When it comes specifically to half-hour animated Thanksgiving specials, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is about as well-known and beloved as any. The 1973 special, based on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip, has become essential viewing for many in November. It revolves around Charlie Brown having to put together a makeshift meal for his friends after Peppermint Patty invites them all to his house for Thanksgiving. When the dinner predictably doesn’t go over well, Charlie’s grandmother invites them to her house instead, leaving Snoopy and his avian best friend, Woodstock, to cook their own separate Thanksgiving dinner.

That’s where things got a little weird, at least as far as producer Lee Mendelson was concerned. See if you can figure out for yourself what he had an issue with:

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