It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown is the fifteenth animated TV special based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. It first aired on NBC on March 16, 1976. It is the first animated cartoon in which Rerun van Pelt appears.
Voice cast
- Dylan Beach - Charlie Brown
- Gail Davis - Sally Brown
- Liam Martin - Linus van Pelt
- Sarah Beach - Lucy van Pelt
- Vinny Dow - Rerun van Pelt/"Pig-Pen"
- Greg Felton - Schroeder
- Stuart Brotman - Peppermint Patty
- Michelle Muller - Frieda
- Bill Melendez - Snoopy/Woodstock
Plot
To celebrate Arbor Day, everbody works together to plant a garden. Unfortunately, the garden is located in Charlie Brown's baseball field, and he has a game with Peppermint Patty's team approaching. However, Charlie Brown works to make the best of the situation by attachin baseball gloves to the trees as well as caps (to make them look like scarecrows), which results in Peppermint Patty's team being unable to score due to the large number of fly outs from the balls being hit into the gloves. Schroeder says he will kiss Lucy if she hits a home run, which he figures she will not. However, Charlie Brown is happy to see that Lucy indeed hit a home run and score the only run in the game. The game is cut short by rain, and although Charlie Brown expresses agony that "We were Winning!", he accepts it a de facto victory and one of the few times his baseball team has won a game.