ofpsmith Snoopy (Bill Melendez) is uncharacteristically acting like a jerk, so Charlie Brown (Peter Robbins) decides to send him back to the Daisy Hills Puppy Farm for a crash course in obedience. But when Snoopy leaves, he ends up crashing at Peppermint Patty's (Gabrielle DeFaria Ritter) house instead. When Charlie gets a call from the Daisy Hills Puppy Farm informing him that Snoopy is not there, Charlie deduces where Snoopy is. Snoopy meanwhile is living off of Peppermint Patty to the point where she decides to start having him carry his own weight around. Snoopy is eventually tasked with so many chores that he decides to leave and makes his way back to Charlie and the rest of the kids. The short is the usually Peanuts formula and I find it to be a good short, although it's definitely one of the weaker ones from the '60s. This is not to say it's bad, but it's not the best one from the time it was made. Then again it is hard to top the Christmas special and A Boy Named Charlie Brown. It's a good 22 minutes so I'd recommend it.

AaronCapenBanner Fifth animated special based on the Charles M. Schulz cartoon strips is one of the best non-holiday ones, about how Snoopy is acting up as summer break begins, causing Charlie Brown's friends to complain, and forcing him to send Snoopy back to the Daisy Hill puppy farm but instead ends up at Peppermint Patty's house, where he proceeds to become a freeloader! After Charlie's attempt to bring Snoopy home go awry, Patty gets back at Snoopy by forcing him to do all the chores she can think of, making Snoopy appreciate Charlie and his friends like never before. Funny special is warm and witty, with the priceless way Patty calls Snoopy that "funny looking kid with the big nose".

Shawn Watson Ol' Blockhead must be giving Snoopy too much sugar as he's way more hyper than usual at the beginning of this 1968 TV special. The rest of the Peanut's gang are sick of Snoopy's antics and demand that Chuck sort it out. Feeling that his only option is to send Snoops back to Daisy Hill Puppy Farm for some discipline training he makes the necessary arrangements. But Snoops instead spends the time with Peppermint Patty being spoiled rotten.Patty soon tires of Snoopy's laziness and turns into an authoritarian nightmare, driving the mutt to madness. Meanwhile the rest of the gang mourn Snoopy's absence, annoyance or not.This special deviates from the usual tone as it shows the bad side of the Peanut's gang. Though I do find that stories that focus on Snoopy or Woodstock tend to be less satirical and involving.

Templeton Moss This is not a great special. Clearly, it was made very early in the history of Peanuts animation and has the same style as "A Charlie Brown Christmas." I don't care for it because it shows each character's bad side. It shows Snoopy as a free-loading, Charlie-Brown hating jerk. It shows Peppermint Patty as a dictatorial slavedriver. It shows Charlie Brown as a (shudder) "dog-owner!" That leash! Oy gevalt! So maybe it's good that this one is overlooked. Although, when Snoopy returns and fights with Lucy only to have her say, "He's back!" after surrendering, that's a fun moment