She tells Marcie that it's supposed to be a real Thanksgiving dinner. However, Marcie asks her whether Charlie Brown invited her or if it was just her (Peppermint Patty) who invited herself. Coming to her senses, Peppermint Patty asks Marcie to apologize to Charlie Brown on her behalf (unintentionally paralleling The Courtship of Miles Standish); Marcie reluctantly agrees, but Peppermint Patty soon follows and apologizes to him herself. Following this, Charlie Brown is reminded by the clock that he and Sally are due at their grandmother's house for dinner, so he calls her and explains his situation. When he mentions his friends are there, and that they did not eat, his grandmother invites them all to Thanksgiving dinner, which is welcomed with cheers from everyone. As they all pile into the car to go to the Browns' grandmother's, they sing "Over the River and Through the Wood". After they sing the final lyric(s), Charlie Brown says there is only one thing wrong with the song's name/title/lyrics. He disqualifies the others and the song. Because (as spoken by Charlie Brown) his grandmother lives in a condominium. Snoopy and Woodstock go to the doghouse and cook up their own traditional Thanksgiving meal. They then pull the wishbone which Woodstock wins. Over the end credits, the two friends each devour a large piece of pumpkin pie then sit back with contented smiles as Woodstock pats his full stomach. Broadcast history The special first aired on CBS on November 20, 1973, and continued to air every year on that network (skipping 1982, 1983, and 1988) until November 23, 1989. The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon returned the special for reairing in the 1990s (in the latter channel's case, under the "You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown" umbrella of Peanuts productions) and then, in 2001, it moved, along with the rest of the Peanuts specials, to ABC. In contrast to CBS, ABC aired the special every year through 2019, on several days in the week leading up to Thanksgiving, and it had regularly won its time slot. As the special runs slightly over a half-hour with commercials, ABC typically filled the remaining portion of the full hour with other Peanuts programming. From 2008 to 2019, the remaining time was filled by a slightly abridged edit of "The Mayflower Voyagers," the premiere episode of the 1988 miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown. Starting in 2020, the special (along