# Your opinions wanted on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinions-wanted-on-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/519849>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 3, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinions-wanted-on-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/519849 "2009-12-03T14:44:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinions-wanted-on-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/519849/81 "2009-12-06T22:44:14Z")

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**Meltdown** – interesting question, but one that’s been raised already in the existing thread in Cafe Society. I’m moving it thither.

twicks, MPSIMS mod

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinions-wanted-on-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/519849/82 "2009-12-07T18:08:11Z")

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> [@Markxxx](#):
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> Reminds me a bit of _the Dick Van Dyke Show_
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> Laura is talking to Rob)
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> Laura ) If you want to end up another Dwight Heatherton, go ahead!
> 
> Rob) Who’s that?
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> Laura) Dwight Heatheron happens to be an excellent writer who is unknown today because he got no publicity.
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> Rob) Then how do you know him?
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> Laura) Oh c’mon Rob, he’s _famous_.

Or the legendary [Gags Beasley](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Gags_Beasley).

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**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinions-wanted-on-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/519849/83 "2009-12-08T00:08:50Z")

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> [@THespos](#):
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> I’d like to see a modern version where Rudolph, excluded from reindeer games for one day too many, comes to Comet’s open tryouts with a sawed-off and goes all Trenchcoat Mafia on everyone in the immediate vicinity. Leaving only that cute little girl reindeer with the abnormally-long eyelashes as the only survivor, Rudy then plays My Chemical Romance on an elf-manufactured iPod until the cops show up, whereupon he turns the shotgun on himself and ends his own life in a spray of gore and reindeer brains.

I bought a Christmas card many years ago–it wasn’t a Far Side card, but similar–with a red-nosed reindeer sitting in an armchair under a row of reindeer heads labeled “Dasher”, “Dancer” etc., and the caption: “All of the other reindeer _used_ to laugh and call him names.”

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