Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown

''Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown'' is the twenty-second prime-time animated television special based upon the popular comic strip ''Peanuts,'' by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on the CBS network on October 30, 1981.

This is the only time Charlie Brown is voiced by Grant Wehr, which is his only acting credit. Wehr failed to reprise his role for the subsequent ''Peanuts'' cartoons as his voice was too coarse for the character. Michael Mandy returned as Charlie Brown's voice for the final time in ''A Charlie Brown Celebration''. The special has retrospectively been received negatively.

Synopsis

Charlie Brown is watching a football game on television when he spots a girl in the stands whom he falls in love with. He is then crushed when the game ends and he feels he may never see her again. Determined to not lose his true love, he enlists Linus to help him find her.

They go to the football stadium to try to locate where she was sitting. Charlie Brown remembers she was sitting next to tunnel #13, because that's his lucky number. He has Linus sit where he determined she was sitting to recreate the shot in his head. Charlie Brown and Linus try asking someone in the ticket booth who she was but no one knows. Someone there suggests they check the season ticket records downtown and that is where they go. They encounter two girls during the search, but none are the girl they seek.

Finally, they make their way to the Happy Valley Farm where the third girl lives. Snoopy and Woodstock are already there, and after Snoopy has some major problems getting across the cattle guard at the intersection of the main driveway, he and Woodstock encounter a rather mean bobcat (similar to the cat that was in ''Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown'') who chases them back across those rollers (where Snoopy has problems again), where they finally meet up with Charlie Brown and Linus. Charlie Brown dismisses Snoopy's attempts to warn him of the bobcat, and he and Linus walk in past the cat, petting him as they go, but then they both learn for themselves.

Linus learns on the phone of another entrance, and is warned that the bobcat is actually very sweet but does not like strangers much. They finally get to the house, where Linus encounters the correct girl, but completely forgets about Charlie Brown and falls for her instead, because she carries a security blanket similar to his, and she reciprocates his feelings for her. He goes off with her, leaving Charlie Brown out in the cold. Charlie Brown, after being chased from the yard by the bobcat, decides to wait for hours. When Linus comes back out, he talks about how special and great she is and how they've decided to spend some time together, and is completely oblivious to Charlie Brown's exasperation. Charlie Brown returns home, depressed. The next day, he meets with Linus at the brick wall, who then leaves, as he has been invited to the farm for a family barbecue. After he leaves, Charlie Brown flips through a book of quotes which he carries with him, but rather than inspiring him, the sayings he reads only make him feel worse.

Voice cast

*Grant Wehr as Charlie Brown
*Earl Reilly as Linus Van Pelt
*Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock
*Nicole Eggert as First girl
*Jennifer Gaffin as Mary Jo
*Melissa Strawmeyer as Teenager

Home media

''Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown'' was released to DVD on January 6, 2004, as a bonus feature with the special ''A Charlie Brown Valentine'', and re-released by Warner Home Video on December 28, 2010. Before that, it was released on VHS by Media Home Entertainment on February 14, 1985, Hi-Tops Video in 1989, and Paramount Home Media Distribution on January 11, 1995, along with ''There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown''.

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{{Peanuts television specials

1980s animated television specials
CBS television specials
Peanuts television specials
Television shows directed by Phil Roman
1980s American television specials
1981 television specials
1981 in American television