#flashbeagle

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Iconic Snoopy Clip of the Day 🎆🪩💫🔥

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I unironically love the campy glorious weirdness of 1984's "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown", one of the apex's of the franchise's attempts to seize the contemporary zeitgeist by the throat. Hell, I have the soundtrack somewhere...

But I'd never seen the full music video for it, including scenes of the dance routines which were mapped on to Snoopy for the titular dance spectacular "Flashbeagle"!

And all credit to singers Joey Scarbury and Desiree Goyette for taking this silly idea and playing it totally straight.

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It wasn't as adorable and sexy as when Beales did it in Flashdance, but I guess Snoopy taking a bra off from under his sweatshirt was a scene included to make the animated special skew as more faithful to the structure of the film.

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Let's Read Peanuts (Fat-shaming Charlie Brown since 2023) – July 1959

There are lots of great strips I just don't have room to comment on. I strongly encourage everybody to read along at the official GoComics page or by purchasing the Fantagraphics hardcover collections.

July 1, 1959

Hey lookit' that! I think this might be the first time we hear that phrase.

July 4, 1959

I didn’t get this joke until I factored in inflation:

1959 wasn't even that long ago. Yeesh!

July 5, 1959

And now I think we just saw a rough draft of the “getting your clothes knocked off with a pitch” joke. 

Man, we are speed-running our way to the Golden Age Peanuts era aren't we?

July 10, 1959

Nobody tell them Sally is basically Charlie Brown with a wig on.

July 18, 1959

July 22, 1959

Relax, Charlie Brown. I’m from the future and I can assure you that everything turns out just fine. 

~loads shotgun~

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go acquire toilet paper for the resistance. 

July 26, 1959

The rare Peanuts action scene.

I kind of wish Schulz utilized action more often. It changes the texture of the strip in an interesting way.

July 30, 1959

I'm enjoying Linus's "Eat The Rich" arc.

Thoughts:

Hey look what I found!

This is the first time Peanuts was ever animated and in a way it feels very spiritually similar to the much later stuff, doesn’t it?

That’s probably because pretty much all Peanuts media was animated and directed by a guy named Bill Melendez, a former Disney animator who worked on movies like Pinocchio and Dumbo as a variety of shorter projects, including the surprisingly influential Gerald McBoing-Boing. He was basically the only person Schulz ever trusted to make animated Peanuts media and he continued to do so right up until his death in 2008. It's a genuinely impressive legacy, even if I sometimes ~kind of~ wish they'd let in some fresh blood towards the end.

I'm just saying, we probably could have done a bit better than Flashbeagle.

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He glides like a wild eagle~

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Toontober Day 25 - Flashbeagle Snoopy

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Flashbeagle 🎇🎆✨

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It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown (1984) dir. Bill Melendez & Sam Jaimes

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ATTENTION, IMPORTANT REMINDER 📢🚨‼️⬇️ :

The 40-YEAR BIRTHDAY of FlashBeagle (AKA peak) starts TOMORROW!! 🥳🕺🪩

#FlashBeagle40 🎆🌟

(That is all)

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IT'S FLASHBEAGLE, CHARLIE BROWN (1984) dir. Bill Melendez and Sam Jaimes

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waist? SNATCHED

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me @ 7am every morning

[bspeaks]

I DONT. CARE. THAT. YOURE. A. STONER. RED WINE SUPERNOVA. FALL RIGHT INTO ME