Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie Trailer
Marcie stars in new Peanuts special. Marcie loves helping her friends in her own subtle way. After being suddenly thrust into the spotlight, she struggles to cope with the new expectations foisted on her. After some advice and introspection, Marcie learns that she can still make a difference for her friends and her school, she's just going to do it her own unique way.
Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie is directed by Raymond S. Persi from a screenplay by Betsy Walters.
Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie premieres on August 18, 2023, on Apple TV+.
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Stuff I Watched in 2024 – Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home Franklin (TV Special):
What is it?
Welcome Home Franklin is the latest in a recent series of Peanuts TV specials premiering exclusively on Apple TV+. This one is a retelling of how Franklin came to be a part of the Peanuts gang.
Things of Note:
Friendship ended with Linus. Now Franklin is Charlie Brown's best friend. No, really. That's canon now.
Gorgeous animation, good music, great performances, and lots of interesting references to black culture for the kids watching to learn about.
Lots of nods to the strip as well. They even threw in a wonderful little dig at the weird way they had him sitting apart from everybody in Thanksgiving special.
Okay, I know I joke too much about Peanuts characters being gay and I promise to knock it off going forward, but but I swear to God the creators may have actually been going for some kind of queer subtext here.
Questions about the nature of their relationship aside, Charlie Brown and Franklin actually work really damn well as friends. It turns out Peanuts really benefits from there being at least one character who's unambiguously in Charlie Brown's corner.
This shift in his character also solves the age old problem of the franchise not knowing what the hell to do with Franklin (“Make him rap maybe???”). As a result this is the first time he's has really felt like he belonged in the same main-character tier as Lucy, Linus, etc.
Speaking of Linus, what the hell man!? You ditch your main bro without even a word for Pigpen!? You sicken me!
Final Verdict:
I'd definitely recommend this one. The story is hardly reinventing the wheel but it's solidly written, beautifully drawn, and has a ton of heart to it. The Apple TV+ specials have really been knocking it out of the park lately and this one is probably the best of the bunch. Go check it out!
(Happier Than The Sun by Stevie Wonder is playing while this gif takes place. Make of that what you will.)
Stuff I've watched so far in 2024:
Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home Franklin
Craig Before the Creek
Godspeed
Orion and the Dark.
Day Job
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A few more of these left to go still. I apologize if they're annoying but also I'm not going to stop posting them even if they are.
As always, let me know if there's anything particularly good out in the animation world that I should see. I'm always looking for new stuff to watch.
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these "snoopy presents" animated specials have been really good! wholeheartedly recommend them. in particular I liked the ones focused on Franklin, Peppermint Patty, and Marcie.
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ignore my messy bed in the first two pictures 🥲 i crocheted a large snoopy for my friend as an early christmas present 🙂
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THE SMILE FRANKLIN GAVE AT THE END OF ‘SNOOP PRESENTS: WELCOME HOME, FRANKLIN’ WAS SO ADORABLE
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