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TIL "the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown" is a special from 1988 that was meant to be Charles Schulz's most ambitious peanuts special it costed millions of dollars he later commented and said "I wanted this to be my Citizen Kane, but it's not." The special was not well-received upon its airing

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