It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown/YMMV

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  • Awesome Music: Vince Guaraldi's reprise of "Linus and Lucy" from A Charlie Brown Christmas is even better with that little flute bit added.
  • Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: You bet.
  • Memetic Mutation: "I got a rock."
  • Narm Charm: Some of the children providing the voices were too young to understand their lines, resulting in the classic awkward delivery that later became a staple of all Peanuts specials.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The whole "Snoopy in no man's land" sequence. That eerie Guaraldi music (coupled with the air-raid siren) doesn't help.
    • Also, what kind of hellish Crapsack World do these kids live in that the neighborhood adults would put a rock in a child's Halloween bag?! Charlie Brown may be the universal Butt Monkey, but really?
  • The Woobie: Charlie Brown, as always; Linus, when he is still freezing in the pumpkin patch at 4 a.m.
    • Probably the most extreme example for Charlie Brown. Apparently this child is even deeply hated by adults, so much so that they would all give him a rock as opposed to candy.
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