The Peanuts Gallery

###Discussion points

• being personally offended by humidity;
• feminizing gendered signifiers in the Peanuts AU;
• the second Brazil reference of the season;
• Mandatory Smooching Day in 7 Year-Old Land;
• grade school square dances and other theme days;
• a blur of conscripted smooches.

Maurene Goo is the author of several acclaimed books for young adults, including I Believe in a Thing Called Love and (her latest) The Way You Make Me Feel. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and cat, Maeby. maurenegoo.com

Blandishment by Ken Plume.
Podcast art by Lar DeSouza.

It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown is available for your home viewing on Amazon.

Peanuts Gallery is a proud member of Waffle Media.

###Topics of discussion include:

• baffling personalities & try-hards;
• choking on privilege & dying of honor;
• how great it would be to get a rose from a boy, whichever boy, it doesn't matter;
• balloons, anonymous roses, orange juice & other failed romantic gestures;
• the immersive theater sensation Snoop No More;
• keeping poundcake in your briefcase: a metaphor???;
• "Franklin's pants!" interjects Molly;
• Linus: the Banner to PigPen's Hulk.

Kayla Cagan is a writer. Piper Perish is her debut YA novel, and its companion Art Boss will be released by Chronicle Books October 2018. She has contributed comics, plays and essays to assorted collections, including Girl Crush Zine, Womanthology, and Unite and Take Over: Stories Inspired by the Smiths. Kayla lives with her husband Josh and their chihuahua Banjo near that Starbucks. No, the other one. http://kaylacagan.com

Ben Soileau is the co-founder of Waffle Media, our home and native land. He is co-host of Waffle's COLUMBOYS, which endeavors to lovingly analyze every single episode of one of the 20th Century's most important works of art, Peter Falk's COLUMBO. Ben is an expert on gentleman's fashion, and has helped suit some of the geek community's pillars of dudeness, including John Roderick, John Hodgman, and Wil Wheaton. He lives in Seattle with his partner Molly Lewis, and their cat Sumi, who would like to take this opportunity to say "Hiss". http://waffle.media/

Blandishment by Ken Plume.
Podcast art by Lar DeSouza.

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown is available for your home viewing on the Peanuts 1970s Vol. 2 DVD collection. (Amazon)

Peanuts Gallery is a proud member of Waffle Media.

Topics of discussion include:

• using your blandishing budget to show children planting trees;
• the Showgirls of the Peanuts AU;
• the concept of victory gardens (and other hot WWII references);
• a brief tangent about old timey margarine;
• lump locomotion & the lump-industrial complex;
• the Peanuts AU's Shyamalan-like roots;
• sports that we would watch trees play (other than baseball);
• Charlie Brown's cameo in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Ken Plume is the host of his own podcast, A Bit Of A Chat With Ken Plume. Listen to his chat with Molly about whatever and his chat with Josh about the new Monkees album.

Animator & writer Leigh Lahav brings a fresh perspective on Christmas, America, Stranger Things, and more in our annual revisit of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

##TALKING POINTS

• Snoopy, the Hello Kitty of North America;
• like when Neo learns Kung Fu in The Matrix, except it's Christmas;
• Googling "tweening," a totally SFW animation term;
• a giant silver bottle brush as tall as a man that you have to handle with gloves;
• dunking your hapless husband in a big old tank of America;
• Hot Judah Macabee, your next Halloween costume.

Our guest is Leigh Lahav, a writer, animator, director, and YouTube sensation. Watch her fantastic Stranger Things / CB Christmas mashup on her YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/onlyleigh |
@leighlahav.

##EXTRA CREDIT

• Hanukkah Star Trek parody
• no English subtitles available but still highly enjoyable
• "A Hanukkah Story" by Leigh Lahav, featuring hot Judah Macabee

Blandishment by Ken Plume.
Podcast art by Lar DeSouza.

Peanuts Gallery is a proud member of Waffle Media.

Content warning: This Peanuts special largely takes place in Snoopy's nightmare, so there is mention of dog death.

###Discussion topics:

• egg milk: what is it??;
• how to "under-dogify" your dog;
• why it is so hard to recreate dream logic in any medium;
• getting technical about harpy boobage;
• knowing neither when to hold 'em, nor when to fold 'em;
• the platonic relationships we have with our pets;
• Madame Cher's Parlour Of Hoochie-Coo & Flakin' The Nuggets;
• resigning yourself to the idea that you've raised sociopaths;
• an all-new totally bonkers fan theory that contains Meatlump Theory.

Manuel Gonzales is the author of the novel The Regional Office is Under Attack! and the acclaimed story collection The Miniature Wife, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. A graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program, he teaches writing at the University of Kentucky and the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has published fiction and nonfiction in Open City, Fence, One Story, Esquire, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and The Believer.

Blandishment by Ken Plume.
Podcast art by Lar DeSouza.

What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown is available for your home viewing on the Peanuts 1970's DVD collection, volume 2.

Peanuts Gallery is a proud member of Waffle Media.