It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown is the 27th prime-time animated musical television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on the CBS network on Monday, April 16, 1984. The special is presented as an original musical which features parodies of the early 1980s breakdancing craze, MTV, the films Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance and Footloose, and a number of popular top 40 hit songs of the early 1980s. The program takes the form of a musical, presenting a series of different vignettes instead of a strong unifying plot.