He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown

Directed by:	Bill Melendez
Written by:	Charles M. Schulz
Release date:	February 14, 1968
Running time:	24 minutes
Preceded by:	You're in Love, Charlie Brown
Followed by:	It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown
Availability:	Peanuts Specials Vol. 1 iTunes, He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown Deluxe Edition DVD, Peanuts 1960's Collection DVD, Snoopy Collection: Volume 3 DVD (Region 4: Australia/New Zealand), Apple TV+, Peanuts: 75th Anniversary Ultimate TV Specials Collection

He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown, known as He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown! is the fifth animated television special based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. It was first broadcast on CBS on February 14, 1968. It was the last of the Peanuts specials to feature the majority of the child actors who had put their voices to the first special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, from 1965. The focused characters are Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Peppermint Patty.

Plot

Snoopy has caused a lot of mischief and upset most of the children. They demand that Charlie Brown do something about Snoopy's behavior (mainly because as Snoopy's owner, he takes full responsibility for his dog's actions; hence the special's title), Linus, Schroeder, Lucy and Violet scream at Charlie Brown about Snoopy. Charlie Brown calls the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm asking if they will take Snoopy back to learn some obedience.

It is a long way to the farm, therefore, Charlie Brown asks Peppermint Patty to look after Snoopy for a day. She agrees to have the dog over. The next day Snoopy packs a suitcase, and starts on his walking trek to his stop at Peppermint Patty's house, taking a leisurely pace. When he arrives, he relaxes and pretends that he is a soldier on leave in Paris. This angers the girl as he does nothing but lounge by her pool while she serves him root beers and does the dishes.

A week later Charlie Brown receives a phone call from the farm saying that Snoopy never arrived there. He soon discovers that the dog has been staying at Peppermint Patty's all week. He comes by and attaches a leash to Snoopy's collar in order to bring the dog home. Snoopy escapes from Charlie Brown's leash and heads back to Peppermint Patty's house. However, instead of going back to rest and relaxation, he finds that the girl, who has been thinking all alomg that Snoopy is a person, forces him to do all of the household chores as payback for her cleaning up after him.

Later on, the other children start to miss Snoopy. Charlie Brown tries to bring Snoopy back again. However, since he brings the leash again, Snoopy just tears it up and refuses to come back. Later that day, while cleaning dishes, Snoopy ends up being infuriated by all of the chores, and to get rid of his anger he starts breaking the dishes. However, Peppermint Patty comes into the kitchen and immediately banishes him to the garage in anger as a penalty.

That night Snoopy realizes that he is better off living at Charlie Brown's house. As Peppermint Patty had not locked the garage door, he attacks the girl in retaliation, escapes back into the house, gathers all his belongings, and heads home to be reunited with his owner. They compromise in that Charlie Brown will not send Snoopy away, and Snoopy will control his behavior more often.

The next day, all of the children in Charlie Brown's neighborhood rejoice in Snoopy's return. Even Snoopy starts a fight with Lucy after kissing her, and even drags Linus and his blanket around as usual. Afterwards, Snoopy jovially sleeps on top of his doghouse.

Magazine preview

The February 1968 issue of Woman's Day magazine had as its cover story a two-page-spread pictorial preview of the special.

Voice cast

• Peter Robbins – Charlie Brown
• Bill Melendez – Snoopy
• Sally Dryer – Lucy van Pelt
• Christopher Shea – Linus van Pelt
• Gail DeFaria – Peppermint Patty
• Glenn Mendelson – Schroeder
• Ann Altieri – Violet Gray
• Lisa DeFaria – Patty
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Roy also appears in this special (his animation debut), but is silent.

Soundtrack

1. "Red Baron" (sax version)
2. "Red Baron" (sax version)
3. "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown" (end clip)
4. "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown" (flutes)
5. "Peppermint Patty" (re-scored brass version)
6. "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown" (flutes end fade)
7. "Bon Voyage" (a modified version of the Guaraldi tune "Monterey," which appears on S)
8. "Peppermint Patty" (re-scored brass version)
9. "Oh, Good Grief"
10. "Happiness Is"
11. "Charlie Brown's All-Stars"
12. "Red Baron"
13. "Schroeder's Wolfgang" (a fresh arrangement of the tune "Choro," from the Guaraldi/Bola Sete album From All Sides, itself an adaptation of Mozart's Symphony No. 40)
14. "Red Baron" (major key variation)
15. "Pebble Beach" (flute variation)
16. "Schroeder"
17. "Pebble Beach" (flute variation)
18. "Blue Charlie Brown" (slow variation)
19. "Red Baron" (minor key variation)
20. "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown" (flutes)
21. "Linus and Lucy" (flutes)
22. "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown" (end credits Sax Version)

Notes

• Stock footage from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown are used when Snoopy flies on his doghouse.
• This special was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming.
• In this special, Peppermint Patty speaks to her mother, who is otherwise absent from her life.
• The part where Snoopy fights Lucy near the end is inspired by the comic strip storyline that originally ran from May 24 through May 29, 1965. It was also adapted in the 1983 The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show episode "Snoopy: Man's Best Friend" and the episode "L'amour du risque" from the 2014 French TV series Peanuts.
• This is the first Peanuts special to not have Sally, "Pig-Pen", Frieda, and Shermy in it.
• This is Peppermint Patty's second appearance in a Peanuts TV special, following her debut in You're in Love, Charlie Brown.
• At one point, Peppermint Patty is seen reading a book, and on the cover are Charlie Brown and Lucy at Lucy's psychiatry booth.
• This is the first special to credit Bill Melendez as the voice of Snoopy.
• When Snoopy escapes from Peppermint Patty, he puts on a fake mustache similar to the one that was sported by Melendez.
• This special aired three days early in Canada on February 11, 1968, on CBC.

Gallery

Voice actors from the special.

L to R: Sally Dryer (Lucy), Gail de Faria (Peppermint Patty), Peter Robbins (Charlie Brown), and Chris Shea (Linus)

1970 ad in Canada (CBC).

Tv Guide Ad, Along With "The Lorax"

"Bang! Bang!"

"(Running like the wind, I flee madly across no-man's land!)"

"OOF!"

"Snoopy come home!"

External links

• He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown on the Internet Movie Database.
• He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown on AllMovie.