That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown,” Linus said. Click here for a FREE subscription to Todd’s newsletter: a must-read for Conservatives!

“Charlie Brown,” Linus tells him, “you’re the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy’s right.

To celebrate 55 years of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Jean shared some other stories behind a television gift that keeps on giving, from the absence of Santa Claus to Snoopy’s mischievous streak.

Ahem. Yes, that’s right: you’ve just read a parody of Linus Van Pelt’s famous speech in “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” which – no joke – premiered 50 years ago, on December 9, 1965.