I love the Peanuts Halloween and Christmas specials... But the Thanksgiving one is cool, too! Love the menu!!!
Hi,
pudinhd!
I think the Thanksgiving special was better than the New Year's special. I barely remember anything that happened in the New Year's special at all. The Halloween and Christmas specials are the best, though. Even the Valentine's Day special was pretty cute (I can't get that teacher's "voice" out of my head).
I'm joining in! I've actually been lurking around this thread for a while and getting all caught up. It has me super psyched for our holiday trip!
We're going November 25th through the 29th, which means we'll be there on Thanksgiving Day! So excited. We've been to the DLR during the holiday season several times (it's our tradition to go every year in December), but we've never been for Thanksgiving before... I know the crowds will probably be horrific, but the Thanksgiving food offerings might make up for it
Christmastime is by far my favorite time to visit! It's just wonderful.
Also, what you said, Sherry, about Thanksgiving was very interesting!:
Very true! I remember when I was little, I absolutely hated Thanksgiving. I'm from a small family, and most of my extended family lives really far away, so my parents didn't do any kind of big gatherings. I didn't like the food, either, or the lack of presents (what kid doesn't want presents? Lol). I really just wanted Halloween to lead right into Christmas and get rid of November entirely!
Now that I'm older (and more of a foodie...), I've learned to appreciate it more for some of the "smaller" things that make it great. Spending it this year in Disneyland will, I'm sure, make it even better.
Another reason I disliked Thanksgiving as a little kid! I
adore the Charlie Brown Christmas and Halloween specials (the Halloween one has to be my favorite of the two, though I love them both -- that "I got a rock!" line cracks me up every time!), but I never cared much for the Thanksgiving one.
There's not really any great Thanksgiving specials or movies that I watch each year, unlike Christmas and Halloween. As you said, a lot of them are pretty forgettable! One thing I do like are the
Friends Thanksgiving episodes. They're easily some of the most hilarious
Friends episodes, and always manage to get me in a Thanksgiving mood.
Anyway, I'm so glad to have found this thread! Hopefully, it'll help get me through this miserable summer. I, like some of the others that have posted here, am not at all a summer person and never have been. Nor am I a hot weather person
The promise of autumn and winter being just a few months away is the only thing getting me through the heatwave that's going on where I live right now...
Welcome,
Natara!
I'm so glad you joined us. I hope you will find this thread fun and informative as we march ahead with the Theme Week Countdown beginning in a few weeks, and the excitement of any holiday season-related news trickling in!
A Thanksgiving trip sounds great -- seeing as you are used to going in December (as am I), I wonder if you will enjoy your Thanksgiving trip more or less than your usual December visits. It will be interesting to hear your comparison and thoughts when you get back.
You know, last year -- based on comments I read -- there seemed to be a bit of a shift in crowds, to where Thanksgiving and the couple of days immediately surrounding it were apparently not
as crowded as expected. Some reports indicated that it was quite crowded, but other people said it was not.
So you never know -- you may be in for a bit of good luck as far as crowds go. I tend to think that a fair number of people are moving away from visiting DLR over Thanksgiving because they expect that it will be a madhouse, and moving into early December because it has been known to be a slightly less crazy time.
I have to agree -- as a child I was not keen on Thanksgiving, and I think I have much more of an appreciation for it now than I did then. I am also from a small family, as you are, and many of my Thanksgivings were spent going to the houses of distant relatives, or work friends of my parents. I didn't want to spend time with any of those people -- I wanted to stay home and watch the
Twilight Zone marathons that used to run on regular, non-cable TV!
I wasn't all that keen on the food back then either -- turkey was okay and cranberry sauce was okay, but I didn't like much else beyond that.
And I also agree -- I wanted to just skip right ahead from Halloween to Christmas too, or to whatever point in the month it was when the tree went up and the stockings were hung!
With maturity and wisdom, I have grown to enjoy the whole holiday season -- of which Thanksgiving is a huge part, of course -- and the build-up to Christmas after Halloween passes.
I think that Thanksgiving can be a huge success or a big headache, depending on the company you're with and where you spend the holiday (and Disneyland will be a great place to spend it!!). If you're with the right people in the right place, or if you're just doing something you love doing, it's great. If you're stuck with a bunch of people you would never want to have dinner with on any other day of the year, it can be a long, agonizing several hours!
You know, I haven't watched the
Friends Thanksgiving episodes in years and years -- but I remember laughing uproariously at one of them (Phoebe was saying something hilarious), and I cannot remember which one it was. I might have to watch them again this year.
I love the "I got a rock" line!
Poor Charlie Brown.
Last year I recall stumbling upon some sort of Thanksgiving special, along the lines of what you might see for Christmas or for Halloween on TLC or on the Travel Channel. It was all about elaborate ways people celebrate Thanksgiving, and... I was bored!
I thought, "Oh, this looks like one of those fun
Extreme Christmas or
Halloween to the Extreme shows, but for Thanksgiving! I'll watch it!"
And, let's just say, even though the idea of a Thanksgiving-based show along the lines of what is done for Halloween and Christmas is a good one, there is a reason why we don't see a wave of those sorts of shows about Thanksgiving popping up every year. It is just not a holiday that makes for good "reality TV." It doesn't carry that same -- for lack of a better word -- excitement that the other holidays carry, which is sad.
You're another kindred spirit in the 'heat hate'!
I just know there are many of us out there, afraid to come forth and admit to disliking heat and summer because so many people love it! I would love summer if it could just stay at a nice, reasonable temperature (70 degrees, maximum) -- I can get into summery things when it is not sweltering outside and when the sun isn't so harsh. Unfortunately, though, I have always been one of those super heat-resistant people, even as a child, so I just can't deal with it. My tolerance for heat is very low, so it doesn't take much sun to make me miserable.
Yes, indeed, the promise of autumn and winter being right around the corner (though it seems like a really long time) is what gets me through as well! Summer is merely the vessel to carry us into fall -- which is when the real fun begins!
Someone always has to miss out on something, somewhere! But if you can access/view The Mistle-Tones and Snowglobe on the ABC Family website via that link I posted (they're there now through July 9th), I think you'd get a kick of out them. They're pretty cute.
-- and I ordered one of them as the actual decal (which has a blue background) to be mailed.
We received our decal yetserday, also, but I haven't opened it yet. I do think the "Select nights" is very interesting wording!! I wish they would just spill the beans already!!!
But I think I've said that before. It would allow us to see the non-Christmas stuff as well as the Christmas stuff, all in one trip. That's a real bonus to those of us who can't get there more than once a year. But the best part is that it would be an awesome way to supplement that dang 5 day ticket they limit us to.
