Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown proved to be not one of the finest Peanuts Specials, nor even the finest of the recent batch, but nonetheless watchable. It was compiled almost exclusively from Schulz’s strips about baseball (and he did around 1800 of those), which kept it thematic, but also made it a bit repetitive. I hope that in future specials, they leaven the main storyline with stories taken from other strip sequences, much in the way that the typical sitom does.
I’d love to see if I could compile the script for such a special myself. (I say “compile”, because the new Peanuts specials are based strictly on the strips, so it’s more choosing and ordering a set of strips than it is scriptwriting.)
Acceptable Lucy
