Talk:Rerun Van Pelt

Please delete the name "Matthew"

An editor has just added "Matthew" as Rerun's first name, using an unsourced inclusion of that name on the Lucy van Pelt page. This information is not accurate to the best of my knowledge. I'm avoiding editing Peanuts articles due to WP:COI concerns - could someone else check that this edit is unsourced and undo it? --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:33, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

So what is Rerun's real name? Because Rerun is clearly a nickname. Kaffe och tårta (talk) 07:20, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

I know of no other first name ever being established for Rerun. (Hardly shocking; Schroeder only ever gets one name, and we don't know if it's his first or his last.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:47, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Grandfather Felix

In "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown," Rerun discovers a photo of his grandfather -- another Linus/Rerun lookalike -- as a boy. The label on the photo gives the grandfather's name as "FELIX VAN PELT." Should Felix be listed as a family member for each of the van Pelt kids? (Since the special first aired in 2006, presumably Felix didn't really exist in the first 50+ years of the Peanuts universe.) Mediamation (talk) 05:40, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Incorrect final Peanuts special

The intro currently ends with the line "He also has an important role in the final Peanuts special, 2006's He's a Bully, Charlie Brown." However, He's a Bully was not the final Peanuts special; it was the last one for a while, but in 2011, we got Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown. Could someone who doesn't have a conflict of interest please replace the word "final" with the word "next"? --Nat Gertler (talk) 01:00, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Okay, I fixed it. Thanks for the correction. — Toughpigs (talk) 01:33, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Broadway productions

“ Neither of the Broadway productions of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy! The Musical (aside from a cameo in the animated adaptation) featured Rerun” is confusing, because Snoopy! never had a Broadway production, and the original Bway production of Good Man is a minor historical blip compared to the off-Broadway production. Perhaps it would be better to say that the original productions didn’t have Rerun. Nat Gertler (talk) 20:48, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Capitalization of Van Pelt

There was a recent attempt to lower-case the V in Van Pelt, which is indeed how some people with that last name write it. However, to slightly correct something that I posted a few years back at Talk:Lucy Van Pelt:

While this is not something that has been consistently policed by the rightsholders, a quick check of a few licensed books suggests that capital-V is more common than lower-case, which is consistent with my instinct. 'The licensed Peanuts histories The Peanuts Book, 50 Years of Happiness and The Peanuts Collection (and for COI purposes I should note that I wrote the last of those three and consulted on the first, but do not speak on behalf of Peanuts Worldwide, the Schulz Estate, or anyone else beside li'l ol' me on this matter) use capital V when full names are given; the back cover of the strip collection Lucy: Speak Out uses the lower case.

However, the best case may come from the strip itself. The only times that I can find that the Van Pelt name isn't written in ALL CAPS in the strip is the November 8, 1964 strip, and again on Halloween 1982; both times, Linus handwrites the name with a capital V.

As such, we should stick with the capital V. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 06:09, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

I agree DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 07:15, 20 December 2025 (UTC)