It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown (1969 TV Short)

Peter Robbins: Charlie Brown

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Linus : Oh well, it was a short summer, Charlie Brown.

  Charlie Brown : And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter.

• [repeated line] 

  Charlie Brown : All right, everybody, move it along, hup-hup-hup.

• Charlie Brown : Do you know why English teachers go to college for four years?

  Linus : No.

  Charlie Brown : Well then, I'll tell you why English teachers go to college for four years.

  [Yelling] 

  Charlie Brown : So they can learn how to make stupid little kids write stupid essays about what they did all stupid summer!

• Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : Eagle claws! OK Chuck, we'll take our outs to bat.

  Charlie Brown : Eagle claws?

  Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : You guys shag 'em for us.

  Charlie Brown : Eagle claws?

• Charlie Brown : [after he introduces Snoopy as the Masked Marvel to the other boys]  Snoopy, we're going to have to put you through training. With a lot of scientific body-building exercises, plus a training tape recorder for you. No more gourmet meals. You'll have to eat with us to get a lot of good nourishment: oatmeal, spaghetti, macaroni, corned beef, chipped beef - bleah...

• Lucy : What's with Sally?

  Charlie Brown : Poor Sally's so nervous that if someone mentioned "kindergarten", I bet she'd jump thirty feet in the air.

  Lucy : Kindergarten.

  [Sally launches into the air like a rocket] 

  Lucy : Hmmm. Only ten feet.

  [Sally lands on the ground with a thud] 

  Lucy : I knew you were exaggerating.

• Girls : [in unison]  Hey, manager, are you the boys' champeen? You better be better at wrist-wrestling than you are at swimming, or ball-playing, or canoeing, or running, or jumping, or pillow-fighting, or sack-racing, or basketball-playing, or field hockey, or volleyball!

  Charlie Brown : [exasperated]  Good grief.

• [teacher talks] 

  Charlie Brown : My essay? Yes, ma'am. I have it right here. But I couldn't write 500 words. I only wrote 13.

  [teacher responds] 

  Charlie Brown : Detail? Yes. I suppose I could've gone into more detail. But with the kind of summers I have, it's best you try to forget the details.

• Charlie Brown : [voiceover]  Well, here I am standing in my first chow line. Lunch is gonna taste good.

  Kid : What's your name, kid?

  Charlie Brown : [turning to him and smiling]  Charlie Brown.

  Kid : HEY, GET A LOAD OF THE KID WITH THE FUNNY NAME!

  Charlie Brown : Lunch is gonna taste awful.

• Charlie Brown : But Mom made a lunch for you and packed it in this new lunchbox.

  Sally Brown : Mom bought me a *new* lunchbox? Well, if Mom went through all that trouble and expense of getting me a new lunchbox, I better go to school.

  [yelling] 

  Sally Brown : BUT THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I'M GOING!

• [first lines] 

  Charlie Brown : Come on, Sally, it's time to go to school.

  Sally Brown : Not for me.

  Charlie Brown : What do you mean "not for you"?

  Charlie Brown : I went yesterday.

• Sally Brown : Isn't there any way I can get out of starting kindergarten?

  Charlie Brown : I doubt it, Sally. Everybody has to go to school.

  Sally Brown : There must be *some* way around it. Do you think maybe I can get a deferment?

• Lucy : I've signed everyone up for summer camp.

  Charlie Brown , Linus , Schroeder , Pigpen : [in unison]  Camp, everyone?

  Lucy : There's to be no discussion and no need to thank me.

  Charlie Brown : I feel like I've been drafted.

  Schroeder : If I can't take my piano, I won't go!

  Linus : [hysterically nervous]  Camp? Camp? Those summer camps are always out in the woods someplace! And those woods are all full of queen snakes!

  [tossing his book aside and pulling Charlie Brown by the collar repeatedly] 

  Linus : Have you ever been chomped by a queen snake? You're not getting me near any woods full of queen snakes! No, sir! Not me!

  Lucy : I'll tell your parents you'll all be happy to go.

  Charlie Brown , Linus , Schroeder , Pigpen : AAUGH!

• Linus : [voiceover]  So here I am on the bus headed for camp.

  Charlie Brown : [voiceover]  Well, here I am on the bus going to camp.

  Linus : I'll no sooner step off the bus and I'll be chomped by a queen snake.

  [out loud] 

  Linus : Why do they send little kids to camp who don't wanna go? What if my mother and father move away while I'm gone and don't tell me? I'm doomed.

  Charlie Brown : [out loud]  We've been shanghaied.

• Linus : [narrating]  The first day at camp did not auger well. Somebody picked a leader for our tent.

  Charlie Brown : As you are aware, I've been chosen your tent leader and activities chairman. I feel my valuable experience at baseball managing will stand us in good stead.

  Linus , Shermy : Good grief.

• Charlie Brown : What a thrashing. And in softball, my strongest point.

• Charlie Brown : Wow, look at all those stars.

  [as Linus picks up the fallen logs he carried earlier] 

  Charlie Brown : Boy, I bet they're having a good time up there tonight. It looks like they're really living it up.

  Shermy : What makes you say that, Charlie Brown?

  Charlie Brown : They've got all the lights on.

• Shermy : Hey, Charlie Brown! They're having a canoe race!

  Charlie Brown : A canoe race? C'mon, Snoopy! If we can win the canoe race, everyone'll forget about the softball game! We'll show 'em, Snoopy! We'll get in this canoe, we'll win this race and we'll be heroes!

  [Charlie Brown gets into the canoe and starts rowing while Snoopy is on the end of the canoe looking forward] 

  Charlie Brown : [as he stops paddling repeatedly]  Actually, I had planned for you to help me with the paddling.

• Charlie Brown : [resuming his paddling]  We're gonna win this canoe race, Snoopy, or we're gonna die trying! I'm gonna paddle, and paddle, and paddle, and... Phew!

  [collapses] 

  Charlie Brown : I'm exhausted. I feel like I've paddled a hundred miles.

  [sits up in wonder] 

  Charlie Brown : I wonder if we won.

  Shermy : No, but you got four feet from the dock.

• Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : [yelling]  Hey, there's a bug in your hair, Charlie Brown!

  Charlie Brown : [frantic]  Where? Where? Brush it off!

  Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : That's alright, it's gone now.

  Charlie Brown : That's the one thing I hate about all this outdoor living!

  Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt : Well, don't worry, it's not in your hair anymore. It fell down your neck.

• Charlie Brown : Shermy, you've got to come up with something that we can win at. Isn't there a champion that will come forth and uphold the right?

• Charlie Brown : [after the boys are defeated by the girls at the swimming race]  Well troops, that was a sorry performance this morning out on the lake. But we won't let it discourage us. It isn't like we lost a ball game or something really important.

  Linus : [dejected]  It's like we were in a disaster.

  Charlie Brown : And at any rate, I think we can look forward to a hearty lunch, then a rousing softball game. Perhaps we should seek revenge for this morning's fiasco by challenging the girls' camp to a softball game.

  [the other boys dance and cheer]