Linus Explains The Great Pumpkin 1

Transcript

00:00 Dear Great Pumpkin, I'm looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night.

00:07 I hope you will bring me lots of presents.

00:11 Who are you writing to, Linus?

00:13 This is the time of year to write to the Great Pumpkin.

00:16 On Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of his pumpkin patch

00:20 and flies through the air with his bag of toys for all the children.

00:24 You must be crazy.

00:25 When are you going to stop believing in something that isn't true?

00:28 When you stop believing in that fellow with the red suit and the white beard

00:32 who goes ho, ho, ho.

00:35 We are obviously separated by denominational differences.

00:39 You must get discouraged because more people believe in Santa Claus than in you.

00:45 Well, let's face it, Santa Claus has had more publicity.

00:49 But being number two, perhaps you'll try harder.

00:53 [laughing]

01:04 Not again.

01:10 Writing a letter to a stupid pumpkin?

01:12 You make me the laughingstock of the neighborhood.

01:16 All they talk about is my little brother who always writes to the Great Pumpkin.

01:21 You better cut it out right now or I'll pound you.

01:25 There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people--

01:29 religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.

01:34 You're wasting your time. The Great Pumpkin is a fake.

01:39 Everyone tells me you are a fake, but I believe in you.

01:44 P.S. If you really are a fake, don't tell me. I don't want to know.

01:49 What are you doing, Linus?

01:51 I'd rather not say. You might laugh.

01:54 Oh, I never laugh at you, Linus. You're so intelligent.

01:59 I'm writing to the Great Pumpkin.

02:02 You say the cutest things.

02:05 On Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch

02:09 and flies through the air to bring toys to all the good little children everywhere.

02:14 Wouldn't you like to sit with me in the pumpkin patch on Halloween night

02:18 and wait for the Great Pumpkin?

02:20 Oh, I'd love to, Linus.

02:22 What's going on here? What are you trying to do to my little sister?

02:26 And how do you think you're going to mail that letter?

02:36 You can't possibly reach the mailbox.

02:44 And I'm not going to help you.

02:47 [music]