When you’re a grown up, you can’t exactly go door-to-door getting candy any more.
If there were ever one day of the calendar year that genuinely did and still does matter what day of the week it falls under, no matter how old you get, it’s Halloween. When you’re a kid the best day of the week to go Trick r Treating on is easily Friday. It’s the start to the weekend, your parents will hopefully let you stay up even later than usual.
Once you return home to compare who got the most candy put in their bag, you can binge on as much sugar as you want, because the following morning is a Saturday. So, you won’t have to go to school. The Friday night before the actual weekend is the best part. If Halloween night unfortunately falls on a Sunday, as a kid, you’re thinking how jealous you are of your BFF who gets the following day off to enjoy all their spoils. While you have to suffer in school.
When you’re a grown up, you can’t exactly go door-to-door getting candy any more. The trade-off here though, is you get to go to parties. With costumes, and booze, and weed. If Halloween night doesn’t fall on a Saturday, then the Saturday before Halloween in almost all cases because the go-to “Adult Halloween Party. With costumes, booze and weed. It does genuinely irritate me that the Halloween Parties that do happen almost never happen on October 31st. I get it, the weekend is the best time for it, but still. October 25th is not the same. Oh boy, you must be fun at parties. You bet I am.
I just keep this irritating fact to myself. While I dance and smoke and drink from 9PM to 5AM. Honestly impressed I can still party like I used to in my twenties. At least I can, until I wake up the next morning. Where everything hurts and I’m dying. It’s been nearly a week since, and I can still feel the fog.
It can be particularly tough to find “the right seasonal film” to watch during a specific calendar event. It is Halloween and the month of October, so horror movies are the obvious choice for all manner of spooky frights. Then again, not everyone likes horror movies, so what’s the best, safest option for All Hallow’s Eve?
No matter how older you get, one thing you’re never too old for, is Peanuts. And no, I don’t mean the salty treat that may or may not put you into anaphylactic shock. I mean the utterly charming characters originally created by Charles Schultz way back when. he Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, of course! For being a 25-minute short film from 1966, the entire thing holds up incredibly well. The animation remains charming and well thought out. One could argue it “looks a little too simplistic”, but that’s a large part of Peanuts charm. There’s a real art and genuine dedication to the work done in any bit of Peanuts animation.
Charlie Brown getting nothing but rocks in his trick r treat bag. Snoopy having fighter pilot WWI fantasies with the Red Baron Doghouse. Lucy assuring Charlie Brown she won’t pull the football away from his foot this time because she has a “signed document”. And of course, Linus with the charming and derided belief that The Great Pumpkin will indeed show himself this year.
The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the perfect bit of entertainment to sit down and enjoy on the actual Halloween night when you’re too old to Trick R Treat, and your body still hates you for drinking and partying from a week ago. It’s great to watch sober. And even better to watch when you’re high.
And as always, get up early the following morning on November 1st, as all of the leftover candy at the stores will be severely on sale with monetary amounts slashed to absolute ribbons! You’re welcome!
Mary-Jane
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