Lost Scenes From <i>A Charlie Brown Christmas</i>

Lucy tries primal scream therapy; raises fee to six cents. Schroeder goes "electric," Pete Seeger chases after him with an axe. Russians launch surprise first strike, Linus and Lucy catch nuclear ash on their tongues
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- Lucy tries primal scream therapy; raises fee to six cents

- Schroeder goes "electric," Pete Seeger chases after him with an axe

- Russians launch surprise first strike, Linus and Lucy catch nuclear ash on their tongues

- Snoopy's Sopwith Camel is shot down over Hanoi; he later writes bestseller It Was a Dark and Stormy Tet

- Woodstock lands on monkey bars, then attacks Tippi Hedren

- Christmas play is cancelled; instead, Charlie Brown stages The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

- Original Dolly Madison snack cakes genetically engineered by Monsanto

- Violet trips on LSD-laced gingerbread men, thinks she's Mary Worth

- Pig-Pen joins commune, studies soil erosion

- When Peanuts gang skates, Charlie Brown is haunted by psychic vision that the ice is gonna break

- Adults' "wah wah" voices changed to Gershon Kingsley's Popcorn

- Marcie joins Hells Angels, becomes property of Peppermint Patty

- Santa Claus-Great Pumpkin Extreme Smackdown

- Linus sets himself on fire to protest persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnamese; Lucy turns his security blanket into a Nehru jacket; Sally, distraught, runs away to Canada with Franklin

- "Good grief" replaced by "The revolution will not be televised"

- Shermy kills Sharon Tate, claims he heard messages in Vince Guaraldi music

- Linus tells interviewer the Peanuts gang is more popular than Jesus

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