Rerun van Pelt

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Rerun Van Pelt is the younger brother of Linus and Lucy. He was born on May 23, 1972, in the middle of a story that involved Lucy kicking Linus out of the house. When Lucy compared having a second brother to television reruns, Linus thought "Rerun" would be a perfect name for the baby (Or possibly nickname; the first panel of the September 11, 1996 strip suggests that he doesn't know any other name for himself).

Rerun's first actual appearance was on March 26, 1973, at the beginning of a story that saw him walk in the winning run for Charlie Brown's team, only to lose the game in a gambling scandal. At first, he was only a minor character, appearing mostly on the back of his mother's bicycle, terrified. However, in the 1990s he was aged and began to appear more frequently, going to kindergarten, wishing for a dog, and drawing underground comics (identified by him as "Basement comics").