Let’s face it, folks, when it comes to classic animation, it just doesn’t get any better than Peanuts. Charlie Brown and crew have been imitated, parodied and rerun over and over for years. With the end of the year holidays pretty much on lockdown, it’s not much of a surprise to see them expand their grip to go after winter in general. And the folks out at Warner Brothers sent over a copy of the first such attempt to take the season by storm, Happiness Is Peanuts Snow Days.

Happiness Is Peanuts Snow Days follows the old familiar crew as they have some winter fun. Peppermint Patty, a big focus of this installment for some reason, will not only find herself in training for a figure skating competition (with no less than Snoopy as her stereotypically tough coach) as well as the author of an award-winning essay about said dog. From there, we’ll have a play, as well as Sally’s frenzied preparations for Valentine’s Day targeting one certain blanket-toting babboo, who’s a bit reluctant to say the least.

Let’s be clear–as value goes, it’s not here. Plain and simple, you’re getting what amounts to two episodes of Peanuts lasting just about forty seven minutes, including an episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show featuring three shorts, and a longer-form title, She’s A Good Skate, Charlie Brown. But the lack of value here has to be weighed against the sheer overwhelming fact that, in fact, these are Peanuts cartoons. Chances are pretty good that you haven’t seen these. If you have seen these, it was probably decades ago, so they’re about as close to as new to you as they’re ever going to get. The sheer dearth of Peanuts video out there makes these well worth your time, at least for a rental, by default.

And despite the fact that you’re not going to get a whole lot of Peanuts value here, you will get a whole lot of quality out of the affair. I actually laughed a lot of the time, which is pretty rare as far as most any comedy release goes. The jokes come fast and hot, and that makes this a great watch indeed.

The Screenhead Ten Scale throws up its hands in disgust and realizes its only real course of action by giving Happiness Is Peanuts Snow Days a ten out of ten. It’s Peanuts. What else can be done? You may not get a whole lot out of this one, but at the end of the day, it’s still Peanuts, and it’s still terrific stuff, what little of it is actually here.