Wednesday night one of the networks is showing the old Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special. My kids really like it, despite the tradgedy at the end. The very end. Have you seen it?
Santa picks up the misfits from the Island of Misfit Toys. He's going to make sure they all find a child to love them. Then Santa takes off and as he flies along, the narrator sings the Rudolph song and an elf is in the back of the sleigh pulling toys out of Santa's sack. He give's each of them an umbrella so they can float down to their assigned house...and child. It's such a happy scene.
But then something terrible happens. The elf pulls a misfit toy out of the sack...the bird. The elf looks at the bird, then at the umbrella. He looks back and forth several times. Then he pushes the bird out of the sleigh without an umbrella!!! The misfit toy bird! The one that swims! The one that can't fly!!! It's too terrible to watch! Except we will watch. We'll pretend to be horrified. And we'll laugh like crazy!
Then I'll ask my kids if they think the writers did that on purpose, as an inside joke. What do you think? We're the writers being silly or sloppy???
My friends and I were having this talk just recently ─ a lot of the children's stories that we have known since we were little, most of them... if not all, are tragic.Ö
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen this one... so that was the ending? It's kinda tragic for a Christmas story. But I'm intrigued, maybe the bird didn't die and it learned how to fly? Was just thinking out loud. I want a happy ending for a Christmas story.
ReplyDeletenever heard of this. oh silly silly silly silly silly. i just somewhat hooked on the word silly because my co-worker calls me silly *insert gummy's real name here* all the time. gahahaha
ReplyDeleteruss and Leah: Officially the story did have a happy ending (Rudolph gets accepted and Santa saves the mis-fit toys). But after watching it 10 times I remembered that the bird was a mis-fit who could not fly. I think the writers put that in the script as an inside joke to themselves. It happens while the credits are being shown at the very end.
ReplyDelete@the girl in stiletto: Silly is good!
LOL wow i haven't seen it in a long time...i'll have to watch that. i like ur blog = ]
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