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<h2 id="in-popular-culture">In popular culture</h2> <p>In the <i><a href="/facts/Robot_Chicken/aI40pW71">Robot Chicken</a></i> episode "Vegetable Funfest" in the skit "The Time of the Great Pumpkin", a parody of <i><a href="/facts/It%27s_the_Great_Pumpkin,_Charlie_Brown/KzMc63np">It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown</a></i> where <a href="/facts/Linus_Van_Pelt/SNs7BgxP">Linus</a> summons the <a href="/facts/Great_Pumpkin/TmhIJpUE">Great Pumpkin</a> using black magic which goes around killing the <i>Peanuts</i> characters in a horror movie fashion. The last survivor Charlie Brown flees to the Kite-Eating Tree which ends up eating the Great Pumpkin, saving Charlie Brown's life and ending the Great Pumpkin's rampage. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Schulz, Charles M. (2009-10-20). Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years. Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 9780740785481. Retrieved 8 November 2015. <a href="9780740785481" target="_blank">9780740785481</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Martin Jezer (February 1964). "50 years ago in U.S. Catholic: What makes Peanuts run?". US Catholic. pp. Vol. 29, No. 2, pages 15–18. Retrieved 8 November 2015. <a href="http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201401/50-years-ago-us-catholic-what-makes-peanuts-run-28407" target="_blank">http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201401/50-years-ago-us-catholic-what-makes-peanuts-run-28407</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Rhodri Marsden (22 May 2014). "Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects: Linus's blanket". The Independent. 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