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Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

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. Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown is black-and-white and has a rough, unfinished, hand-drawn look.

Plot

The short film is presented as a trailer for a faux parody of a ''Peanuts'' television special whilst playing its signature song "Linus and Lucy". 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 (Lucy turning a football into a bomb, Schroeder using his piano to crush him, Snoopy biting his arm off, the Kite-Eating Tree falling on him, and Linus strangling him with his blanket), 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/figures including Popeye, Godzilla, Blondie and Dagwood, Rocky Balboa, Adolf Hitler (seen painting before being shot) and two Nazi soldiers, Mickey Mouse, and Richard Simmons. The film ends with Charlie Brown smoking in bed alongside the Little Red-Haired Girl after engaging in sex.