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Though it may not be as widely known as It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown or A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving has been a beloved holiday tradition for many families for more than 40 years now. Even if you've seen it 100 times, there’s still probably a lot you don’t know about this Turkey Day special. 1. When Charlie Brown first calls his grandmother, the phone does not appear until he starts dialing. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE 2. Vince Guaraldi, who composed and performed the music for most of the Peanuts specials, sang the song "Little Birdie." It was the first time a real adult human voice was incorporated into the series. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE 3. There are absolutely no adults in this special. Normally, the only adult represented in most of the series was the offstage teacher, whose now-iconic "WAH-WAH-WAH" voice was composed by Guaraldi with a trombone. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE 4. Despite TV executive producer Lee Mendelson's protests, Schulz insisted that Woodstock joined Snoopy in carving and eating a turkey. To this day, viewers still complain about this act of bird cannibalism. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE 5. Mendelson edited the special from its original 25 minutes to 22 minutes when it aired on CBS, cutting out the scene in which Woodstock eats turkey. It returned to its original state in 2001 when the special moved to ABC. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE 6. Sally claims that she has not finished her Halloween candy, but in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, she misses out on trick-or-treating because she was waiting on the Great Pumpkin with Linus. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE 7. In the first scene, Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown. She does not appear for the rest of the special. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE 8. This is one of the only specials where Marcie calls Charlie Brown by his real name, instead of "Chuck." She also calls him Charles for the first time. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE 9. During the dinner scene, the sundaes on the table appear and disappear between scenes. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE 10. Linus's now-famous Thanksgiving speech about Elder William Brewster at the Pilgrim's first Thanksgiving dinner was animated 13 years later into its own special, This is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers. PEANUTS WORLDWIDE Credits: mashable.com Share this story on Facebook with your friends.