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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

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October 30, 2021 | Updated: September 16, 2022 | Laura

Watch It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown while eating these two delicious and pumpkin-filled recipes! For dinner, have a big bowl of homemade pumpkin noodles covered in a white cheddar pumpkin pasta sauce. For dessert, enjoy a boozy pumpkin pie milkshake. These recipes are great for fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving!

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown Movie Night

"Dear Great Pumpkin, I am looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night. I hope you will bring me lots of presents."

I hold every single Charlie Brown episode near and dear to my heart. I grew up watching these classic episodes, and it really just isn't the holidays even today if I don't watch them.

They are so wholesome, and Charlie Brown and the gang keeps my heart beating. It's feel-good television at its finest.

Of course, I had to go with some very pumpkin-y recipes in honor of The Great Pumpkin.

31 Days of Halloween

These Great Pumpkin themed recipes were created for my 31 Days of Halloween where every day in October I come up with Halloween snacks and drink recipe to pair with horror films, Halloween movies, or a Halloween activity. It's so much fun and a great way to celebrate the spooky holiday.

→ Check out the entire 31 Days of Halloween!

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Fun Facts

Find these facts plus more over on Wikipedia's It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Page and on Town & Country!

✽ Release Date: October 27, 1966

✽ This was the 3rd Peanuts special and 2nd holiday-themed special following A Charlie Brown Christmas.

✽ The show's sponsers were Coca-Cola and Dolly Madison brand of baked snack food.

✽ It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1966.

✽ For years after the show aired, many kids sent Halloween candy to Schulz's California studio because they felt sorry for Charlie Brown when he only recieved rocks in his Halloween sack.

✽ During one scene, you can see Lucy reading the TV Guide which has a picture of herself on the cover.

✽ Kathy Steinberg, who voiced Sally, had a loose front tooth halfway through filming. They rushed her in that night to finish her lines worried that she would have a lisp if it fell out.

Looking for more Halloween recipes that pair with popular scary movies or Halloween movies?

→ Check out all of my recipes that pair with movies!

Let's now talk about my food and drink I created for my It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown movie night!

Boozy Pumpkin Pie Milkshake

Charlie Brown Cocktail

This milkshake has all those pumpkin pie flavors, is full of booze, and has ice cream. I mean, it's a win-win-win.

It contains real pumpkin for a strong pumpkin flavor and is made with a homemade vanilla simple syrup. For the booze- spiced rum and Irish cream.

Make it even more fun and give your milkshake glass a pumpkin pie spice rim.

✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Boozy Pumpkin Pie Milkshake

Homemade Pumpkin Pasta with Cheesy Pumpkin Sauce

Great Pumpkin Dinner

This is one of the most comforting dishes I've ever created. The noodles are homemade pumpkin noodles with enough pumpkin that you can actually taste it. The noodles may take some time to make, but let me tell you, it's so worth it.

Those pumpkin noodles are then covered in a homemade thick pumpkin pasta sauce filled with tomatoes, seasonings, cream, browned butter, and my favorite, white cheddar cheese.

This is the perfect fall dinner. I think Linus and The Great Pumpkin would agree.

✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Homemade Pumpkin Pasta with Pumpkin Sauce

Get those noodles in some boiling water, your booze into that pumpkin milkshake, and get ready for It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Category: Movie-themed Recipes, Cocktails, Fall, Lunch & Dinner
Keywords: charlie brown recipe, the great pumpkin recipe, charlie brown cocktail, halloween recipes, pumpkin milkshake recipe, homemade pumpkin noodles recipe, cheesy pumpkin sauce, fall dinner ideas, halloween dinner recipes

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More Halloween Movie Inspired Recipes:

✽ Casper (a ghost egg breakfast with a spiced white lady cocktail)
✽ Frankenweenie (a spicy green relish hot dog served with a green avocado margarita)
✽ Halloweentown (all the cozy vibes with homemade apple cider and pumpkin-shaped pumpkin hand pies)
→ Check out all of my movie-themed recipes!

Bon appétit!

October 30, 2021 by Laura Ehlers

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