Around the holidays, that bongo-infused remix of a Hawaii 5-0 song that preceded a CBS Special Presentation was one of the most anticipated things on television for me as a kid. It (probably) meant that some cartoon was about to be shown, and CBS had the broadcast rights to all the Peanuts films. But now that I go back and look at them as an adult, they're damn depressing. Charlie Brown is a manic depressive. His sister is a homicidal maniac in the making. Lucy is a sociopath. Linus is mentally defective. All of the characters have some sort of strange mental malaise that prevents them from being likeable. Even the situations are depressing, everyone is a loser that apparently has no parental guidance in their lives, they're just mini-me adults going through a parody of life itself. Even the dog is crazy, somehow imagining itself to be a WWI pilot. I guess it's the different between being wide-eyed and suddenly figuring out how the world works.