...so I was bored the other day and started looking up old Peanuts movies on youtube. I found this one:
YouTube - Snoopy Come Home 1
(it's in twelve parts; the link is to part 1)
If you've never seen Snoopy Come Home, you really need to; it's not your average happy-go-lucky Peanuts movie. If you have seen it, you know how depressing it is. The sappy songs, the melodramatic story, the too-cute-characters...but it's perfect. I must have seen it literally several hundred times as a kid (yes, literally; my dad taped a version off of TV and I watched it every day for several summers. There weren't many other kids in the neighborhood) and probably cried every time (still do, actually, though I probably shouldn't freely admit that).
Two other depressing kid's movies; The Iron Giant and The Brave Little Toaster. I saw Toaster at least fifty times.
Was anyone else attracted to depressing stuff as a kid? Cheery cartoons never did much for me.