisoning Snoopy "again".
    • Likewise, upon realizing there's witches in town, Charlie Brown automatically decides there's nothing a child or a beagle can do about it, and just casually continues raking leaves.
• Eleventh Hour Super Power:
  • When Linus and Sally go missing from the pumpkin patch, Snoopy decides to adopt his Sherlock Holmes persona, giving him a plus one to all his stats, and the addition of Observation. Subverted in that most of his deductions are Entertainingly Wrong and that he needs the help of his friends to actually find the missing children.
  • In response to the above, Paulo tries to lobby for Lucy to get magic powers if she puts back on her witch's mask.
  • Justified when Snoopy later dons his fireman helmet, since that does serve a practical purpose.
• Epic Fail: Upon seeing Linus and Lucy fail to get the big pumpkin up onto the front step of their house, Snoopy decides to run up, battering ram style, to push it over... only to instead wind up using Linus as a ramp, and winds up running inside and crashing into the fridge.
• Failed a Spot Check:
  • Snoopy manages to get into Luigi's to take part in their unlimited spaghetti deal because of the fact that the staff failed to realize he is a dog.
  • Charlie Brown winds up being too engrossed with talking to Pigpen at Violet's party that he doesn't notice Sally walking out to go find Linus.
• Fantastic Racism: Inverted: As Charlie Brown assures Sally, witches are people, just like you and me, but magical.
• Faux Affably Evil: After tricking him with the football in order to get him to not attend Violet's party, Lucy's method of apologizing is offering to let him pick how he gets tricked next time.
• Friendship Moment: Upon realizing that Charlie Brown is trying to find Sally, Lucy rallies the rest of the partygoers to try and find her.
• Genre Savvy: When Lucy suggests they settle the matter of Charlie Brown's invitation with a game of football, he refuses, acknowledging that every time they "play football", it just amounts to Lucy having him kick the ball, only to pull it away at the last second. And then when Lucy fast-talks him into thinking that's the intended process, Charlie Brown falls for it.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: In response to seeing that Linus and Sally have gone missing from the pumpkin patch, Charlie Brown becomes stunned for three seconds. Paulo decides to have Lucy slap him to snap him out of it... only to do so when he's already coming out of it.
• Hidden in Plain Sight:
  • After Linus screams and jumps into Charlie Brown's leaf pile, he asks the former if he's seen any witches around, as due to a failed Fright Check, Charlie Brown became convinced the shrill scream he had heard prior was a witch's cackle... and not, in reality, Linus' scream.
  • When running into Friender's to inform the adults that, in addition to Violet's house catching on fire, Linus and Sally had gone missing, it takes Charlie Brown a couple minutes to realize Linus and Sally are actually in the restaurant.
• I Got a Rock: It was unavoidable, but Charlie Brown still gets a rock during trick-or-treating. It's just that he got one from a dentist, and somehow got another while also getting a Mars bar. At the last house on the block, where they give out homemade goods, he instead gets a potato.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • No points for guessing what Charlie Brown gets at the first trick-or-treating stop.
  • After spending most of the campaign dressed as Woodstock in order to get spaghetti, the second he suspects that Linus was taken up into the sky, Snoopy rushes back to his doghouse to dress up as the Flying Ace. And in the middle of trying to find Linus from the air, he gets jumped by the Red Baron.
• Insistent Terminology: Because Snoopy is more of a LARPer, he doesn't have a trunk full of costumes in his doghouse. He has a trunk full of alternate identities.
• Insult Backfire: While trying to romance Schroeder at Violet's party while he plays piano, Lucy mentions how they're gonna have three kids someday... causing him to play a funeral dirge in response. However, Lucy just takes that to mean a confirmation that they will die together someday.
• Karma Houdini: After the events of the campaign, Snoopy gets declared a hero for his "great" detecting... while also managing to avoid getting connected to the fire that consumed Violet's house.
• Kick the Dog:
  • After Linus winds up dropping Lucy's pumpkin on top of him, she's more concerned about the pumpkin getting scratched up than the fact it's currently crushing her brother.
  • When Lucy decides to try and privately talk Violet out of inviting Charlie Brown to her Halloween party, Violet admits that Charlie Brown was invited by mistake... resulting in Lucy deciding to do the honor of informing him herself. This then devolves into Lucy tricking Charlie Brown into using the football to determine if he can actually go to the party.
    • And then Andy rolls a Crit Fail for the kick. Lucy proceeds to do exactly what you think she does.
• Kill It with Fire: Eventually, Snoopy decides to burn Lucy's pumpkin seeds^note due to a failed roll, since he was at Violet's party, he just assumed the first batch of pumpkin seeds he found were the same ones Lucy made and does so outside by using several candles to make a funeral pyre.
• Lethal Chef: Downplayed: When Lisa asks if Snoopy should show up back at Charlie Brown's house while snacking on pumpkin seeds, Joz has Paulo roll to see how well Lucy had cooked them. Upon announcing he failed by 4, it's decided that Lucy intentionally fucked up the seeds^note Paulo says it's because Lucy overdid it on the coriander, while Joz says it's because they were burnt, made too lemony, and had sugar instead of salt.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • Lucy intentionally chooses to not tell Linus what kind of pumpkin she wants to get, as "he does what [she tells] him". But she already had decided he was going to be carrying it home.
  • Because no one informed Lucy that the search had moved into town, or that Charlie Brown and Snoopy had actually found them, the reroll ends with her running around the area of the pumpkin patch, trying to find Linus and Sally.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • When asked by Joz if Lucy is still going to collect candy for Linus, Paulo decides that she is going to ask for some additional candy for her two brothers that couldn't make it, only for Charlie Brown to blow the lid off that lie.
  • After Charlie Brown points out her psychology booth is unlicensed, Lucy fires back by asking who said, something Charlie Brown can't find an answer for.
• Mathematician's Answer:
  • Upon being asked what her costume is^note which is a hodgepodge of a felt pumpkin, a skirt, various jewelry, a witch's mask, and a large cape, Lucy merely responds that it's a better costume.
    Charlie Brown: Oh, wow! Great costume, Lucy, what're you supposed to be?
    Lucy: I'm cool, that's all that matters.
  • On the topic of being interrogated by a witch about what an eye of newt is, Lucy answers that she just needs to walk up to a newt and see where it looks out from.
• Medium Awareness: In talking with Lucy about how he feels everyone hates him, Charlie Brown explicitly cites the very first comic strip, where Shermy starts shit-talking him behind his back the second he walks off panel.
• Mind Screw:
  • In talking Sally into dressing up as a ghost for Halloween like he is (in order to make costume-making go by quickly), Charlie Brown mentions that bedsheet ghosts are a staple of pop culture. When Sally asks what "pop culture" is, he cracks that they're in it.
  • Snoopy's incorrect assumptions about how the universe works, and the status of Charlie Brown's existence, somehow causes Joz to experience déjà vu.
  • The relationship between reality and fiction concerning Snoopy's "Flying Ace" fantasy winds up getting muddied when it results in him crashing his doghouse by a street in front of Violet's house.
• Never My Fault: After Joz expresses incredulity over Linus and Charlie Brown developing delusions not even 30 minutes into the campaign, Andy points out she gave them shit stats.
• Not Actually the Ultimate Question: After cutting away from Snoopy resting on his doghouse after making it back from Luigi's, when they cut back to him, Joz asks what he's been doing... promptly Lisa to say Snoopy's trying to figure out "how time works". She is then forced to clarify she wasn't speaking philosophically, but rather literally^note how long he has until Violet's party, before deciding to go with the universal aspect.
• Not His Sled: Worried about witches, and realizing Sally left the party, Charlie Brown (and the other kids, eventually) decide to make their way to the pumpkin patch, rationalizing that she went to hang out with Linus. Only problem? They aren't there. And where they should be is a circle of pumpkins, and Linus' blanket.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: After Joz states the campaign is set in Hennepin County, Minnesota, she reveals that this is actually canon to Peanuts, and was an intentional choice due to Charles M. Schulz growing up in Minnesota.
• Not so Dire:
  • After taking on the Flying Ace persona to try and find Linus, Snoopy starts up his "airplane", and Joz has Lisa roll for Piloting... which she fails by three. The result? The plane takes off, it's just that the scent is no longer in the air.
  • As it happens, while Linus and Sally had left the pumpkin patch, they weren't in danger; they were just taken to Friender's by their parents.
• Not What It Looks Like:
  • Andy briefly voices his opinion that this campaign is secretly a ruse on Joz's part^note in part because Joz only had three roles cast, and this is actually just another "Summerspell". Although Paulo admits it would be amazing if that were the case, he also knows that Joz did in fact have to throw this together last minute. And then, thanks to an off-the-cuff remark from Lisa^note "Unless they've been plotting.", Paulo briefly thinks this is actually the case:
    Paulo: Oh my God, if... If Hocus Pocus 2 was a ruse all along, and then- but, then, Joz, if that's the case, you're kind of a dick for leaving me for two hours, starting to work on a Halloween episode, before you decided to do this.
    Joz: I'll never say...
  • A Crit Failed Perception roll from both Charlie Brown and Snoopy causes the two of them hear a loud wailing noise that certainly must be a ghost.^note In reality, that was Linus gleefully running towards the pile of leaves Snoopy was hiding in. And Charlie Brown failing his Fright Check badly results in him becoming convinced there's witches in town.
    Paulo: Oh my God, are we rolling Hocus Pocus?
• Off the Rails: Downplayed: Rather than going the "Flying Ace" route, Snoopy is enticed by an advertisement for endless spaghetti at an Italian restaurant, and decides to go out for Halloween by dressing as Woodstock.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Seeing Lucy lunge towards her pumpkin with a knife causes Linus to get the wrong idea, and faint on the spot.
  • This becomes the general consensus of the children when they arrive at the pumpkin patch, and find that Linus and Sally have gone missing.
  • After losing Linus' scent, Snoopy eventually gets the idea to sniff his blanket. Joz announces that he's picked up the scent... and it's gone straight up.
• Out of Focus: Due to Linus not being cast, he goes missing after the rest of the kids head out for trick-or-treating.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In an almost-backhanded way, when Lucy botches her attempt at intimidating Snoopy, she actually winds up asking if they can try again tomorrow, with Snoopy deciding to pencil her in.
  • After unknowingly foiling her extra candy scam, Charlie Brown is given the two extra pieces of candy that were originally given to Lucy, much to her anger.
• Pintsized Power House: Snoopy manages to get the large pumpkin off of Linus by lightly shoving it with one paw, seemingly just to mock Lucy for failing to do so herself.
• A Rare Sentence: "Is it rude to ask for a time out to discuss reality?"
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Inverted: Because of Paulo failing his Intimidation roll by 6, Lucy's attempt at intimidating Snoopy for supposedly mocking her failed attempt at moving the pumpkin off of Linus is... not ideal:
  Lucy: Look, you stupid mutt, don't you forget that I know where you live- oh, wait, but you also know where I live, that doesn't work, hold on, let me try again... Look, you dumb beagle, I may be a little bit bigger than you, but you're a lot stronger- wait, that's not helping... ... ...c-can we- can we do this aga- can we try this again tomorrow?
• Running Gag: There Are No Adults in town. (... except for those brief moments where there are.)
• Sanity Slippage: Thanks to a Crit Failed Fright Check upon waking up and seeing the visceral aftermath of Lucy's pumpkin carving, Linus becomes convinced he sees the pumpkin's spirit leave its shell and float away towards the pumpkin patch, confirming the Great Pumpkin's real.
• Sarcasm Mode: When Charlie Brown and Snoopy Crit Fail their Perception rolls, Andy calls out Lisa for "[showing] off [her] better roll"^note Andy got three 6s, while Lisa got 6-6-5.
• Seen It All: Upon noticing Snoopy dancing, his face covered in spaghetti sauce, as he burns the pumpkin seeds, Charlie Brown pays it no mind, and just asks for him to help find Sally once he's down.
• Sequel First: Even though It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the third animated Peanuts special, it's the first one chosen for a reroll.
• Shaped Like Itself: What kind of pumpkin is Lucy interested in getting for pumpkin carving?
  Lucy: It looks big, and it's big, and it's orange, and large, and I'm gonna stab it with a knife, and it'll still be big in spite of removing parts of it.
• Shout-Out:
  • "You best start believin' in pop culture stories..."
  • While at Luigi's, Snoopy openly winds up Lady and the Tramp-ing spaghetti noodles.
  • While at Violet Grey's house, Lucy contemplates the portrait of her father, Dorian. Upon noticing how the portrait makes him look young, Lisa cracks that means the painting's working in reverse, and her dad's super ugly.
• Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: invoked Upon learning the local Italian restaurant, Luigi's, is giving out endless spaghetti to anyone who shows up in costume, Snoopy decides that is how he's spending the evening.
• The Silent Bob: Schroeder has no lines in the reroll; the closest he gets to verbal communication is the Suspiciously Apropos Music he plays on his piano.
• Smarter Than They Look: It turns out that Pigpen has an interest in chemicals, more specifically the explosive kind.
• Something We Forgot: When learning that Sally has gone missing, Snoopy abandons the funeral pyre he had set up to burn the pumpkin seeds in order to help find her... but also forgot to put out the fire. This becomes relevant a few minutes later, when the kids are at the pumpkin patch trying to figure out what happened to Linus and Sally... and Pigpen notices a fire back in the direction of Violet's house.
• Spoiled by the Format: invoked After their extended conversation at the top about this secretly being a horror-campaign disguised as a Charlie Brown campaign, Andy casually admits that they could just cut this whole section out and rerecord the intro if it turns out to be true. So, the fact they didn't is an immediate tell that Joz really hadn't intended on such a swerve.
• Spotting the Thread:
  • Having watched the movie beforehand, it was noticing that Linus and Sally weren't cast in this reroll that caused Andy to start suspecting he was wandering into another Summerspell.
    • Two other points that Andy calls attention to: Joz personally informed him that no one dies, and that she had backup characters on standby.
  • The second she notices Linus left the pumpkin patch, with only his blanket remaining, Lucy immediately clocks that something has happened to her brother.
• Stealth Insult: Double-sided: Snoopy's original plan for a Halloween costume was to be the scariest thing he can think of, and dress as Lucy. He only winds up deciding against it because of remembering Lucy's botched attempt at intimidation.^note And also because Snoopy might get turned away if he looks like a child in town, rather than someone in costume.
• The Stinger: Lisa proposes that there's a post-credits scene where Snoopy sticks around the Van Pelt house in order to put on Lucy's witch mask, just to see what happens. He does a witch's cackle... and hears one off in the distance.
• Take That!: When Charlie Brown says there's "bad actors" out in the world, Sally immediately assumes he means Bela Lugosi. While Charlie Brown says he actually just plays bad characters, Paulo instead calls her out:
  Paulo: He was a great actor, Bela Lugosi, I'm a- I'm offended.
• Trash the Set: Snoopy leaving his funeral pyre unattended results in Violet's house catching on fire.
• Trauma Button: Due to Linus and Sally going missing from the pumpkin patch, Charlie Brown develops (as a quirk) an acute phobia of pumpkins^note meaning whenever he sees one now, he gets a brief case of a Thousand-Yard Stare. His attempt at turning his back to the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch to prevent this backfires when it's pointed out they're in the middle of the patch.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior:
  • Downplayed: Lucy finds the fact that Linus had personally made his own pumpkin patch to be off-putting.
  • Lucy makes it clear to Charlie Brown that she will haunt his life "'till the end of days".
• Too Dumb to Live: Not only does Charlie Brown get talked into kicking the football for the right to go to Violet's party, he also falls for Lucy's claim that her dad's a football player to follow her "suggestion" of running to the ball with his eyes closed.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Pointed out In-Universe by the Rerollers regarding Snoopy’s World War One fantasies. It’s easy to forget that when Charles M. Schulz himself grew up, that was still the most recent war the United States had participated in.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Not only does everyone call out the lack of parental awareness over Linus staying in the pumpkin patch by himself all night^note a cold Minnesotan night, at that, but also that Lucy only shows up to take him home at around 4AM.
  • When Lucy admits she'd join a coven of witches if invited, Charlie Brown starts to accuse her of having no principles about "human, non-magic society" before dropping it.
  • Thanks to his delusions, Linus becomes convinced the pumpkin Lucy carved up was the Great Pumpkin, and she caused his spirit to become separated from his body.
  • When Paulo decides that Lucy's gonna start up a game of Spin The Bottle, Joz all but shouts in horror "THEY'RE SIX!"
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: invoked Discussed: A good minute is spent on speculating how the usual adult-trombone voice present in Charlie Brown would apply to an Italian accent.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: invoked As admitted right at the top, this was ran instead of Hocus Pocus 2 because someone involved with the latter got sick at the last minute, necessitating a quick alternative. In fact, these changes occurred 24 hours prior.
• Wrong Genre Savvy:
  • A failed attempt at contemplating the universe while resting on his doghouse causes Snoopy to briefly conclude that, if he's alone, and there's no one else with him, he is currently the only one in the universe, and that Charlie Brown can only exist if he wills himself to be.
  • Snoopy celebrating as he burns the pumpkin seeds is spotted by Lucy and Violet, with Lucy concluding that is the witch Charlie Brown was talking about.
  • Snoopy later starts to dig up the pumpkin patch, believing that Sally and Linus have been Buried Alive, and that the story he’s in is far Darker and Edgier than it really is.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Joz gives a roundabout one to Charlie Brown himself, saying that he really doesn’t have that many flaws, his friends are just being mean to him.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Paulo can't help but be offended over Snoopy having a higher strength stat than Lucy.

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