# Help me make an absurdly complete nativity scene. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567 "2008-12-10T16:41:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/1 "2008-12-10T16:41:49Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/2 "2008-12-10T17:27:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/3 "2008-12-10T17:33:19Z")
You need the Terminator that Herod sent to kill all the newborns. Okay, I may be confusing my mythologies here. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/4 "2008-12-10T18:19:38Z")
You’ll need mutliples of all the characters to account for all the different races the nativity is depicted in. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/5 "2008-12-10T18:58:43Z")
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](http://www.goarch.org/special/listen_learn_share/nativity/index_html), 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.” ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/6 "2008-12-10T19:08:23Z")
You definitely need a [Ralphie.](http://www.retrobirthdaygifts.com/22128.html) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/7 "2008-12-10T19:13:31Z")
Amahl, with his crutch. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/8 "2008-12-10T19:21:11Z")
According to comedian Tim Wilson, his Uncle BS was the innkeeper in Bethlehem at one hour BC. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/9 "2008-12-10T19:32:23Z")
From Stephen Colbert’s Christmas Special, you’ll need a whacked out Willie Nelson as the fourth wiseman that brought weed. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/10 "2008-12-10T19:44:46Z")
You need to have the wise men doing things to the sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Ducktail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Ducktail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ducktail)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/11 "2008-12-10T19:53:43Z")
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.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0_Sa-cw_Aw) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/12 "2008-12-10T20:12:44Z")
I usually have this guy in my set. [but then again, I’m off my meds.](http://www.cmdstore.com/sleepy-hollow-action-figures-the-headless-horseman-boxed-set.html) ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/13 "2008-12-10T20:31:03Z")
> [@Ducktail](#): > > 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.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0_Sa-cw_Aw) 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! ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/14 "2008-12-10T21:00:12Z")
The misfit toys. From the Island. Of. [http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review\_kingmoon\_3.jpg](http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_kingmoon_3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/15 "2008-12-10T22:08:46Z")
According to “TV Funhouse”, you should include the Harlem Globetrotters. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/16 "2008-12-10T22:13:12Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/17 "2008-12-10T22:46:01Z")
This is my current fave: [http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2006-12-24](http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2006-12-24) ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/18 "2008-12-10T23:10:22Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > This is my current fave: > > [http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2006-12-24](http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2006-12-24) One of the prvious cartoons is [antisedimentite](http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2006-10-24). ---
**Author:** ![JaneSaintClair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JaneSaintClair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneSaintClair)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/19 "2008-12-11T01:34:32Z")
How about Mother Nature, Heat Miser and Snow Miser? Just to add a little pagan element to the nativity mix.🙂 Oh, and there is always Hanakkuh Harry, right? And his three donkeys-- Moische, Herschel and Schlomo. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567/20 "2008-12-11T02:09:29Z")
People should tell us the movie or book they get these whacked out nativity characters from. Don’t assume we know. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-an-absurdly-complete-nativity-scene/476567.md?page=2)