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[VanDeKoik]

I remember watching this when it was less than 20 years old. :^/

Amazing how the old specials just hold up despite all of the attempts to bash on the past by the PC crowd. I dont think there has been any Christmas special in the past 15 years that has obtained the status of the ones made from the 60s-80s.

Of course there is only one other thing on TV that is as classic as these shows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9V9SZPHAY

[Kirkwood]

I’m not sure if it was this way everywhere, but CBS cut off the end of the show the other night to squeeze in more commercials.

[P.O.E.]

I prefer Magoo's Christmas Carol. With Razzleberry dressing.

[Verginius Rufus]

Apparently the story of Rudolph goes back to 1939. I remember the song version as a kid, which was before 1964, and was completely unfamiliar with the 1964 elaboration of the story before this thread.

Meanwhile, have they ever identified the reindeer who ran over Grandma?

[KarlInOhio]

You saw Santa and the reindeers dropping off the toys from the Island of Discarded Production Runs, 

I always want them to go a little bit father and visit the Island of Recalled Toys and pick up some lawn darts for the kids.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sad. I recall waiting with anticipation for the entire year for my one shot to see it (in black-and-white because my father was the last on our block to shell out for a color TV set).

I also miss the Norelco ads that featured Santa traversing the North Pole on a razor head.

[PLMerite]

“We Are Santa’s Elves” rivals North Korean fealty-pageants in its naked self-abasement.”

Kim Jong Claus. The photoshop possibilities are endless.

[discostu]

RRNR always struck me as a creepy story that didn’t really have the message it thought it had. Everybody hates the freak until it turns out he has powerful “friends”, not actually a happy story.

[G Larry]

Ya, but do you know the name of the 9th reindeer?

[Rinnwald]

1. Hefty Folkie is a good name for a band.

2. This column ignores the most important point, brought up in a recent episode of “The Middle”: is King Moonracer a toy or not?

[ShadowAce]

[Skooz]

Bfl

[nomad]

Well for that matter, he glossed over the fact that a slim, and presumably healthy, Santa is being encouraged to become obese by his significant other. Does she have a large insurance policy out on him? And what would this do to the cost of Obozocare at the North Pole?

[Hot Tabasco]

Wow, what a bummer! I’ll never view Rudolph in the same light again..........I knew I shouldn’t have clicked on this thread

[Chickensoup]

I have all the claymations and watch them each year. And cry.

We all have a place that we go that brings up the past. Santa story and Rudolph do it to me.

Frosty is pretty good too.