The Legend of the Great Pumpkin

**The Legend of the Great Pumpkin** is a Halloween special.

## Summary

One Halloween, Linus becomes so fascinated with a local legend, he decides to skip the holiday all together.

## Plot

It's # days before Halloween, and ….

…

Finally, it's Halloween night and \_.

## Characters

* Ariel
* Audrey Smith
* Charlie Brown
* Coraline Jones
* Dipper Pines
* Dorothy Ann Hudson
* Linus van Pelt
* Lucy van Pelt
* Mabel Pines
* Masami Yoshida
* Tiana

## Trivia

* The costume list goes:
	+ Alice and George - golf balls
	+ Ariel - ~a strawberry (click here)][Bo Peep (Jodi Benson voiced Barbie in the *Toy Story* series, and her character was originally in Bo's place)][Mermaid Man, feminine version (click here)~
	+ Audrey - a raccoon (referencing the *Harvey Street Kids* episode "A Matter of Life and BFF")
	+ Banana Joe - a banana (referencing his counterpart's true species)
	+ Carl and Jean - TBA
	+ Charlie - a mummy (Brendan Fraser played him in a sketch when he guest starred on *Saturday Night Live* the year he made *The Mummy*)
	+ Coraline - ~a vampire (Dakota Fanning played \_ in the *Twilight* sequels)][Monkeybone (both were directed by Henry Selick, and an Easter egg of him was seen in her movie)~
	+ Dipper - Sherlock Holmes
	+ Eliza - a cheetah (mainly referencing the 2002 movie)
	+ Ferb - a pirate (referencing the episode "The Ballad of Badbeard")
	+ Gumball - TBA
	+ Isabella - a pirate (referencing the episode "The Ballad of Badbeard")
	+ Joyce and Maurice - a baby girl and her teddy bear
	+ Linus - TBA
	+ Lucy - ~the moon (she was the boss of the Lunar Surface level of *Snoopy's Grand Adventure*)~
	+ Mabel - Dr. Watson
	+ Masami - a cloud (referencing her counterpart's true species)
	+ Melody - ~TBA][a sheep (see Ariel's costume)][Barnacle Boy, feminine version (see Ariel's costume))~
	+ Penny F. - TBA
	+ Penny P. - TBA
	+ Phineas - a pirate (referencing the episode "The Ballad of Badbeard")
	+ Rerun - TBA
	+ Schroeder - TBA
	+ Sherman - TBA
	+ Snoopy - TBA
	+ Tiana - TBA
* Here's the information on the costumes:
	+ \*The design for Ariel's strawberry costume was inspired by Jenny McCarthy's 2012 costume and the one from the 2005 Mona Boordevol commercials.
	+ The design for Masami's cloud costume was inspired by pictures from ohhappyday.com and those Jimmy Dean commercials from the 2000's.
	+ Ariel's original costume ideas, which were based on Jodi Benson's other voice-over credits, were
		- a cheetah (Benson voiced one on *The Wild Thornberrys*)
		- Bo Peep (Benson voiced Barbie in *Toy Story*, and she was supposed to take Bo's spot), with Melody as her sheep
			* On the week of July 23 2021, it was given another chance and then put in competition with the strawberry. Mermaid Man was added a few days later.
			* The design is based on concept art.
		- the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio (Benson voiced her on *The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy*), with Melody as Pinocchio
	+ The design for Mrs. Van Pelt's baby girl costume was inspired by selected comics by OkayOkayOKOk.
* This is the first (and probably only) time The Great Pumpkin appears.
* Some of the decorations resemble the costumes from *It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown*.
* The 201# special *Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest* is to thank for helping with the story after I first saw it on September 2020.
* Some scenes were inspired by ones from the *Arthur* episode "The Fright Stuff".