Are they testing to see if the dolls cry out during sex?
When a discussion of “Rudolph” leads to this, you know we are a special kind of depraved on this message board. 
Well, that’s not when you’d want them to run a temperature, I’d reckon.
Tomorrow is the annual showing on CBS
Might be a good time to introduce that line of chewing dolls.
Seventeen years for this thread!
And 53 years for the show! Run run Rudolph!
Ah, that time of year again. Time to lift a cup of eggnog to poohpah chaulpa.
I read through the thread and found that most of the old links have died. Pity.
There were several mentions of people yelling at the screen at certain points in the show. It made me think of the play-along script for Rocky Horror. Should we develop a Rudolph play-along?
I pulled some possibilities from the thread.
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[li]“The kind that will even say, Up yer wazoo.” In a gravelly, Brooklyn truck driver voice. [/li][li]Hello Clarice[/li][li]Asshole[/li][li]Close the Door![/li][li]As God it my witness, I thought it could fly![/li][li]Purple steak - - she’s trying to kill me. [/li][li](squirt a squirt gun)[/li][li]Why can’t I hear a banjo?[/li][li]Is that elf making a doomsday device?[/li][li]“yeah, drink Papa, drink!”[/li][li](Is there a line from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof that would fit anywhere?)[/li][li]“Let’s be independent, together!”[/li][/ul]
Any suggestions for additional audience lines? (And now I’ve got There’s a Light stuck in my head. I wonder if there’s a place that would fit.) The most repeated thought in the thread is speculation on what the doll’s misfit is. Not sure how to turn that into yelling at the screen, though.
o/ There's a liiiiight over at the Santa Claus place. There's a liiii-iiiiii-iiiiiight burning Yule logs in the fireplace... o/
“Let’s be codependent, together!”
While many of the misfit toys have physical problems, the only criteria for a toy being on the Island is that “no little boy or girl loves” it. We may want to search for concrete reasons why a particular toy is unloved (square wheels on a train, for example), but the truth is that there is often no good explanation other than the indifferent icy nature of the world. And in the show this snow and ice have spread from North Pole and infected the entire planet. That’s the whole premise. Indeed the Arctic blasting blizzard storm-of-storms landscape in *Rudolph *is symbolic of this cold isolation and general frozen emptiness, the human condition devoid of love. This storm has spread over the planet. Everyone is buried under it. Christmas is cancelled.
Rudolph is the light, the Jesus figure who brings love and acceptance in a time when even Santa himself has forgotten the meaning of Christmas. If you look for a deformity in the doll, you miss the point. The deformity is in those rejecting the doll. The deformity is in us. And a red nose is our salvation.
Just in case this is still a question (although it seems most people here are using Hermie) here is an interview with Arthur Rankin Jr verifying the name. The creepy interviewer brings up the Doll’s underwear (or lack of)
Whoa. That’s deep, Dude.
When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life.
I LOVE that!
Elsewhere, it was pointed out that some parallels can be drawn between Rudolph and Christ.
With that in mind, is there any any validity to the hypothesis that King Moonracer is an Aslan-figure, and Rudolph merely an avatar of Dr. Elwin Ransom?
I just want to know why Rudolph thought he was helping his friends by leaving the door open in freezing temperatures in the middle of the night.
I think we are being a little hard on Rudolph about this door closing business. Sure, he should have closed the door, but you have to remember Rudolph has not grown up yet. He is still only a stubby-antlered youngster just a few days past his very first reindeer games. Ask any parent if their kid always remembers to shut the door. That’s not to say we shouldn’t tell them to do so. But leaving the door open? That’s just what kids do.
Also, Rudolph has only ever lived in a cave, so he has no real previous experience with doors. An unblocked opening at the entrance to his sleeping quarters is the norm for Rudolph.
Finally, consider his inner turmoil. Rudolph is leaving his friends, the only ones who ever treated him right. He is saying goodbye to these friends in order to protect them from a dangerous yeti who, besides being mean and nasty, hates everything to do with Christmas. Rudolph will be drawing that monster away and putting himself in danger. This monster, with its special anti-Christmas grudge, would have extra incentive to harm Rudolph because of his North Pole roots. That’s pretty damn selfless of our red-nosed hero. So give the young deer a break about the door.
Okay, you win the internet today. 
To think, all these years I was being so thoughtless!
We are Santa’s elves.
We’ve a special job each year.
We don’t like to brag.
Christmas Eve we always
Fill Santa’s bag.
Change this one to:
Christmas Eve we’re always
Half in the bag.
One of my friends bought her daughter a (practically) life-sized unicorn riding toy for Christmas. It holds a rider up to 150 pounds, so she plans to give it a whirl herself. It has fur and everything. It is glorious.
Which makes me think, in terms of this thread, there was a huge missed opportunity. I would so buy a giant ridable Rudolph. I would buy one for my children! Every kid who grew up watching this thing would buy one for their kid.
My contribution to the main theme of the thread: The Abominable Snowman got smaller when he came inside. He was peering between MOUNTAINS out there in the wild. Now he’s only as big as a normal size Christmas tree (remember, they’re all elves; of course it looks big to them).