‘Scandal’ sex scene airs right after ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,’ [on ABC]

Washington Post ^ | November 3, 2014 | Emily Yahr

[grundle]

For those who say network scheduling isn’t a big deal anymore thanks to DVRs, we turn your attention to what happened Thursday night on ABC. In a very jarring transition, the adorable end of the annual special “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” segued into “Scandal,” which happened to kick off with a very steamy sex scene.

On Monday, the watchdog group Parents Television Council unleashed an angry statement at ABC condemning the abrupt shift in kid-centric programming to a very much not age-appropriate scene. After all, families are known to gather around the cartoon every year and may not have anticipated that they needed to quickly change the channel.

“Shame on ABC for putting a peep show next to a playground,” PTC President Tim Winter said. “In less than 26 seconds we were taken from the Peanuts pumpkin patch to a steamy ‘Scandal’ sex scene.”

[VanDeKoik]

Could be worse.

“How To Get Away With Multiple Gay Sex Scenes” could have been the lead-in.

[1raider1]

“The medium is the message”, Marshall McLuhan.

[Norm Lenhart]

Keep paying the liberal tithe folks. Hollywood appreciates the support. DNC does too.

[albie]

And you can’t file this under...”parents should pay more attention” BS. This happened 8 seconds after. Shameful but not surprising. Buy the Charlie Brown video. We did.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

‘Scandal’ sex scene airs right after ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,’ [on ABC]

I suspect a lot of the audience for 'The Great Pumpkin' is adults like me who used to watch it as kids, when the sponsor was Dolly Madison. Not as good as "A Charlie Brown Christmas" but still some classic scenes - Charlie Brown gets a bag of rocks (some mean parents in that neighborhood), Linus and Sally spend the evening in a pumpkin patch, and Snoopy works his way through No-Mans Land back to the Allied lines, train whistle blowing in the distance =).

[MrB]

Yeah, I had to scramble with the off button on the remote.

There was little to no warning - “Up next, Scandal”, then the scene.

[Dallas59]

That sure wasn’t Lucy and Lionel.

[Red Badger]

What would one expect from the All Barack Channel?.....................

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Red Badger]

You mean Linus?..................Besides they are brother and sister................not that that would make any difference to the All Barack Channel programmers...................

[Haiku Guy]

ABC will no doubt pretend that this is an accident.

They have been planning that transition for weeks.

[Starstruck]

I suspect a lot of the audience for 'The Great Pumpkin' is adults like me who used to watch it as kids, when the sponsor was Dolly Madison. Not as good as "A Charlie Brown Christmas" but still some classic scenes - Charlie Brown gets a bag of rocks (some mean parents in that neighborhood), Linus and Sally spend the evening in a pumpkin patch, and Snoopy works his way through No-Mans Land back to the Allied lines, train whistle blowing in the distance =).

Man! Spoiler alert!

[GOPJ]

ABC is democrat filth... I’ll bet anything it was done on purpose.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Man! Spoiler alert!

Oh, and let me mention how the Great Pumpkin thing turns out...=).

[Resolute Conservative]

Schroeder was her love interest.

[Dallas59]

Been a long time....Must’ve have been watching the Jeffersons.

[MeshugeMikey]

the networks are all owned by.....

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember 24 years ago when there was a nice DISNEY commercial for some kid movie then at the theater. It then went right into an advertizement for BLAZE, a rather steamy movie along with steamy stripper scenes in the commercial.

[skinndogNN]

What was ABC’s reply?