All the Peanuts holiday TV specials came out approximately forever ago. So for grownups like us who have seen them a good thirtysomething times by now, they’re not particularly new or exciting anymore.
Here’s how our four-year-old daughter Sammy (and her two-year-old brother Freddy) reacted when they watched “A Charlie Brown Christmas” for the very first time:
SAMMY: Why is it not showing us anybody?SAMMY: They’re ice skating. I could actually that time see their mouths closed. So I knew those guys weren’t talking.SAMMY: Ha ha, that’s funny. I’m so excited for Christmas. I’m so excited.SAMMY: A Charlie Brown Christmas? Why does it say “A”?SAMMY: In this thing, they’re talking of too many words that I don’t know what they mean.SAMMY: What’s pinpoint mean?SAMMY: What’s pant-a-phobia?SAMMY: Why is she being somebody like, she’s only a kid, but she has a job?SAMMY: What’s real estate? MOM + DAD: Property, like a house. SAMMY: I want a playhouse. Can I have one?SAMMY: I want a treehouse. But the treehouse has to have windows and a door.FREDDY: No that one! MOM + DAD: What, you don’t like him? FREDDY: No that one!SAMMY: Hey, are they playing that song?SAMMY: What’s a shepherd?SAMMY: What did she say? What is he being? What else did she say?SAMMY: Oh so he’s a shepherd?SAMMY: But, who would be God and the mommy and Jesus? Maybe her. We would need the daddy, the mommy, the baby. And God. So we would need four more?SAMMY: Oh. Ha. I forgot about her. I like her.SAMMY: That’s too little.SAMMY: They shouldn’t get that one. MOM + DAD: Why not? SAMMY: Because it’s too little. MOM + DAD: What should they get instead? SAMMY: A bigger one.SAMMY: Why is she so still?SAMMY: Why’d it turn quiet?SAMMY: Why is he sucking on his thumb? MOM + DAD: Sometimes little kids suck on their thumbs. FREDDY: Me too think! SAMMY: Okay then suck on your thumb, Freddy. …I don’t like sucking on my thumb.SAMMY: Hey there’s some kids that weren’t in the other movie. Yeah I just saw two twins that were identical and they were girls.SAMMY: Everything he touched gets ruined?SAMMY: What’s that sound for? MOM + DAD: They’re singing. SAMMY: What are they singing? Is that what they’re singing?SAMMY: Is that the end?SAMMY: But that was a weird ending. I thought they would do the play.
2 replies on “A four-year-old reacts to ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’”
Thank you, Sammy for showing my why Ellie won’t appreciate this movie.
PS, I have the same questions when I watch it.
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2 replies on “A four-year-old reacts to ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’”
Thank you, Sammy for showing my why Ellie won’t appreciate this movie.
PS, I have the same questions when I watch it.
[…] we had a lot of fun with the Thanksgiving and Christmas Charlie Brown specials, Anna, Elsa and Olaf completely took over our household this year. And now […]