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If you have both Amazon Prime and some strange urge to see the AAUGH Blogger talking, go watch the Amazon Prime Video steam of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales, because for some reason after the special they have tacked on “Sibling Rivalry,” a documentary featurette about Rerun Van Pelt that was made for the DVD of I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown. I guess that they added it here to give Christmas Tale, the shortest of the Peanuts specials, some heft. Anyway, it has Lee Mendelson, Jeannie Schulz, a childhood development expert, and yours truly gabbing about the littlest Van Pelt.

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