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Snoopy Double Feature Vol. 2 (He's Your Dog/It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown) [VHS]

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We own several of the Peanuts Double Feature videos, and this one is our kids' favorite.

The first program, "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown" is one of the earliest Peanuts specials and is my favorite of the two episodes on the tape. Snoopy's initial, ornery mischief-making is quite humorous, and his eventual taming by Peppermint Patty is a nice lesson in responsibility and gratitude. It's classic Schultz that many parents(like me) will find both nostalgic and funny.

The second, "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown!," seems dated to me in certain respects (particularly the disco theme), but is far and away the kids' (ages 6 and 3) favorite. Flashbeagle is the most musical of all the Peanuts special outings, with a number of catchy, character-specific songs that never fail to get our daughters up and dancing (our 3-year-old now sings along with "Listen to Lucy").

This is a solid Peanuts tape worth having in your kids' video library.

Hee Hee. I'm definitely going to get this one. The Flashbeagle one is hilarious! I still have the beta version that I recorded off of tv when I was a kid. I love the scene where he dances at a disco, it is very funny. Doesn't have much of a plot but the 80's music and all in all good fun time that snoopy has...Well it makes it worth it. Enjoy :)

You've GOT to own this video, just to have the "Flashbeagle" episode, if nothing else. "He's your Dog..." is a good flick, but without a doubt, "Flashbeagle" will make you forget about it, because it ROCKS---literally! All the song's from "Pepperment Patty's PE Program" to "Lucy Says" and of course the title song give this Peanuts episode all the makings of the 80's MTV/music video craze (which was the big thing when this episode first aired). I'm 26 now, and I remember it when it was first out--and when I see it, it just takes me back--it's awesome! It's a delight for all ages! I highly recommend it.

my kids can't get enough of this video. my 7 yr.old loves lucy's says and wants me to forward the tape to the party.
my 4 yr old loves snoopy when snoopy play fight with lucy by
licking her. he sometime plays like he's snoopy and does the
same thing. great laughs all around.

I love the song Lucy's the Boss. Brings back so many memories. My grandchildren can now appreciate Charlie Brown and his lessons on life.

I bought one of these thingys for around $60 which seemed fair for a snoopy movie but it won't even fit in my DVD player! At first glance, the huge rectangular piece of plastic looked too big for the slot, but at $60 I was determined to make it work. But no matter how hard I pressed, it wouldn't go in. Then I noticed, looking through the window that this kind of DVD comes all wound up on a little spool inside the rectangle. Took me a while to figure out the spring-loaded door but I managed to pull out some of this "DVD tape" and feed it into my DVD player. Still no picture. Now the seller won't take it back because it's "damaged". Well who's gonna fix the damage to my DVD player? Huh? Never buying from those crooks again!

I've been a Snoopy fan literally all my life, and I don't imagine that it will ever change.
"He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown" - an enjoyable tale about Snoopy being sent back to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm for a little refresher course in obedience, which he instead turns into a vacation at Peppermint Patty's house, though after Charlie Brown attempts to take him home, and he refuses, Patty turns the tables on him, and puts him to work, until Snoopy learns a lesson (of sorts). - This is one of the older productions from the Snoopy specials, as evidenced by the artwork which is similar to the Charlie Brown Christmas special. I had a vinyl kid's record of this when I was real young (No, I'm not THAT old! CD's were just beginning to come out at the time!), and seeing it brings very fond memories.

"It's Flash Beagle, Charlie Brown" has been, and remains to this day, one of my TOP favorites out of all the specials! I was in the first grade when it aired on TV, and I loved dancing along with the musical numbers at the time. However, the reason I'm only rating this video at 4 stars, instead of 5, is because of what Paramount did to this when processing it for sale - during the original TV airing of this episode, during Snoopy's dance scenes, there were a lot of cool music video visual fx, such as freeze-framing Snoopy into 5 pix in the corners, pixellating Snoopy in the schoolroom scene in time to the lyrics, and spinning the picture around really fast as he danced. But for reasons that I canNOT for the life of me figure out, Paramount REMOVED them! WHY?! Those FX were so appropriate for the era that Flash Beagle was made, and Paramount's removal of them hurts the episode's impact.

I'm glad to finally have these two episodes in my collection, but Paramount's sabotage of one of my top favorite episodes hurt the enjoyment a fair amount.

If they ever get smart and do what the books companies are doing with the Peanuts strips, they'll release the Peanuts specials all in a single (or a few) set(s)and RESTORE that original version of Flash Beagle!

This is my favorite Peanuts classic special,I hope it comes to DVD,soon.My favorite is the song Flashbeagle,I love the way Snoopy dances,Peppermint Patty's P.A. Program.

The first special on this VHS, HE'S YOUR DOG, basically, in a word, sucks. The plot revolves around Snoopy needing to go to obedience school due to his bratty behavior. The story and dialogue are poorly written, and the animation is poor. Snoopy is such an unsympathetic character that the viewer doesn't care what hapens to him. The only redeeming things about this are some of the backgraound art and Vince Guaraldi's great soundtrack.

On the other hand FLASHBEAGLE is overall great, probably one of the 10 best specials of all time. This is like a Peanuts homage to musicals. At times the "dancing" looks stiff and awkward; however, this is probably the best animation you can expect when dealing with characters whose limbs are like macaroni. A lot of the songs are quite catchy, like the "Flashbeagle" theme song, "Listen to Lucy", and "Pigpen Hoedown".

I love Flash Beagle!!!! I remember I had a folder that I took with me to school when I was in 5th grade. Flashbeagle is worth purchasing it. As for He's your dog, it's ok, very weak 1/2 peanuts special. More important, it's still entertaining!!