You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1985 TV Movie)

David Wagner: Linus van Pelt

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Charlie Brown , Snoopy , Sally Brown , Lucy van Pelt , Linus van Pelt , Schroeder : [singing]  Happiness is morning and evening, daytime and nighttime too.

  Charlie Brown : For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you.

  Lucy van Pelt : [spoken]  You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

• Lucy van Pelt , Linus van Pelt , Schroeder , Sally Brown : [singing]  You're a good man, Charlie Brown! You're a prince, and a prince could be king! With a heart such as yours, you can open any doors; you can go out and do anything! You could be king, Charlie Brown! You could be king!

  Lucy van Pelt : [spoken]  If only you weren't so wishy-washy.

• Linus van Pelt : [Lucy talks of her dream to become a queen]  Lucy, I believe Queen is an inherited title. Yes, I'm quite sure. A person can only become a queen by being born into a royal family of the correct lineage so that she can assume the throne after the death of the reigning monarch. I can't think of any possible way you can become Queen. I'm sorry, Lucy, but it's true.

• Charlie Brown : Hi, Linus. Where're you going?

  Linus van Pelt : Lucy's teaching me, Charlie Brown. She says a sister is responsible for the education of her little brother, so she's teaching me.

  [sarcastically] 

  Linus van Pelt : Boy, is she intelligent.

• Linus van Pelt : In examining a work such as "Peter Rabbit", it is important that the superficial characteristics of its deceptively simple plot should not be allowed to blind the reader to its more substantial fabric of its deeper motivations. In this report, I plan to discuss the sociological implications of family pressures so great as to drive an otherwise *moral* rabbit to perform acts of thievery which he consciously knew were against the law. I also hope to explore the personality of Mr. McGregor in his conflicting role as farmer and humanitarian. Peter Rabbit is established from the start as a benevolent hero, and it is only with the increase of social pressure that the seams in his moral fabric...