Peanuts specials. This came after Coca-Cola asked Mendelson if he had a Christmas special. He said "yes." The next day he called Schulz up and said they were making "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The animated version of "Peanuts" differs in some aspects from the strip. In the strip, adult voices are heard, though conversations are usually only depicted from the children's end. To translate this aspect to the animated medium, the sound of a trombone with a solotone mute (created by Vince Guaraldi played by Dean Hubbard) was used to simulate adult "voices." A more significant deviation from the strip was
It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown Pied Piper, Charlie Brown"). He died in 2000. This was also the first Peanuts special to be animated using digital ink and paint (though the backgrounds are still done in the classic hand-painted style of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s specials.) It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown is the 38th animated TV special based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip "Peanuts". It is one of two direct-to-video "Peanuts" specials that have yet to air on U.S. TV (the other is "It's the Pied Piper, Charlie