Snoop's Got It

Ever seen the animated special "It's Magic, Charlie Brown"? I hadn't either but found it at Video World, the last remaining outpost of DVD (and video!) rental in Gliwice, and rented it as part of a serious effort this month to engage more actively with the Polish language-- OK actually I decided to rent it before seeing that it had no English audio (was kind of inspired by a recent essay on the more famous classic 60s and 70s specials in Slate magazine, as well as a general vogue for comics and cartoons among my friends, family, random internet crushes etc. lately) but found the slog worthwhile-- in fact it's the first American cartoon dubbed in Polish (or another language) where not only did the foreign sound not jar, but I barely even noticed its foreignness. Of course they got some things wrong, like remember how the voice of Peppermint Pattie was so obviously a dude (come to think of it, wasn't Peppermint Pattie just a bad idea generally-- or was it some kind of sick genius to have this almost Highsmithian stalker-psychopath hanging around)? Well, in this one Charlie Brown's voice was obviously a lady, but somehow that didn't irk. I also was somewhat shocked by Charlie Brown's own rather sociopathic behavior in Magic, when invisible (anticipating Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man, which title is easy to confuse with the much different Glimmer Man); and then his atypically un-Christian stance at the end. Did Schulz know about this? Still, it was kind of fun.