FedEx.
Duh… Pagans. They’re much cheaper.
I thought the doll said at one point that her “flaw” was that she cried real tears.
Humph. I wonder what I’m thinking of.
Hallmark has “Rudolph” partyware this season. The dessert plates have Hermie on them - WOOT!
Now if only they’d have Heatmiser and Snowmiser. sigh
And another useless fact from TV Guide: the voices of Rudolph and Hermey are still alive, and they live in the same retirement home in Toronto and see each other often.
Proudly commemorating the 40th anniversary of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…
“Corrupting Dopers’ minds since 1964”
The Moderator speaketh:
Normally, we really frown on resurrecting old threads. We have recently revised polidy for this forum, to be a bit more lenient in this regard, and I’m going to allow this one to ride. It seems to be a “holiday tradition”, so I’ll let it stand, even though there’s not much “new” being presented.
But I wanted to use this opportunity for the general reminder that we don’t really like to have old threads bumped up from the depths. Many of the posters who commented before are no longer around and so not able to defend their opinion, and that’s kinda not fair. So, we frown on bumping in general, but we’ll allow an exception in this case.
Which also means, I suppose, that bumping up this thread will become an annual seasonal tradition. OK, so be it. But please, please, let’s not start bumping up half a dozen old threads or I will get pissy about it.
Thanks, Dex. Not only is bumping this thread a SDMB Holiday Tradition, it’s a great annual tribute to thread starter poohpah chaulpa.
“As God is my witness, I thought toy birds could fly!”
A few years back, the Bob & Tom radio show had a hilarious “Behind the Scenes” documentary about “Rudolph.” Yukon Cornelius was “outed” as a homoexual by Charlie the jack-in-the box.
But the best (and saddest) segment was about poor CLarice. TYpecast as a Christmas reindeer, she eventually went the Dana Plato route, becoming a heavy cocaine user and porn star (her most popular titles included “Jingle Balls,” “The Little Hummer Boy” and “Santa Claus is Cumming”).
Poor Clarice was found dead with a line of (what else?) snow on the table beside her.
Then why is her face dark brown? Been spending too much time in the Bahamas?
Just a note for those who love Rankin/Bass…ABC Family is going to be showing the Rankin/Bass Christmas classics all through December!
Here is the programming schedule for the month, and yes, Heatmiser and Snowmiser are on there. Can’t remember exactly which one they were on, though…
The Year Without a Santa Claus. Which is otherwise a pretty dumb show, but who cares! It has Heatmiser! And Snowmiser!
And Mrs Santa saying “EAT, PAPA! EAT!”
Her face is clear, like the bottle. There’s dark syrup behind it! 
Actually, the latter is from Rudolph. The Rankin-Bassiverse has so many Santas it’s kind of hard to keep track of them.
So which one had that frost wizard, who couldn’t move because he’d frozen himself to the ground. The song went “You put one foot…in front…of the other…”
That was the one with Mickey Rooney voicing Kris Kringle, and an absolutely hot younger Mrs. Claus…
I seem to recall Fred Astair doing the frame for that one as Santa’s postal carrier…
Short Google, and a website with a bilious green background which made my eyes bleed, give the titile as Santa Claus is Coming to Town, from 1970.
Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
Which I always remember because young Kris Kringle is a dead ringer for my brother-in-law. I like to point at Santa and inform BIL what he’ll look like if he doesn’t change his ways.
Just two nights ago my wife mentioned something about Hermey the elf and she slapped me when I told her I didn’t know who or what she was talking about (I thought it was a Disney movie character). If I’d taken a guess I would’ve said Robby, so it’s good to see I’m not the only one who didn’t know the elf’s name.
I’d always referred to him as “the elf who wanted to be a dentist.”
It’s on tonight on CBS, going against Lost.