Retrospective: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

The Peanuts kids' daydreams contain as much strife and agony as their day-to-day lives. Snoopy inhabits a fantasy life where he endures the grief and horror of World War I. Linus puts himself through emotional hell as he sustains the one-to-two-person cult of the Great Pumpkin. Charlie Brown imagines a reality where he might get candy for Halloween and not rocks. All are doomed to the torment of their own high expectations, and everyday they'll wake up to the horrors of life in the Midwest.