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Okay folks, it’s Marcus Ellery here, and today, we’re flashing the big Christmas lights on one of fiction’s weirdest, most lovable nonentities: The Great Pumpkin. Yes, it’s time for another “Great Pumpkin Biography Flash”—the only podcast episode guaranteed to have fewer sources than an actual Pumpkin sighting.

First off: as of Sunday, September 28, 2025, The Great Pumpkin is very much still fictional. He’s still hanging out exclusively in the mind of Linus van Pelt—and also on Twitter, though at this point, who isn’t?

The most “newsworthy” event—or as close as we get to headlines with invisible gourds—involves the “Taking Care of Each Other” Peanuts exhibit in Worcester, which is set to roll out their actual 200-pound Great Pumpkin replica! Move over, Stonehenge, your mysteries have met their match. According to the Worcester Guardian, this pumpkin is neither great nor magical, but it is heavy enough to injure someone’s big toe if you’re wearing the wrong shoes. If you’re in the neighborhood on October 4, bring your Linus blanket for emotional support and check out what is very much a real squash and not, as Linus would say, “the most sincere pumpkin patch anywhere.”

Social media’s been ablaze—okay, maybe it’s more of a flicker. TikTok trends this week show a spike in #greatpumpkinchallenge videos, with teens pretending to wait all night in their gardens for the big gourd’s arrival. Spoiler: nobody makes it past midnight, and the closest thing to a supernatural experience is the neighbor’s cat vomiting in the begonias. There’s also been a bump in Peanuts-inspired memes—my favorite is the one where Linus is texting the Great Pumpkin for Uber status updates. The Great Pumpkin, as usual, leaves him on read.

No signs so far that The Great Pumpkin will be making any biographical leaps—no team-ups with the Easter Bunny, no Netflix deals, no campaign for President 2028—yet. The guy’s entire brand is not showing up, and he’s sticking to it like a method actor. But the Peanuts franchise is celebrating its 75th anniversary right now, with a deluxe edition book out from Abrams Books. That means lots of nostalgia, lots of Snoopy, and—yup—inevitable questions about why the Great Pumpkin never gets a special of his own. Linus, if you’re listening: still holding out hope for you, pal.

In short: The Great Pumpkin’s biggest news this week is his continued absence and, if we're honest, his enduring legendary status as a fictional entity who does even less than Bigfoot but still gets fan mail.

That’s all for this “Great Pumpkin Biography Flash.” Thank you for tuning in to the only podcast where absences somehow count as breaking news. Hit subscribe so you never miss an update on The Great Pumpkin, and remember: if you want more surprising biographies, just search “Biography Flash.”

Keep waiting—maybe next year’s the one.

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The Great Pumpkin's Enduring Absence: A Biography Flash