Thanks for letting us know. I have the DVD, but I’ll probably watch anyway. 
Thanks, mobo. I just called home and instructed Michaela to set the TiVo.
Someone did a nice job on restoring the film for this year. Last time I saw Rudolph, it was fuzzy and spotted. I thought it was funny that they presented it in HDTV - after all, it’s made on probably old 16mm film. Previously, it looked like Super8.
Yeah, about that HD version: To get it widescreen, wouldn’t they have to stretch it or crop it? I mean, it was made for TV, so 4:3 is it’s native aspect ratio is it not?
@#!%#@!!! I missed it. Off to the DVD store…
I dunno about a high def clean claer version of the show. It was designed with the old fashioned fuzzy small monitors and their tinny mono speakers in mind. They cheated a lot of things knowing they wouldn’t be caught on the old sets. Now we can see the strings on the puppets and the string of lights that represent stars. I prefer a little bit of fuzzier picture.
I found this channel surfing last night and watched it for the first time since I was a wee bairn. When I was a kid I thought it was scary and disturbing. Last night I thought it was scary and disturbing. I don’t know why, but it’s one of those “just freaks me out” things. And Santa doesn’t come off as very likable in it (“Shame about that nose or I’d put him on my sleigh”- listen you elf exploiting lard ass, Rudolph can’t help the fact he has a red nose! And how do you think it makes him feel hearing the man all the Pole looks on as George Washington/Solomon/and God rolled into one trashing him for what he’s already sensitive about, been rejected by his father because of and is powerless to change? And just how would you feel if you lived in a world where everybody around you wanted to celebrate Hannukkah or Kwanzaa but in your heart you knew you were only meant to celebrate Christmas and those you loved rejected you, how would you feel Mama? The fact that I’m gay has nothing to do wit…
Sorry, what were we talking about?
Oh yeah, I liked the song better. Just because Rudolph’s nose was red wouldn’t mean it would light up- that part stretched credibility. Orlando Bloom as an elf would have helped a lot too.
He’s a damn red-nose hating bigot in this movie. In the director’s cut, there’s a scene of him burning a cross on Donner’s lawn.
Which being on a glacier was particularly stupid. And the way they treated the Abominable Snow Creature- pulling his teeth without anesthesia? Where’s PETA at times like this? Damn, just cut off his scrotum and make him wear a tutu why don’t you? I half expected Abominable to wake up and find Hermey and his dental tools standing over him asking in a German accent “Is it safe?”
I watch it with my daughter last night. When it came to the scene with the Jelly shooting gun, I immediately said,
I got a good laugh. Easy audience.
We both enjoyed the bumbles bounce scene. The show is dated but yet still appeals to kids so that’s pretty cool.
Jim
Abominable is a meat eating humanoid so PETA probably give Hermey a lifetime membership.
Jim
Oh, please. You’d take Orlando Bloom as Clarice if you could get him, complete with pink polka-dotted bow on his head. 
Anyone get a “quality” from Charlie-in-the-Box? And did King Moonracer evoke the Lion of Narnia for anyone?
Yeah, Santa was a bit of a jerk in this. And how could he eat so much to get fat in one evening? He cancelled Christmas because of the weather report, then Rudolph lights his nose, and Mrs. Santa starts shoving food down his throat, and then it’s Ho-Ho-Ho hook up the sleigh and get ready to stop at the Isle of Misfit Toys.
Boy, a lot of stuff sails right over our heads when we’re kids.
In all this time, noone has mentioned the other un-misfitish toy on the IoMT: the yellow scooter! Just what was wrong with it?
It was yellow, who ever heard of a scooter that was Yellow. My gosh, the horror.
I watched Rudolph again last night and started wondering: do all of the toys created in Santa’s warehouse become self-aware, sentient beings like the inhabitants of the IoMT? If so, why didn’t that one doll object when Hermie was hammering away at her teeth?
I’ve given this show way too much thought.
And by “warehouse,” of course, I mean “workshop.” :smack:
Toys receive the spark of sentience upon arriving at the IoMT, so they are immediately and constantly tormented night and day with thoughts of their own inadequacies. Once they’re distributed as presents, they revert to blissful nothingness.
Kinda creepy.
That finally explains Chucky.
According to Sam the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose. In fact, if you ever saw it, you might even say it glows. Whether or not it actually glows or if the glowing is a figment of your imagination, I’m not sure. Not sure why it squeaks, either.
I think the toys are Santa’s horcruxes.