Western Animation / He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown!

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The fifth Peanuts TV special, He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown! originally aired on CBS on February 14, 1968. It was the last of the Peanuts specials to feature the majority of the child actors who had put their voices to the first special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, from 1965.

In this special, Snoopy's been up to a lot of mischief and has been terrorizing most of the children. Charlie Brown decides to send Snoopy back to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm for a class in obedience. With it being a two-day walk to the farm, Charlie Brown asks Peppermint Patty to let Snoopy spend the night with her. Peppermint Patty agrees, but Snoopy instead uses this to ditch the obedience program and crash at her house, thinking the grass might be greener with a new master.

He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown! contains examples of:

• Actor Allusion: When Snoopy escapes from Peppermint Patty, he puts on a fake mustache similar to the one that was sported by his voice actor Bill Meléndez.
• Adaptational Jerkass: It's well documented throughout the series that Snoopy believes that the world is his oyster, and treats the other kids however he wants, but also highlights his positive traits at the same time. This special, however, brings his bad behavior to the forefront.
• Aesop Amnesia: The kids start to miss Snoopy while he's away. When he comes back, Snoopy hasn't changed since he left, and yet they're still happy with his return. They've forgotten that Charlie Brown sent Snoopy to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm specifically to train him to stop his bad behavior. Snoopy should have learned that he can't treat others horribly just for his own amusement.
• Berserk Button: Snoopy's becomes the leash, so much that he rips it apart when Charlie Brown brings it with him to get Snoopy home.
• Big Ball of Violence: Snoopy starts one with Peppermint Patty before leaving her house.
• Celebrity Paradox: While Snoopy is doing his chores, Peppermint Patty somehow reads a Peanuts comic book with Charlie Brown and Lucy at the psychiatric booth on the cover.
• A Day in the Limelight: Snoopy's first major role in a special. Also one for Peppermint Patty as well.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Charlie Brown really underestimated his dog's cleverness and should have realized Snoopy would not want to go to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm and that sending him alone would be more trouble than taking him there himself.
  • Snoopy decides to skip going to his obedience program and stay at Peppermint Patty's place, but he doesn't think about the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm calling Charlie Brown to tell him of his absence.
  • Snoopy doesn't consider that Peppermint Patty wouldn't exactly welcome him with open arms upon returning. She had grown sick of being his servant, so she has him do his fair share of chores inside the house and out.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: 
  • Peppermint Patty mentions having a mother in this TV special, when in the strips and in more recent material, Peppermint Patty has a Missing Mom (or an implied deceased mother); It's worth noting the special's airdate of 1968 pre-dates later references to Peppermint Patty not having a mother.
  • Snoopy's doghouse is usually for comedic purposes depicted as being Bigger on the Inside. Here, when Snoopy looks into his doghouse, it is normal-sized and empty without a single Van Gogh in sight.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Charlie Brown is hit by this when the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm calls him.
  Charlie: He didn't show up? But he left a week ago! I don't understand. He left, and was supposed to stop at Peppermint Patty's, then— (trails off, realizing exactly what happened, and immediately calls Peppermint Patty)
• Furry Reminder: When Snoopy is locked up in the garage, his animal instincts take over as he howls loudly. When Peppermint Patty is awoken, Snoopy gangs up on her and makes actual dog barking sounds.
• Jerkass Ball: Nearly the entire cast holds this ball at one point or another in this special.
  • The special focuses on Snoopy's jerkass behavior, acting up with the Peanuts gang. He physically attacks Charlie Brown, Linus and Peppermint Patty at least once.
  • Peppermint Patty treats Snoopy as a slave, though this could be seen as her giving Snoopy his just desserts for the way he treated her earlier.
  • Charlie Brown himself at one point nearly strangles Snoopy with a leash, which justifiably turns off Snoopy.
• Lazy Bum: Snoopy for the first week when he's at Peppermint Patty's. Doing nothing but lounging by her pool while she serves him root beers and does the dishes (complete with rude finger-snapping). When he returns after Charlie Brown tries to get him, however, Peppermint Patty forces Snoopy to do all of the household chores as payback for her cleaning up after him.
• Oh, Crap!: Snoopy has this when he finds out Charlie Brown's sending him to get a class in obedience.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: When Snoopy returns home, he puts on a fake mustache before revealing himself as a surprise. Charlie Brown sees him and doesn't recognize him until Snoopy takes off the mustache.
• Pin-Pulling Teeth: Snoopy, while getting away from Charlie Brown, uses a rock and pretends it's a grenade, complete with appropriate sound effects, and aims it at Linus' red wagon and runs away.
  Charlie Brown: What happened?
  Linus: I think I was attacked by an escaping prisoner.
• Recycled Animation: The WWI Flying Ace scene from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is reused at the beginning of the episode
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: While acting as the WWI Flying Ace, after the Red Baron pelts his "Sopwith Camel" with bullets, Snoopy retaliates by sneaking up on Violet and Patty passing by and "gunning" them down by saying, "Bang! Bang!"
• "Take That!" Kiss: Similar to the famous "Dog Germs" scene in A Charlie Brown Christmas, where Snoopy retaliates against Lucy's attempts to punch him by licking her, but dozens of times.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: Snoopy was only planning to stay at Peppermint Patty's house for the night, but it eventually turns into a whole week of him staying at her house. When he visits a second time, Patty has had enough of Snoopy's freeloading and starts making him "pull his own weight." This ultimately drives Snoopy to leave her for good.
• Title Drop: The Peanuts gang all express disgust at Snoopy's antics and blame Charlie Brown for it, like so:
  Kids in unison: Well, Charlie Brown?!
  Charlie Brown: Well what?
  Violet: That dog is impossible!
  Lucy: Charlie Brown, you've got to do something about that dog!
  Linus: It's up to you, Charlie Brown.
  Charlie Brown: Why me?
  Kids: (shouting) Because, (titles appear) HE'S YOUR DOG, CHARLIE BROWN!!!
• We Want Our Jerk Back!: Snoopy is sent away to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm (at least, that was the plan) when his antics finally go too far in annoying the other kids. After Snoopy's departure, however, the kids realize just how much they miss Snoopy's antics and want him to come home later.