Help me make an absurdly complete nativity scene.

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Back in the 80’s and 90’s, my mom collected the Avon nativity scene, where you bought the basic set (mary, joseph and the baby jesus with a stable), and every year added the “piece of the year” - this year an angel, next a camel, etc. Eventually there was a crowd scene of epic proportions. It got me wondering-

If we included every visitor to the manger from movies, television, song and other popular media, who would have to be in the scene? Off the top of my head:

-The little drummer boy (how annoying would that be around a newborn).
-The next stable over would have to be included with Brian and his mom.(Monty_Python’s_Life_of_Brian).
-Martin Sheen wandering around, looking the other way, lost as the Fourth Wise Man.
-The time traveling ghost of Jimmy Stewart, I mean Mr. Kruger. (Mr. Krugar’s Christmas)
-Luanne’s Manger Babies (King of the Hill)

Now add yours

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You left out Santa…when I was a child, I was given a book and figurine set. The figure featured Santa kneeling next to the manger; if I recall, the story was something about Santa getting depressed and being magically transported to see Baby Jesus.

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You need the Terminator that Herod sent to kill all the newborns.

Okay, I may be confusing my mythologies here.

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You’ll need mutliples of all the characters to account for all the different races the nativity is depicted in.

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I remember once being somewhat confused by the Aesop fable of the dog in the manger, because to my knowledge a manger was the thing baby Jesus slept in.

According to this, you need an ox and a donkey,* a musical shepherd, a couple of women (to bathe the baby), horses (for the wise men), and Satan (to raise questions about the whole virgin birth thing).

*Isaiah 1:3, “The ox knows his master, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel does not know me, and the people have not regarded me.”

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You definitely need a Ralphie.

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Amahl, with his crutch.

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According to comedian Tim Wilson, his Uncle BS was the innkeeper in Bethlehem at one hour BC.

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From Stephen Colbert’s Christmas Special, you’ll need a whacked out Willie Nelson as the fourth wiseman that brought weed.

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You need to have the wise men doing things to the sheep.

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You’ll need a load of grenadiers, more sheep than you think, a sheepdog, a trailer, a killer robot, a tyrannosaurus rex, some tanks, and a helicopter.

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I usually have this guy in my set.

but then again, I’m off my meds.

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I don’t even have to click on that to be cracking up! We watch this every Christmas and I am helpless with laughter every time. That’s about as funny as it gets!

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The misfit toys.
From the Island.

Of.
http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_kingmoon_3.jpg

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According to “TV Funhouse”, you should include the Harlem Globetrotters.

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Denis Leary, in the movie “The Ref”, accidentally bit the head off baby Jesus from a Nativity scene made of hard tack. (Not sure how you’d work that in, though.)

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This is my current fave:

http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2006-12-24

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One of the prvious cartoons is antisedimentite.

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How about Mother Nature, Heat Miser and Snow Miser? Just to add a little pagan element to the nativity mix.:slight_smile:

Oh, and there is always Hanakkuh Harry, right? And his three donkeys-- Moische, Herschel and Schlomo.

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People should tell us the movie or book they get these whacked out nativity characters from. Don’t assume we know.