Stop and think about the lyrics of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.
“All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names;
They never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games”
So we have a clear case of emotional, social and verbal harassment and exclusion based on a facial disfigurement. BTW, what did Santa do about this situation in his workplace? NOTHING until one foggy Christmas eve when the old drunk suddenly realized he needed a red light to comply with international air regulations for small aircraft.
So Rudolph gets a promotion and then what happens? “Then how the reindeer loved him. . . .” The same reindeer who had been abusing him the day before suddenly loved him???:dubious:
I ask you, is this song about one red-nosed reindeer or eight brown-nosed ones?
Well we all know Santa is a pedophile, so he can’t be trusted, but we’re talking about the other reindeer here. Buncha opportunist jerks!
Edit: Biotop, forgiveness for me comes from believing the person/deer is truly sorry and won’t do it again. I can’t say the other reindeer have a good enough track record for me to believe they’re better than that, and aren’t just on the Rudolph bandwagon because he’s guiding the sleigh. Maybe next Christmas Eve when it’s not foggy and, say, Prancer is leading the way, I’ll know just how reformed the other guys are. Until then, no trust!
Yeppers. He gives Rudolphs’ dad shit for Rudoplhs facial deformity.
And that elf at the end tossing toys out the sleigh while the credits roll is a murderer. Notice how he hands umbrellas to all the toys he tosses out? Then he gets to the bird from the island of misfit toys. (You know, the bird that swims instead of flies?) That elf looks at the bird then looks at the umbrella and then back at the bird and then he just tosses the bird overboard WITHOUT an umbrella.
Not a good enough track record??? They’ve been delivering your presents for free all these many years and surviving in the wicked climate at the North Pole. Cut them some slack.
Please don’t take this out on eight helpless reindeer whose only crime was the misguided teasing of a fellow deer and who have all repented for their past blindness.
At my local Starbuck’s, they used to play an updated Rudolph song with added lyrics telling about how Rudolph told the other reindeer how he didn’t appreciate how they were so mean to him, and now all of a sudden they want to be his friends. The other reindeer then feel ashamed of themselves and apologize to Rudolph.
Yeah, that’s like real life.
When I was in high school, I drew a mock movie poster (although what I actually conceived was a movie trailer). Imagine a chorus of children singing: "Then all the reindeer loved him, and they shouted out with glee: “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, you’ll go down in history…”
[VO]: But Rudolph wasn’t satisfied.
DECEMBER THE TWENTY-FIFTH, PART II: RUDOLPH’S REVENGE
Unfortunately, I couldn’t draw even as well as the average teenager, so it sucked.
Hey, Elf. The Fair Folk. The guys who got called the Fair Folk and so forth so they wouldn’t take offense and rip your face off. Of course he’s a nasty fellow under all that good cheer - we don’t really know what he’s so jolly about, now do we?
Hey, who do you think set up the Reindeer Games? And what do you think happened to the losers?!
Are you kidding? Unless you are the lead sleddog, the view never changes. Same with reindeer. They were checking out his sweet ass all night long and then they “loved him” and “shouted out with glee”, those initiation rites are worse than ours.
Personally, if I were Rudolph, I would have had two bowls of chili before the flight.
