Which Christmas show best illustrates Seasonal Affected Disorder?

Charlie Brown : "I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it?" pic.twitter.com/I6QLFKOnXn

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Charles Bronson suicide attempt scene in 1991 "Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus" pic.twitter.com/x7DbDRzFAH

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An Elf suicide scene similar to "It's a Wonderful Life" 😢🌉🎅

except Will Ferrell character is saved by Santa vs an angel .... pic.twitter.com/QnuxRAKxYp

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It turns out Sophie - the hussy - was fibbing - she just wanted to lure Branagh to her apartment so she could lure him into adultery with her sultry Eastern European wiles 🥺 pic.twitter.com/KqFOhz6ina

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Erasmus vs Twitter

I am reading John P Dolan's "The Essential Erasmus"

Unfortunately, I usually sound like Dolan's description of  Erasmus' contemporaries on twitter:

While most of the men of his time, in their relations with others and especially in their controversial writings, were concerned with proving to the world that their adversaries were wrong, or wicked, or heretical, Erasmus ever sensitive to the human situation, was concerned with winning others to piety and to Christ.

Conversely, I aspire to receive the critique Martin Luther gave to Erasmus' "Bondage of the Will" (De Servo Arbitrio):

You have checked my zeal for battle and drained my strength before the fight began.  This was due to two things: first, your skill in debate, for you discuss the matter throughout with quite remarkable restraint, by which you have prevented my wrath waxing hot against you.

Dolan then launches into what is presumably is theological humor:

While St. Paul did not scruple to quote from the poets, there is nothing in his works that smacks of Aristotle or Averroes. More seriously [was previous sentence supposed to be a joke?], dialectical theologians are led to distort the meaning of Scripture to suit their own constructions, sometimes going to absurd lengths.

I'm not certain if dialectal theology is code for liberation theology which is code for Marxism. If so might agree with Dolan's condemnation of them.

Charlie Brown Discusses his Seasonal Affective Disorder in Español

Charlie Brown is the Hamlet of cartoon Christmas specials except everyone ends up singing carols around a tree vs poisoned, stabbed, and dead in Denmark.

Brian W. Fairbanks speculates that poor Charlie Brown suffered from undiagnosed Seasonal Affective Disorder.

First Charlie Brown mopes alone:

 

 

Then Charlie Brown shares his troubles for free with an unsympathetic Linus:

 

 

next Charlie Brown pays an equally unsympathetic Lucy in her lemon aid stand/amateur psychiatrist office for a dubious diagnosis:

 

 

 

until finally Luke quoting Linus explains true meaning of Christmas:

 

 

 



 

#Obama = Lucy van Pelt & also, possibly, Satan

I was just rereading The Parables of Peanuts by Robert L. Short. It struck me that Obama is very Lucy van Pelt-like in his über-narcissism:

Charlie Brown: Does it bother you to think that there may be people around who dislike you?

Lucy van Pelt: Dislike ME ? How could anyone possibly dislike ME ? There's nothing to dislike! Jealous maybe . . . Yes I could understand that. . . I can see how someone could be jealous of me . . . but dislike? No, that's just not possible. . .

Admittedly, most politicians are narcissists to some degree. In his case, he seems to have drunk his own Kool-Aid. Obama and his acolytes have a convenient credit/debit system of moral bookkeeping. Everything good in the world is entirely due to Obama's beneficence existence. Everything evil and bad is due to entirely to George W. McBushHaliburtonHitler and his RethugliKKKans. I concur whole heartedly with the good Baron Münchhausen

Clinton: “Suppose the Navy Seals had gone in there, suppose they had been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him”. For him [Obama]? It’s always about him.

and as a caution to squishy, Rockefeller, go-along to get-along, country club Republicans, the Dems are also similar to Lucy in taking away the football a.k.a. promising one thing and doing another e.g.  promising spending cuts if Republicans agree to tax hikes. The over the horizon spending cuts, for some reason, never materialize, but the tax hikes are always immediate, as Regan learned to regret:

As for raising taxes, Reagan acceded to a big tax increase in 1982 only after a historic, much larger cut in 1981. He gave a little back after finding a shift in the political climate on Capitol Hill too difficult to resist. (He later regretted surrendering, since the budget cuts promised in exchange for the tax hike never materialized.)

Additionally, Short suggests that the Peanuts character, Lucy, is possibly the personification of Lucifer, or Lucy-fer. Of course, I'm not suggesting that Obama's the anti-Christ. However, that might explain why he demanded that all of the crosses, and the mere mention of Jesus' name, be covered over when he spoke at Georgetown Catholic College:

"I am Barack Hussein Obama. Thou shalt have no other Obamas before me"

Georgetown, A.O., Anno Obamani, w/ cross covered w/ black triangle

Georgetown, B.O., Before Obama, with cross visible

From ALLAHPUNDIT  APRIL 16, 2009 "Hot Air" article "Christian symbol covered up during Obama’s Georgetown speech" Dreadnought223 comment:

"There can be only one!!!
Barry doesn’t like having competition for the title of Messiah."

Somewhat ott, I found it not ironic that the writers for "Elementary" episode "Dirty Laundry" asserted that Georgetown is the university of choice for Russian spies: