Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Happy Holidays, friends! This year the HDYR gang meets up with a few other misfits in Christmastown for a look back at the Rankin/Bass claymation classic, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. It’s aired on CBS every single year since 1964, but there have been quite a few nips, tucks, additions, and subtractions in that time. We go over all of the different versions, some of the more problematic elements that modern audiences might get hung up on, and debate how successfully they expanded on the premise of a pretty threadbare poem/song.
Topics include: Burl Ives and his grudge against storks, the grumpiest little Santa Claus this side of the North Pole, the problem with having everyone behave like a monster towards Rudolph, the oddly cruel ending for the film’s actual monster, whether or not the island of misfit toys should have been saved for their own movie, the other Rankin/Bass holiday specials, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.0 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:33.8 | And today we're revisiting Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you. And today we're revisiting Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Well, hello, friends, and welcome to this year's holiday episode. |
| 0:57.3 | This is always challenging because there just aren't that many Christmas movies. |
| 1:01.7 | No one makes them. |
| 1:03.5 | Really sleeping at the wheel. |
| 1:05.6 | Leaving all that money on the table. |
| 1:08.4 | Other idioms. |
| 1:10.7 | No, obviously, it's challenging for the exact opposite reason. |
| 1:14.3 | There's a whole bunch, and we always get a lot of requests for certain titles. |
| 1:18.5 | There's always some folks who get bummed out that we didn't pick something else. |
| 1:21.4 | But I wanted to try something different this year. |
| 1:23.6 | I know this isn't exactly what listeners mean when they suggest we cover more animated movies, |
| 1:27.8 | but it counts. So I thought it would be worth it to give this one a shot. It's one of the |
| 1:33.2 | quintessential Christmas movies. It didn't feel like we were retreading ground we'd already covered |
| 1:38.0 | on a previous holiday episode, which is not to say that stuff like Home Alone 2 or Christmas |
| 1:42.5 | vacation is off limits. It most |
| 1:44.3 | certainly is not. I just like the idea of a less obvious choice, something no one saw coming. |
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