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'''''Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown''''' is a 1986 American [[animated cartoon|animated short]] fan film directed and animated by [[Jim Reardon]], who would later become the director and storyboard consultant for ''[[The Simpsons]],'' and one of the co-writers of the Oscar-winning 2008 animated feature film ''[[WALL-E]]''.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfPXcCroPJc Dustin Lance Black Wins Original Screenplay: 2009 Oscars]</ref> The cartoon was made while he was at [[CalArts]].<ref>[http://blog.calarts.edu/2012/11/29/director-rich-moore-on-wreck-it-ralph-sensibility-its-a-calarts-thing/ Wreck-It Ralph Director Rich Moore on his Film Sensibility: ‘It’s a CalArts Thing’-CalArts blog]</ref> This cartoon, done entirely in black-and-white, has a rough, unfinished-looking style.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.retroist.com/2013/07/09/enjoy-the-disturbing-bring-me-the-head-of-charlie-brown/ |title=Enjoy the disturbing "Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown" |website=The Retroist |access-date=2018-09-22 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110160201/https://www.retroist.com/2013/07/09/enjoy-the-disturbing-bring-me-the-head-of-charlie-brown/ |archivedate=2018-11-10 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
'''''Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown''''' is a 1986 American [[animated cartoon|animated short]] student film written, directed, and animated by [[Jim Reardon]] while he was a student at [[CalArts]].<ref>[http://blog.calarts.edu/2012/11/29/director-rich-moore-on-wreck-it-ralph-sensibility-its-a-calarts-thing/ Wreck-It Ralph Director Rich Moore on his Film Sensibility: 'It's a CalArts Thing'-CalArts blog]</ref> ''Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown'' is black-and-white and has a rough, unfinished, hand-drawn look.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.retroist.com/2013/07/09/enjoy-the-disturbing-bring-me-the-head-of-charlie-brown/ |title=Enjoy the disturbing "Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown" |website=The Retroist |access-date=2018-09-22 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110160201/https://www.retroist.com/2013/07/09/enjoy-the-disturbing-bring-me-the-head-of-charlie-brown/ |archivedate=2018-11-10 |url-status=dead}}</ref>


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
The short film is presented as a trailer for a faux [[List of Peanuts media#Specials|''Peanuts'' television special]].<ref>[https://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/bring-me-the-head-of-charlie-brown-1002.html Cartoon Brew]</ref> A narrator describes the premise of the special: [[Great Pumpkin|the Great Pumpkin]] has placed a bounty on [[Charlie Brown]], prompting the Peanuts characters to try to kill Charlie Brown in various ways, until the narrator announces Charlie Brown, "has been pushed too far." Charlie Brown cuts his hair into a [[Mohawk hairstyle|Mohawk]], adopts a thick accent similar to [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], and loads several weapons. Charlie Brown and the Peanuts characters then engage in a gunfight and a montage of chaotic violence with other cartoon and pop-culture characters including [[Popeye]], [[Godzilla]], [[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie and Dagwood]], [[Rocky Balboa]], Nazis, [[Mickey Mouse]], and [[Richard Simmons]]. The film ends with Charlie Brown smoking in bed alongside an obscured figure<ref>[https://letterboxd.com/film/bring-me-the-head-of-charlie-brown/ Letterboxd]</ref><ref>[http://animatedviews.com/2005/simpsons-directors-peanuts-parody-student-film-online/ Simpsons director's Peanuts parody student film online - Animated Views]</ref> as the narrator announces, "a special appearance by the [[Little Red-Haired Girl]]."
{{Long plot|section|date=July 2023}}


The film also includes several pop-culture and film references: Linus strangling Charlie Brown is a remake of [[Luca Brasi]]'s death in ''[[The Godfather]]'', Charlie Brown's Mohawk haircut is a reference to [[Taxi Driver|Travis Bickle in ''Taxi Driver'']], and Charlie Brown screaming, "Bitch!" after Lucy shoots him in the arm is a shot-by-shot remake of William Holden's gunfight in ''[[The Wild Bunch]].'' "Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown" is a reference to ''[[Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia]],'' and the end credit to Charles "Dutch" Schultz is a reference to [[Dutch Schultz]].
The short film is presented as a trailer for a faux [[List of Peanuts media#Specials|''Peanuts'' television special]].<ref>[https://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/bring-me-the-head-of-charlie-brown-1002.html Cartoon Brew]</ref> The "special" is said to be [[Sponsorship#television|sponsored]] by a foods company called [[Dolly Madison|Madison Barns]], "makers of [[Ding Dong]]s, [[Twinkie]]s, [[Homosexuality|pooftas]] and wussy cakes".


== Production ==
The short begins with Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, and Snoopy kneeling in fear in front of [[Great Pumpkin|the Great Pumpkin]], who puts a [[Bounty (reward)|bounty]] on [[Charlie Brown]]'s head on a wall, dead or alive.<ref>[http://animatedviews.com/2005/simpsons-directors-peanuts-parody-student-film-online/ Simpsons director's Peanuts parody student film online-Animated Views]</ref>
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The song "[[Charlie Brown (The Coasters song)|Charlie Brown]]" by [[The Coasters]] plays over the end credits, which end with a note from Jim Reardon:
This is followed by a sequence of clips introducing each character. In the first clip, [[Lucy van Pelt|Lucy]] tries to get Charlie Brown to kick a bomb disguised as a football. In the second clip, he asks [[Schroeder (Peanuts)|Schroeder]] what happened to his piano, and a (full-sized) piano falls on his head. [[Snoopy]], as the flying ace, gets shot by machine guns, as the narrator introduces him and the "Red Baron". Charlie Brown then holds a [[York Peppermint Patty]] (not the character), and Snoopy bites off his hand, which [[Blood gush|gushes blood]]). The [[Kite-Eating Tree]] then falls on him. Finally, he complains to [[Linus van Pelt|Linus]] that everyone's out to get him, who tries strangling him unconscious with his blanket.


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{{cquote|The creator of this picture wishes to state that he does not in any way wish to tarnish or demean the beloved characters of Charles M. "Dutch" Schulz's comic strip, ''Peanuts''. No malice or damage to their goodwill was intended. So please don't sue me, because it will drag through the courts for years, and I haven't got a lawyer – and besides, you've already got half the money in the world, and I haven't got any. OK? <ref name="Pescovitz">{{cite web |author=David Pescovitz |title="Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown", animated Peanuts spoof by Simpsons director Jim Reardon |website=BoingBoing |url=https://boingboing.net/2017/05/12/bring-me-the-head-of-charlie.html |date=2012-05-12}}</ref>}}
Charlie Brown attempts to finally escape, but he finds Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, and Snoopy running toward him. Having had enough, he arms himself with a pump-action shotgun, a submachine gun, and an M16 assault rifle. He then executes the entire ''Peanuts'' cast one by one, before getting shot by Lucy from behind. He turns around and shoots, making her head explode. There is then a montage in which Charlie shoots and kills scores of Mexican banditos, a [[Wehrmacht]] machine gun nest behind which [[Adolf Hitler]] is painting a flower, two other soldiers, and [[Richard Simmons]] doing jumping jacks, who then falls through a window. This is followed by his sister, [[Sally Brown|Sally]], being [[Decapitation|decapitated]] by an axe.

Following this is another montage, this time of Snookles the Baby Dragon breathing fire,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Ejaed9IsM&t=13s "Snookles 1986," ''YouTube'']</ref> Pig Pen vomiting profusely in Violet's face, two [[biplane]]s crashing into each other in midair, [[Dagwood Bumstead]] getting kicked in the testicles by his wife, [[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]] (causing his head to pop off), [[Mickey Mouse]] getting hit on the head with a lead pipe while laughing, [[Rocky Balboa]] getting punched in the face by [[Popeye|Popeye The Sailor Man]], and [[Godzilla]] squeezing [[Dr. Pepper]] out of a giant soda can. It ends with a scene showing various characters, including some taken to the hospital, some lying on the ground, and even one character resembling Billy from [[The Family Circus|''Family Circus'']] hanging from a tree by a noose. Charlie Brown then announces, holding his two guns, that "happiness is a warm [[Uzi]]" in a thick [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] accent. The screen cuts to him smoking a (presumably post-coital) cigarette in bed with the [[Little Red-Haired Girl]] (who, fittingly, is not fully seen), who asks Charlie Brown to turn off the bedroom light and go to sleep.<ref>[https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/70917-Bring-Me-The-Head-Of-Charlie-Brown BCDB]</ref><ref>[https://letterboxd.com/film/bring-me-the-head-of-charlie-brown/ Letterboxd]</ref>

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The song "[[Charlie Brown (The Coasters song)|Charlie Brown]]" by [[The Coasters]] plays over the end credits. The credits end with a note from Jim Reardon:

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{{cquote|The creator of this picture wishes to state that he does not in any way wish to tarnish or demean the beloved characters of Charles M. "Dutch" Schulz's comic strip, ''Peanuts''. No malice or damage to their goodwill was intended. So please don't sue me, because it will drag through the courts for years, and I haven't got a lawyer – and besides, you've already got half the money in the world, and I haven't got any. OK? <ref name="Pescovitz">{{cite web |author=David Pescovitz |title="Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown," animated Peanuts spoof by Simpsons director Jim Reardon |website=BoingBoing |url=https://boingboing.net/2017/05/12/bring-me-the-head-of-charlie.html |date=2012-05-12}}</ref>}}


== Cast and credits ==
== Cast and credits ==
*'''Charlie Brown''' – Etienne Badillo, [[Rich Moore]], Mike Reardon, [[William Hanna]], [[William Holden]]
* '''Charlie Brown''' – Etienne Badillo, [[Rich Moore]], Mike Reardon, [[William Hanna]], [[William Holden]]
*'''Linus van Pelt''' – Nate Kanfer
* '''Linus van Pelt''' – Nate Kanfer
*'''Lucy van Pelt''' – Bret Haaland
* '''Lucy van Pelt''' – [[Bret Haaland]]
*'''Great Pumpkin''' – [[Jeff Pidgeon]]
* '''Great Pumpkin''' – [[Jeff Pidgeon]]
*'''Additional Voices''' – Ed Bell, Bruce Johnson, Mike Reardon, Bret Haaland
* '''Additional Voices''' – Ed Bell, Bruce Johnson, Mike Reardon, Bret Haaland
*'''Narration''' – [[Rich Moore]]
* '''Narration''' – [[Rich Moore]]
*'''Others''' – Ed Bell, Dale McBeath, Bob Winquist, Mike Giaimo, Craig Smith, Bret Haaland, Nate Kanfer, Doug Frankel, Mike Reardon, Rich Moore, Russ Edmonds, Hal Ambro, Dan Hansen, Jim Ryan, Tony Fucile, Jeff Pidgeon, Bob McCrea, Sarge Morton, Mom, Eileen, and Beverly
* '''Others''' – Ed Bell, Dale McBeath, Bob Winquist, Mike Giaimo, Craig Smith, Bret Haaland, Nate Kanfer, Doug Frankel, Mike Reardon, Rich Moore, Russ Edmonds, Hal Ambro, Dan Hansen, Jim Ryan, Tony Fucile, Jeff Pidgeon, Bob McCrea, Sarge Morton, Mom, Eileen, and Beverly
* Dedicated to [[Sam Peckinpah|Sam "The Man" Peckinpah]]
* Dedicated to [[Sam Peckinpah|Sam "The Man" Peckinpah]]
* "Peanuts Theme" – [[Vince Guaraldi]]
* "Peanuts Theme" – [[Vince Guaraldi]]
* "Charlie Brown" – [[The Coasters]] (wrongly credited as [[The Platters]].)
* "Charlie Brown" – [[The Coasters]] (wrongly credited as [[The Platters]])
* A Jim Reardon Cartoon – Made at Cal Arts, U.S.A.
* A Jim Reardon Cartoon – Made at Cal Arts, U.S.A.


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== External links ==
== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|0282396|Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown}}
* {{IMDb title|0282396|Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15v4tTab0Y ''Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown''] at [[YouTube]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15v4tTab0Y ''Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown''] at [[YouTube]]
*[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqfp3d ''Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown''] on [[Dailymotion]]
* [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqfp3d ''Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown''] on [[Dailymotion]]


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Revision as of 03:41, 20 June 2024

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown
Title card for the short
Directed byJim Reardon
Written byJim Reardon
StarringEtienne Badillo
Rich Moore
Mike Reardon
William Hanna
William Holden
Bret Haaland
Nate Kanfer
Jeff Pidgeon
Narrated byRich Moore
Edited byJim Ryan
Production
company
Distributed byCalifornia Institute of the Arts
Release date
  • June 27, 1986 (1986-06-27)
Running time
3:19
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown is a 1986 American animated short student film written, directed, and animated by Jim Reardon while he was a student at CalArts.[1] Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown is black-and-white and has a rough, unfinished, hand-drawn look.[2]

Plot

The short film is presented as a trailer for a faux Peanuts television special.[3] A narrator describes the premise of the special: the Great Pumpkin has placed a bounty on Charlie Brown, prompting the Peanuts characters to try to kill Charlie Brown in various ways, until the narrator announces Charlie Brown, "has been pushed too far." Charlie Brown cuts his hair into a Mohawk, adopts a thick accent similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and loads several weapons. Charlie Brown and the Peanuts characters then engage in a gunfight and a montage of chaotic violence with other cartoon and pop-culture characters including Popeye, Godzilla, Blondie and Dagwood, Rocky Balboa, Nazis, Mickey Mouse, and Richard Simmons. The film ends with Charlie Brown smoking in bed alongside an obscured figure[4][5] as the narrator announces, "a special appearance by the Little Red-Haired Girl."

The film also includes several pop-culture and film references: Linus strangling Charlie Brown is a remake of Luca Brasi's death in The Godfather, Charlie Brown's Mohawk haircut is a reference to Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, and Charlie Brown screaming, "Bitch!" after Lucy shoots him in the arm is a shot-by-shot remake of William Holden's gunfight in The Wild Bunch. "Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown" is a reference to Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and the end credit to Charles "Dutch" Schultz is a reference to Dutch Schultz.

Production

The song "Charlie Brown" by The Coasters plays over the end credits, which end with a note from Jim Reardon:

The creator of this picture wishes to state that he does not in any way wish to tarnish or demean the beloved characters of Charles M. "Dutch" Schulz's comic strip, Peanuts. No malice or damage to their goodwill was intended. So please don't sue me, because it will drag through the courts for years, and I haven't got a lawyer – and besides, you've already got half the money in the world, and I haven't got any. OK? [6]

Cast and credits

  • Charlie Brown – Etienne Badillo, Rich Moore, Mike Reardon, William Hanna, William Holden
  • Linus van Pelt – Nate Kanfer
  • Lucy van Pelt – Bret Haaland
  • Great Pumpkin – Jeff Pidgeon
  • Additional Voices – Ed Bell, Bruce Johnson, Mike Reardon, Bret Haaland
  • Narration – Rich Moore
  • Others – Ed Bell, Dale McBeath, Bob Winquist, Mike Giaimo, Craig Smith, Bret Haaland, Nate Kanfer, Doug Frankel, Mike Reardon, Rich Moore, Russ Edmonds, Hal Ambro, Dan Hansen, Jim Ryan, Tony Fucile, Jeff Pidgeon, Bob McCrea, Sarge Morton, Mom, Eileen, and Beverly
  • Dedicated to Sam "The Man" Peckinpah
  • "Peanuts Theme" – Vince Guaraldi
  • "Charlie Brown" – The Coasters (wrongly credited as The Platters)
  • A Jim Reardon Cartoon – Made at Cal Arts, U.S.A.

References

  1. ^ Wreck-It Ralph Director Rich Moore on his Film Sensibility: 'It's a CalArts Thing'-CalArts blog
  2. ^ "Enjoy the disturbing "Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown"". The Retroist. Archived from the original on 2018-11-10. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  3. ^ Cartoon Brew
  4. ^ Letterboxd
  5. ^ Simpsons director's Peanuts parody student film online - Animated Views
  6. ^ David Pescovitz (2012-05-12). ""Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown", animated Peanuts spoof by Simpsons director Jim Reardon". BoingBoing.
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