It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown

TV Short
1977
U
24m

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It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown (1977)

Charlie Brown tries to impress his red-headed dream girl at a football game, but Lucy won't cooperate.Charlie Brown tries to impress his red-headed dream girl at a football game, but Lucy won't cooperate.Charlie Brown tries to impress his red-headed dream girl at a football game, but Lucy won't cooperate.

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7.0/10

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Arrin Skelley

Charlie Brown
(voice)
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Laura Planting

Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt
(voice)

Daniel Anderson

Linus
(voice)
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Michelle Muller

Lucy
(voice)
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Ronald Hendrix

Franklin
(voice)
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Hilary Powers

Sally Brown

Bill Melendez

Snoopy
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Director
- Phil Roman
Writer
- Charles M. Schulz
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1/10

"NO, NO!!!! I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I DON'T WANT TO WATCH THIS!!!

This is what I heard my 7yr old daughter screaming from the TV room. I had received the Peanuts 70s DVD set, and I put on It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown for her to watch. When the screaming started I ran in to see what had upset her, and she was nearly in tears. "I hate this show!!! I don't want to see it any more!!! Lucy pulled the ball away but the other kids blame Charlie Brown for losing the game!!! All he wants is friends and they're all so hateful to him! Why are they so mean to him?" And y'know...I had no answer. Then I remembered back to the 70s when I first saw this, and I recall feeling EXACTLY the same way. So I gave the DVD set away since no one from my family will be watching it. All the Peanuts cartoons had an ample dose of hatred aimed squarely at Charlie Brown, but this one really pushed that angle way above and beyond, to the point where it just wasn't entertaining. I'd rather not try to explain to my daughter why the other kids are so evil towards Charlie Brown, especially when I've never understood it myself.

ben-thayer
Sep 23, 2020
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Trivia
In this cartoon Charlie Brown is playing a football game, and he must kick a football held by Lucy. Just as he is about to kick it, Lucy, naturally, pulls it away several times without anyone noticing. He is then scolded by his teammates for missing the ball. Viewers wrote letters to the producers complaining about this, as Charlie Brown was clearly not at fault. In response, the teammates' harsh reactions were back-masked in subsequent airings and home video releases of the special.

Goofs
Charlie Brown was being blamed for the loss in the football game, but it's not his fault. Lucy was the one who pulled the football away from him before he had a chance to kick it. The other characters should have realized this and directed the blame toward Lucy rather than Charlie.

Quotes
Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt: [In the locker room at halftime] Hey Franklin, remember how you were asking me what the Xs and zeros meant?
Franklin: Yeah.
Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt: [Glaring at Charlie Brown] I know of at least one zero I can tell you about!

Alternate versions
Viewers wrote in complaining that they disapproved of Charlie Brown being blamed screwing up place kicking attempts that were in fact entirely Lucy's fault and not Charlie Brown's. In response, a repeat broadcast was shown with the lines of other character blaming Charlie Brown were removed, mainly the lines originally said by Peppermint Patty ("Okay, Chuck, you really goofed up on that play!" and "Chuck, you can't do ANYTHING right!")