New Mandela Effect? Classic Peanuts Halloween Special Titled ‘It’s the Great Bumpkin, Charlie Brown’ This Entire Time

First, it was the spelling of The Berenstain Bears. Next, it was Mr. Monopoly’s monocle. Now, a new Mandela effect has taken the world by storm: the classic Peanuts Halloween special, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, is actually titled It’s the Great Bumpkin, Charlie Brown.

As if the different spelling isn’t enough, the climax of the special is entirely different than what many recall. Instead of Linus and Sally waiting for the enigmatic Great Pumpkin to appear, they await the Great Bumpkin, who is literally just some redneck from the middle of buttfuck nowhere Appalachia.

The Bumpkin is revealed when he passes through the pumpkin patch to find an organically-grown pumpkin pie. “Y’all don’t think they also oughta grow pies with them pumpkins, too?” the Bumpkin reportedly asks Sally and Linus, with a notably Gumpian dialect. “Ah think it’d be a bit more ee-coe-nom-ick-ull.”

The entire rest of the special remains the same in people’s memories, including the soundtrack, characters, and general plot progression. However, many fans are finding it difficult to cope with the fact that the Great Pumpkin was a mass hallucination and that it was literally just some guy all along. 

We eagerly await further discourse on this newfound Mandela effect, and we also anticipate more discoveries in other Peanuts specials. As the final months of the year approach, people are already reporting a number of unexpected findings.

For example, there is now a land acknowledgment in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving that wasn’t there before. In A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown’s iconic wimpy chud tree is replaced by a Lepidodendron sapling, strongly implying that either the entire Peanutsverse has fallen into an inescapable time slip, or that we as the viewers all died and went to hell in 2012. Lastly, a previously unknown Peanuts special has been brought to the public eye, You’ve Reached Nirvana, Charlie Brown, in which the Peanuts gang all practice Buddhism while Schroeder is trapped in an endless loop of the Samsara cycle.

The Great Bumpkin has sparked an onslaught of controversy, criticism, and confusion. While many questions remain, one prevails above the rest: Who the hell is that hick?