The only thing that would improve that quote would be if it occurred during the dinosaur episode.

"Dragons are scaly, dammit"

True, that.  I've noticed that people with huge families tend to love it for a little longer because "LOL, look at all the CRAAAAZEE things her crazy aunts and wacky cousins do!"

Basically, this episode takes place in a world where the Snapewives and Otakin are right.

I don't know why but I suddenly have "Black Hole Sun" in my head…

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-EEE-eee-ooh! / EEE-eee-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!

"And 'Creep'"

"Those (knit ski caps with dangly tie-ons) are designed to announce that the wearer is a big loveable stuffed animal of a hippie stoner."

Pretty sure one of the Princes is Pauly Shore.

"the tired woman-as-bird metaphor"

A lot of words about this very issue: http://cartoonoveranalyzati…

Yeah, aside from the title number (which isn't even that bad because it just emphasizes how Snoopy is better than everyone at everything), "Flashbeagle" has a bunch of songs that are just as good as anything in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown".  (And better in some cases.  Oh, would that "Lucy Says" and "Pigpen's…

I've never been able to bring myself to sit through even the mini-version of "You're Not Elected"; though I've seen enough to note that it at least has a tenuous connection to Halloween.  (Linus does fine in the election until he starts going on about the Great Pumpkin.)

Funny, they usually advertise it as "uncut and remastered" or something so that it runs for a little over a half-hour (the rest of the hour being padded out with holiday selections from "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show".)

I definitely have to read it one of these days.  By far my favorite aspect of _Schulz and Peanuts_ is how (according to comments from shortly after its release) so many readers were shocked and astonished that the character Charlie Brown was not born from the most stable of psyches.

Just because the concept behind them is so strange and SOOOO 60's (their parents believed that names would eventually become meaningless), I would have loved for 5, 6, and 7 to appear in more Peanuts animations.  Instead, we get Rerun.

Yeah I'll never understand how people can say, "Peppermint Patty is so obviously a Lesbian" when (a) she clearly has a thing for Charlie Brown and (b) you've got a character like Marcie RIGHT THERE!!!  (It can't be just Patty's sandles… can it?)

Yeah, that always baffled me as a child and none of my animation history books elaborate on it.  So unless it's just a weird alternate term for "animation" itself…?

That poem nicely makes a subtle point about something I found very interesting about "The Great Pumpkin", especially in light of Linus reciting scripture.

I dearly apologize for the "minor" comment; I meant in terms of the "Great Pumpkin" story, Snoopy isn't nearly as much the focus as Linus is.  I don't think they even really interact until the end.