Every year we watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” and every year Sally’s request for Santa to bring her “tens and twenties”—intended at the time to be a ridiculous sum, to show how commercialized Christmas is—becomes less unreasonable.
Actually, I think a year or two ago it flipped, and started to seem like a comically low amount. I’m just waiting for my kids to ask why Charlie Brown is so disgusted by such a small request.
My fist experience with peanuts was the school forcing us to watch the special “why charlie Brown, why”
So I’ve always considered it to be kinda of depressing. Also I’m not sure why exactly they needed all students to see that special… Was there alot of leukemia bullying going on back then? Was i supposed to be checking myself for leukemia? What message was I supposed to be taking from that beyond “life kinda sucks sometimes”
No idea. It’s the second most confusing inspirational story we were subjected to at that school.
Edit: off topic but if anyone is curious about the #1 confusing story:
Local rich guy on career day. All is kids in the auditorium. He tells us a story about growing up poor but admiring a rich man’s Rolex. He worked and saved for several summers. He bought a Rolex and showed his father. His father smashed it and tossed into the fire. Now he’s rich but never bought another Rolex. No clue what the point was. If you work hard you can achieve your dream? That people will try to smash your dreams? Spend money wisely? Sometimes father’s are dicks? No clue. Someone thought it was important enough to bus all three middle schools over to hear it. Again all I learned was that life can be kinda shitty. I’m nearly 40 now. Never forgot that story, never figured out the point. If you’re out there local small town rich dude… The fuck was the point of that story? What message were you trying to drive home? Over 25 years …always remembered it, never figured it out. What was the idea you were trying to pass on to over 1,000 kids because you certainly didn’t foster change, only a lot of confusion.
i mean, i think it just helps children to emotionally navigate a serious illness, which is something that everyone eventually experiences. if you’re fortunate enough to experience it after you’ve built up some emotional resiliency and coping mechanisms, that’s great, but otherwise it can be really distressing and overwhelming for kids.
It’s about a community coming together in support of their friend experiencing something horrible. A bunch of kids shaving their heads in solidarity with their (potentially dying) friend is pretty inspirational
Every year we watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” and every year Sally’s request for Santa to bring her “tens and twenties”—intended at the time to be a ridiculous sum, to show how commercialized Christmas is—becomes less unreasonable.
Actually, I think a year or two ago it flipped, and started to seem like a comically low amount. I’m just waiting for my kids to ask why Charlie Brown is so disgusted by such a small request.
That aired in 1965. Using $50 as a sort of reasonable base, that is worth $500.78 today.
Whoa. I hadn’t done the calculation to see what it should have been, but yikes.
And flipped the other way, listening to “how about tens and twenties?” feels to the modern ear like “how about singles and twos?”
I mean, it’s an odd request, but hardly extravagant in those denominations.
I would think “tens and twenties” means plural of both, so $60 at minimum. But who wants the minimum? I’d think she meant $90, at least.
My fist experience with peanuts was the school forcing us to watch the special “why charlie Brown, why”
So I’ve always considered it to be kinda of depressing. Also I’m not sure why exactly they needed all students to see that special… Was there alot of leukemia bullying going on back then? Was i supposed to be checking myself for leukemia? What message was I supposed to be taking from that beyond “life kinda sucks sometimes”
No idea. It’s the second most confusing inspirational story we were subjected to at that school.
Edit: off topic but if anyone is curious about the #1 confusing story: Local rich guy on career day. All is kids in the auditorium. He tells us a story about growing up poor but admiring a rich man’s Rolex. He worked and saved for several summers. He bought a Rolex and showed his father. His father smashed it and tossed into the fire. Now he’s rich but never bought another Rolex. No clue what the point was. If you work hard you can achieve your dream? That people will try to smash your dreams? Spend money wisely? Sometimes father’s are dicks? No clue. Someone thought it was important enough to bus all three middle schools over to hear it. Again all I learned was that life can be kinda shitty. I’m nearly 40 now. Never forgot that story, never figured out the point. If you’re out there local small town rich dude… The fuck was the point of that story? What message were you trying to drive home? Over 25 years …always remembered it, never figured it out. What was the idea you were trying to pass on to over 1,000 kids because you certainly didn’t foster change, only a lot of confusion.
i mean, i think it just helps children to emotionally navigate a serious illness, which is something that everyone eventually experiences. if you’re fortunate enough to experience it after you’ve built up some emotional resiliency and coping mechanisms, that’s great, but otherwise it can be really distressing and overwhelming for kids.
It’s about a community coming together in support of their friend experiencing something horrible. A bunch of kids shaving their heads in solidarity with their (potentially dying) friend is pretty inspirational