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I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (2003) is the 43rd prime-time animated television special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. The special first aired on ABC on December 9, 2003. The special is about Linus and Lucy's younger brother, Rerun, wanting a pet dog for Christmas.

Charlie Brown

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  • Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask "when will it all end?" Then a voice comes to me that says "right after the credits."

Rerun Van Pelt

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  • Happiness is a warm puppy.
  • Sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Dialogue

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Rerun Van Pelt: Someone at school today asked me if I had an older brother who dragged a blanket around. "No," I replied. "I'm an only child." Then someone said, "But don't you have a weird older sister?" "No," I insisted. "I'm an only child." And so I go, day after day, dodging questions from curious outsiders.
Lucy Van Pelt: What else did they say?
Rerun Van Pelt: Some of the guys over at the playground were discussing crabby sisters. Guess what, I won. They all agree that I have the crabbiest sister in the neighborhood.
Lucy Van Pelt: I'm a celebrity. [to Linus angrily] You think I'm crabby now?! Wait until I'm 40 or 50.
Rerun Van Pelt: What about when you're 90?
Lucy Van Pelt': Then I'll be real nice.
Rerun Van Pelt: The trouble with being a little kid is no one ever asks your opinion about anything.
Lucy Van Pelt: [getting annoyed and points to Rerun's bedroom] Why don't you stop talking and just go to bed?
Rerun Van Pelt: Are you asking for my opinion? [starts writing]
Lucy Van Pelt: What are you writing, Rerun?
Rerun Van Pelt: This is how I have it figured. If there are three kids in a family, each kid has 33 and a third rights.
Lucy Van Pelt: [takes the paper from Rerun] Wrong, little brother. It's 90 percent for me and 5 percent for you. And 5 percent for you.
Rerun Van Pelt: I better check those figures again.
Lucy Van Pelt: We're a family. And in a family, each person has a job.[hands Rerun a paper] Here, write down what you think your job could be.
Rerun Van Pelt: [questions Lucy] How do you spell "watching"?
Lucy Van Pelt: [gets annoyed] Watching?
Rerun Van Pelt: That'll be my job, watching TV.
Lucy Van Pelt: [furiously snatches the paper from Rerun] Remember, Rerun, having an older sister is like having a compass to guide you through life.
Rerun Van Pelt: Is that true?
Linus Van Pelt: I'm not here.
Lucy Van Pelt: [enragedly gets up from the couch, furiously turns red and angrily screams at Linus and Rerun] How can I be expected to live in the same house with two brothers?! [angrily leaves]
Rerun Van Pelt: [shrugs to Linus] What kind of question was that?
Linus Van Pelt: Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
Rerun Van Pelt: I'm your younger brother and I don't suck my thumb, and I don't cling to a blanket for security.
Linus Van Pelt: Hooray for you.
Rerun Van Pelt: As the years go by, you'll probably develop a real resentment toward me.
Linus Van Pelt: [angrily covers Rerun's mouth]
Rerun Van Pelt: [muffled] And you'll find different ways to get even.
Lucy Van Pelt: [walks to Rerun] What would you do if I kicked those over?
Rerun Van Pelt: Probably nothing at the moment. But years from now, after you're married, and you and your husband want me to cosign a note, so you can buy a new house, I'll refuse.
Lucy Van Pelt: [turns red in anger and furiously groans]
Rerun Van Pelt: Younger brothers learn to think fast. If you're the third child in a family and your brother and sister are really weird, I wonder if it's possible for that third child to develop an immunity. An immunity to all the bad things that happen in a family. To that innocent third child who might...
Lucy Van Pelt: [furiously turns red, viciously grabs Rerun by the cuff of his shirt and angrily kicks him out of the house]
Rerun Van Pelt: So much for immunity.
Lucy Van Pelt: Listen to me. Mom doesn't want you to have a dog, does she?
Rerun Van Pelt: No.
Lucy Van Pelt: Do you really think Santa Claus is going to bring you something Mom doesn't want you to have?
Rerun Van Pelt: Ooh... Supreme Court stuff.
Violet: You're asking our family to adopt this dog?
Charlie Brown: Why not? He's Snoopy's big brother. He's a good dog. He's a full-blooded beagle.
Violet: That's what you say. I say he's part beagle and part disaster.
Charlie Brown: He's been living just outside of Needles with a bunch of coyotes.
Violet: I think I'd rather have one of the coyotes.

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