History WesternAnimation / HappinessIsAWarmBlanketCharlieBrown

->'''Linus:''' You can't do that! '''I JUST GOT IT BACK!!!'''
->{{Beat}}
->'''Lucy:''' [[KickTheDog I had no choice]].

->'''Linus:''' '''AAAAAAAUGH! I need my blanket! I admit it!''' Look at all of you! Who among you doesn't have an insecurity? Who among you doesn't depend on someone, or something, to help you get through the day? Who among you can cast the first stone? How about you, Sally? You with your endless "Sweet Babboos"? Or you, Schroeder? You with your Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven?! And ''you, Lucy,'' never leaving Schroeder alone, obsessing over someone who doesn't care if he ever sees you again? What do you ''want?!'' Do you ''want'' to see me unhappy? Do you ''want'' to see me insecure? Do you want to see me end up like ''Charlie Brown?!'' Even your crazy dog, Charlie Brown. Suppertime, suppertime, suppertime! Nothing but suppertime 24 hours a day! ''ARE ANY OF YOU SECURE?''

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* NoSympathy: Lucy throughout all of Linus' struggles when she get rid of his blanket. Best seen in her final attempt when she burries Linus' blanket ''mere moments after he got it back from the Air Rescue Service!''

* PetTheDog: Or perhaps a case of Dog Pets You -- Snoopy, after having spent most of the special trying to snatch Linus's blanket, immediately gives it to him after finding it. Of course, he's right back to trying to steal it afterwards.

''Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown'' is a 2011 ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'' hour-long special released by Warner Premiere DirectToVideo, though it has since aired on television.

It was the first ''Peanuts'' special in five years (the 45th in the total lineup) and the first produced without the leadership of Charles Schulz, Lee Mendelson Productions, or Creator/BillMelendez. Instead, it's produced by Creator/WarnerBros and Wildbrain, and animated off-shore by Creator/YearimProductions in UsefulNotes/SouthKorea. Eschewing UsefulNotes/TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation's tendencies towards computer-assisted animation, its animation is hand-drawn on paper with hand-painted backgrounds and a piano soundtrack composed by Music/MarkMothersbaugh, meant to evoke the 1960's/'70s animated specials/movies as well as Music/VinceGuaraldi's scores from the earliest specials.

%%* AsTheGoodBookSays

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: At the climax, Linus is finally fed up with his friends' demands of giving up his blanket and proceeds to give them a speech about how everyone is insecure and has a silly quirk that defines who they are.

* ContinuityReboot: For the original run of ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' animated adaptations. Adapting strip arcs that have been adapted before, it focuses on the cast of the strip that was established as of TheSixties (Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Schroder, Sally, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Pig-Pen and Snoopy), reverts Snoopy back to having less focus, and having him walk mostly quadrupedally. To make it feel like it belongs in that time period, it also establishes the visual design of the 1960s specials, giving the human cast smaller heads and Snoopy a more elongated muzzle and angular shape.

* ContinuityReboot: For the original run of ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' animated adaptations. Adapting strip arcs that have been adapted before, it focuses on the cast of the strip that was established as of TheSixties (Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Schroder, Sally, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Pig-Pen and Snoopy), reverts Snoopy back to having less focus, and having him walk on all fours. To make it feel like it belongs in that time period, it also establishes the visual design of the 1960s specials.

It was the first ''Peanuts'' special in five years (the 45th in the total lineup) and the first produced without the leadership of Charles Schulz, Lee Mendelson Productions, or Creator/BillMelendez. Instead, it's produced by Creator/WarnerBros and Wildbrain, and animated off-shore by Creator/YearimProductions in UsefulNotes/SouthKorea. Eschewing UsefulNotes/TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation's tendencies towards computer-assisted animation, it is animated in hand-drawings on paper with hand-painted backgrounds and a piano soundtrack composed by Music/MarkMothersbaugh, meant to evoke the 1960's/'70s animated specials/movies as well as Music/VinceGuaraldi's scores from the earliest specials.

* Retraux: The special has Shermy, Patty and Violet having slightly more screentime, and the character and background designs are strikingly similar to how they looked in the 1960s.

* ContinuityReboot: For the original run of ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' animated adaptations. Adapting material from the strip that had previously been incorporated into the franchise's SaturdayMorningCartoon and the special ''It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown'' in TheEighties, it focuses on the core cast of the strip as it stood in TheSixties (Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Schroder, Sally, and Snoopy), scales back Snoopy's SpotlightStealingSquad and {{Slapstick}} tendencies, having him walk on all fours. It also disregards the strip and specials' ArtEvolution in favor of using the character and background designs from TheSixties, though it keeps the voice acting style and jazz scoring forever linked to the franchise.

* HowWeGotHere: The special begins with shots of various holes being dug around parts of the neighborhood, including the pitcher's mound Charlie Brown is stand on, Lucy's psychiatrist stand, and Snoopy's doghouse, and it's because Linus is searching for his blanket that Lucy buried, and the rest of the special explains how it got to that point.

* HowWeGotHere: The special begins with shots of various holes being dug around parts of the neighbor, including the pitcher's mound Charlie Brown is stand on, Lucy's psychiatrist stand, and Snoopy's doghouse, and it's because Linus is searching for his blanket that Lucy buried, and the rest of the special explains how it got to that point.

* HowWeGotHere: The special with shots of various holes being dug around parts of the neighbor, including the pitcher's mound Charlie Brown is stand on, Lucy's psychiatrist stand, and Snoopy's doghouse, and it's because Linus is searching for his blanket that Lucy buried, and the rest of the special explains how it got to that point.

* ContinuityReboot: For the original run of ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' animated adaptations. Adapting material from the strip that had previously been incorporated into the franchise's SaturdayMorningCartoon and the special ''It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown'' in TheEighties, it focuses on the core cast of the strip as it stood in TheSixties (Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Schroder, Sally, and Snoopy), scales back Snoopy's SpotlightStealingSquad and {{Slapstick}} tendencies (as well as having him walk on all fours), doesn't try to be [[WereStillRelevantDammit "relevant"]], and has sharper humor and a quieter, more melancholy tone than post-''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' adaptations did. It also disregards the strip and specials' ArtEvolution in favor of using the character and background designs from TheSixties, though it keeps the voice acting style and jazz scoring forever linked to the franchise.

* AsTheGoodBookSays

* MythologyGag: One of the clips shown when Charlie Brown thinks about his insecurities is an exact recreation of [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/8/82/19501002.gif/revision/latest?cb=20100325201608 the very first ''Peanuts'' strip.]]

It was the first ''Peanuts'' special in five years (the 45th in the total lineup) and the first produced without the leadership of Charles Schulz, Lee Mendelson Productions, or Bill Melendez. Instead, it's produced by Creator/WarnerBros and Wildbrain, and animated off-shore by Creator/YearimProductions in UsefulNotes/SouthKorea. Eschewing UsefulNotes/TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation's tendencies towards computer-assisted animation, it is animated in hand-drawings on paper with hand-painted backgrounds and a piano soundtrack composed by Music/MarkMothersbaugh, meant to evoke the 1960's/'70s animated specials/movies as well as Music/VinceGuaraldi's scores from the earliest specials.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: At the climax, Linus is finally fed up with his friends' demands of giving up his blanket and proceeds to give them a speech about how everyone is insecure.

* RecycledPlot: The 1980's special "It's An Adventure, Charlie Brown!" involved a similar storyline.