I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown

As all good Peanuts fans are aware, ReRun is Linus and Lucy's younger brother.  Poor ReRun wants nothing so much as a dog for Christmas.  Now, as we all know, there is a lovable beagle in the Peanuts universe, one named Snoopy.  Snoopy, as much as he may like to play with ReRun, has other plans for Christmas though, and so ReRun gets Snoopy's brother, Spike, to come for a visit.  You know, Spike from Needles.  Yeah, that sounds like a really good plan, except that it can't be.  It never could have been.  We're not going to spoil for you exactly how things go awry, but awry they do go.