- Director: Bill Melendez
- Year: 1966
Overview
Linus believes in the Great Pumpkin, a mythological figure who flies around on Halloween night delivering toys to good children. He decides to skip trick-or-treating to wait in a local pumpkin patch, and he convinces Sally to join him. The rest of the neighborhood kids go trick-or-treating and attend a Halloween party, where Charlie Brown repeatedly receives rocks instead of candy. Sally eventually loses her patience and leaves Linus alone in the cold patch when the Great Pumpkin fails to appear. Linus remains committed to his belief, shivering in the patch until his sister Lucy drags him home.
Takeaways
Linus misses out on all the fun and candy of trick-or-treating to wait for a character that might not even exist. He is convinced that the Great Pumpkin will show up if he can just find a pumpkin patch that is sincere enough. Sally joins him because she likes him, but she leaves when she realizes she is getting nothing out of it. Charlie Brown has a rough night, getting nothing but rocks at every house, showing how he always seems to get the short end of the stick.