Trivia / Snoopy, Come Home

• Adored by the Network: ABC Family loved airing this on the week of Thanksgiving from 2007 until 2013, along with its sister film A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
• Box Office Bomb: Against a $1m budget, it only made just over a fifth of it: a grand total of $245,073. This didn't stop Snoopy from getting vindicated by home video and television airings long after its release.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: One article reporting on The Daily Show's segment about how Franklin was depicted in Peanuts animation in 2018 mentioned the clip of Franklin slapping hands with Snoopy instead of shaking his hand (paw?), but said that the scene "appears to be a birthday party." If you've seen the movie you know it's Snoopy's farewell party before he moves in with Lila (why would everyone be crying at a birthday party?), and Franklin was clearly trying to cheer up Snoopy with a deliberate Greeting Gesture Confusion moment.
• Creator Breakdown: The film's depressing nature is a byproduct of Charles Schulz having gone through a divorce, and him representing his anguish through the writing.
• Creator Killer: Was the last film released by Cinema Center Films, CBS's first movie distribution arm. Any hopes of CCF staying afloat were dashed when it bombed at the box office.
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • Christopher DeFaria as Peppermint Patty. Odd fun fact: he's now a prolific film producer.
  • In the Japanese dub, Masako Nozawa plays Charlie Brown. This is actually a Role Reprise from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
• He Also Did: According to Stephen Shea, Charles Schulz himself directed his voice acting for the movie, which might explain why Linus doesn't have the usual choppy delivery of Peanuts acting and Shea manages to convey a lot of the subtle wide-eyed wisdom of the strip portrayal of Linus.
• Non-Singing Voice:
  • During "It Changes", Charlie Brown's singing voice (as well as the spoken parts) was provided by Guy Pohlman, as opposed to his speaking voice Chad Webber.
  • An adult choir provided the kids' singing voices during the triumphant reprise of "Best of Buddies" at the end.
• Recycled Script: Charlie Brown recounting to Linus how he originally received Snoopy, adapted from a Sunday strip, would later be recycled near-verbatim in the 1980 special Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown. It may not be a coincidence that it also involves Snoopy temporarily leaving Charlie Brown and the possibility that it will become permanent, though it's far more lighthearted.
• Vindicated by Cable: The movie actually flopped in its theatrical run, only making back about a quarter of its production budget as mentioned above. It wound up being the last film released by Cinema Center (a film studio owned by CBS). It found an audience thanks to frequent cable airings in The '80s and The '90s.

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