You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown

"*God will always help you by taking some self-esteem. Even though if you're small, God could help you with big things.*"
— Seymour

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**You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown** is the sixteenth episode of VeggieTales and the third Cavis and Millward franchise. It deals with a topic lesson about self-esteem and is based on the NBC show's the Peanuts special of the same name.

## Plot

The episodes begins with Snoopy, as the World Famous Coach, getting his football team, The Birds, ready. It consists entirely of Woodstock and his tiny friends. The announcer says, this game will decide the Eastern Division Champs for the "AFL" (Animal Football League). They are playing the team "The Cats" a ferocious group of cats. The Birds crush The Cats, 38-0, making them the Eastern Division champs. The Birds will be moving on to the East-West Conference Championship, but not before pouring a victory bath of "Chirpade" on the coach.

After the football team, Lucy prepares to pull her usual trick of pulling the ball away from Charlie Brown as he tries to kick it, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Franklin, Cavis Appythart (played by Bob the Tomato), Millward Phelps (played by Larry the Cucumber), Moyer McGonnical (played by Scooter Carrot), the Scallions, Mr. Lunt, Laura Carrot, Madame Blueberry, Seymour Schwenk (played by Pa Grape), Reverend Gilbert (played by Dad Asparagus), Edmund Gilbert (played by Junior Asparagus), Heather Wold (the Little Red-Haired Girl), Ebenezer Nezzer (played Mr. Nezzer), Winston (played by Jean Claude Pea), Phillipe Pea, Jimmy and Jerry Gourd and Linus arrive. Cavis suggests to Lucy that they will be contest for winning the competition, before Millward tells Cavis that they will be enough time to do it. Cavis informs Lucy and Charlie Brown that there will be a Punt, Pass, and Kick contest, first prize wins a new bicycle and a trip to the Super Bowl, and suggests they all enter. Seymour says that it's too crazy for winning the punt-and-pass contest, before Cavis tells him that it doesn't make any sense. While they discuss about the contest, Charlie Brown seeks his chance to kick the ball when Lucy is not suspecting it—only for Lucy to blindly pull it away in perfect timing. He tries it again, but failed. After attempting to not kick a football because Lucy was the one pulling it away, Charlie Brown finally kicks the football but he accidentally kicks Lucy's legs, causing her to scream in horror. Cavis tells Lucy if she is okay, to which Lucy says she's fine.

While Charlie Brown and Linus are practicing for the contest, they notice a very pretty girl, who catches Linus's attention. They both walk over to her, and introduce themselves to her. The girl says her name is Melody-Melody, and has been watching them. They flirt with her, and take her out for hot fudge sundaes. They then try to impress her, and try to tell her how they will be entering the punt-and-pass contest. Melody says she will be rooting for them at the contest.

At Cavis and Millward's office, Cavis and Millward are planning on the finishing touches of the stadium. Cavis tells Millward that if they're seeing the kids outside, before Millward tells him that the Philadelphia Eagles were coming to take Woodstock, to which Cavis was surprised what the question is.

At the punt-and-pass contest, Cavis, Millward and the Veggies arrived. Charlie Brown and Linus see Melody watching them, and they argue who Melody came to watch. The announcer announces every player, and every player gets a better score than the next one, except for Marcie who refuses to kick the football thinking the football did nothing to deserve being kicked. Charlie Brown performs well, finishing his turn in first place, only for Linus to best him. To the dismay of both, Melody Melody turns out to be the final contestant, whose score beats all of the others. Betrayed, Linus admits to Charlie Brown that he was in love with her. Melody wins the new bicycle and the tickets to the Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, Snoopy coaches The Birds, a football team in Philadelphia Eagles attire and consisting of Woodstock and his avian friends, as they compete in the Animal Football League playoffs. In the Eastern final against the Cats (loosely based on the Detroit Lions), Woodstock and his team manage to beat the Cats 38–0. In the league semifinal, the Birds crush the Dogs 58–0. In the World Championship, The Birds take on The Bison (a parody of the Buffalo Bills). As the game begins, Lucy, Cavis and Millward came into the field, and Cavis tells Snoopy he is a horrible coach, and his team will get crushed. Millward tells Cavis about what happen to Melody for winning the competition by getting a new bicycle, before Cavis tells him that Linus will be all right. But once again, The Birds crush the other team, 62–0 (again parodying Bills assistant coach Chuck Dickerson's disparaging the Washington Redskins prior to Super Bowl XXVI), winning the championship. After each touchdown the Birds introduce a different celebration dance, and after each win, they douse Snoopy in Chirpade—except the championship, when Lucy is on the receiving end of the Chirpade shower.

Later, Charlie Brown and Linus are at the wall. Linus is so upset that the girl he was in love with beat him that he says he will never trust anyone again. Charlie Brown replies "Your sister says we can't go through life doubting everyone. We have to learn to trust each other" (echoing her bait line at the beginning of the special before pulling the football away from him). Cavis, Millward and Lucy then come to them holding a football, much to Charlie Brown's despondence. Cavis and Millward take Charlie Brown and Linus and took a journey to the Super Bowl stadium.

At the Super Bowl stadium, the football team was camped out on a row while the Philistines were on another row. The Philistines began to throw insults at the football team. Then the two upfront Philistines peas begin to make a deal with the football team. The two players will bring out their great champions and if one of them wins, the losing player will be the winning the new bicycle. Arthur Hollingshead (played by Archibald Asparagus) agrees to the offer and the Philistines bring out their champion, Melody-Melody (wearing a white sleeveless shirt with a star motif and green shorts).

Everyone are frightened by the sight of Melody-Melody and they run away and hide. Melody-Melody came back for a break to see who would fight her. After a while, Peppermint Patty and Marcie begin to worry about their friends, and they take Charlie Brown to the stadium to deliver some pizza. At the stadium, Charlie Brown arrives and tells his friends that he has pizza, but Cavis shushes him and whispers to him that someone will hear him, before Charlie Brown tells Cavis who it was, with Cavis answering that is Melody-Melody. Millward wants to know if he can help Charlie Brown and his friends by using "The Astonishing Contraption of Silliness" (a mentioned Silly Song machine from "The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown"). But Lucy tells Millward that ASOC is too big and it'll explode some votes by rigging Pa Grape's election for his Top Ten Silly Songs. With explaining that Melody-Melody getting defeated with some big things, Cavis tells Charlie Brown of what he brought for them, to which Charlie Brown gives pizza to his friends. Millward takes a bite of the pizza, but he spits it in disgust because it was rotten, stinky, and even a hot spicy chili peppers. Cavis tells Millward that he shouldn't eat the pizza with some rotten, before Millward tells him that the pizza was fine, and saying; "I bought a chocolate factory with no money down", before Cavis's expression turns confused.

Fed up with no one willing to fight Melody-Melody, Cavis convinces that he and Linus come up with a plan to get rid of Melody-Melody. Cavis comes up with an idea is to send Melody-Melody to a different place (for example, sending her to heaven, the Great Pie War, and even getting arrested in jail). Millward doesn't know if it's a good idea, before Cavis tells Millward that it's just a long story, to which Millward gets depressed. After that, Cavis goes to Arthur and says that he'll fight Melody-Melody. Arthur has major doubts that Cavis, can defeat Melody-Melody. Cavis the sings "The Self-Esteem Song" and convinces Arthur to let him out on the field. Arthur tells Cavis to put on a famous football outfit. Cavis's not fit for the football outfit and says that he'll confront Melody-Melody with all he has and the will of God. Arthur reluctantly lets Cavis go out and fight.

Before Cavis heads for the stadium, he stops and notices a store reading "Football Store". He enters the store, and shops around. Cavis is hopping through the aisles by saying "I wasn't sure of what I was getting into, but I know that God will be there with me and Charlie Brown". While looking through the aisles, Cavis sees a shelf that has footballs, helmets, and even slingshots. Cavis decides that he can bring a football and a slingshot so that he will defeat Melody-Melody. He brings his sports equipment to the cash register. The seller then says that the total is $10.07. Cavis then brings a seller a $20 bucks. Then he went back to the stadium, and waited for Melody-Melody. At the stadium, Melody-Melody is losing her patience by questioning who would fight her. Cavis then shouts off-screen, "I will fight you, Melody-Melody!". Millward then tells Lucy, Linus, Charlie Brown and his friends that if Millward doesn't know how Melody-Melody can be different, Millward bet that he would laugh sometimes. Cavis goes to Melody-Melody and accepts her challenge. Seymour tells everyone that he doesn't know better, he bet that Cavis will be the only one defeating Melody-Melody for their championship. Cavis looks at the audience nervously, before Millward faints.

By all this happened, Melody-Melody ponders around by saying who said it, to which Cavis says that he did saying that he will fight her. Melody-Melody notices Cavis, and hollers "You think that you can defeat me by winning the bicycle?!?". The Philistines then laugh hysterically, but Cavis wasn't kidding. Cavis angrily tells Melody-Melody he thinks that she is not the only one who can defeat him. Cavis then says in frustrated, "And when you won the bicycle and free tickets to the Super Bowl, Linus thinks he saw you in betrayal for not having love interests with you! You can never trust anyone because you're that really big mean girl that wants to beat me up! And I come at you not with Millward or anyone else, but God will always use his words to defeat the bad guys if they're mean. And whenever I saw you by winning the bicycle and a trip to the Super Bowl, the name of the God of Heaven surrounds people in the Super Bowl stadium, who this day, shall help me defeat you for betraying Charlie Brown, and even Linus!!!". Melody-Melody then says that they will see who defeats who, telling Cavis that they will start to fight, before she turns away and puts on her football boxing gloves. The bell rings, thus the game begins. Melody-Melody suits up in her boxing swimming suit and heads out in the field and confronts Cavis. Cavis then takes a football he picked up and uses a slingshot to fling a stone at Melody-Melody. The football hits Melody-Melody's head, knocking her completely out. Everyone is cheering with victory as the Philistines run away in defeat and fear. Everyone tosses Cavis up in the air for defeating Melody-Melody, and he won a bicycle and a trip to the Super Bowl for their national finals.

That night, following Cavis's victory, everyone leaves the Super Bowl stadium and heads for the police station, congratulating Cavis. The police officers then arrest Melody-Melody (who got defeated) for winning the bicycle, and she is put in jail behind bars. After Melody-Melody was thrown in jail, she wanders off around the prison, thinking that she wants to get out. By all this happens, she touches a mini-sized trapdoor and triggers her to fall until she's completely gone, much to everyone's relief. Lucy finally shows up and praising Cavis for defeating Melody-Melody, and so does Charlie Brown and Linus for helping him with self-esteem, including Millward, just as Edmund and Reverend Gilbert show up after that. Mr. Lunt then shows up, praising Cavis for his challenge, before telling Cavis and Milward that the football and the slingshot were their finest work since dental wax. Heather finally shows up and brings Cavis a trophy for Melody-Melody's defeat, and tells him that Cavis was a brave tomato, before she finally kisses him on the cheek. Cavis then thanks to Heather for the compliment, before Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Moyer, Winston, Arthur Hollingshead, Phillipe, the three scallions, Madame Blueberry, Seymour, Ebenezer Nezzer, and even Charlie Brown's friends show up. Peppermint Patty shows everyone that Marcie found Melody-Melody's helmet, which had been in the punt-and-pass contest. Cavis then asks Marcie what Melody-Melody got arrested, to which Marcie answers that she gets up after defeated was that it she was taken by the police officers, which most people believed to be a prisoner. Milward then tells Cavis, "Told you it looked like a football player." Madame Blueberry says to Cavis that he was such a good player for accepting Melody-Melody's challenge, to which Cavis says it was nothing, and hopes that he will be able to see Melody-Melody again once she is a good friend. With that, Seymour then reminds Cavis that God will always help you by taking some self-esteem. Even though if you're small, God could help you with big things, to which Cavis thanks to him for the lesson. Reverend Gilbert says that all things considered, things worked out pretty well. Lucy tells Charlie Brown that she wants to know if they can have a Super Bowl party at Cavis and Millward's office for celebrating Cavis's victory. Mr. Lunt tells Cavis and Milward that he wants to talk to them about their next adventure, but Cavis says that he and Millward had one more thing that they need to do first.

Later, it turns out that Cavis and Milward have gone back down to their office and puts up a Super Bowl party, which is filled with balloons, and even a birthday cake. This involves Milward hanging up a Melody-Melody's helmet on the wall and Cavis invites Charlie Brown and his friends to come over. Everyone seated together, and Lucy tells them that they are gathered to commemorate the winner for defeating Melody-Melody, before pulling away the blanket, revealing the trophy of the football, which is Melody-Melody. Lucy then says that they also have someone to thank for Melody-Melody's challenge, which of course, Cavis. Everyone cheers, and Cavis thanks to Lucy, but he can't take the credit for taking perseverance and self-esteem. He tells everyone that the Bible says in the story of David and Goliath, God wanted the Israelites to win that battle, but that meant that someone had to fight Goliath. Even though David was just a kid, he knew that if God wanted him to beat Goliath, he can do it. That showed just how much Cavis trusted God, and that's why he became such a great king for defeating Melody-Melody. Millward then tells Cavis that Cavis is such a good egg and Millward is proud of him. Heather shows up holding a Bible book, and shows Cavis that the verse reads; "**With God, all things are possible. Matthew 19:26",** before Charlie Brown pulls out a bonus verse, reading "**You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he as promised. Hebrews 10:36**". After reading through the Bible verses, Cavis tells everyone that he is a greatest king for winning the Super Bowl, then everyone cheers and applauds, eating birthday cakes, their food, and even playing games. Cavis then tells Millward by saying in graduation; "Let the celebration begin!", before the song "The Self-Esteem Song" reprise plays. After the song ends, Cavis hops over to the audience and brings a piece of cake, but Millward says to Cavis that they're gone. Cavis however ignores Millward, eats a piece of cake and he winks at the camera, as the episode ends.

During the end credits, there was a scene where Cavis and Millward are doing the lesson videos about the Super Bowl to finish the episode. After the end credits, Melody-Melody kisses the camera and tells the audience what a stupid stadium it was before it fades to the Big Idea logo.

## Characters

* Bob/Cavis Appythart
* Larry/Millward Phelps
* Lucy van Pelt
* Charlie Brown
* Linus van Pelt
* Melody-Melody
* Heather Wold
* Peppermint Patty
* The Announcer
* Laura Carrot
* Marcie
* Mr. Lunt
* Mr. Nezzer/Ebenezer Nezzer
* Dad Asparagus/Reverend Gilbert
* Junior Asparagus/Edmund Gilbert
* Jean Claude Pea/Winston
* Phillipe Pea
* The French Peas
* Jimmy and Jerry Gourd
* Scooter/Moyer McGonnical
* Pa Grape/Seymour Schwenk
* Archibald Asparagus/Arthur Hollingshead
* The Scallions
* Dolly van Pelt (*cameo*)
* Madame Blueberry
* Snoopy
* Woodstock
* Mimi (*picture cameo*)
* Sally Brown (*picture cameo*)
* The Astonishing Contraption of Silliness (*mentioned*)

## Songs

* The Football Song
* Plan to Do the Punt-and-Pass
* The Self-Esteem Song
* The Self-Esteem Song (Reprise)

## Home media

*Main article: You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown/Home Video*
## Fun Facts

### Morals

* Don't judge a person based on their appearance.
* It's okay to just be yourself instead of trying to be someone or something you're not.

### Explanations

A Chirpade shower is a type of Gatorade drink.

### Trivia

* The show's original title was "You're in the Super Bowl Sport, Charlie Brown", but was changed at the last minute.
* This is the first episode for several things:
	+ The first episode to be distributed by HiT Entertainment after they acquired Lyrick Studios.
	+ The first episode where Cavis and Millward played the secondary characters.
	+ The first episode where Charlie Brown and Linus flirt with Melody-Melody.
	+ The first episode not to feature Sally Brown and Mimi since their debut appearances.
	+ The first (and only) episode where Melody-Melody does appear in the Super Bowl without a sleeveless shirt.
* This is the last episode for a few things:
	+ The last episode to be produced by Jennifer Combs.
	+ The last episode where Scallion #1 has his voice sound similar to Archibald.
	+ The last episode where Millward has his mustache without a texture.
	+ The last episode to have Charlie Brown's screaming sound in the 1960's.
* This is the third-to-last episode to be made before Jonah.
* There is no theme song.
* There a few differences between the pre-production and the final product:
	+ On the flyer for the promotional pamphlet on the Kids Motion International ad, the show was scheduled to be released in April 2001 by Lyrick Studios. However, this episode's release date got rescheduled back to August 15, 2001, due to Lyrick Studios got purchased by HiT Entertainment.
	+ Charlie Brown kicks Lucy's football instead of Lucy removing the ball to which he flies into the air.
	+ Melody-Melody is not wearing a helmet, which could be more hazerdous.
	+ There was going to be a scene where Cavis and Millward are standing to get the ball, but it was cut due to time.
	+ Linus did not get betrayed by Melody-Melody after winning the competition.
	+ Lucy was getting wet by the water shower instead of Chirpade shower.
* This is the only time Cavis and Millward don't wear football outfits.
* On some airings of Smile of the Child, some scenes were removed, such as Lucy preparing for the first punt-and-pass kick, and Melody saying goodbye to Linus in betrayal.
* There exists an extremely rare early 2002 VHS reprint of this episode by HiT Entertainment. It has a black tape with a white ink label, and it has a print date of March 15th, 2002. The video content on the tape is exactly the same as the 2001 HiT VHS release.

### Remarks

* On the VeggieTales Classics re-release, some sound effects are different from the original VHS release (i.e. Melody-Melody kicking the football was the body punches sound effect, and the swishing sound effect is in lower volume).
* At the end credits, Cavis is shown wearing a black top hat.
* Melody-Melody states that there is a drawing right by the stadium. However, the drawing isn't shown when she is practicing the punt-and-pass kick contest.
* One of the screenshots on the back cover shows Cavis and Millward smiling. Cavis is smiling with his teeth, whilst in the actual episode, he has his mouth opened. It could be possible that either this was an alternate take or a photo-edited for the box art.
* Lucy got hurt after she falls, but her injury was gone in the next scene.
* During the punt-and-pass scene, you can see King George and Louis in the crowd.
* Even though Melody had won the competition, she actually does not wave at Linus when she is on the bicycle.
* The back of the DVD cover states there is a feature on how-to-draw Cavis and Millward. However, it does not appear on the DVD.
	+ It could be they were planning to do so, but scrapped it at the last minute or because it was too late.
* The cover and Lucy's promotional model displays her with a blue shirt and long pants, which she never wore in the episode.
* The previews option has a preview for the episode itself.

### Goofs

* After Lucy says "Here, let's see that", an animation error featuring a question mark over Lucy's mouth can be spotted for one frame before Charlie Brown flies into the air.
* There is a shot where the inside of Melody-Melody's mouth is missing while she is cheering in the audience.
* During the stadium scene, Lucy often loses her shoes as she's throwing the football while doing the punt-and-pass contest.
* The shadows on the toy train set do not follow the movement of the train itself in various shots of it.
* As Millward and Cavis are looking at Melody in the audience, Cavis appears to be holding down his card in a way it's clipping into Millward.
* Cavis's mouth gets scrambled with a question mark for one frame after Lucy throws the football.
* Cavis often clips through the bench of his sofa while he is sitting.
* Millward's tie clips through Melody between shots.
* Cavis in one shot is shown with no mouth.
* Millward is missing his tooth when Marcie is next to be the punt-and-pass for kicking the ball.
* When Linus feels disappointed no one is in love with Melody, you can see black on the background of the banners and the crowd.
* After the game begins, both Lucy, Cavis and Millward appear smaller than how they appeared in the previous shot.
* The football clips through the wall when it flies into the air.
	+ Also, in the same shot, one of the wood supports for the stadium glitches a bit.
* Cavis never admitted that Melody is in 12th place for kicking the ball. He just went straight to how he framed Charlie Brown and Linus for kicking the ball, then it was him.
* As Millward is about to reveal who can be the winner gets a new bicycle before he unplugs the announcer's megaphone, his tooth somewhat clips into his mouth.
* When Charlie Brown brings pizza, the pizza box clips through Millward.
* As Cavis and Linus are coming up with a plan to get rid of Melody-Melody, a small black square can be seen on the right side of the screen.
* During "The Self-Esteem Song", when Cavis loses his balance after putting Arthur Hollingshead's football outfit, the helmet flickers.
* When Cavis tells Melody-Melody he will fight her, Millward is sitting between Charlie Brown and Linus. In the close-up, Millward and Linus have switched places.
* When Melody-Melody is falling down, she is missing her helmet in one shot.
* When Cavis says thanks to Heather, he is seen floating above the ground.
* After everyone cheers at Cavis for reading the Bible verses, Millward's mustache disappears but then comes back in the next.
* Near the end of the episode, when Cavis says "Have a piece of cake!", Lucy can be seen clipping through the couch.

### Inside References

* Cavis's quote about the story of David and Goliath is re-used during the closing countertop segment from "Dave and the Giant Pickle".

### Fast Forward

* There is a later episode where Melody-Melody leaves for the Super Bowl.