"original uploader [ ENGLISH SDH ] boy." "Only one more minute until Christmas vacation starts and the teacher hasn't given us any assignments over the holidays." "[ WOMAN MUMBLING ] no." "I can't believe it." "Linus." "We're supposed to read War and Peace by Leo ToIstoy and then write a book report about it." "What a way to ruin a vacation." "charlie Brown?" "I just finished reading the dust jacket." "Many is the book report that has been written by just reading the dust jacket." "Linus." "it's 1 1 36 pages long." "I bet it weighs more than I do." "When Leo ToIstoy was writing War and Peace... copied it for him seven times." "And she did it by candlelight and with a dip pen." "And sometimes she had to use a magnifying glass to make out what he had written." "I reaIIy" "She had to do it after their child had been put to bed and the servants had gone to their garrets and it was quiet in the house." "charlie Brown she wrote the book seven times with a dip pen." "And you're telling me you can't even read it once?" "[ PHONE RINGING ]" "hello?" "Chuck." "This is Peppermint Patty." "hi." "Chuck." "Marcie and I are gonna throw a New Year's party." "ring out the old and bring in the new?" "I don't think I can" "Chuck." "Games and dancing and everything." "But I don't dance." "I have to read War and Peace." "Chuck." "you sly dog?" "But you don't understand." "I can't do anything over vacation because" "Chuck being it's your first real date." "Chuck." "we were just with Marcie." "There's gonna be a great New Year's party." "It's boy-ask-girI." "And I just know my Sweet Baboo will ask me." "I am not your Sweet Baboo!" "And I wouldn't invite you to a chicken race." "Isn't he the cutest thing?" "And I expect a certain piano player to ask me." "But I've got this book report to do." "I'm enrolling us in a dance class." "A New Year's party is not a party without lots of dancing." "Linus." "charlie Brown?" "but do you have a comic book called War and Peace?" "[ MAN MUMBLES ]" "No?" "Do you have a record of War and Peace?" "[ MAN MUMBLES ]" "No?" "How about a tape or a cassette?" "[ MAN MUMBLES ]" "No?" "anyway." "How about a computer game about War and Peace?" "[ MAN MUMBLES ]" "No?" "Hmm." "charlie Brown." "they don't have it on fiImstrips either." "[ SIGHS ]" "Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family." "I warn you that if you do not tell me we are at war if you again allow yourself to palliate all the infamies and atrocities.... "" "here I am reading War and Peace and everybody else is at dance class having fun." "Maybe I should go over to the class and just look in." "See what they're all doing." "[ JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ]" "Chuck." "We're learning to foxtrot." "But I have to read my book." "quick" "Move across the floor quick" "I'm only on Page 5 of my book." "stomach in" "Take a deep breath Now let's begin quick" "It's really lots of fun" "Just follow the footprints on the floor" "And you'll move as one" "quick" "Just think of Fred Astaire" "Once you get the feeling You'll be flying through the air" "Now just relax Glide along" "Keep the rhythm of the song quick quick quick slow" "Good grief." "CHARLIE: "He spoke in that elaborately choice French in which our forefathers not only spoke but thought." "And with those slow patronizing intonations peculiar to a man of importance who has grown old in court society... presenting her with a-- "" "I wonder when my Sweet Baboo is going to ask me to the party." "I am not your Sweet Baboo!" "And I wouldn't invite you to a garage sale." "Isn't he the cutest thing?" "you must be doing something wrong." "not square." "You must be blowing air into the wrong places." "try it again." "You blow up a balloon this way." "now let's see you do it." "Try blowing slower." "Now you're getting it." "I've got another type of balloon." "Watch." "Now you try it." "[ SIGHS ]" "[ PLAYING CLASSICAL MUSIC ]" "are you taking me to the party or not?" "Musicians don't dance." "I'II be playing the piano at the party." "I don't mind the rejection." "It's the smile that bugs me." "I'II just go with someone else." "Good." "Go with someone else." "CHARLIE: "Anna Pavlovna's drawing room gradually began to fill." "The people of the highest distinction in Petersburg were there people very different in ages and characters. "" "[ PHONE RINGING ]" "hello?" "Chuck." "This is Peppermint Patty." "Chuck?" "I haven't thought about that." "I'm reading War and Peace." "Uh-huh." "I knew it wouId be me." "I'm only on Page 5 of my book." "you have to invite somebody." "I suppose you're right." "I wonder if that little red-haired girl would go with me." "What?" "Do you think she would?" "Chuck." "I've written an invitation to the little red-haired girl." "I was afraid to call her." "so I thought I'd take it to her house." "But I'm worried." "Why?" "AII you have to do is slip the letter into the mail slot in the front door of the house." "But what if my hand gets caught in the mail slot?" "charlie Brown." "what if my hand gets caught in the mail slot... someone opens the door?" "you worry about the most impossible things." "[ GRUNTING ]" "[ GRUNTS ]" "hello?" "hello?" "are you home?" "I've come to invite you to a New Year's party." "if you don't have anything else to do." "would you--?" "would you Iike to come?" "I couId either pick you up or" " Or meet you there if I ever get my hand out of this mailbox." "I can't stand it." "I just can't stand it." "CHARLIE:" "Tomorrow night's the party." "The little red-haired girl never answered my letter." "What a way to start a new year." "millions of people will be going to parties and dressing up." "Some are even ready a day ahead of time." "[ JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ]" "sir." "Marcie." "It's too bad he had to write that report." "it's time to play musical chairs." "Hi." "Can I come in?" "I thought you had to study." "I thought I couId read some of it here." "you sly dog." "You wanted to start the new year with me." "well I was kind of hoping the little red-haired girl would show up." "you drive me crazy." "sir." "Everybody is ready for musical chairs." "okay." "Let's get started." "Can I play?" "Chuck." "Come on." "[ ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ] it's time for musical chairs let's go" "Set up the chairs now All in a row" "You run around the chairs Till the music stops don't get caught" "'Cause when the music stops" "You can't be standing there If you wanna be a winner at musical chairs" "Now we take away a chair While you're runnin' around" "Don't let the kid in front of you Get you down" "Just listen to the rhythm Now don't miss a beat" "'Cause you don't wanna be the only one Without a seat" "'Cause when the music stops" "You can't be standing there If you wanna be a winner at musical chairs" "Now every time the music stops You're gonna end up one chair short" "And if you're boogalooing When the music's gone you gotta move on" "Now it's the moment of truth It's getting down the wire" "You're burning up inside With musical fire" "You hover around each corner Of the precious seat" "Waitin' for the moment You can get off your feet" "'Cause when the music stops" "You can't be standing there If you wanna be a winner" "You've got to be a winner" "If you wanna be a winner At musical chairs" "Yeah." "charlie Brown." "It's almost midnight." "I'II pour you a root beer." "Lucy." "I'm going to be a changed person." "charlie Brown." "I mean it." "I'm going to be strong and firm." "charlie Brown." "You'II always be wishy-washy." "Why can't I change just a little bit?" "I've got it." "I'II be wishy one day and washy the next." "I have news for you." "You will never...." "You sniffed in my root beer." "Your stupid beagle sniffed in my root beer." "Look at that." "I'II bet it's full of dog germs." "Where are my binoculars?" "Ah-ha." "I thought so." "You see?" "It's filled with dog germs." "There's one thing you should never do:" "Never sniff at someone's root beer." "[ CHATTERING ] wait for me." "that was a sly move on your part." "to get us out here alone on New Year's Eve." "Huh?" "we might end up ushering in the new year together." "Chuck?" "Hmm." "Chuck." "You'II have to admit that." "would be good rules for living in the new year?" "Keep the ball low." "Don't leave your crayons in the sun." "Use dental floss every day." "Don't spill the shoe polish." "always knock before entering." "Don't let the ants get in the sugar." "Never volunteer to be a program chairman." "always get your first serve in." "And feed your dog whenever he's hungry." "Chuck?" "A better life and a fat dog." "Chuck?" "Yes." "You know how I always dread the whole year?" "I'm only going to dread one day at a time." "[ KIDS CHATTERING ] come on." "It's almost midnight." "everybody." "Chuck." "CHARLIE: "But alike in the set in which they moved... the beauty Ellen came to fetch her father and go with him to the ambassador's fete." "She was wearing a balldress with an imperial badge on it." "The young Princess Bolkonsky was there celebrated as the most seductive woman in Petersburg." "She had been married the previous winter and was not now going out into the great world on account of her interesting condition but was still to be seen at small parties." "came too with Mortemart whom he introduced. "" "[ CHATTERING ]" "[ KNOCKING ON DOOR ]" "hi." "aren't you?" "please come in." "charlie Brown told me he had invited you to the party." "I don't know where charlie Brown is right now." "But would you Iike to dance?" "where are you?" "It's just a few seconds before midnight." "Chuck." "[ CLOCK CHIMES ]" "[ CHEERING ]" "[ ALL SINGING "AULD LANG SYNE" ]" "how could you do this to me?" "I was the only one standing all alone." "uh" " I-- my Sweet Baboo didn't dance with me at midnight." "And do you know why?" "uh.... the little red-haired girl." "He did what?" "I didn't know where you went." "your friend is sure a good dancer." "You mean she was here?" "The little red-haired girl was here and I missed her?" "charles." "[ CHIRPING ]" "[ BARKS ]" "charlie Brown." "We'II be late for school." "[ YAWNS ]" "charlie Brown?" "I finished at 3:00 this morning." "charlie Brown?" "I don't remember a thing." "Did you turn in your report?" "Yes." "What did the teacher say about it?" "What grade did you get?" "A D-minus." "The lowest grade without falling." "charlie Brown." "The teacher said it looked like the sort of report that was written after midnight on the Iast day of Christmas vacation." "What did you say?" "What could I say?" "I congratulated her on her remarkable insight." "Did you see what our next assignment is?" "No." "What is it?" "To read Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky." "charlie Brown."