Celebrate More Than Christmas With These Lesser-Known Peanuts Holiday Specials

Good news: Charlie Brown has been invited to a New Year’s party, where he might get to dance with the Little Red-Haired Girl! Bad news: he has also been assigned to read War and Peace over winter break, and he’s barely started. Meanwhile, Snoopy commits the ultimate party faux-pas of sniffing Lucy’s root beer.

The whole gang is preparing for Valentine’s Day. Alas, as one might expect, no one will be saying this special’s title phrase to poor Charlie Brown this year. But he’s not the only one having relationship problems this time, as Linus develops a crush on his teacher.

Peppermint Patty and Marcie can’t seem to get this whole egg painting thing right–for some reason, a waffle iron was involved. But don’t worry, says Linus. Come Easter morning, the Easter Beagle will deliver beautifully colored eggs to all the good children! Now, where have we heard that before?

Okay, so Election Day isn’t technically a holiday, though maybe it should be. Lucy takes it upon herself to act as campaign manager and occasionally threatens “constituents” on behalf of Linus, who is poised to be elected class president. That is, until he brings up a certain gift-giving gourd in front of the whole school.

Yes, there were other Christmas specials! The first one features, among other things, Sally and Peppermint Patty struggling with their roles in the school pageant. In the latter, Linus and Lucy’s brother, Rerun, decides to adopt Snoopy’s brother, Spike, with dubious results. While these specials can’t match the charm of the original Christmas classic, they’re still good fun for Peanuts fans.