The Peanuts gang is celebrating 50 years since the original debut of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” on NBC (1965). Known for it’s heartwarming scene where Linus tells us of the true meaning of Christmas and of all the shenanigans that go on while Charlie Brown tries to cheer himself up for the Christmas season by directing the Christmas play has made it a legend and the second most popular Christmas special after “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”.

19 Things “A Charlie Brown Christmas” has given/taught us:

1. Peanuts are the best dancers ever
2. Linus warned us of Black Friday (“Not only is Christmas becoming to commercialized, it’s becoming to dangerous”)
3. Bigger is not always better
4. The best version of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”
5. Everyone needs a dog like Snoopy
6. How to play “Jingle Bells” on the piano
7. Beethoven isn’t on a bubble gum card
8. Every neighborhood needs a low cost psychiatrist
9. Panophobia is the fear of everything
10. Snow tastes best in January (Thanks Lucy)
11. It can be professional to have a blanket as an adult
12. Dogs can voice multiple animals
13. Adults are irrelevant (Wah wah wah)
14. What Christmas is really about (Thanks Linus)
15. Christmas has become about commercialism
16. Dogs can ice skate
17. Freida has naturally curly hair
18. Lucy’s 5 reasons to listen to her and obey (Hint: it deals with her five fingers