Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Before Trey Parker & Matt Stone created the empire of kiddie satire, political commentary, and scatological jokes that is South Park, another great artist built a career on send-ups of American childhood: Charles Schultz, creator of Peanuts.There’s a reason that the Peanuts gang and all the Charlie Brown animated TV specials still capture an audience after more than 70 years: the characters capture humor with heart.
Take, for example, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving the 1973 animated special that followed the titular, long-suffering kid trying to wrangle his social circle through Thanksgiving at his grandmother’s house..