The Little Pigtailed Girl is a minor female character in the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. She first appeared on September 11, 1996 in Rerun's kindergarten class. She has brown hair and, as her name implies, pigtails. No real name has ever been given for her.
She sits next to Rerun, likes to point out his faults, and often comments about his paintings in art class. Unlike Rerun, she seems to enjoy school and learning. She sometimes tries to get Rerun to listen in class.
The Little Pigtailed Girl appears to be quite gullible. In one storyline from January 1997, Rerun sees that she is very unhappy and makes a joke that she should run away to Paris. The Little Pigtailed Girl believes Rerun. So she tells her mother about the joke. She tells her mother, followed by her mother who tells the teacher, followed by the teacher who tells the principal, and followed by the principal who calls in and tells Rerun's parents. Then he suspends Rerun from school for harassment. This results in one day of long term suspension. The storyline was later adapted in the 2003 TV special I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown.
It seems that Rerun might have an innocent kindergarten crush on her. He always talks to her in a flirty way, and has taken her to see one of Charlie Brown's baseball games.
She appears in the third to last Peanuts strip ever, from January 30, 2000, along with Rerun.
In a trailer for the 2015 CGI Peanuts movie, the Little Pigtailed Girl can be seen sitting in a theater, in the row behind Charlie Brown.
Trivia
- She is one of the many Peanuts characters to wear her hair in pigtails. The others being Violet Gray, Sophie, Dolly, Mimi and Nell.
- Despite her name and appearance in other media, Rerun refers to her as “the little girl with the braids” in the January 16, 1997 strip, implying that her hair is in braids, not just regular pigtails.
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