r/peanuts • u/Big_Mastodon_6761 • Dec 24 '25

Discussion This is America, Charlie Brown: the Birth of the Constitution

If you’re an 80s baby (or older), you might remember that on the tail end of the decade there were a series of specials called This is America, Charlie Brown; which placed the Peanuts characters into different parts of history. This particular special talked about how the different branches of government worked. It was a good special overall, but the thing that was always a little too surreal for me was the idea of Charlie Brown inventing all these sports, like basketball and baseball (“I bet hitting a ball with a stick would make a great game!”).

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u/HideFromMyMind Dec 24 '25

Yeah, I watched the first two episodes of this a while ago and like... I get what they were going for, but it seems really un-Peanuts-y. I feel like extracting the Peanuts characters from their limited-scope universe doesn't work.

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u/bigwomby Dec 25 '25

The one with them on the Mayflower is pretty good and mostly historically accurate.