# A Boy Named Charlie Brown

A Boy Named Charlie Brown is an American 1969 Academy Award-nominated animated film about Charlie Brown making his way to the national spelling bee finals.
    Directed by Bill Melendez. Written by Charles M. Schulz.

## Charlie Brown

* Well, we lost the first game of the season again. I shouldn't let it bother me. But, it does. We always seem to lose the first of the season and the last of the season and all those stupid games in between.
* I can't fly a kite and I lose every ball game I play.
* I'm going to study the whole dictionary.

## Dialogue

    Lucy Van Pelt: Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton. I could just lie here all day and watch them drift by. If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud's formations. What do you think you see, Linus?
    Linus Van Pelt: Well, those clouds up there look to me look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean. [points up] That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor. And that group of clouds over there... [points] ...gives me the impression of the Stoning of Stephen. I can see the Apostle Paul standing there to one side.
    Lucy Van Pelt: Uh-huh. That's very good. What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?
    Charlie Brown: Well... I was going to say I saw a duck and a horse, but, I changed my mind.
( drums rolling )
( Star-Spangled Banner playing on record player )
    Charlie Brown: Good morning, Linus and Snoopy. S-N-O-O-P-Y. Snoopy.
    Linus Van Pelt: Well, Charlie Brown, you really did it!!!
    [Snoopy yawns]
    Linus Van Pelt: We looks for the blanket all over the city!!! And as for the hunts dog of yours, he's completely useless!!!
    Charlie Brown: Useless. U-S-E-L-E-S-S. Useless. Gee, I'm sorry, Linus. I don't know what to say. S-A-Y. Say. I'm going to get ready for the contest. C-O-N-T-E-S-T. Contest.
    Linus Van Pelt: I never see my blanket again!
    Charlie Brown: Washing. W-A-S-H-I-N-G. Washing.
    Charlie Brown: The word is "beagle"?
    [The rest of the gang are at home watching the spelling bee on TV]
    Violet: Oh boy! That's an easy one. That's his dog! He'll get that one easy.
    Patty: Charlie Brown's at the threshold of being a champion speller!
    Charlie Brown: Beagle.
    [Snoopy points to himself while jumping up and down]
    Charlie Brown: Beagle.
    Linus Van Pelt and Snoopy: Yay! Yay! Yay!
    Charlie Brown: B-E-A-G-E-L. Beagle.
    [Everyone, including Linus and Charlie Brown screams in disbelief]
    Lucy Van Pelt: [Turns the TV off] Owning 10% of Charlie Brown is like owning 10% of nothing! [Turns the TV on] Charlie Brown, you... you made me mad! [Turns the TV off]
    Charlie Brown: I've never gone through anything like that in my life! I never knew I could be so stupid! I never knew I had so many faults! I never felt so completely miserable.
    Lucy Van Pelt: Wait until you get my bill.
    Linus Van Pelt: Life is difficult, isn't it, Charlie Brown?
    Charlie Brown: Yes, it is. But I've developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time.
    Linus Van Pelt: Look at it this way, Charlie Brown, they say we learn more from losing than from winning.
    Charlie Brown: I guess that makes me the smartest person in the whole world.
    Linus Van Pelt: Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?
    Charlie Brown: What's that?
    Linus Van Pelt: The world didn't come to an end.

## Cast

* Peter Robbins - Charlie Brown (voice)
* Pamelyn Ferdin - Lucy Van Pelt (voice)
* Glenn Gilger - Linus Van Pelt (voice)
* Andy Pforsich - Schroeder (voice)
* Sally Dryer - Patty (voice)
* Ann Altieri - Violet (voice)
* Erin Sullivan - Sally Brown (voice)
* Lynda Mendelson - Frieda (voice)
* Christopher DeFaria - Pig-Pen (voice)
* Bill Melendez - Snoopy (voice)

## External links

* A Boy Named Charlie Brown quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* A Boy Named Charlie Brown at Rotten Tomatoes