Thursday, October 15, 2009

Sally and the Pumpkin Patch

So I was watching "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown", my favorite Halloween special of all time. How enjoyable it can be to regress to a better time in one's life. However I always find when I watch movies and such from the past I greater understand a theme in the movie, or somehow missed pieces that my younger mind could not comprehend at the time.One I must have missed but fully realize now was Sally in the pumpkin patch with Linus. She is enamored with Linus and decides to go along with him into the pumpkin patch after he's sweet talked her about the whole deal. And there they sit the whole night. At first they are both happy and she is waiting for the Great Pumpkin to arrive as promised, this whole great big deal. She even stands up for him at some point in the night when everyone comes to make fun of them and remind Sally about the party and all the fun she's missing. But she does turn around and ask him when the hell that Great Pumpkin is going to show up because they've been out there all night and they've done little more than stare at one another.As we all know, the Great Pumpkin never shows up although Linus is busy yelling to Sally as she huffs off that he is definitley going to come any minute now if they just wait a little longer but she's finally realized that he isn't coming. Only problem is she missed Halloween. Poor Sally, she should have gone and enjoyed Halloween and let Linus do his dreaming and not wasted her time getting wrapped up in it all. I'm not projecting here or anything...

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