When I was a little kid and saw this for the first time maybe around 94 or 95, I thought the Great Pumpkin was going to appear behind Linus and Charlie Brown as Linus ranted during the credits haha. Did anyone else think it would actually appear at some point?
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I don't remember ever thinking GP would appear. I have seen this every year since it first was shown, and I think I always thought he was one person making silly claims and crazy for not wanting to go trick or treating and go to the party.
shareIt's either "Linus' rant" or "Linus ranting", not "Linus' ranting".
No, no one that understands anything about Linus did, because the WHOLE POINT of the great pumpkin is that:
1) Linus didn't understand Christmas, so he mixed it up with Halloween, because he was just a dumb kid and couldn't tell that not every holiday has some jolly guy bringing presents to kids, so he remembered the whole 'Santa myth' and applied that memory to his understanding of Halloween, and thus Great Pumpkin was born out of a MISUNDERSTANDING.
Now that he's older and wiser, and COULD tell the difference, he's too deep into his own dogma, and still believes the myth the same way other kids still believe the 'Santa myth'. He's too entrenched into his own creation to ever let it go anymore.
2) It's a jab at religious zealots and similar nutcases that can passionately foam at the mouth while preaching complete nonsense, but being so passionate about it, will never realize just how wrong they are or what psychosis they live in.
ACTUAL 'the Great Pumpkin' appearing would ruin and destroy these jokes so completely, there would be no point in the whole thing.
Also, it would be unfunny by comparison to Linus' stubborn unwillingness to face the facts and continuing to preach what Charlie knows to be horseshÃt, but has to listen to anyway..