199. Ranking the Charlie Brown Christmas dancers
This is my personal ranking of the Charlie Brown Christmas dancers. I wanted to have a long think over this during the holidays because surely these are controversial opinions. I have already seen previous articles: FiveThirtyEight: "The โCharlie Brown Christmas Specialโ Dancers You Most Want To Party With " and tumblr posts and even reels, talking about the Charlie Brown dancers and how one would rank them, but I think that I want to throw my hat in the ring and shout my preferences into the void as well.
I also did a little bit a research regarding the identities of the Charlie Brown dancers. I felt like it was such a shame that a lot of the rankings didn't list any of their names in their video/article/blog post, so I included a photo with their names correlating to each character, so that we're on the same page!
I found some of the names of Charlie Brown's friends in the official Peanuts website and had to look up several old comic strips by Charles Schulz.
Charlie Brown Dancer Rankings
I want to give an honorable mention to Pig Pen, Schroeder, and Snoopy, because even though they are technically groovin', they're not dancing. Also, their main jobs are to play their instruments. hey're giving 100% though, so that's good to see.
#8. Violet: I feel like she's literally sniffin' her pits here. Girl... V.. what are you doing? There's just no rhythm, no pizzaz. Violet, baby... step up.
#7. Sally: Sally's doing her own thing - a nice little one-two step, but these are just basic moves. Sally's groovin' and really feeling the music, so that's good to see, but I think she's holding back.
#6. Shermy: pretty sure MJ took inspiration from "A Charlie Brown Christmas Special" for his big hit Thriller (1982)) because this is such a good zombie walk, but it lacks the groove.
#5. Freida: I just love her enthusiasm in the hip thrusting and arm movements. Look at that face of delight. She has such good energy. BUT, idk she's not displaying the ultimate star quality here. It feels like she's shoveling sand with her upper arms?
#4. 333: Ok- I do not like to arbitrarily lump twins or triplets together because I like to make it a point that regular twins are just two siblings who shared the womb and look alike. They will probably grow up to be different people. Whenever I meet twins or triplets, I try to look at their face and try to see how dissimilar they are so I can call them by the right names...Twins and triplets didn't necessarily sign up for a lifestime of being treated like a 2-for-1 package deal. Unless, of course, they're weird TLC reality show people that show that they're perfectly alike in every way, like brush each other's teeth and finish each other's sentences... then I'll allow it.. for the drama hehe. This dance is very cutesy and so incredibly inspiring. Look at them going crazy.. the synchronization too, like?? Incredible. Unforunately, I ranked her lower than her sister simply because she's closest to the Pig Pen stank. Not her fault, just unfortunate blocking in the dance.
#3. 444: Literally doing the same thing as her sister. She's further away, but she literally shines while in the peripheral of the dance sequence. The footwork on their dance honestly slaps.
#2. Linus: This man looks like he's about to open up the pit. To quote Instagram user, @the_drago_effect, "I feel like I saw Linus at a Slipknot show back in '08" It's the blanket out, raging out, and personally I think he looks so cool doing all this.
#1. 555: I so badly want to chill with this man with the smooth moves.
~ wah-wah-wah-wah,
<3 K