In their infinite wisdom, ABC has decided to air the classic special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving…at 8 PM EST on Thanksgiving itself.

Are you fucking kidding me?! First of all, who’s going to be home from their relatives’ houses by 8 PM? And more importantly, who’s going to be fully conscious by then? I don’t know about you, but Thanksgiving dinners tend to knock me the hell out, what with the turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy and all. The special’s worth making an effort to watch, but this is just very poor timing. I know they aired it on Thanksgiving last year, but they had also aired it a few days prior. No such luck this time.

This is a disgrace! A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the only Thanksgiving special worth watching that still airs annually (the Garfield one has been long gone for ages), and throwing it into a timeslot where most people are going to be too busy to watch it is really aggravating. You can’t miss the lawn chair fight, or Vince Guaraldi’s excellent song “Little Birdie.”

Sure, you could buy A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on DVD, but you know damned well that’s not the same as watching it in realtime as it airs.