Rerun Van Pelt is Linus and Lucy's younger brother in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.

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.

"[3] Rerun made his first appearance in animation in the 1976 special It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown, voiced by Vinnie Dow.

[5] Rerun was the main character in the 2003 special I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown, with a storyline drawn from the strip's Rerun-heavy final years.

While he continued to share Linus' facial features, Rerun's head also grew rounder and larger in proportion to his body.

In I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown, he wears an orange striped shirt under light blue overalls.

[6][7] Initially, toddler Rerun was shown playing cards with an equally confused Snoopy,[8][9] and learning to tie his shoes from Lucy.

Schulz, a careful observer of ordinary life, was inspired by the sight of young children strapped down for transport.

"[7] In 1976, Rerun made his first animated appearance in the special It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown, in a sequence on the back of his mother's bicycle.

"[17] Ever the enigma, Rerun draws a curtain over Peanuts' final installment of the annual ritual of Lucy pulling the football away just as Charlie Brown tries to place-kick it.

In the 1999 Sunday strip, Rerun tells Lucy that their mother wants her to come home for lunch, and she leaves him to hold the football.

As one critic remarks, "Rerun's presence disrupts the repetitive force of the gag," replacing certainty in this climactic strip with "inexhaustible possibility.

He was the main character in the 2003 special I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown, with a storyline drawn from the strip's Rerun-heavy final years.

Various actors have voiced the animated Rerun since 1976, including Vinny Dow, Jason Mendelson, Timmy Deters, and Jimmy Bennett.