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Having been created as a companion piece to the iconic ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'', ''Christmas Tales'' aired annually on Creator/{{ABC}} from 2002 to 2019.
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Having been created as a companion piece to the iconic ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'', ''Christmas Tales'' aired annually on Creator/{{ABC}} [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] from 2002 to 2019.
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* IGaveMyWord: When the rude boy comes by Charlie Brown's house saying that Sally stole his tree, she points out how he said she could have it if it actually fell, which it did. Sally eventually decides to return it [[IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt out of guilt]], but he lightens up and says she can keep it because he ''did'' say what she told him.
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'''Sally:''' I don't know how to cut a tree down? What if it just falls down?\\
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'''Sally:''' I don't know how to cut a tree down? down! What if it just falls down?\\
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* '''Peace on Earth from Lucy''': Lucy tries to be nicer during the holiday season ([[{{Jerkass}} keyword being "try"]])[[invoked]].
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* '''Peace on Earth from Lucy''': Lucy tries to be nicer during the holiday season ([[{{Jerkass}} keyword being "try"]])[[invoked]]."try"]]).
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* ConstantlyChangingName: This special marks the animated debut of Lydia, the girl who keeps changing her name. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just "her."
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After Lucy shoves Snoopy's hat over his body, he waddles back home with only his feet visible, to which Sally replies as such.
-->'''Sally:''' There's a stocking cap coming down the street!
* ConstantlyChangingName: This special marks the animated debut of Lydia, the girl who keeps changing her name. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just"her.""her".
-->'''Sally:''' There's a stocking cap coming down the street!
* ConstantlyChangingName: This special marks the animated debut of Lydia, the girl who keeps changing her name. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: One scene has Snoopy playing a little music, only for Lucy to pass by and comment that "O Suzanna" wasn't very Christmas-y. In response, Snoopy switches to "Christmastime is Here" from ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''.
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: One scene has Snoopy playing a little music, only for Lucy to pass by and comment that "O Suzanna" Susanna" wasn't very Christmas-y. In response, Snoopy switches to "Christmastime is Here" from ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Sally's method of "cutting" down a Christmas tree. Amazingly, it actually works.
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* ICantLookGesture: While Woodstock is riding Sally's toy bike down the sidewalk, Snoopy is watching, before he covers his eyes with his paws [[ThisIsGonnaSuck expecting Woodstock to crash]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Sally's method of"cutting" "falling" down a Christmas tree. Amazingly, [[AchievementsInIgnorance it actually works.works]].
* LessDisturbingInContext: InUniverse; when Rerun rants at Snoopy dressed as Santa how he never gave Rerun what he wanted last year, Snoopy growls at him. When Lucy asks Rerun what he said, it apparently translates as wishing Rerun a good Christmas, albeit [[NotSoAboveItAll not above]] calling Linus a weird kid with a blanket and Lucy crabby.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Sally's method of
* LessDisturbingInContext: InUniverse; when Rerun rants at Snoopy dressed as Santa how he never gave Rerun what he wanted last year, Snoopy growls at him. When Lucy asks Rerun what he said, it apparently translates as wishing Rerun a good Christmas, albeit [[NotSoAboveItAll not above]] calling Linus a weird kid with a blanket and Lucy crabby.
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* SharedFamilyQuirks: A segment of the special has Linus ranting about Sally calling him "My Sweet Babboo," then noticing that Charlie Brown signed a Christmas card to the Little Red-Haired Girl "Your Sweet Babboo."
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* SharedFamilyQuirks: A segment of the special has Linus ranting about Sally calling him "My Sweet Babboo," Babboo", then noticing that Charlie Brown signed a Christmas card to the Little Red-Haired Girl "Your Sweet Babboo." Babboo".
* SoundtrackDissonance: Snoopy plays "[[CountryMusic O Susanna]]" on the accordion while dressed as Santa Claus, to which Lucy {{lampshade|hanging}}s how it's not very Christmas-sounding. Snoopy promptly stops upon hearing this.
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-->'''Boy:''' Hey, kid, what are you doing in our yard? You weren't thinking of cutting that tree down, were you?\\
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-->'''Boy:''' Hey, kid, what are you doing in our yard? yard?! You weren't thinking of cutting that tree down, were you?\\you?!\\
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''[tree promptly keels over]''\\
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-->'''Lydia:''' Today my name is Jezebel.\\
'''Linus:''' Jezebel was the evil wife of King Ahab in the Old Testament. In II Kings, it says that her servants threw her out the window and she landed on her head.\\
'''Lydia:''' Today my name is Susan.
'''Linus:''' Jezebel was the evil wife of King Ahab in the Old Testament. In II Kings, it says that her servants threw her out the window and she landed on her head.\\
'''Lydia:''' Today my name is Susan.
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-->'''Lydia:''' Today Today, my name is Jezebel.\\
'''Linus:''' Jezebel was the evil wife of King Ahab in the Old Testament. In II Kings, it says that her servants threw her out thewindow window, and she landed on her head.\\
'''Lydia:'''Today Today, my name is Susan.
'''Linus:''' Jezebel was the evil wife of King Ahab in the Old Testament. In II Kings, it says that her servants threw her out the
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''Christmas Tales'' consists of a series of Christmas-themed vignettes, each one dedicated to a different character. There are five of these segments in all, focusing on Snoopy, Linus, Sally, Lucy, and Charlie Brown in that order.
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''Christmas Tales'' consists of a series of Christmas-themed vignettes, each one dedicated to a different character. There are five of these segments in all, focusing on Snoopy, Linus, Sally, Lucy, lifted from the original comic strips:
* '''Happy Holidays from Snoopy''': Snoopy goes ice skating, works as a bell ringer to raise money, and attempts to befriend the ferocious next-door cat.
* '''Yuletide Greetings from Linus''': Linus befriends a girl at school who repeatedly changes her first name.
* '''Season's Greetings from Sally''': Sally tries to get a Christmas tree the easiest way she can.
* '''Peace on Earth from Lucy''': Lucy tries to be nicer during the holiday season ([[{{Jerkass}} keyword being "try"]])[[invoked]].
* '''Merry Christmas from Charlie Brown''': Charlie Brownin that order.
prepares for Christmas alongside his sister Sally.
* '''Happy Holidays from Snoopy''': Snoopy goes ice skating, works as a bell ringer to raise money, and attempts to befriend the ferocious next-door cat.
* '''Yuletide Greetings from Linus''': Linus befriends a girl at school who repeatedly changes her first name.
* '''Season's Greetings from Sally''': Sally tries to get a Christmas tree the easiest way she can.
* '''Peace on Earth from Lucy''': Lucy tries to be nicer during the holiday season ([[{{Jerkass}} keyword being "try"]])[[invoked]].
* '''Merry Christmas from Charlie Brown''': Charlie Brown
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Sally, not knowing how to cut a tree down on her own, believes that she can make one fall by simply staring at it and hoping it does. To her credit, this somehow actually works.
* AnswerCut: Near the end of the special, Charlie Brown tells Sally he ordered her a toy bicycle for her dolls, but that it never came. She says she hopes whoever got it enjoys it. Cut to Woodstock gleefully riding on it.
* AnswerCut: Near the end of the special, Charlie Brown tells Sally he ordered her a toy bicycle for her dolls, but that it never came. She says she hopes whoever got it enjoys it. Cut to Woodstock gleefully riding on it.
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* ExactWords: When the "ugly kid" comes to the Brown household to complain about Sally taking his tree, she reminds him that he said she could have the tree if she could make it fall down on its own, which she did.
* FreezeFrameBonus: If you look closely at one of the letter envelopes in the special, the town the characters live in is listed as "[[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Sparkyville, USA]]".
* FreezeFrameBonus: If you look closely at one of the letter envelopes in the special, the town the characters live in is listed as "[[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Sparkyville, USA]]".
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Sally's method of "cutting" down a Christmas tree. Amazingly, it actually works.
* NoNameGiven: The rude boy whose tree Sally took is only listed in the credits as "Ugly Kid".
* NoNameGiven: The rude boy whose tree Sally took is only listed in the credits as "Ugly Kid".
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* ConstantlyChangingName: This special features the girl who keeps changing her name. She's usually called "Lydia" in ''Peanuts'' media, although here that name is just one of several that she mentions in passing. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just "her."
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* ConstantlyChangingName: This special features marks the animated debut of Lydia, the girl who keeps changing her name. She's usually called "Lydia" in ''Peanuts'' media, although here that name is just one of several that she mentions in passing.name. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just "her."
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'''Linus:''' Jezebel was the evil wife of king Ahab in the Old Testament. In II Kings, it says that her servants threw her out the window and she landed on her head.\\
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'''Linus:''' Jezebel was the evil wife of king King Ahab in the Old Testament. In II Kings, it says that her servants threw her out the window and she landed on her head.\\
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* ConstantlyChangingName: This special features the girl who keeps changing her name. She's usually called "Lydia" in ''Peanuts'' media, although here that name is only mentioned once in passing as just one of several that she likes to use.mentions in passing. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just "her."
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'''Girl Who Keeps Changing Her Name:''' Today my name is Susan.
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* ConstantlyChangingName: This special features the girl who keeps changing her name. She's usually called "Lydia" in ''Peanuts'' media, although here it's that name is only mentioned once in passing as a name one that she likes to use. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just "her."
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Having been created as a companion piece to the iconic ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'', ''Christmas Tales'' aired annually on Creator/{{ABC}} from 2002 to 2019.
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''Christmas Tales'' consists of a series of Christmas-themed vignettes, each one dedicated to a different character. There are five in all, focusing on Snoopy, Linus, Sally, Lucy, and Charlie Brown in that order.
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''Christmas Tales'' consists of a series of Christmas-themed vignettes, each one dedicated to a different character. There are five of these segments in all, focusing on Snoopy, Linus, Sally, Lucy, and Charlie Brown in that order.
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''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' is the 41st ''{{Franchise/Peanuts}}'' special, created in 2002 to fill out an hour timeslot for the airing of ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''. It consists of a series of Christmas-themed vignettes.
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''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' is the 41st ''{{Franchise/Peanuts}}'' special, created in 2002 to fill out an hour timeslot for the airing of ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''. It As such, this special is quite short, running under eighteen minutes.
''Christmas Tales'' consists of a series of Christmas-themedvignettes.vignettes, each one dedicated to a different character. There are five in all, focusing on Snoopy, Linus, Sally, Lucy, and Charlie Brown in that order.
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* SharedFamilyQuirks: A segment of the special has Linus ranting about Sally calling him "My sweet baboo," then noticing that Charlie Brown signed a Christmas card to the Little Red-Haired Girl "Your Sweet Baboo, Charlie Brown".
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* SharedFamilyQuirks: A segment of the special has Linus ranting about Sally calling him "My sweet baboo," Sweet Babboo," then noticing that Charlie Brown signed a Christmas card to the Little Red-Haired Girl "Your Sweet Baboo, Charlie Brown". Babboo."
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* HypocriticalHumor:
-->'''Lucy:''' I feel different this year. Somehow, I feel that I have more of the real spirit of Christmas this year than ever before.\\
'''Linus:''' Why do you suppose that is?\\
'''Lucy:''' [[SuddenlyShouting BECAUSE I SAID SO, THAT'S WHY!]]
-->'''Lucy:''' I feel different this year. Somehow, I feel that I have more of the real spirit of Christmas this year than ever before.\\
'''Linus:''' Why do you suppose that is?\\
'''Lucy:''' [[SuddenlyShouting BECAUSE I SAID SO, THAT'S WHY!]]
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* TemptingFate: When Sally sets out to "fall down a Christmas tree" because she doesn't know how to cut one down:
-->'''Boy:''' Hey, kid, what are you doing in our yard? You weren't thinking of cutting that tree down, were you?\\
'''Sally:''' I don't know how to cut a tree down? What if it just falls down?\\
'''Boy:''' HA! If it falls down, you can have it!\\
''[tree promptly keels over]''\\
'''Sally:''' I'll take it!
-->'''Boy:''' Hey, kid, what are you doing in our yard? You weren't thinking of cutting that tree down, were you?\\
'''Sally:''' I don't know how to cut a tree down? What if it just falls down?\\
'''Boy:''' HA! If it falls down, you can have it!\\
''[tree promptly keels over]''\\
'''Sally:''' I'll take it!
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* ConstantlyChangingName: This special features the girl who keeps changing her name. She's usually called "Lydia" in ''Peanuts'' media, although that here it's only mentioned once in passing as a name is heard only once here.she likes to use. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just "her."
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'''Girl Who Keeps Changing Her Name:''' Today my name is Susan.
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'''Girl Who Keeps Changing Her Name:''' Today my name is Susan.Susan.
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''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' is the 41st ''{{Franchise/Peanuts}} speical, created in 2002 to fill out an hour timeslot for the airing of ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''. It consists of a series of Christmas-themed vignettes.
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''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' is the 41st ''{{Franchise/Peanuts}} speical, ''{{Franchise/Peanuts}}'' special, created in 2002 to fill out an hour timeslot for the airing of ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''. It consists of a series of Christmas-themed vignettes.
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!!''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' contains examples of:
* ConstantlyChangingName: This special features the girl who keeps changing her name. She's usually called "Lydia" in ''Peanuts'' media, although that name is heard only once here. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just "her."
* ChristmasSpecial: The third ''Peanuts'' one, following ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' and ''WesternAnimation/ItsChristmastimeAgainCharlieBrown''. And ''Christmas Tales'' would itself be followed by ''WesternAnimation/IWantADogForChristmasCharlieBrown''.
* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: One scene has Snoopy playing a little music, only for Lucy to pass by and comment that "O Suzanna" wasn't very Christmas-y. In response, Snoopy switches to "Christmastime is Here" from ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: A segment of the special has Linus ranting about Sally calling him "My sweet baboo," then noticing that Charlie Brown signed a Christmas card to the Little Red-Haired Girl "Your Sweet Baboo, Charlie Brown".
-->'''Charlie Brown:''' ''(sheepish)'' It's a... family expression.
* VerbalBackspace:
-->'''Girl Who Keeps Changing Her Name:''' Today my name is Jezebel.\\
'''Linus:''' Jezebel was the evil wife of king Ahab in the Old Testament. In II Kings, it says that her servants threw her out the window and she landed on her head.\\
'''Girl Who Keeps Changing Her Name:''' Today my name is Susan.
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!!''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' contains examples of:
* ConstantlyChangingName: This special features the girl who keeps changing her name. She's usually called "Lydia" in ''Peanuts'' media, although that name is heard only once here. Linus struggles with what name to address her Christmas card to, eventually settling on just "her."
* ChristmasSpecial: The third ''Peanuts'' one, following ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' and ''WesternAnimation/ItsChristmastimeAgainCharlieBrown''. And ''Christmas Tales'' would itself be followed by ''WesternAnimation/IWantADogForChristmasCharlieBrown''.
* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: One scene has Snoopy playing a little music, only for Lucy to pass by and comment that "O Suzanna" wasn't very Christmas-y. In response, Snoopy switches to "Christmastime is Here" from ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: A segment of the special has Linus ranting about Sally calling him "My sweet baboo," then noticing that Charlie Brown signed a Christmas card to the Little Red-Haired Girl "Your Sweet Baboo, Charlie Brown".
-->'''Charlie Brown:''' ''(sheepish)'' It's a... family expression.
* VerbalBackspace:
-->'''Girl Who Keeps Changing Her Name:''' Today my name is Jezebel.\\
'''Linus:''' Jezebel was the evil wife of king Ahab in the Old Testament. In II Kings, it says that her servants threw her out the window and she landed on her head.\\
'''Girl Who Keeps Changing Her Name:''' Today my name is Susan.
