Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin (2024) on Netflix
New in town, Franklin Armstrong wants to make friends. The Peanuts gang does not warm to him. A soap box derby leaves him paired with Charlie Brown.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb7.2/10831 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes78%
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Plot summary
Franklin Armstrong's family moves often because his father serves in the army. In a new neighborhood he tries to make friends and meets Linus, Lucy, Pigpen and Snoopy, whose quirks leave him uneasy. At the beach he meets Charlie Brown, and the two seem to get along before Charlie Brown's mother calls him away. Word then spreads of a soap box derby whose prize includes a trophy and free pizza for a year. Every kid picks a partner, and the two unpaired boys, Franklin and Charlie Brown, join forces.
Cast
- Cash Allen-Martinas Schroeder (voice)
- Natasha Nathanas Patty (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin (2024)
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- Franklin Armstrong was named after cartoonist Robb Armstrong, who started drawing Charlie Brown sketches at age five and lists Charles M. Schulz as an influence and hero. Schulz gave Franklin the surname Armstrong in the 1994 special You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown.
- The special was the first Peanuts special to center on Franklin Armstrong, who was introduced in the comic strip on July 31, 1968, as its first Black character.
- Welcome Home, Franklin reworks a controversial scene from the 1973 special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving in which Franklin sat segregated from the other Peanuts at the dinner table.
- Franklin did not appear in animation until the 1970s; after a silent debut in the 1972 movie Snoopy Come Home, his first speaking role came in the 1973 special There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown, voiced by Todd Barbee.
