The Snoopy "Bleah" Collection

Snoopy made me laugh a lot when I was a kid.

It intrigued me that we could read his thoughts in the strip, but on TV he never spoke or showed us his thought balloon. But Snoopy did occasionally make sounds; wild weird sounds that I weren't sure were even made by a human. Most of the time, he went "Bleah!" which was, upon initial viewing of A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS as a wee tad, one of the wittiest moments in TV history. It's still good today, 44 years on.

Years later I found out the voice belonged to the fellow who produced all those Peanuts TV specials and movies: Bill Melendez.

Here are a series of clips featuring Snoopy going "Bleah!" This is to Snoopy as "D'oh!" is to Homer Simpson. Selected scenes from:

• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• Snoopy Come Home
• The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: Lucy Baseball
• The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: The Manager
• The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: Snoopy and Woodstock
• The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: Truffles

Thanks to DreamDancer82 for editing these together. What fun!

Related: Bill Melendez podcast at the Just My Show Web site.