"[3] Lee Mendelson, producer of the majority of the Peanuts television specials, has said that Linus is his favorite character: "He made sucking your thumb and holding a security blanket OK.

He occasionally temporarily convinced other characters that the Great Pumpkin is real, only to stubbornly maintain his faith when they lose theirs.

On February 5, 1962, Linus began wearing eyeglasses after being diagnosed with myopia,[14] but after the Sunday strip of September 9, 1962, the glasses were not seen again.

In an earlier strip of July 17, 1962, Linus had told Charlie Brown that his ophthalmologist said that he may not have to wear his glasses all the time, which thus explains their eventual disappearance.

[16] Linus is often bullied by his older sister, Lucy Van Pelt, to which he responds by either giving in or taking revenge.