When Charlie Brown's baseball team loses the first Little League game of the season, he becomes convinced that he will never win anything. Linus van Pelt encourages him to maintain a positive attitude and suggests that people learn more from losing. When Charlie Brown remains morose ("That makes me the smartest person in the world," he says), Linus assures him that he will eventually win at something...but then promptly makes a liar of himself by beating Charlie at a game of tic-tac-toe. That night, Snoopy has a nightmare where he is a World War I flying ace, and is shot down while fighting an aerial battle with an unshown enemy (presumably the Manfred von Richthofen), and he takes over Charlie Brown's bed. When Charlie Brown stops at Lucy van Pelt's psychiatric help booth, she prepares slides to show him all of his faults; the experience only leaves him more depressed. On the way to school the next day, Lucy jokingly suggests that Charlie Brown enter the school spelling bee. Linus, however, considers it a good idea and encourages him despite the jeers of Lucy, Violet (Peanuts), and Patty (Peanuts) ("Failure Face").