Why, Charlie Brown, Why? (1990 TV Short)

Brandon Stewart: Linus Van Pelt

Quotes 

• The Bully : [approaches Linus and Janice]  Huh? Say, who's the kid with the pink hat? Pretty cute. Does it fly? It needs a propeller. Hey, maybe it'll fly without a propeller!

  [he spins off Janice's hat to the snow and laughs to see Janice is bald due to chemotherapy] 

  The Bully : Hey, look at this! A baldy!

  Linus van Pelt : [as Janice cries, furiously]  You blockhead! What's the matter with you?

  The Bully : What's the matter with me? What's the matter with her? She's bald! She's got no hair!

  [laughs] 

  Linus van Pelt : [angrily takes him by the jacket]  Janice has got leukemia, cementhead! That's cancer! Have you ever heard of cancer? She's been in the hospital and she's had chemotherapy to help her get better, and it makes her hair fall out! Does that make you happy? Would you like to go through what she's gone through? Think about it!

  [releases him] 

  Linus van Pelt : Or don't you ever think about anything!

  [Linus comforts Janice and picks up their books off the snow] 

  The Bully : [hands back Janice's cap]  I'm sorry.

  [Linus takes the cap, gives it to Janice, and both Linus and Janice leave] 

  The Bully : [smiles in sympathy]  Hey, I like your cap!

• Linus van Pelt : [sad about Janice at the hospital]  Why, Charlie Brown, why?

• [Linus comes home from the hospital] 

  Lucy Van Pelt : Where've you been?

  Linus van Pelt : Charlie Brown and I were visiting Janice in the hospital. They say she has leukemia.

  Lucy Van Pelt : While you're up, why don't you give me a glass of milk?

  [Linus does so, Lucy turns up the TV, Linus comes back with a glass of milk and gives it to Lucy] 

  Linus van Pelt : I remember that day in school when she said she wasn't feeling well. I remember touching her forehead and feeling how warm she was.

  Lucy Van Pelt : [shocked in disgust]  You touched her? And now you're handing me a glass of milk? You could catch leukemia from her and give it to me!

  Linus van Pelt : Cancer is not contagious. You can't catch it from somebody like a cold or the flu.

  Lucy Van Pelt : She probably got it because she's a creepy kid.

  Linus van Pelt : Janice didn't get cancer because of something she did wrong! It just happened.

  Lucy Van Pelt : [takes her milk back]  Well, anyway, take this milk back. I don't want it.

  Linus van Pelt : [pushes it away]  No thank you! I don't want to catch your crabbiness!

  [Linus leaves] 

• Linus van Pelt : [seeing Snoopy, Woodstock, and the Beagle Scouts stuck in a tree after a supper-dish sledding crash]  Christmas decorations seem to be going up earlier every year.

• [Charlie Brown and Linus see Snoopy in the hospital dressed in surgical scrubs] 

  Charlie Brown : There goes the World Famous Surgeon on his way to the operating room.

  Linus van Pelt : It must be gratifying for him, being a surgeon knowing he can help so many people.

  Charlie Brown : No. He just likes to wear the little green booties.