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Lucy van Pelt is a regular character in the Peanuts cartoon and TV specials. She is the older sister of Linus and Rerun. She first appeared on March 3, 1952 as a wide-eyed toddler, but soon became described as a "fussbudget" This personality trait would be her predominant characteristic in decades to come. She has a crush on Schroeder, and is often seen leaning against his piano (to his considerable annoyance). In the early years, she would try to teach her brother Linus, but her teachings often proved to be woefully inaccurate. She and Linus also argued a lot. By contrast, when Rerun became a major character in the 1990s, Lucy mellowed somewhat, becoming an almost maternal figure.

Contents 1 Relationships with Other Characters 1.1 Linus and Lucy 1.2 Rerun and Lucy 1.3 Charlie Brown and Lucy 1.4 Snoopy and Lucy 1.5 Schroeder and Lucy 2 Other Personality Traits 2.1 Psychiatric Booth 2.2 Baseball Team 3 Voice Actors 3.1 Dialougue

[edit] Relationships with Other Characters

[edit] Linus and Lucy

Lucy is often irritated by her brothers habits. Her most common criticism is that Linus carries a Security blanket around, but she has also criticized him for patting birds on the head and being too loud. She tries to cure Linus of his habits, with little success.

Aside from trying to break Linus of what Lucy considers bad habits, she generally treats her brother poorly. She often switches the channel while Linus is watching TV and treats him as her personal slave. Linus standing up to Lucy usually results in a physical or verbal beatdown. However, Linus manages to get his revenge in more subtle ways, such as awarding Lucy a certificate for being crabby 1,000 days in a row. However, sometimes, Lucy does care about Linus.as seen in the TV special,It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Lucy goes into Linus's bedroom at 4:00 AM to check on him, only to find out he isn't in his bed. So she goes out to the pumpkin patch in their backyard only to find a half-sleeping Linus. Lucy takes him inside and puts him to bed.

[edit] Rerun and Lucy

Rather than mistreat Rerun as she does Linus, Lucy acts as a mentor to him. She teaches him things such as how to tie his shoes rather than give him misinformation as she did to Linus. Rerun seemed to mellow her personality a bit, though she never became completely nice.

[edit] Charlie Brown and Lucy

Lucy treats Charlie Brown as badly as Linus. When Charlie Brown fails at something, Lucy is generally the hardest on him. Whenever Charlie Brown tries to kick a Johnsons football, Lucy always uses a trick play (known as the "fake punt") on him. Her psychiatric advice to Charlie Brown usually consists of belittling him. In the early years of the strip, Lucy had a crush on Charlie Brown.

[edit] Snoopy and Lucy

Snoopy and Lucy are often at odds with one another. It's not uncommon for them to compete in an unfriendly competition, sometimes even fighting one another. Snoopy is one of the few characters that manages to outsmart Lucy, usually using Lucy's fear of rabies against her.

[edit] Schroeder and Lucy

Lucy is infatuated with Schroeder and spends much of her time leaning on his Steinway piano as he plays. Schroeder has shown little interest in sharing her feelings. At times, Lucy get frustrated that Schroeder pays more attention to his music than her and gets rid of his piano.

Her frustration has caused her to destroy Schroeder's piano on several occasions. At one point, Lucy threw Schroeder's piano up a tree. However, she didn't realize it was the kite-eating tree, which soon after gobbled up Schroeder's piano. Another time, she threw Schroeder's piano down a sewer. Charlie Brown, Schroeder and Snoopy's attempts to retrieve it failed as the piano was washed down the local river.

Lucy's is also the jealous type, attacking Frieda when she saw her leaning on Schroeder's piano.

[edit] Other Personality Traits

[edit] Psychiatric Booth

Lucy is the manager of a psychiatric booth, a parody of a lemonade stand. Charlie Brown is her most frequent customer, but Linus, Schroeder, Sally, Frieda, and Snoopy have all visited it. For five cents, Lucy offers her advice for any problem. Her responses range from the profound to insults.

[edit] Baseball Team

Lucy plays rightfield (and occasionally centerfield) on Charlie Brown's baseball team. She is his worst player and is sometimes kicked off the team temporarily.

She was once traded for Marcie and a pizza, but was traded back when Peppermint Patty found out how bad she was.

Another time, Charlie Brown decided to kick her off the baseball team because of her playing. Lucy got some revenge on Charlie Brown by writing a scathing article about his 'inept' baseball team. She also resorted to shouting insults from the sidelines, at one point costing Snoopy the winning catch for one game.

When Lucy misses a fly ball, she always has an excuse.

At times, she goes to the pitcher's mound to talk at Charlie Brown about something trivial and sometimes flirts with Schroeder during games.

[edit] Voice Actors

• Tracy Stratford (original; 1965)
• Sally Dryer (1966-1968)
• Pamelyn Ferdin (1969-1971)
• Melanie Kohn (1974-1975; 1977)
• Robin Kohn (1972-1973)
• Heather Stoneman (1984-1985)
• Angela Lee (1982-1983)
• Sydney Penny (1981)
• Jessica Lee Smith (1982-1983; 1984)
• Melissa Guzzi (1985)
• Tiffany Billings (1987)
• Erica Gayle (1988-1991)
• Ami Foster (1989-1990)
• Marnette Patterson (1992)
• Stephanie Patton (2006)
• Ashley Rose Orr (2003)
• Serena Berman (2002-2003)

[edit] Dialougue

• (after having eaten a couple of Charlie Brown's records in front of Charlie Brown) "Lucy eat th' three mice mice!"
• "Charlie Brown! You make me mad!" (from A Boy Named Charlie Brown)
• "I hate it when I get paid in dog food!" (following Snoopy's payment after telling Lucy as the "Psychiatrist" of his disappointing family reunion.
• "I'd always get up real early for you." (Schroeder: For what possible reason?) "To fry your coffee!"