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That show is \"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,\" a Peanuts television special that first aired in 1966. On the screen you see a scruffy neighborhood of round-headed kids in simple costumes, orange leaves drifting down, and one boy named Linus sitting all night in a lonely pumpkin patch. The colors are soft, the drawings are gentle, and a jazzy piano keeps time behind it all. Somehow this quiet little half hour has stuck around for more than fifty years.  \nThat piano you keep hearing is no accident, and it belongs to a musician named Vince Guaraldi. He wrote the light, bouncy jazz that plays through the Peanuts specials, the kind of music that feels like autumn afternoons. The cartoons themselves came from Charles Schulz, the artist who drew the Peanuts comic strip in newspapers. Schulz worked with producer Lee Mendelson and animator Bill Melendez to turn his flat comic-strip characters into moving, talking figures. One clever choice they made was casting real children, not adults, to voice the kids, which is why the gang sounds so honestly young.  \nSounding young was easy, but making them move was slow, hard work. Back in the 1960s there were no computers drawing frames for the animators, so every picture was inked and painted by hand. Artists drew the characters on clear sheets called cels, laid them over painted backgrounds, and photographed them one frame at a time. To make Snoopy the dog wave a paw, someone had to draw that paw again and again in slightly different positions. A single half-hour special could take thousands of separate drawings, which is why animation like this felt almost like magic.  \nThat magic caught on faster than anyone expected, and audiences wanted more of it. The special followed the huge success of \"A Charlie Brown Christmas\"from the year before, so networks were eager for another Peanuts holiday show. Viewers loved that the story didn't talk down to them; Linus keeps his faith in the Great Pumpkin even when the other kids laugh, and the show lets him. That mix of humor and real feeling helped Peanuts specials become a yearly habit for families across the country. For decades, seeing it on television in October was a sign that Halloween had truly arrived.  \nA yearly habit is exactly what it became, and that is why it still matters today. Grandparents who watched it as children now sit with their own grandchildren to see Linus wait in the patch all over again. In a world of flashy digital effects, its hand-drawn look and soft jazz feel refreshingly calm and human. The special has been honored in television history and continues to air and stream every autumn. 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Its calm, human style feels refreshing next to flashy digital effects. |  |  |  |  | 4.  \u003Cbr>5.  \u003Cbr>6.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) Who wrote the jazz music heard throughout the Peanuts specials?\u003Cbr>A. Bill Melendez B. Vince Guaraldi\u003Cbr>C. Lee Mendelson D. 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