Snoopy didn't initially go to Charlie Brown's house. He was first chosen by the enigmatic Lila, who lived in an apartment complex with her parents. Lila loved Snoopy dearly, but was unable to keep him when the apartment owners chose to forbid any pets. So Snoopy went back to the puppy farm.
Meanwhile, Charlie Brown was lamenting the fact that he didn't have a dog of his own yet. "A boy without a dog is like a day without sunshine," he says. So he and Linus rode a bus to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm to find a dog. That dog, of course, is Snoopy.
A few years after Snoopy comes to live with Charlie Brown, he notices that Snoopy would get sad a number of times a year and guesses he might be missing his siblings. He and his sister Sally arrange a reunion for all of the pups to get back together. Unfortunately, the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm has been torn down and replaced by a parking garage, so the actual reunion doesn't go so well, but that doesn't stop Snoopy and his siblings from having a good time together.
Though I felt Snoopy's Reunion honored the spirit of the Peanuts universe, I find it entertaining that you see "Reunion" in its title and yet the reunion itself only happens in the last five or so minutes of the special. That said, it's great to see Snoopy and his brothers and sisters get together for a jam session (each of them plays an instrument), even if it is on a street corner in front of a parking garage.
In addition to the 23-minute Snoopy's Reunion special, the DVD also includes "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown," which took advantage of the Flashdance craze in the mid-80s, and yet another special I somehow missed when it originally aired in 1984. This was definitely not one of my favorites. I didn't think its overly orchestrated and lyrical numbers did it any favors.
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