Lucy's Christmas plans fall through, so she aims for something bigger: the greatest New Year's Eve party the neighbourhood has ever seen. Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne brings the Peanuts gang to the last night of the year.

What is Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne about?

News that her grandmother will not be coming for the holidays leaves Lucy deflated, and her answer is to take charge of the calendar instead. If Christmas cannot be what she hoped, then New Year's Eve will be, and she sets about organising a celebration with the single-minded energy she usually reserves for bossing everyone around. Invitations, decorations and a running list of demands follow, with the rest of the gang recruited whether they like it or not. Running alongside her plans is Charlie Brown's own quiet mission. He has a list of resolutions, and he is determined to keep at least one of them before midnight, an ambition that goes about as smoothly as most things in his life. Snoopy and Woodstock drift in and out of both storylines in their own wordless way. The two threads meet as the countdown approaches, and the special's gentle point is that the company you keep matters more than the party you throw.

About the cast

The voice cast is made up of young performers, including Etienne Kellici, Isabella Leo, Wyatt White, Lexi Perri, Hattie Kragten and Holly Gorski, with Terry McGurrin and Rob Tinkler alongside them. Casting children in the children's roles keeps the characters sounding the way the comic strip has always read.

Context & significance

Directed by Clay Kaytis and produced in Canada, this 2021 special is one of a series of animated Peanuts stories released under the Snoopy Presents banner. It runs a little under forty minutes, which is the natural length for this material: long enough for two intertwined plots, short enough to sit comfortably in a single family viewing before bedtime. The animation keeps the simple lines and flat colour of the original drawings while giving the characters smoother movement than the classic television specials had. Thematically it follows the familiar Peanuts pattern of small disappointments handled with more feeling than most cartoons allow: Lucy's bossiness covers real sadness, and Charlie Brown's failures come with a stubborn hopefulness. For families marking the end of the year, it doubles as a friendly introduction to the Western New Year's Eve traditions that the title's old Scottish song refers to.

Watching Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne on Ktime

Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne is available on K-Time in its original English audio; no Persian dub or subtitles are listed for this title. A free K-Time account login is all that is needed to press play, and the Farsi interface makes it easy to find alongside other family animation in the catalogue.