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

Glenn Gilger: Linus van Pelt

Quotes 

• Lucy : Look at this, a big yellow butterfly. It's unusual to see one of those at this time of year, unless of course, it flew up from Brazil. I'll bet that's it. They DO that sometimes, you know. They fly up from Brazil, and they...

  Linus : [interrupting]  This is no butterfly, this is a potato chip.

  Lucy : Well, I'll be, so it is. I wonder how a potato chip got all the way up here from Brazil?

• Linus : [after swatting a bee with his blanket that was previously after Violet]  Not unlike Robin Hood.

• Shermy : Hey, there's a spider on that log!

  Linus : WAAH!

  [falls down with the logs] 

  Shermy : I'm sorry I was wrong, it was just a piece of bark.

  Shermy : Hey, I was right, there really is a spider on that log!

  Linus : WAAH!

  [falls again with the logs] 

  Shermy : I'm sorry I was wrong again, it was just an old cocklebur.

• Lucy : Come on, we'll be late for school.

  [Linus catches up] 

  Lucy : Did you wash your hands? Let's see your fingernails.

  [stops and looks at Linus's hand] 

  Lucy : They're clean! How'd you get your fingernails so clean?

  Linus : Toothpaste.

• [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.

• 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!

• Linus : [writing his essay; voicdeover]  The worst was yet to come. It was bad enough at having been so thoroughly thrashed in softball. But there were plans for a nature hike the next day. The campfire activity - was a dismal failure.

• Linus : Ms. Halverson, could you repeat our assignment?

  [teacher talks] 

  Linus : Write a 500-word page on what we did this summer? How do you teachers keep coming up with these great new ideas?

• 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.

• Linus : [after Snoopy leaves the table, gagging on spaghetti]  Where on earth is Snoopy going? He's gotta eat; who's gonna feed him?

• 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]