Rerun Van Pelt

Uncommon card · No. 199845

Rerun Van Pelt is Linus and Lucy's younger brother in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Lucy, who had wanted a sister, disparagingly called the situation a "rerun" of the birth of her brother Linus, so Linus nicknames the child "Rerun". Despite Lucy's initial disappointment, she becomes a warm and protective older sister. Rerun was a minor character in the strip when he was introduced in 1972. In the 1980s, he mostly appeared in sequences riding on the back of his mother's bicycle. However, in the late 1990s (the final years of the strip) he became a major presence, as Schulz felt that his main cast was "too old" for some of the themes he wanted to explore. In a 1997 interview in Comics Journal, Schulz admitted, "Lately, Rerun has almost taken over the strip." Rerun made his first appearance in animation in the 1976 special It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown, voiced by Vinnie Dow. He returned in the 1983–1985 series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, voiced by Jason Mendelson, the four...

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