Unpacking Peanuts
Jimmy Gownley, Michael Cohen, Harold Buchholz, Liz Sumner
Three lifelong cartoonists take an in-depth look at the comic strip masterpiece, Peanuts. Each week, Jimmy Gownley, Harold Buchholz and Michael Cohen examine the complete run of the comic by Charles M. Schulz from 1950 all the way up to the year 2000. Plus special guests and bonuses. Unpacking Peanuts is a fan podcast unaffiliated with Peanuts Worldwide.
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Episodes (205)
Bonus Episode: April Fools!
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1983 Part 1 - I See You Have a Security Blanket…
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1982 Part 2 - Kiss Her, You Blockhead!
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1982 Part 1 - Woodstock Versus the Ugly Giant!
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100th Episode “Spectacular”: The Wheel of Comic Strip Destiny!
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1981 Part 2 - If There’s a Foul Ball Behind 3rd Base, It’s the Shortstop’s Play
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1981 Part 1- A Picture Is Worth 810 Words
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Special Episode - Love in the Time of Wishy-Washiness
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With Gary Groth of Fantagraphics, Publisher of the Complete Peanuts
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1980 Part 2 - The End of the World as We Know It
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1980 Part 1 - Exclusive Rights to Your Shovel
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With Benjamin Clark, curator of the Schulz Museum
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Special Episode: Happiness is Talking With Jeannie Schulz!
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Season 7 Wrap up - So Long Seventies
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Special Episode - A Charlie Brown Christmas! Remastered
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Bonus Episode - Happy Birthday Beethoven
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1979 Part 2 - I Love Chuck. I Think He’s Real Neat.
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1979 Part 1 - Don’t You Want to Go to Happy Piggy Land?
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1978 Part 2 - Whatever I Was Saying, I’m Not Saying It Anymore
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1978 Part 1 - Linus Versus The Power of Darkness
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1977 Part 2 - He’s Just Drawing Snoopy, Right?
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1977 Part 1 - May the Force Be With You, Sweet Babboo!
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1976 Part 2 - Goodnight, Noodleneck
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1976 Part 1 - May I Pose a Different Way of Looking at It?
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1975 Part 2 - Eggs Benedict for My Brother Spike!
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1975 Part 1 - The Neighbors Hate Me
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You Have Dissociative Identity Disorder, Snoopy!
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Peanut Butter and Unrequited Love
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It Takes Two, Snoopy!
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Go Back to School, Charlie Brown!
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With Ivan Brunetti - Author of Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice
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Season 5 Wrap Up 1970-1974 - Peanuts Jubilee
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1974 Part 2 - Let’s Hang Around the House and Deteriorate
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1974 Part 1 - Give Em the Ol’ Knuckle Shoe
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Special Episode - Schulz’s Favorite Story
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1973 Part 2 - That’s Not a Grade, It’s Sarcasm
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1973 Part 1 - Goodnight Mister Shlabotnik
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Special Episode - The Six Bunny Wunnies Get Banned!
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1972 Part 2 - Toodle-oo Caribou!
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1972 Part 1 - Time Alone Can Judge a Work of Art
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1971 Part 2 - Here’s Joe Cool
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1971 Part 1 - For the Love of Miss Helen Sweetstory
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With Mark Crilley - author of Miki Falls, Akiko, Brody’s Ghost, and the Drawin...
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1970 Part 2 - Woodstock and The World Famous Grocery Clerk
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1970 Part 1 - Charlie Brown is the GOAT
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With Joel Hodgson, Creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000
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Finale Season 4: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
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1969 Part 2 - If You’re Late For The First Day of School, Do They Kill You?
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1969 Part 1 - Feelin’ Groovy
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1968 Part 2 - That’s Art!
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