At the end, when Linus is ranting to Charlie Brown about going to another pumpkin patch next year, he gives CB this look right before it goes off that was downright scary! He looks almost like he's going to either punch or stab poor Charlie.
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Yea, poor Charlie! He thought he was offering a soft shoulder to a friend, who'd made an obvious, dumb mistake in judgement. I think we've all been there, though not necessarily at the tender age of 5!
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think linus needed a nap.
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Schultz was a bit of a genius that knew a lot about the world, and he reflected this deeper understanding in his work. What other cartoonist could ever have known to use a word like 'notarized'?
In any case, some of his jokes laugh at certain groups, but in a slightly disguised form - Linus is supposed to have mixed up 'Christmas' and 'Halloween', so he thinks the same rules apply to Halloween, the presents and some 'magical entity bringing good kids presents', so he invents this myth about 'sincere pumpkin patch' just like people invented the 'flying reindeer' and other crap kids are lied to about.
From a kid's perspective, there's no difference, it all sounds weird and unrealistic, but also possibly 'inspiring to imagine'. Because kids haven't yet fully grasped the rules and realities of the world, and they usually have a good imagination and love to fantasize, but don't always understand the depth of the abyss that stands between fantasy and reality, they can be fooled even by their own creations.
However, I think later on, this running gag started looking like Schultz was actually laughing at religious zealots; no matter how many times their nonsense is proven to be false, no matter how illogical their rants are, no matter how nothing they say is backed by reality, so they're free to spew any nonsense and never have to wake up to the reality, Linus is never deterred, either, and keeps flaming about the same pumpkin patch stuff he should by now know is just a mix-up and not real.
I think it's a sad statement about how certain people will never be convinced they're wrong, once they have grasped at some lunatic idea and start preaching it around. The people around them can only roll their eyes, like Charlie did.
I don't think Linus's expression changes much, he just get angry that Charlie uses the word 'stupid', and he remains just as angry for the remainder of the cartoon. I don't see his expression being ESPECIALLY scary, it's consistently 'scary'.