You're in Love, Charlie Brown

"*There you go again. Always so inconsiderate to poor Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown is not as stupid as he seems. He's just upset, that's all! Charlie Brown is upset because of that Little Red-Haired Girl!! For your information, Charlie Brown is in love!!!*"
— Linus van Pelt's argue with Lucy and Violet

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**You're in Love, Charlie Brown** is the fourth episode of VeggieTales and also the first in the series to feature the Little Red-Haired Girl, but not to be named by Heather Wold until a later episode. It deals with the topic of handling peer-pressure as the biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the Book of Daniel is retold with elements taken from Terry Gilliam's films.

## Plot

On the countertop, Bob is alone while greeting the kids, but when he notices that Larry is absent, Larry calls out that he's coming. From off-screen, Larry ends up crashing into some stuff, and when he finally arrives, it turns out that the reason for this is because he has an over-sized shoe on his head, which he christens his "new hat". When Bob expresses concern that Larry cannot see anything from wearing the shoe, Larry retorts that according to "Veggie Beat" magazines, all the cool people wear shoes on their heads. Bob then remembers that they got a letter from a kid by the name of Dexter Wilmington who hails from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who explains that when Dexter is at his friend Billy's home, Billy wants to watch a TV show that Dexter is not supposed to watch. Dexter knows it is a bad show, but Billy tells him that if he doesn't watch it; it means he's not cool, so he wants to know what he should do. Larry then decides to consult Qwerty about this problem, but unfortunately, because of the shoe that completely obscures his vision, he winds up falling into the kitchen sink. Bob then tells Dexter that while he's trying to get Larry out of the sink, he should watch a story called "You're in Love, Charlie Brown" who were faced with the exact same dilemma.

## Characters

* Bob the Tomato/Rack
* Larry the Cucumber/Benny
* Junior Asparagus/Shack
* Laura Carrot
* Mr. Nezzer
* Mr. Lunt
* Archibald Asparagus
* Blue Wind-Up Lobster
* Lovey Asparagus
* Grandpa George
* Charlie Brown
* Linus van Pelt
* Lucy van Pelt
* Violet
* Janice Emmons (*picture cameo*)
* Pa Grape
* Jimmy and Jerry Gourd
* Scooter Carrot
* Ma Grape
* Tom Grape
* Rosie Grape
* The Scallions
* Peppermint Patty
* Marcie
* Patty
* Peggy Jean
* Shermy
* Freida
* Sally Brown
* Mimi
* Pig-Pen
* Snoopy
* Woodstock
* The Peas
* Lisa Asparagus
* Mike Asparagus

## Songs

* VeggieTales Theme Song
* Good Morning George
* How Do You Do With The Little Red-Haired Girl?
* The Bunny Song
* *Silly Songs with Larry*: The Dance of the Cucumber
* Trying to Think Of A Way to Find the Girl
* Stand Up!
* What Have We Learned

## Home media

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

### Moral

* Stand up for what you believe is right.
* Don't force others to do something they disagree with or believe is wrong.

### Trivia

* This episode was the first for several things:
	+ The first appearance of George, Mimi, Peggy Jean and the female Asparagus Singers.
	+ This is the first time Mike and Lisa Asparagus appear on the countertop. Here, they are seen in the silly song Dance of the Cucumber.
	+ The first episode where they start using peas (American Peas).
		- However, in the case of the French Peas, Jean Claude and Philippe wouldn't debut until Snoopy's Reunion, and Phillipe wouldn't be renamed in A Very Veggie Christmas.
	+ The first episode where Pa Grape has a triangular nose.
	+ The first episode to feature the kitchen oven, which can be seen during the silly song.
	+ This is the first full-length episode of VeggieTales, as well as the first to be somewhat musical based.
	+ The first episode to have different lighting/shading. This was likely a result of Big Idea relocating their offices.
	+ The first episode to mark a transition of the animation's movements to smoother animation. However, almost every scene in this episode still had bad, jerked animation like in the previous three episodes (probably due to being the hardest episode to produce), and smoother animation applied to only very few scenes in the latter half of the episode.
		- The next episode had more scenes of smoother animation throughout.
	+ This is the first episode to open at a different spot of the countertop (in this episode, it opens at a spot all the way to the left edge of the countertop where the kitchen sink ends, and it's also the same spot where the silly song was set up), and it's also the first episode to open with a character alone.
	+ The first episode to be digitally remastered in pristine quality in 2002, as well as the first episode to in conjunction be re-released as part of the VeggieTales Classics line that year.
* This is one of the 2 episodes rendered in Softimage to have Bob the Tomato crying. This happens to Bob after Charlie Brown tells him and Larry to remember that Little Red-Haired Girl is in love with the kiss. The other episode where Bob the Tomato cries is in Heather Wold during the closing countertop.
* This episode can be featured in Heroes of the Bible!: Stand Up, Stand Tall, Stand Strong with No Fear!.
* This episode was said to be the hardest episode that Big Idea had ever made.
* After the episode was released, fans wrote to Big Idea saying that it was inconsiderate for Larry to just walk away and leave Bob in the sink. Phil Vischer stated on this episode's DVD commentary that Larry left Bob, not intentionally, because he is an absentminded character and sometimes forgets things.
* Jamie Cronin read the interactive storybook version on Dolly... the Girl Who Became Queen.
* Some newsfeeds from the mid-90s that were talking about VeggieTales had shown an alternate (or at least, prototype) boxart of this episode, where it shows Bob, Junior and Larry standing behind the bottom text, Mimi and the Little Red-Haired Girl with switching places. This was changed in the final print, revamping the style of the spines, moving the VeggieTales logo and the episode title up a bit to make room for a character window art below.
* There exists an extremely rare early 2002 VHS reprint of this episode by Lyrick Studios/HiT Entertainment. It has a black tape with a white ink label, and it has a print date of March 15, 2002.

### Remarks

* The gate's purpose is negated as Laura could easily fly over it though she is polite enough not to.
* There's no conceivable way the boxes can close at the bottom without breaking the bunnies.
* The conveyor belt is all good bunnies, but then the bad bunny conveniently appears in time for the furnace chute shot.
* The furnace opens up with a dual door, then a single door, and then becomes an open hall with no door.
* Considering Nezzer Chocolate typically cranks out 14,638 bunnies a day, the factory has only been open less than 5 months (138 days) by the time it cranks out the 2,000,000th bunny. Shouldn't the 30-minute occasion have been celebrated once the factory cranked out 5,000,000-10,000,000 bunnies?
* Mike states on the commentary that Bob and Larry crying was their first use of crying technology when in actuality such technology was first used in the second episode.

### Goofs

* In the opening countertop, for a split-second, before Larry says "Oh, ya don't say!", a question mark appears on Larry's mouth.
* On the fence scene at the beginning, one shadow appears out of nowhere as the camera pans toward George slowly.
* When Laura pulls up to the top of the school on her truck and attaches it to a pipe in the factory, the attachment at the end of the truck clips through the pipe.
* The ceiling of the school flickers as Mr. Lunt enters it through the use of the platform after lecturing Laura for being late. On a similar note, a shadow behind him disappears as he sinks into the bottom.
* Some of the bunnies' ears flicker as the hands stick them on the bunnies.
* The machine 'painting' the bunnies' eyes on flickers as Rack, Shack and Benny are singing behind the belt during the side shot.
	+ Rack's mouth clips through that machine as well.
* Rack, Shack and Benny hover slightly above the ground in the shots showing them working behind the conveyor belt.
* When Laura takes off with the bunnies, the bunnies on the conveyor belt disappear instead of fall.
* In the scene where Laura is flying her truck through the school at the end of Good Morning George, she and her truck clip through one of the pipes.
* In the scene where the television screen shows up, the bunnies disappear on every last frame on the conveyor belt.
* As Mr. Nezzer opens the door following the 30-minute celebration of selling the 2,000,000th bunny, the workers aren't there but then magically appear in the next few shots.
* Archibald's eye clips through the picture frame in one shot.
* Mimi's hat disappears in some shots.
* When Rack suggests to Benny that the Little Red-Haired Girl is in love, Shack's mouth clips into the table.
* Charlie Brown's shirt clips through the wall in one shot.
* Scooter's mouth is not moving due to off-sync between shots.
* The silver gates change between open and closed between shots.
* Pa Grape's glasses clip through his nose in some shots.
* After Mimi gives Mr. Nezzer the form about the girls, her skirt floats and is not touching her dress.
* When Mimi is walking with Rack, Shack and Benny to Mr. Nezzer's office, neither of them have mouths, and Bob's eyes are detached from his nose.
* While Mr. Nezzer and Mr. Lunt are talking with the trio about them being Junior Executives, a pole spawns out of nowhere, which Shack clips through.
* Phil states that there's a missing frame in the shot where Mr. Nezzer shows his office.
* As the trio is standing in front of the closed doors of Mr. Nezzer's office upon entering, only Shack's shadow moves.
* Mr. Nezzer's suit clips into his body towards the end of the Bunny Song.
* While not a goof, Shack's mouth is just above his tie, although it's easy to see why it looks like his mouth is missing.
* When Mr. Nezzer hops over to Rack, Shack and Benny (just before he says "Benny, did you give Mimi the letter to Charlie Brown?"), one of the worker peas on the bottom left of the screen is standing up (or not sitting) and facing toward the viewer.
* Before the fade to black, all the employees (including Laura) are missing bunny emblems on their hats.
* On the DVD's 5.1 surround audio, near the end of Dance of the Cucumber, Larry's "Adios, Amigos!" was muted.
* When Mr. Nezzer says, "Did you ever notice that Charlie Brown is in love?" he clips through a pipe. On a similar note, something flickers twice in the same shot.
* While Mr. Lunt is pushing the buttons, you'll notice that there's a gap above his head. Phil stated this was a rendering mistake and that there was supposed to be a catwalk there.
* In the closing countertop, Larry loses the shoe he wore on his head earlier at the beginning of the episode. This is possibly because he managed to take it off after explaining to Bob that it caused him to bump into a sock drawer and fall into the sink.
* Qwerty's verse background is still on his screen even when he is done displaying the verse.
* In the older 1995 VHS release, during the end credits, the audio waves of the saxophone instrument in the reprise for Stand Up! were accidentally inverted, meaning it is heard lower in volume if the mono mix was enabled. This was corrected in later re-issues of the episode.

### Inside References

* The part where Junior is sucking on the pacifier in the flashback, was influenced by Maggie from The Simpsons. Mike Nawrocki clarified this in the episode's commentary.
* Larry's quote before Bob rescued him (and also got stuck) was based on Dorothy's saying from MGM's "The Wizard of Oz", during which she says those words and clicks her ruby slippers to send her back home.

## Miscellaneous

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