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Charlie Brown worries about school while everyone else is preparing for new years.

Adorable and rather adult with significant literature references.

• 2022-12-23

2022-12-23 ∞

(New Year)

This was tacked on at the end of another movie, so the timestamps are wrong. I don’t care to do the math to subtract ~41 minutes from each entry.

• 41:00 — War and Peace – (1869 book), by Leo Tolstoy
• 42:45 — Book report

• 43:15 —

  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Dip pen
• 45:00 — I wonder if he meant Chicken (game)

• 45:45 —

  • Cassette tape – “Books on Tape” – Audiobook
  • Games
  • Filmstrip
• 49:45 — Garage sale
• 50:00 — Balloon
• 55:00 — New Year’s Eve
• 56:30 — Musical chairs
• 58:45 — Root beer

• 59:30 —

  • “Keep the ball low” is from baseball; a reference to the pitcher.
  • Crayons
  • Dental floss
  • Shoe polish
  • Ants – Sugar
  • Program chairman (e.g. organizer for a social activity)
• 1:02:30 — Auld Lang Syne

• 1:05:00 — Crime and Punishment – (1914 book), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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