Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown is the 42nd prime-time animated television special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on the ABC network on August 29, 2003. It was released on VHS and DVD on March 2, 2004, and again on May 1, 2012, as part of a single disc called Happiness is...Peanuts: Team Snoopy. Plot It's the beginning of baseball season, and Charlie Brown is looking forward to the new season with a mixture of joy and apprehension. The apprehension is mainly due to Lucy, who is constantly bothering him with idiotic questions, sarcastic remarks and non-sequiturs, to the point where Charlie Brown literally becomes physically ill on the pitcher's mound. After his team loses their first game to Peppermint Patty's team, Charlie Brown then thinks of a great idea of trading one of his team players to Peppermint Patty. He decides to trade Snoopy for five of Peppermint Patty's players (because Snoopy is the only player Patty would want). However, the team is angry with Charlie Brown for this, and Charlie Brown finally decides to rip up the contract made for the trade, which is just as well, as it turns out the five players whom Patty was to trade would rather give up baseball than play for Charlie Brown. The team continues to play throughout the season "normally" before Schroeder plants the idea in Charlie Brown's mind to get rid of Lucy. Peppermint Patty, having problems with an unmotivated Marcie, suggests to Charlie Brown a trade, which Charlie Brown seizes to give away Lucy in exchange for Marcie (and a pizza). Marcie, however, chooses to not play at her position but spend the entire game next to her crush, Charlie Brown, on the pitcher's mound. Meanwhile, Lucy, over on Peppermint Patty's squad, gets into her usual fuss-budget business by failing Peppermint Patty at every game the team plays by doing something stupid. Peppermint Patty finally has had enough and asks Charlie Brown for the trade to be reversed, which Charlie Brown agrees to do, though he admits that he had already eaten the pizza included in the trade. Once Lucy is returned, Charlie Brown starts to regain confidence when suddenly the game is brought to an end by a downpour, flooding the field so much that Lucy sails through it on a small motorboat. This causes Charlie Brown to