It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown/Transcript

[scene fades to Snoopy blowing on a leaf and blowing it into a pile of other leaves]
Charlie Brown: Thanks Old Pal!
[Snoopy wags his tail, scene cuts to Linus Licking a Yellow Spiraled Sucker, and he looks at the off-screen pile of leaves]
Linus: Charge!!
[Linus then runs toward the pile of leaves, he jumps real, high, and lands in the leaves butt first]
Linus: Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker
[Charlie Brown eye rolls and gives Linus a waving fist]
[Lucy stops by with a football]
Lucy: Say Charlie Brown, I got a football, how ‘bout practicing a few place kicks? I’ll hold the ball, and you come running and kick it.
Charlie Brown: Oh brother, I don’t mind the dishonesty, have as much mind your opinion of me, you must think I’m stupid!
Lucy: Oh come on Charlie Brown!
Charlie Brown: No!
Lucy: I’ll hold it steady!
[Charlie Brown walks to the other side]
Charlie Brown: No!
Lucy: Please?
Charlie Brown: You just want me to come running up to kick that ball, so you can pull it away and see me land flat on my back and k*ll myself!
Lucy: This time you can trust me, see? Here’s a signed document, testifying that I promise not to pull it away!
Charlie Brown: It is signed (he walks away) it’s a signed document, I guess if you have a signed document in your position, you can’t go wrong! (he stops walking) This year I’m really gonna kick that football!
[Charlie Brown runs up, tries to kick the football, but Lucy pull’s it away (again) Charlie Brown goes flying in the air screaming and drops the document, and lands on his back with a big THUD!!!]
[Lucy Catches the document]
Lucy: Peculiar thing about this document, it was never notarized!
[scene fades to the Van Pelt’s house]
Linus: “Dear great pumpkin, I’m looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night. I hope you bring me lots of presents”
[Charlie Brown enters]
Charlie Brown: Who are you writing to Linus?
Linus: This is the time of year to write to the great pumpkin! On Halloween night the great pumpkin rises out of his pumpkin patch and flies through the air with his bag of toys to all the children!
Charlie Brown: You must be crazy! When will you stop believing in something that isn’t true?!
Linus: When will you stop believing in that fella with red suit and the white beard that goes “Ho! Ho! Ho!”?!
Charlie Brown: they’re obviously separated, by of their denominational differences (Charlie Brown walks away)
Linus: “You must get discouraged because more people believe in Santa Claus than in you. Well, let’s face it... Santa Claus has had more publicity. But being number two, perhaps you try harder.”
[Snoopy enters and giggles and laughs at Linus’s letter, Linus glares at him, but Snoopy walks to where Lucy is and is still laughing, Lucy picks him up, and throws him, she enters the room Linus is in, and finds him writing to the great pumpkin, she grabs his collar]
Lucy: Not again! Writing a letter to a stupid pumpkin? You make me the laughing stock of the neighborhood. All they talk about is my little brother who writes to the great pumpkin. You better cut it out right now or i’ll pound you. (Lucy exits)
Linus: there are three things I learned never to discuss with other people: Religion, Politics, and the Great Pumpkin
[Linus continues writing, Patty enters]
Patty: You’re wasting your time the great pumpkin is a fake! (Patty exits)
Linus: “Everyone tells me you are a fake, but I believe in you. P.S. if you really are a fake, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.”
[Sally enters]
Sally: What are you doing Linus?
Linus: I’d rather not say, you might laugh.
Sally: Oh I never laugh at you Linus, you’re so intelligent.
[Linus blushes]
Linus: I’m writing to the great pumpkin.
Sally: You say the cutest things!
Sally: Oh i’d love to Linus!
[Charlie Brown enters]
Charlie Brown: What’s going on here? What are you trying to do to my little sister? (Charlie Brown and Sally exit)
[Linus Puts the letter into an evelope and closes the envelope, he walks to the front door to mail the letter, on the way, he passes Lucy]
Lucy: And how do you think your gonna mail that letter?!
[Lucy and Linus exit their house, and stop at a tall mailbox]
Lucy: You can’t possibly reach the mailbox! And I’m not gonna help ya!
[Linus gets and idea, he throws the side of his blanket he is not holding onto, he opens the mailbox with his blanket, throws the envelope the opposite way of the mailbox, the envelope flies into the air and does loops, then the envelope flies into the mailbox, Linus pulls his blanket and closes the mailbox, Linus exits, Charlie Brown enters with a sheet of paper]
Charlie Brown: Hey! I got an invitation to a Halloween party!
[Charlie Brown dances]
Lucy: Is the invitation to Violet’s party Charlie Brown?
Charlie Brown: Yes! It’s the first time I’ve ever been invited to a party!
[Charlie Brown continues dancing)
Lucy: Charlie Brown if you got an invitation, it was a mistake! There were two lists Charlie Brown, one to invite, and one not to invite! You must’ve been put on the wrong list!
[Charlie Brown blushes sadly]
[Lucy exits, Linus enters with a sign that says “Welcome Great Pumpkin!” Linus exits, then Linus enters again with the sign and stops at a Pumpkin patch, blackout]
[scene cuts to Lucy, Violet, and Charlie Brown]
Lucy: A person should always choose a costume, that is in direct contrast, to her own personality!
[Lucy puts on a witch costume]
[Sally enters with her ghost costume]
Sally: Is Linus taking me to the party?
Lucy: That stupid blockhead of a brother of mine, is out in the pumpkin patch, making his yearly fool of himself!
Violet: Boy, is he strange!
Sally: But maybe there is a great pumpkin!
[Violet is putting on HER ghost costume]
Violet: Every year Linus misses Tricks-or-Treats, and THEN the Halloween party!
[Violet puts on her ghost costume completely]
Charlie Brown: He’ll never learn!
Sally: Do I get to go Trick-or-Treating this year, big brother?
Charlie Brown: Sure, Sally!
[Sally claps her hands in excitement]
Sally: Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy! How do we do it?!
Lucy: All you have to do is walk up to a house, ring the doorbell, and say “tricks-or-treats!”
Sally: Are you sure it’s legal?
Lucy: Of course it’s legal!
[Sally begins to put her ghost costume]
Sally: I won’t want to be accused, of taking part in rumble!
[Sally put on her ghost costume, but puts her hands in the eyeholes, Lucy pulls up her ghost costume, and Sally is completely in her costume, Charlie Brown puts on HIS ghost costume, but his costume has more eyeholes than it should have]
Lucy: Oh good grief!
[Frieda and Shermy enter, and they are both in costume]
Frieda: Is that you Patty?
Lucy: No!
Shermy: Where is Charlie Brown?
Charlie Brown: Here I am! [Charlie Brown looks at his costume] I had a little trouble with the scissors,
[Pigpen enters with HIS ghost costume, his is dirty]
Pigpen: They’ll never guess its me under here!
Violet: Hello Pigpen! Glad you could make it!
Pigpen: How did you know it was me?
[Snoopy enters]
Lucy: What in the world kinda costume is that?!
Charlie Brown: He’s a World-war-One flying ace!
Lucy: Now I’ve heard everything! All right everybody, we’ll go trick-or-treating, and then over to Violet’s for the big Halloween party!
[Everyone heads for the door cheering, Snoopy marches along, someone holds the door open for him, and salutes him, when Snoopy gets outside, he walks the opposite way the gong is going, scene cuts to the gang walking to the pumpkin patch where Linus is]
Linus: Hey! Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?
Lucy: You blockhead, you’re gonna miss ALL the fun just like last year!
Linus: Don’t talk like that! The great pumpkin knows which kids have been good, and which kids have been bad! You’ll bee sorry!
Lucy: Oh good grief!
Linus: He’ll come here because I have the most sincere pumpkin patch, and he respects sincerity!
[Sally takes off her ghost costume]
Sally: Do you REALLY think he’ll come?
Linus: Tonight the great pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch, he flies through the air and brings toys to all the children of the world!
Sally: That’s a good story!
Linus: You don’t believe in the story of the great pumpkin? I though little girls always believed everything that was told to them, I though little girls were innocent and trusting!
Sally: Welcome to the 20th Century!
Lucy: Alright once and for all, are you coming or are you staying? We can’t waste all night!
Linus: I'm glad you came back, Sally. We'll just sit here in this pumpkin patch... ...and you'll see the Great Pumpkin with your own eyes.
Sally: If you try to hold my hand, I'll slug you.
Linus: Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch... ...that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look all around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.
ALL: Trick or treat, money or eats!
Lucy: Can I have an extra piece of candy for my stupid brother? He couldn't come with us, because he's sitting in a pumpkin patch... ...waiting for the Great Pumpkin. It's so embarrassing to have to ask for something extra for that blockhead Linus.
LUCY: I got five pieces of candy.
VIOLET: I got a chocolate bar.
PATTY: I got a quarter.
CHARLIE BROWN: I got a rock.
ALL: Trick or treat.
VIOLET: Gee, I got a candy bar.
PATTY: Boy, I got three cookies.
LUCY: Hey, I got a package of gum.
Charlie Brown: I got a rock.
Lucy: Trick or treat.
LUCY: I got a popcorn ball.
PATTY: I got a fudge bar.
VIOLET: I got a pack of gum.
Charlie Brown: I got a rock.
VIOLET: By the way, whatever happened to the World war I Flying Ace?
Charlie Brown: Oh, he's probably getting ready to take off in his Sopwith Camel... ...on the next dawn patrol. His mission is to find the Red Bar on and shoot him down.
Here's the World war FIying Ace... ...cIimbing into the cockpit of his of his Sopwith CameI.
"Contact," he shouts.
CHARLIE BROWN: Here's the WorId war I FIying Ace... ...imagining he's d o wn behind enemy I ines... ...making his way across the French countryside.
LUCY: Come on, let's get going. It's time for the Halloween party.
[ALL CHATTERING EXCITEDLY]
VIOLET [SARCASTICALLY]: Has the Great Pumpkin been by?
[VIOLET LAUGHS]
Lucy: What blockheads, sitting in a pumpkin patch in the middle of the night.
Violet: You've missed trick or treat, and now you're going to miss the Halloween party.
Freida: What a way to spend Halloween.
[ALL LAUGH]
Sally: You think you're so smart. Just wait until the Great Pumpkin comes. He'll be here. You can bet on that. Linus knows what he's talking about. Linus knows what he's doing. [to Linus] All right, where is he?
Linus: He'll be here.
Sally: I hope so. I have my reputation to think of, you know. And just think of all of the fun we're missing.
Linus: Just look, nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.
[KIDS CLAMORING]
Violet: Charlie Brown, you'll have to model for us.
Charlie Brown: Me? You want me to model?
Patty: Sure, Charlie Brown, you'll be the perfect model.
Lucy: Turn him around.
Violet: If we shape the eyes like this: And the nose like this: And the mouth like this:
Lucy: Yes, that's the way. Thank you, Charlie Brown. You were a perfect model.
Lucy: All right, all right, let's bob for apples. This is the way to do it.
SCHROEDER: Yeah, Lucy, you should be good at this. You have the perfect mouth for it.
Lucy: Baugh! My lips touched dog lips! Baugh! Agh! Poisoned dog lips! Baugh! Agh!
Sally: If anyone had told me I'd be waiting... ...in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night... ...I'd have said they were crazy.
Linus: Just think, Sally, when the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch... ...we'll be here to see him. What's that? What's that? I hear the Great Pumpkin.
Linus: There he is. There he is. It's the Great Pumpkin. He's rising up out of the pumpkin patch.
[Linus faints. Snoopy disappears.]
Linus: What happened? Did I faint? What did he leave us? Did he leave us any toys?
Sally: I was robbed! I spent the whole night waiting for the Great Pumpkin... ...when I could have been out for tricks or treats. Halloween is over, and I missed it! You blockhead. You kept me up all night waiting for the Great Pumpkin... ...and all that came was a beagle. I didn't get a chance to go out for tricks or treats. And it was all your fault. I'll sue! What a fool I was! I could have had candy apples and gum... ...and cookies and money and all sorts of things... ...but no, I had to listen to you. You blockhead. What a fool I was. Trick or treats come only once a year. And I missed it by sitting in a pumpkin patch with a blockhead. You owe me restitution!
Linus: You heard about fury and a woman scorned, haven't you?
Charlie Brown: Yes, I guess I have.
Linus: Well, that's nothing compared to the fury of a woman... ...who has been cheated out of tricks or treats. Hey, aren't you gonna wait and greet the Great Pumpkin, huh? It won't be long now. If the Great Pumpkin comes, I'll still put in a good word for you. Good grief, I said "if." I meant when he comes! I'm doomed. One little slip like that can cause the Great Pumpkin to pass you by. O Great Pumpkin, where are you?
Charlie Brown: Well, another Halloween has come and gone.
Linus: Yes, Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown: I don't understand it. I went trick-or-treating and all I got was a bag full of rocks. I suppose you spent all night in the pumpkin patch. And the Great Pumpkin never showed up?
Linus: Nope.
Charlie Brown: Well, don't take it too hard, Linus. I've done a lot of stupid things in my life too.
Linu: Stupid? What do you mean, stupid? Just wait till next year, Charlie Brown. You'll see, next year at this same time... ...I'll find a pumpkin patch that is real sincere... ...and I'll sit in that pumpkin patch until the Great Pumpkin appears. He'll rise out of that pumpkin patch... ...and he'll fly through the air with his bag of toys. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him. I'll be there. I'll be sitting there in that pumpkin patch... ...and I'll see the Great Pumpkin. Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see that Great Pumpkin. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him.