YMMV / It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown

• Awesome Art: Snoopy's dancing was rotoscoped when he's on the dance floor. As a result, his movements are very fluid and smooth, and he steals the show from the cheering fellow dancers.
• Awesome Music: The soundtrack may be cheesy (every note practically screams "1980s!"), but it's still pretty awesome, especially "Flashbeagle". The first time we hear it (main time), Snoopy, as "Flashbeagle," goes into a 1980s dance club and shows he has dance moves (and dressed in a "Flashdance" outfit – headband, torn sweats, leg warmers) to the teenagers/adults there. The second time we hear it (reprise), a student heckling Sally and Snoopy pulls out a boom box and turns it on. Snoopy hears the rhythm and music, causing him to dance all over again. He becomes Flashbeagle without the outfit while the other students dance. This gives Sally her first "A" in Show and Tell and lets her defend Snoopy's behavior to Charlie Brown.
• Narm Charm: For as campy as this special is with how much '80s material it parodies, it still undeniably has the same artistic sincerity that most Peanuts specials have, with the characters and themes not being completely lost on the one-shot aesthetic theming.
• Retroactive Recognition: This was the first Peanuts special to have Sally be voiced by Stacy Ferguson, who viewers these days may recognize as Fergie.
• Signature Scene: Fans who watch the special tend to remember the dance floor scene the most, set to the titular song "Flashbeagle". The Awesome Art combined with the earworm of a song helps a lot.
• Special Effect Failure: When Snoopy is walking to the discothèque, the second shot has a forward-facing angle. However, the background zooms in instead of zooming out, resulting in it looking as though Snoopy is walking backwards.
• Squick:
  • Peppermint Patty's binder clamping down on her nose. The idea is painful enough, but it's coupled with a bloodcurdling scream, as well as Cartoon Throbbing on her nose once she pulls it off.
  • Snoopy sipping the punch straws and Woodstock swimming in the punch bowl. It was enough to make Charlie Brown feel sick.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: According to this short, Franklin and Snoopy hang out on a regular basis to dance. Franklin apparently kills it when breakdancing. Sadly, this is the only special where Franklin does that, with him being relegated as the Only Sane Man in the comics that doesn't get involved with everyone else's shenanigans.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Could very well have been intentionally dated, but the special is very much meant to be a product of The '80s, being inspired by MTV, Flashdance, and songs such as Toni Basil's "Mickey", exemplified in full by the aesthetics and musical style.

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