"how nice." "It's not everyone that has a friend to serve his breakfast." "Peanut butter sandwiches again." "Uh!" "[SIGHS]" "Linus." "Charlie Brown." "Aren't you afraid of what the kids at school might say about that blanket?" "Do you have a nickel?" "Flip it into the air." "They don't say very much." "I wish I could get rid of my problems that easily." "I feel miserable." "Nobody likes me." "Why can't I have fun like everybody else?" "I can't even enjoy lunchtime." "That's not asking too much." "pleasant lunch." "There." "There!" "Did you see that little red-haired girl on the bus?" "Why can't I at least have lunch with that little red-haired girl?" "Is that too much to ask?" "I get all worked up and my stomach starts to hurt." "I don't know what's the matter with me." "I don't feel very well." "I know what's the matter with you." "Charlie Brown." "Linus." " Ugh!" "she loves me not." "she loves me not." " She..." " It is difficult for me to believe that a flower has a gift of prophesy." "[BELL RINGS]" "CHARLIE [IN VOICEO VER]:" "Look at that little red-haired girl over there." "I'd give anything if I could talk with her." "Tomorrow's the last day of school." "If I don't talk to her today or tomorrow I'll have to wait clear to next fall." "I know what I'll do." "I'll write her a note." "Dear little red-haired girl:" "How I've longed to meet you." "[WOMAN MUMBLING] ma'am?" "[WOMAN MUMBLING] yes ma'am." "I have my report." "It's about the mountains and jungles of Africa." "[CHILDREN LAUGHING]" "[CLEARS THRO AT]" "Dear little red-haired girl." "How I've longed to meet you. " Uh!" "you really made a fool of yourself." "A comforting word from a friend." "Linus." "Here I come." "You better get hold of yourself." "Why don't you either come play with us or go over and introduce yourself to that little red-haired girl?" "Do one thing or the other." "You can't moon around like this all the time." "you only have today and tomorrow." "Then school is over and you won't see her again until next fall." "Why don't you just walk over and introduce yourself?" "Linus." "That's the only way." "I've made up my mind." "I'm going to introduce myself to that little red-haired girl." "and I'm going to walk right over to her and I'm going to introduce myself." "I'm standing up." "Now I'm going to walk over there." "I'm standing up." "I'm..." "I'm sitting down." "why don't you help me?" "Why don't you slyly start a conversation with that little red-haired girl?" "find out if she's ever noticed me." "Or what she thinks of me." "be sly." "Be real sly." "Charlie Brown." "I went up to her and I told her... and..." "[SCREAMS]" "Why are little red-haired girls so hard to meet?" "Now what?" "That little red-haired girl's desk is right by the pencil sharpener." "I'll go up there and sharpen my pencil." "I'll say:" "little red-haired girl." "I'll impress her with my friendliness." "Good grief." "Pencil needs sharpening." "Pencil needs sharpening." "What happened?" "What did she say?" "What did you say?" "What did she say when you said what you said?" "I couldn't say anything." "you sharpened your ballpoint pen." "[WOMAN MUMBLING] ma'am?" "Me?" "[WOMAN MUMBLING]" "Spelling?" "there are certain rules we can use to help us spell correctly." "The first rule we will never forget... after D." "except after G." "[BELL RINGS]" "I don't think I'd mind school at all if it weren't for these lonesome lunch hours." "I guess I'll sit on this bench." "Those kids look like they're having a lot of fun." "I wish they liked me." "Nobody likes me." "The PTA did a good job painting these benches." "I'd give anything in the world if that little girl with the red hair would come over and sit with me." "You know why that little red-haired girl never notices me?" "Because I'm nothing." "there's nothing to see." "How can she see someone who's nothing?" "aren't you?" "Charlie Brown." "Tomorrow's the last day of school." "That's the problem." "There's only this afternoon... and then I won't see her all summer." "You've tied your peanut butter sandwich in a knot." "I guess I'll get in a few games before the bell rings." "There's nothing like unrequited love to drain all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich." "It's stupid to just sit here and admire that little red-haired girl from a distance." "It's stupid not to get up and go over and talk to her." "It's really stupid." "It's just plain stupid." "So why don't I go over and talk to her?" "Because I'm stupid." "I wonder what I'd do if she came over here and sat down." "I wonder if I..." "Good grief!" "She saw me looking at her." "She's standing up." "She's coming over here." "She's coming over here." "What do I do?" "What do I do?" "[BELL RINGS]" "Charlie Brown." "You're ridiculous." "Lucy." "I just can't face the little red-haired girl." "Pretty faces make me nervous." "How come my face doesn't make you nervous?" "I notice you can talk to me." "I have a pretty face." "How come you can talk to me?" "Wasn't I the Christmas Queen?" "You haven't answered." "stupid." "stupid." "were you dumb in school today." "You've been dumb before but today you were really dumb." "The teacher asked him why they have so much rain in Oregon." ""Because they have a lot of clouds." "[LAUGHING]" "There you go again." "Always so inconsiderate to poor Charlie Brown." "Charlie Brown is not as stupid as he seems." "that's all." "Charlie Brown is upset because of that little red-haired girl." "Charlie Brown is in love." "[SCREAMS]" "[SINGING] Poor little Charlie Brown" "No one could love that frown that's who" "Your face is too darn round" "Your face is too darn round" "[LAUGHING]" "There she is." "There's that little red-haired girl." "She's walking home from school." "she's walking on the same sidewalk that I'm walking on." "I wish I were walking with her." "I wish I were walking right beside her." "And we were holding hands." "I'll bet her hands are real soft and cool." "what a blockhead I am." "I'll never get to hold hands with her." "I'll never get to walk with her." "I'll never get to meet her or talk to her." "I'll never get to say one word to her." "All I get to do is walk home from school by myself." "what a day." "This has been the worst day of my life." "On a day like this a person really needs his faithful dog to come running out to greet him." "[GRO ANS]" "[ELGAR'S "POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE" PLAYS ON STEREO]" "What's going on here?" "You look like you're graduating or something." "I am graduating." "I'm practicing for our graduation exercises from kindergarten to the first grade." "I have been selected class valedictorian." "Maybe you could help me with my speech." "Do you think I should talk upon the role our generation will play in world affairs?" "Or maybe I could discuss the failure of the present generation to carry out it's responsibilities." "Kindergarten?" "Cap and gown?" "Graduation." "I can't stand it!" "1933." "I wonder where the doctor is." "[PLAYING PIANO]" "I'm glad to see you practicing so hard." "It's a sign that you really think about the future." "Schroeder?" "And you became a famous concert pianist." "And what if we traveled all over the world while you performed with great orchestras in foreign lands?" "right at the height of your career you broke both your arms while skiing and could never play the piano again?" "And I had to go to work in a laundry to support both of us." "Wouldn't that be romantic?" "Musicians play a lot of love songs but they really aren't very romantic." "I'll show you!" "what do you think of that?" "I'll probably never get married." " What do you want?" " I'm a patient." "I need advice." "I have a serious problem." "and..." "Charlie Brown." "It's men like you that make the world a rough place to live for beautiful girls like me." "you talk a lot of romantic nonsense." "But do you ever discuss marriage?" "No!" "You're all alike." "My aunt Marion was right." "Never discuss marriage with a musician." " Good grief." " You scoundrels are all alike." "[RINGING]" "Hello?" "Peppermint Patty?" "what a surprise." "How have you been?" "how's the old ball team?" "the ball team's okay." "I thought now was a good time..." "Chuck." "so you get your team together." "Tell them Peppermint Patty is on her way." "Chuck." "Chuck"?" "Chuck." "Your worries are over." "Where's the team?" "I wanna look them over." "I still say that shortstop you have is the funniest looking kid I've ever seen." "right now the team isn't my problem." "it's school." "it's this girl in school." "You see?" "I get it." "[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]" "Chuck?" "Glad I can be of service." "Chuck." "eh?" "You sly dog." "Chuck old boy." "eh?" "Chuck." "I'll handle this." "Lucille." " "Lucille"?" "have I got news for you." "Lucille." "He's too bashful to come right out and declare himself so we're gonna have to nudge him." "Get what I mean?" "I'll arrange a little meeting." "suppose we arrange for you two to meet alone at..." "At... at 6:30 p. m.?" "How romantic can you get?" "okay?" "it's all arranged." "right after dinner." "Chuck old boy." "Don't need to worry a bit." "Good grief." "just call me any time." "pal." "Six-thirty at home plate." "How do I get into these situations?" "this is it." "I can't weasel out of this one." " You!" "Ugh!" " You!" "Ugh!" "What an awful day this has been." "Tomorrow is the last day of school and I still haven't met that little red-haired girl." "I won't see her all summer." "I came so close too." "I almost met her." "I almost talked to her." "I've got to do it." "Tomorrow is D-day." "Instead of walking to school tomorrow... and meet her at the school bus." "I'll be the first one there so I won't miss her." "Snoopy?" "Snoopy?" "Snoopy!" "[RINGING]" "[HORN HONKS] you there!" "Bus!" "Stop!" "bus." "[SQUEAKS]" "[CLICKING]" "Charlie Brown?" "[GRO ANS]" "[WOMAN MUMBLING] ma'am." "[WOMAN MUMBLING]" "Do I have an excuse?" "ma'am." "It's really a very long story." "[WOMAN MUMBLING] ma'am." "I know you're asking why I was late." "I was late because I missed that stupid bus." "That's why!" "good grief." "Now I've done it." "with them that strive with me." "Fight against them that fight against me." "Deliver me from the hand of them that persecute me." "My stomach hurts." "I'm supposed to see the principal." "[WOMAN MUMBLING] my teacher sent me in." "I guess I yelled at her." "I didn't mean to yell at her." "I was sort of upset at the time." "now I'm supposed to see the principal." "So here I am in the principal's office." "Good grief." "[BELL RINGS]" "There goes the recess bell." "I'll miss this recess altogether." "And practically my last chance to talk to the little red-haired girl." "Oh!" "There she goes out to play." "and here I am stuck in the principal's office." "[MAN MUMBLING] sir." "What am I doing at the window?" "nothing really." "I was told by my teacher to come to your office." "You have a nice office." "How are you and the PTA getting along?" "[WOMAN MUMBLING] me?" "[WOMAN MUMBLING]" "I have my arithmetic homework done." "I have problem seven." "This will really impress the little red-haired girl." "Watch me whip through this problem." "[WOMAN MUMBLING] ma'am?" "What am I doing?" "I don't have the slightest idea." "What a day." "I guess my last real chance to meet the little red-haired girl will be after school." "I'll rush out as soon as school lets out." "I've got to catch her before she gets on that bus." "[BELL RINGS]" "rats!" "[READING ON-SCREEN TEXT]" "boy." "Just wait." "sir." "Charlie Brown." "That's what they'll say." "And I'll carry her books and walk home with her." "boy." "It's gonna be great." "And we'll do this and that." "And go here and there." "And I'll be happy and popular and the kids will like me for a change." "sir." "Charlie Brown." "That's what they'll say." "Good grief." "How will I live until September?"