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HWSBHD - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) feat. Rico and The Man
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In today's episode, we ask ourselves a simple question: "How Would Sean Bean Have Died" in 1966's American prime time animated television special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". I am joined by new friends, Rob and Peter, from the incredible comedy podcast "Rico and The Man".
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Why can't you just be a good boy and die? You first.
Imagining Sean Bean in Various Roles
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Welcome to the continuation of the Sean Bean Halloween extravaganza with On Second Watch. In today's episode, we explore the movies that Sean Bean was not cast in and answer the ultimate question, how would Sean Bean have died in the 1966 American prime time animated television special? It's the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown. And yeah, that's right. We're going to kill a man in this children's classic.
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We get to decide on his role, replacing a lead or a supporting role, a brand new character as a cameo, and decide how we would die.
Introduction of 'Rico and the Man' Podcast
00:02:17
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And in today's episode, we are joined by Rob and Peter from the comedy podcast, Rico and the Man. How are you guys doing? Hey, how you doing? Thank you. Thank you so much for having us. Yeah, this is great. Absolutely. So Rob and Peter, Rico and the Man. None of you guys are named Rico or the Man. Is this a play off of Chico and the Man or did you guys just is this an inside joke?
00:02:40
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Well, it's a very loaded question because one of our favorite things is that the show is called Rico and the Man with Rob Trichler and Peter Martino because all of a sudden you're immediately confused. But it actually is a callback. Yes, of course, it's a planned Chico and the Man, the old TV show from the 70s, but it also is a callback to a movie Peter and I made in college.
00:03:03
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called the man back for seconds and Peter played the man and I played a one scene character named Rico so when we started talking about this podcast 20 years later we were trying to figure out titles and Pete came up with Rico and the man and we were like that's it done perfect
00:03:21
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Yeah. Cause I thought I miss, I must've missed a joke. So I started scrolling back through your earlier episodes like, Nope, you guys don't even talk about this. So I had to ask. That's what's funny. We keep batting around the idea to talk about and explain the whole story behind it, but we just never got around to it. It's like totally ignore it and just go on with like entertainment news. Oh, sure. And it's such an old movie now at this point. And you know, at sometimes I think about playing clips.
00:03:48
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college, but who cares? It's just, it's
Humor and Spontaneity in Podcasting
00:03:53
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old high eight tape. It'll probably sound awful on a podcast. So we just kind of just let people decide for themselves who Rico and the man are. Maybe it'll be a cliffhanger for the next season. Yes, we're coming up on our season one finale. Oh, nice.
00:04:10
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Maybe you guys are just about to explain it and then you guys just dead air. Yeah, exactly. Cut off the static sound and everything. Yeah, we did that on an episode of our Loki review. We basically teased our review of the first episode of Loki for 45 minutes. When we finally got to it, all Pete said was, was okay. And then the show. That's awesome.
00:04:31
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Very cool. Well, um, I think everyone can get a little bit of a hint, uh, about your guys's personality, but why don't you tell us a little bit about your show, what your premise is and kind of where everybody can find you. Well, there's a lot of shows on
00:04:46
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in the podcast world about the entertainment business, movies and television. So it's definitely a big pull to jump in. But I like to look at our show as the opposite of a deep dive. You know, it's loosely based around everything going on in show business, but it always seems to devolve into some bit or some crumb that Pete and I latch onto, and it becomes a complete derail into ridiculousness.
00:05:10
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Peter and I work in the entertainment business so this show is really just a therapy session that we record. It's very stream of consciousness. I try not to edit it too much and us both being from the East Coast, we never shy away from our talk being a tad controversial and we definitely let the expletives fly.
00:05:32
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Yeah, like Rob said, we like to try to keep it loose and not script things too much. And I mean, there were times in college that we would just be in tears because we just came up with something on the spot. And we try to bring that to the podcast and hopefully entertain some people along the way, too. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, I try to just keep it just somewhat of an outline. I have some type of things like script. I mean, we do like this whole
00:06:00
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I mean, we do movie reviews, just like millions of other podcasts out there. But to make it unique, we do like a plot summary Mad Libs, where we take just a plot of the movie and we just butcher it. Right. Yeah, I heard that for the Nightmare Before Christmas. Oh, nice.
The Value of Authenticity and Organic Conversations
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Yeah. Yeah. It can get a little out of hand, but we just we just try to have some fun, make it a little bit different. So it's, you know, I think when everyone's just themselves and just having fun, those are the best podcasts to listen to.
00:06:25
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That's exactly right. I think if you try and edit every um, every like, you know, out of it, it becomes very forced and becomes a scripted show. I think of just letting people talk and messing up and just being real and organic and genuine. I think people respond to a lot more than something that's chaptered out and reworked into a 20 minute spiel about
00:06:52
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No time to die, you know what I mean? I think if it's just a round table, and we have a lot of guests on our show who come on frequently, and we just talk, you know? And if it gets really boring, of course we'll cut that out. But for the most part, we try to just let it fly. And when it hits the 40 to 45 minute mark, we find a way to end it. Very good. And is there any particular pod catcher you guys like everyone to check you out on, or just kind of wherever you can find you?
00:07:21
Speaker
I like to just say wherever you can find podcasts, we're out there on those platforms because I feel that there's so many now that it's really hard to pick one and say, just listen to us on good pods or Stitcher or cabin fever or, you know, Barman Bailey's podcast service. It's very hard to put that all on a promo. So it's just wherever you listen to your podcast. We're there. Perfect. Yeah. I pretty much found you guys everywhere when I was poking around. So.
00:07:51
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We're everywhere. And now, as of this morning, we're now also animated.
Incorporating Visuals into Podcasts
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There are animated clips on Twitter you can find of little scenes and snippets from our show and two very crudely animated versions of myself in theater. Rob was up all night animating in class. Yes, I was. That's very true. He worked very hard on it, everybody.
00:08:17
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I kept thinking, man, I would love to just take the 15-minute plot summary Mad Libs I do and animate that. But I just, you know what? I don't have the time or the patience to do it. Yeah. Go ahead. I was going to ask, Tim, how many people do you usually have on each episode of your podcast?
The Podcast Team's Dynamic and Friendship
00:08:37
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Our regular movie reviews, we have anywhere between four and six of us. We're a six-person team. The Sean Bean episodes is
00:08:47
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It could just be me, just a couple of words, just me, and then maybe one or two other people for the most part. It kind of hovers around there. It's a two to three person show for Sean Bean and then our movie reviews. I try to get at least four because the six of us, when it's just a couple of us together, it's just not as funny. Gotcha. How'd you guys all meet? We're all childhood friends. That's awesome. Grade school, middle school together. I met my wife in kindergarten.
00:09:17
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even before that, when we were first born, we were born two days apart in the same hospital. So yeah, we've got history. And yeah, it's, it's quite the, quite the journey here, but yeah, we've, we've all been childhood friends in some way, shape or form. And, uh, just, just kept it going with, uh, through adulthood. Well, we pretend we're adults, but we're still just, uh, just kids in large bodies that can't handle carbs anymore.
00:09:41
Speaker
That's so great. It's so hard to be friends as an adult, isn't it? It is. It's gross. It gets harder and harder for me to make an effort to talk to another person nowadays. Yeah. I actually had a different podcast before this one that only ran about five episodes, and it was just awful. And the reason being, I tried to host it myself, and I realized I need somebody who knows me, who I can riff with and banter with,
00:10:10
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And Pete had called in a couple times on that show. And then, of course, I shamelessly texted him and said, do you want to do a show together? And he wrote back Rico and the man. And that's how it started. Perfect. I wrote back fuck off. And after that, he wrote Rico and the man. That's how all good podcasts are, right? Yep. Fuck off. Refuse the first offer. All right. Yeah, I think I just kind of.
00:10:38
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bullied everybody into it when
Recording Challenges and the Shift to Remote
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we started. It's like, Hey, I want to do this thing. I got, I want to do a podcast. And everyone's like, is there pizza? Like, yeah, come on over. That's great. I suckered them in. I love that. Don't tell Pete that you get pizza pizza. Well, we found out very quickly. There's a limit to how much pizza should be allowed because our first recording was a disaster with how many, how many other bodily noises we were hearing. Oh yeah. You got to know your threshold and you'll learn that as you go.
00:11:06
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Yeah, yeah, Rob and I definitely aren't even in the same room. Like I can't tell you the last time I saw Rob in person. Visually we haven't seen each other in like a decade.
00:11:18
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recording, if I saw Pete, it would be so distracting because he's so adorable. But no, it would be so distracting for me to see him, whereas I can hear him. It's like talking on the phone. You forget that you're recording a show. I feel like if I could see him, I'd be looking at the wavelengths and his face and constantly worrying about 12 other things. But once we start going, I'd lose myself. And then I listen back and I'm like, oh my God, shut up, Rob. Shut up.
00:11:46
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Yeah. We, we started in person and then COVID hit and then we went remote and we tried doing video with audio recordings, but yeah, one of my co-hosts just likes to just make weird faces and faced in hand gestures. I just had to turn his camera off. So we just went straight just audio. It's, it's better for everybody. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny because Pete right before Peter, right before we got on this, um, he said, is it video or audio? And I went, Oh, no.
00:12:14
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Well, I'd hate to make you guys actually look at each other. So I think audio works out just fine. Thank you for not letting me see. Thank you for showing my good side. Awesome. So let's, let's jump into this. So
00:12:29
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It's a great pumpkin Charlie Brown. Why this film or really it's a TV show. It's only 20 something minutes long and we've almost talked the entire length of this film or TV show. So what about this film just made you really want to jump in and kill a man in it?
00:12:45
Speaker
just so innocent, I think. Right. Peanuts is so innocent. Everyone grew up with them. Everyone knows the characters. It's in our psyche. So why not have a murder in one of them? Well, when Pete brought up the great pumpkin, the first thing that hit me, I said, well, the hardest part of this one is that Sean Bean is an adult. So is he just going to be like, the whole time? Well, I picture, uh,
00:13:11
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a child, Sean Bean. Still with a goatee and everything, a beard and everything and the longer hair, but looking animated in the same vein as the other characters. So a Game of Thrones Sean Bean, not so much a Golden Eye. Oh, no, no. I want the Game of Thrones Sean Bean because I was a big GOT fan, so definitely. It's almost like the Evil Universe South Park version of Sean Bean.
00:13:39
Speaker
Right. Exactly. All right. So let's, let's share how this is going to work. So we basically pick a role. Most of the times we end up making it up and we find a way to kill them. That still fits within the story and the adventures that these, these kids will be going on. So an example that I have here is, uh, Sean Bean is a fellow peanuts gang member. That sounds weird. Uh,
00:14:04
Speaker
He's a fellow peanut, yeah, and he's getting ready for Halloween himself, just like everybody, and he's on his way to Pigpen's house. And at the same time, at the very beginning of this film, you have Linus and Lucy going out of their house and straight into a pumpkin patch that just seems to just be out in their backyard for some reason.
00:14:21
Speaker
And they pick out the biggest pumpkin there, and Linus can't carry it, so he decides he's going to roll it home. And as he starts to roll it, he starts losing control as it's gaining speed. He ends up getting picked up by this pumpkin and rolled around and thrown. My thought is that this pumpkin can continue its journey.
00:14:38
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of being totally out of control and start going down the sidewalk. And just so happens, little Sean is rounding the corner and gets hit by this out of control pumpkin with such force it blasts him into the street and gets hit by an oncoming car. Thus ending little Sean. Oh, I wasn't expecting the car. I thought the pumpkin was going to insult injury. Right.
00:15:04
Speaker
Kick a man when he's down. Wow. Boom. Exactly. Was that the car or was that the grown-ups? A little bit of both. So that's an example of how we would cast and kill Sean Bean in this one. So Robert, Peter, why don't you take it away to one of your examples here? All right. Well, like I said, I picture a little Sean as well, but I picture him as the new kid in school.
00:15:28
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And if recollect, if my memory serves me correct, I believe there was part of Halloween party that the kids were having. It was. And they also went trick or treating together. So of course, naturally, they invite their new friend Shawn over to go trick or treating with them. And everyone loves him. They think he's great. Lucy has a crush on him. Everyone just thinks he's like the best guy. Naturally. Yeah. To Charlie Brown's.
00:15:57
Speaker
dismay, everyone loves the new kid. After years of Charlie Brown being beaten, emotionally abused, tortured, and teased, everyone just immediately gravitates to Sean, and Charlie Brown just can't stand this. So the gang goes out trick-or-treating, and everyone thinks Sean's so great. He's so popular. Everyone gets their candy trick-or-treating. Finally, Charlie Brown has had it.
00:16:27
Speaker
And he takes the rock that he received from trick or treating and beats the crap out of Sean right in front of the person's doorstep and thus ends Mr. Popular Sean Bean. Wow. You know, there is only so much abuse someone can take before they just snap, right? Right. And I think when Charlie Brown got the rock when he was trick or treating, that's just that was the final straw.
00:16:56
Speaker
Everyone else got candy. Charlie Brown got a rock. And decided to take his anger out on little Sean. And he weaponized it. So that's it. That's my first one. Awesome. That's brutal. Sean had it coming. He had it coming. I didn't think Charlie had it in him to intentionally just end someone's life.
00:17:23
Speaker
Well, he had it. I mean, Charlie Brown's been in the gang for years. He's tried to be accepted and they never accepted him. And then this new kid comes along with his long hair and his full grown beard.
00:17:40
Speaker
And he's totally stealing all the spotlight, and the kids are totally gravitating towards him. So Charlie Brown's like, what the fuck? I mean, I get it. Listen, Charlie grew up, you know, he grew up bald. That's already, you know. Yeah, exactly. Hard to grow up.
Charlie Brown's Breaking Point: A Humorous Exploration
00:17:54
Speaker
He has no facial hair. Yeah. I picked Sean Bean getting early puberty. Charlie Brown, that's another motive for Charlie Brown to yellow.
00:18:04
Speaker
He's got the full beard and the long hair. This kid has pubes.
00:18:13
Speaker
The only pubes I have are on my forehead. It's just one. So I have another one that's very similar along the lines of kind of Charlie Brown losing it. Rob, do you have one that's similar to that or should I? I have a, all mine seem to circle around that Charlie Brown's a disturbed child. Well, most of them, but I mean, if you want me to tell you one, I could do that. Why don't you, why don't you go for it?
00:18:42
Speaker
Well, in Great Pumpkin and in most of the Peanuts movies, there's the football gag with Lucy and Charlie where she pulls the football away at the last moment and he falls and he always falls for the gag.
00:18:54
Speaker
And in The Great Pumpkin, she tells him, no, it's going to be different this time because I have a signed document. And Charlie gets excited about the signed document. So he falls for it yet again. She says, this document, after he falls, she says, oh, look, this document wasn't notarized. So in a passive aggressive fog, Charlie Brown takes the document to the local notary to get signed. So he won't fall for the football gag again.
00:19:19
Speaker
But the notary of course is played by Sean Bean. And I see that, what I envision is Sean Bean explains to Charlie, you're just a bold little child. You can't get documents signed without a parental guardian. You're not old enough. So then in a blind rage, Charlie Brown opens fire on the whole notary office of course killing Sean Bean.
00:19:40
Speaker
That's like a twist. Yes. I warned you. I warned you. Sean Bean's the first adult in a Peanuts special that they actually understand. And the audience actually understands. Just stamp this paper. It's all masking. 18 or older, sorry.
00:20:03
Speaker
I like the legal route that you went. Yeah, I think it's perfect for a kids movie, you know, paperwork, local notary office.
00:20:15
Speaker
Things that kids can relate to. Exactly. Especially around Halloween. That's great. So I'll share one of my tragic Charlie Brown moments. So kind of going on the same vein of him just being abused. He's on a brink after being bullied for so many years by everybody.
00:20:35
Speaker
Because you look at this, it's just, you know, Lucy's telling him he was accidentally invited to that Halloween party, it was a big mistake, you know, the pulling the football away thing yet again. They even used his head as a model for a pumpkin to be carved, just drew all over his head and said, oh yeah, that's the way it's gonna look. So I don't blame him for just wanting to snap. So finally, they go out trick-or-treating and he receives rock after rock from these asshole parents around town. Like who gives somebody a rock?
00:21:02
Speaker
And then finally he gets to the last house and he's praying just for the love of God. Just give me one good and plenty, just something. It's this last house on the block with Sean Bean's house. And because he too was a big asshole, gave Charlie Brown yet another rock.
00:21:18
Speaker
So Charlie, screaming at the top of his lungs, starts whipping his bag of rocks around and around and lets go in just a blind rage, sending this bag of hurt through the air, straight into Sean Bean's face and killing him instantly.
00:21:35
Speaker
It's so funny that the whole rock bit is something that people remember most from this special. It's just such an absurd joke and gag. Instead of him getting raisins or something, he gets a fucking rock in his jook or treat bag. It's like, how does that happen? I sound to think it's funny that we all, right when you told yours, Pete, I crossed off my, Charlie Brown gets a rock and gets angry.
00:22:04
Speaker
Really? Yes. I think the instinct was there for all three of us. We would have found out what would have happened in the sequel of you're in jail, Charlie Brown, but I think CBS canceled that one, so it's just too bad. You're a rapist, Charlie Brown. Maybe when the kids are older. Yes.
00:22:32
Speaker
Sorry, Rob and I, if you listen to our podcast, Rob and I go into a whole rant on the whole Bill Cosby thing and how messed up it is that he's a free man. You know what? The legal system's a bit of a mess. Yeah.
00:22:49
Speaker
I don't. We can't bring Bill Cosby into everything, Pete. Yeah, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I digress. I apologize. He brings himself into everything. Yep. And everyone. Sorry. So yeah, I guess I'm up. Yeah, if you got one.
00:23:08
Speaker
All right, I have two. One of them's actually a little bit better. Does it have to be three or? No, just whatever you're comfortable sharing. We could go, you've got a hundred of them, we'll just go for it. I don't care. All right, the one that I thought was funny is obviously the name of the special is The Great Pumpkin and it revolves around.
The Great Pumpkin and Sean Bean: A Comedic Spin
00:23:32
Speaker
great pumpkin. The whole point of the show pretty much is Linus seeing the great pumpkin. He camps out in the pumpkin patch all night. He misses out on all the trick-or-treating and fun activities that the other kids are doing just to see this great pumpkin. So along comes little Sean Bean again who's out trick-or-treating but he seemed to get a stray from the rest of the group.
00:23:57
Speaker
And he sees the great pumpkin in the patch, but Linus does not. So he goes over and he's like, Oh my God, Linus, I saw him. You were right. I saw the great pumpkin. He was there and he was glorious. He was beautiful. I can't believe it.
00:24:18
Speaker
Linus is pissed. He gets so frustrated that he strangles Little Sean Bean with his blanket until he suffocates and dies in the pumpkin patch. And thus ends Little Sean Bean yet again.
00:24:38
Speaker
Well, Linus has a way with that blanket. Didn't he put the letter in the mailbox with just the blanket? Yeah, he whips it around. I think he made like a, in the Christmas special, he made like, because he was playing the shepherd, I think he made like a shepherd, like a hat with it and everything. So he, that's like his
00:25:01
Speaker
That's like his whip. That's his Doctor Strange cloak. Yeah, exactly. So I thought it would be funny that he uses his blanket to strangle the hell out of Sean Bean. That is awesome. I totally forgot he had that blanket. I don't think he has the blanket in this episode. Oh, he doesn't?
00:25:22
Speaker
Now that you mentioned it around all over, I thought so too, but now that you mentioned it, I don't think he had it at all. No, he did when he was sleeping out in the pumpkin patch. He had it. Oh, he did have it. Sorry. I digress. The weapon was there on site. That's awesome.
00:25:40
Speaker
I just came up with one on the fly real quick, just thinking like, is there a world where, what's his name? Fuck his names. Who's the dirty kid? Pigpen. Pigpen, of course, yeah. I just thought maybe Pigpen gives Little Sean Bean some sort of disease and he gets revenge. I just came across, that's not my one, but that's one that just hit me in the brain. Coronavirus, coronavirus. There you go. Pigpen transfers COVID onto Little Sean Bean and he gets revenge.
00:26:09
Speaker
Yeah, he doesn't wash his hands, and he definitely doesn't socially distance. No, no way. I mean, look at that cloud around him. Maybe Sean Bean's just got bad asthma. Just Pigpen just walks past him and just ends him. They start the special off with Pigpen being like, hey, guys, I just came back from Wuhan.
00:26:31
Speaker
And it's the year 2020. This episode has turned very dark. Oh, you haven't heard my last one yet. Oh boy.
00:26:48
Speaker
Let's do this then. Let's hear it. All right. Well, we were talking about Linus. And he, of course, in this episode, is an incurable optimist, is he not? He thinks that there's this great pumpkin that's going to show up. But when the great pumpkin doesn't show up, who does he think is the great pumpkin? Snoopy, right? Well, in my version, Snoopy doesn't show up. Who shows up? Sean Bean. And Linus faints. And Sally gets so pissed.
00:27:17
Speaker
that it's Sean Bean and not the great pumpkin. She goes on this rage against Linus. Remember she's like, I didn't get to go trick or treating because you told me that there would be a great pumpkin. Right, right.
00:27:30
Speaker
Sean Bean hears all this and he's trying to calm her down. He's saying, you know, I'm just as confused as you are here. I don't know what the great pumpkin is. And then Sally's dad sees this grown man, man handling his daughter. So dad goes, grabs a shotgun and we know what happens after that. Self defense. Exactly. You know, you know.
00:27:53
Speaker
Protect your girls. You got to do what you got to do. Dad sees his little girl Sally. He's like, wah, wah, wah. She always gets a shotgun. Poor Sean Bean gets caught in the crossfire. We're Snoopy throughout all this.
00:28:07
Speaker
He's just like, sorry. Bye. I got to go hang out with Woodstock now. He's on the French countryside battling the... Which is also, for a kids show, very strange. Does anyone else think it's strange that there's that whole side with Snoopy fighting in World War II? I always found them boring, too, those segments. I don't know about you guys, but I just... they weren't entertaining to me. I don't really know... I mean, it's like he's just using his imagination, but the weird thing about this one is that this...
00:28:36
Speaker
This episode of The Great Pumpkin is only like 20-something minutes long and they spend like five minutes on Snoopy like sneaking through France. Yeah. Yes. I know. It's so strange. It has nothing to do with Halloween. It has nothing to do with the peanuts as a group. I kept thinking about, no, maybe I cast Sean as like the Red Baron. He's like, Snoopy's going to go shoot him down, but then I'm like, well, it goes nowhere. So I'm like, man, I forget it.
00:29:00
Speaker
Yeah, I thought I had the same thought. I'm like, is there something in the whole Snoopy imagination wartime thing? But he doesn't actually meet anybody else in that whole sequence. No. Yeah, I was trying to think of a way to incorporate Snoopy somehow, but I don't remember him that much in this special to, to warrant that. Yeah. He's in it a lot, but mostly insignificant. It's just not really much. Yeah.
00:29:27
Speaker
He doesn't drive the plot. When I was a kid, Snoopy was always my favorite. I always thought he was so cute and fun and he had a wild imagination. But as I got older, I'm like, Snoopy's kind of an asshole. If you really think about it, he's always fucking shit up. He is.
00:29:42
Speaker
I think about that a lot with a lot of cartoon characters. Did you ever watch, I'm digressing again, but did you ever watch the Rudolph special? Santa Claus is the biggest dick in that special. Well, I know what we're doing for Christmas. We should revisit that. He's just such a dick and it's like, dude, you're Santa Claus. You're supposed to be happy all the time. Dude, you're Santa Claus. I was like, dude.
00:30:12
Speaker
Yeah, we did a, um, we did like a podcast takeover for one of our friend podcasters and, and we talked about Rudolph and yeah, the whole time Santa's just like annoyed. It's like, Oh, it needs work. I have to go. And just like, just a total jerk. Yeah. They sang a whole fucking song that they practice and worked hard on for him. And he's like, needs work. It's like, thanks Dick. We just spent the whole, we just did a whole musical segment.
00:30:42
Speaker
Uh, so I, I have, um, I have one anonymous guest that definitely was not my wife, uh, submission here that she said that there's a whole scene where at the party, they're bobbing for apples.
Charlie Brown's Surprise for Lucy: A Funny Scenario
00:30:54
Speaker
Yes. And the thought is that Charlie Brown, you know, because he's getting picked on so much, just wants to pull one over on everybody. So he ends up killing Sean Bean and then beheading him a la Ned Stark and just putting his head in the big barrel.
00:31:11
Speaker
Lucy goes and buys for apples and pulls out Sean Bean's head. So. Nice. I liked that one. That's a good one. It's pretty brutal. That was another thing I was thinking of trying to incorporate the bobbing for apples thing, but, uh, you, you did it very well and creatively. So kudos to you. It was definitely not my wife and I didn't, uh, whoever, whoever your muse is. Submitted that. Yeah. But yeah, so that was, that was hers. And then the last one I have is.
00:31:41
Speaker
I had to do this at least once. So Sean Bean is the great pumpkin. He just has a terrible perception of time. So he happened to show up in the pumpkin patch just minutes after Lucy takes Linus back inside. So he's just this big pumpkin, this perfect pumpkin just in this patch. Like, yeah, there's no one here.
00:31:59
Speaker
But, you know, it's, it's early morning and you know, those, those people that have to go to work really early, such as a baker is just wandering by and sees this perfect pumpkin in this patch. Like, you know what? I got to make some pumpkin pies. This pumpkin is perfect. It's, you know, it's ready to go. So he goes and grabs Sean Bean, this pumpkin and takes them back to his shop and chops them up, beats them, mixes them up, bakes them into several delicious pies that are all eaten by the children of the town.
00:32:30
Speaker
That's great, too. That's great. That's the Thanksgiving special, the follow-up. The follow-up with the pumpkin pie. That was good. I'll think about that one when I watch that. This Thanksgiving's like, oh, that's Sean. Not full of Sean. And I thought Charlie Brown as a mass shooter was dark.
00:32:49
Speaker
We all got pretty creative ways, though, for him to, for Sean Bean to go, I think. For a 20 minute little movie, I think. Yeah, for a 22 minute movie. It might be the most ways to die so far. I think that we've done so. Really? It might help that we got three of us and we're all a little bit twisted, so it goes a long ways. A little bit. Well, I think about covers it, unless you guys have any other
00:33:20
Speaker
Quick ones? No, I mean, I think that's all the ways I've found to kill him in this show.
Gratitude for the Podcast Community
00:33:28
Speaker
And I just wanted to say before we finished up, thank you so much for having us because it's just the podcast community is so fucking cool. And I just really appreciate you reaching out and having us on your show.
00:33:42
Speaker
Oh, it's absolutely my pleasure. I love meeting other podcasters. We're all indie. We're all hustling just to do something that's fun that we think others might get some enjoyment out of. So, hey, it's a great way to collaborate and have some fun, and you'll never watch Peanuts the same way again, I promise you. I know I won't. You're welcome, America.
00:34:06
Speaker
And the three people in Sweden that have watched or listened to the show as well. Yeah, we get like random, right Rob? We get like random. Yeah, every once in a while there's a Sweden, a Belfast, you know, Germany on the Buzzsprout. And we did a whole bit on our show about how they were all bots and then they all called into our show to tell how much they loved it. They were all...
00:34:26
Speaker
Even Vision called in, Vision from The Avengers called in to tell us how much he loved the show and then revealed that he was also a bot, which really bummed us out. Oh, yeah. That's, well, you're lucky.
00:34:40
Speaker
Well, we got Rico and the man with Rob and Peter. Thank you guys for jumping on here. Really appreciate it. It's awesome to talk to you. And for anyone that's listening, go check them out. You guys are relatively new. We got like 18 episodes right now. Relatively new. We started in April or May, I believe. I think April.
00:34:59
Speaker
Yeah, so we were about to finish our first season. So and you know, all the shows, they are somewhat topical, but not enough to not enjoy now, because like I said, we're not a deep dive. It usually just devolves into some ridiculousness. Absolutely. And I agree with your first episode. Fuck the Oscars. Thank you. Thank you.
00:35:21
Speaker
Just can't stand it. But yeah, go check these guys out. You guys are a blast. Thanks for jumping on here and recording this this nonsense with us. Really appreciate it. And happy Halloween, guys. Happy Halloween. Thank you so much. All right. We'll see you guys next time. All right.