#Snoopy blowing tumbleweed gif tv

The only little bit of genuine fun he has is when he plays with Snoopy, but even that doesn't last, as Snoopy loses interest and actually gives him a rejection slip at one point.

He has to endure rides on the back of his mother's bicycle as she goes on trips into town and nearly hits about everything in her path bullying and verbal abuse from Lucy the embarrassment of having Linus as an older brother (he goes as far as to insist that he's an only child when other kids ask him about his siblings) he gets suspended from kindergarten for simply suggesting to a girl in his class that they should head off to Paris, which is labeled as 'harassment' a shop-owner literally throws him out the front door for telling him to put a price on his 'tab' and he would like nothing more than to have a dog for Christmas but his mother won't let him, as she says they're too much to deal with. Like Charlie Brown, Rerun (voiced by Jimmy Bennett) is a character whom you can't help but have sympathy for, given how his day-to-day life is far from enviable. Sure enough, Spike makes a trip across the country to visit, but Rerun's plan to make him his dog may involve more than Spike is able to handle. When Snoopy receives a letter from Spike, his brother who lives in the desert, it gives Rerun the idea to invite Spike to come live with him and he has Snoopy write a letter to him. Rerun then goes as far as to offer Charlie Brown money for him and asks a sidewalk Santa and his 'secretary' (Snoopy and Woodstock) to bring him a dog for Christmas but neither of his plans work out. He tries to compensate by playing with Snoopy more often, but Snoopy soon loses interest in doing so. Since he likes to play with Snoopy, Rerun decides that he wants to have a dog for Christmas but, unfortunately for him, his mother won't allow it, saying dogs are too much trouble to take care of. Besides his terrifying rides on the back of his mother's bicycle, he's embarrassed by Linus, bullied by Lucy, and, the day before Christmas vacation, he gets suspended from kindergarten for telling a little girl that the two of them run away to Paris as a joke. It's already rather sad to see an older kid like Charlie Brown get caught up in such misery and bad luck but when it happens to one as young as Rerun, it can feel downright mean.Ĭhristmas is coming, but Rerun van Pelt isn't having the best time in the days leading up to it. After watching this special, I do think it's more well-made and benefits from having a more consistent main plot than what you get in something like It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown, but it tends to drag due to being longer than your typical Peanuts cartoon, I didn't find it to be all that funny, and I kind of hate seeing a five-year old kid getting repeatedly screwed over.

I figured that maybe it was going to be the story of how Charlie Brown first got Snoopy, receiving him as a Christmas present I definitely didn't expect it to revolve around Rerun, whom I've barely seen featured in any of these cartoons, nor did I expect to see Snoopy's brother, Spike, whom I'd only seen beforehand in an episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (at this point, I've not seen any of the other cartoons that feature him). So, when I went into it on Dailymotion just a week before I started this review (which was a very annoying experience, due to that site's trying nature and technical difficulties), I knew nothing about it, other than, due to the title, it apparently revolved around Snoopy and was 41 minutes long rather than the usual 24 or so.

#Snoopy blowing tumbleweed gif tv

I'm pretty sure I never saw any part of this on TV in the years since it was first aired and I definitely know I'd never heard the title until just recently, when I was looking up some other Peanuts-related Christmas cartoons.