"Rudolph" T.V. Special

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

“I don’t want to be a Beetle. I want to be a Rolling Stone.”

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Wow. The show would be even weirder - hard as that is to conceive - if Bob Dylan had done the songs.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

“Hey, Mr. Tambourine Elf, Make A Toy For Me”
“Slidin’ Down Heaven’s Chimney”
“A Hard Snow’s Gonna Fall”
“Checkin’ It Twice, It’s All Right”

[jayjay]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

“Hey, Mr. Tambourine Elf, Make A Toy For Me”
“Slidin’ Down Heaven’s Chimney”
“A Hard Snow’s Gonna Fall”
“Checkin’ It Twice, It’s All Right”

Dylan actually did record a Christmas album, about 16 years ago. It was horrible. I mean, brainbleach me horrible.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

@jayjay

Dylan actually did record a Christmas album, about 16 years ago.

I can understand your wanting to distance yourself from it, but it was only four years ago.

[jayjay]

@Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew

I can understand your wanting to distance yourself from it, but it was only four years ago.

Now why did I think it was 1997? That’s just weird.

[Biotop]

@jayjay

Dylan actually did record a Christmas album, about 16 years ago. It was horrible. I mean, brainbleach me horrible.

Maybe it was just a “misfit” album…?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

I have a copy of Dylan’s Christmas album. I keep it for novelty value only.

[Biotop]

Too bad there is no supernatural winged lion to go about gathering up the music in our collections that we don’t like —and then perhaps later gifting it to someone else who might appreciate the sounds.

[GIGObuster]

Bob Dylan is looking more like Vincent Price nowadays.

Bob Dylan Totally Looks Like Vincent Price

[Biotop]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

“Hey, Mr. Tambourine Elf, Make A Toy For Me”
“Slidin’ Down Heaven’s Chimney”
“A Hard Snow’s Gonna Fall”
“Checkin’ It Twice, It’s All Right”

I don’t know of too many “Rudolph” holiday songs that have actually been covered by bands since the show first aired… but this version of “Silver & Gold” by Faith & Disease is awesome:
Silver & Gold

[BMalion]

On Friday I will have the traditional playing of The Partrige Family Christmas Album.

[BMalion]

Come to think of it, Sam the Snowman sounds and looks disturbingly like Big Daddy from Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

hmmmm.

[BMalion]

And in the scene where Hermie decides he won’t fit in as an elf, then he crawls out the window, why is there a bookcase with shelves full of vases?

What child ever asked for a vase for Christmas? Is there an Island Of Misfit Pottery?

I think NOT.

[TBG]

@BMalion

And in the scene where Hermie decides he won’t fit in as an elf, then he crawls out the window, why is there a bookcase with shelves full of vases?

What child ever asked for a vase for Christmas? Is there an Island Of Misfit Pottery?

I think NOT.

Can’t give the naughty kids coal EVERY year.

[BMalion]

@TBG

Can’t give the naughty kids coal EVERY year.

Good point.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@BMalion

…Is there an Island Of Misfit Pottery?..

You can’t see it even with HD, but every one of those vases has a hole in it.

[ZenBeam]

@JohnGalt

It looks like it will be broadcast on December 19th on ABC Family (you know, the channel that still shows The 700 Club.

That seems to be Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys, which is not the same. I couldn’t find Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on ABC Family at all.

I do wonder what the hell CBS is thinking. Do they get it for cheaper prior to December?

[BMalion]

@Elendil_s_Heir

You can’t see it even with HD, but every one of those vases has a hole in it.

[janis_and_c0]

@Hal_Briston

Before this one gets put to bed for another year, I have to explain the delightful way I’ve gotten my wife pissed off at me.

The Littlest Briston received Rudolph and Clarice dolls for Christmas last year. She played with them for a bit, then I put them away for the year. She was thrilled when I brought them back out this season, and she kept them with her every time she watched the show.

Every now and then, she’s hold up Rudolph’s leading lady, and ask “Daddy, what’s her name again?”

“Clarice”, I’d say. But it was the way I’d say it that has my wife seeing red. Each time, I’d give it just the right inflection, and now TLB has it down pat. If you ask her the name of Rudolph’s girlfriend, she’ll happily tell you that her name is “Clarice”…in a perfect Hannibal Lecter tone of voice.

It’s wonderful, hearing that come out of a four-year-old girl – really, it is.

Hal, I saw this the other day & thought of you & the Littlest Briston… Who I guess is not so little anymore!