"Someday You'll Find Her" has to be among the strangest and most bizarre of the Peanuts specials. The only one that rivals it in weirdness is probably "Play It Again, CB," but the 'creep factor' in this one makes it a tad worse.
Plot In a Nutshell: Charlie Brown becomes obsessed with a girl he sees for all of two seconds on TV, and enlists Linus to help him track her down so that he can profess his undying love. To a total stranger. That he saw on TV for two seconds. Yes, two seconds. Good grief, Charlie Brown!
This has to be a strong contender for "worst ever Peanuts special," if such an award were given. Somehow Charlie think it's perfectly OK to want to find out where this girl lives and just show up at her door uninvited and say he can't live without her. Linus tries to point out the absurdity of the situation but Charlie is having none of it, so he reluctantly agrees to help on this fool's errand. Woodstock and Snoopy tag along providing most of the levity in this one, what there is of it. (BTW this girl he saw on TV is NOT the "little red-haired girl," it's someone else, so one wonders whatever happened to that infatuation.)
It should go without saying that Charlie's obsessiveness is downright disturbing. Listen, pretty much everyone gets a crush on someone else growing up, but it's usually someone you know. Certainly someone you've met. I remember crushing on a girl in my 5th grade class and to this day I still remember the license plate number that was on her mom's car lol. But I knew who she was, we were in class together and in the school play together. Charlie, on the other hand, knows absolutely nothing about this stranger, yet is so smitten and insistent on finding her that his behavior at best can be labeled troubling, and at worst, creepy and irrational.
To top off this uncomfortable episode, Linus does something at the end of the story that seems to be completely out of his character. It left me scratching my head. There is usually enough going on in a Peanuts special to give it redeeming value, but "Someday You'll Find Her" certainly puts that idea to the test. It's really hard to like this one.
3/10. An irrational, obsessed Charlie Brown is not endearing. It's kind of embarrassing. And to think this was nominated for an Emmy! Would I watch again (Y/N)?: I don't think so.
