What is the moral lesson contained in the words to ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’? Do you agree with it?

or move to australia and herd wallabies!

back to the thread topic ...

Oh wait, no.

he had a fake beef with another kid, Erik, who worked there, and a real beef with Kathy, a middleaged woman who did our baking (maverick did a little of the baking too and always fucked it up, cookies come out totally flat or ashy or soggy). part of the fake beef one week was Erik putting up a picture of a kid with down's syndrome smiling on the staff bulletin board and writing on it MAVERICK BAKES HIS 1ST BATCH OF COOKIES!! This stayed up for about a day before Kathy took it down in disgust.

maverick came in later to pick up his check, saw that his tribute had been pulled, and announced to the entire kitchen (incl kathy and several others):

"I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW, THAT RETARDS ARE STUPID AND DESERVE TO BE MADE FUN OF."

(which is what this thread reminded me of)

(maverick left the deli to move to LA and be a movie star. he told me once he'd "figured out how john wayne did it." i learned later that he had come back to mpls several months later, and having nowhere to go, had walked from the greyhound station [this is like january] in st paul to a suburb about 25 miles away to bang on the door of a girl he stalked in college. only neither she nor her family lived there anymore. the current residents called the cops, who picked him up in the neighborhood posthaste; all he had was the blanket he'd wrapped himself with, and a hatchet.)

I don't know if this was meant to sound like Ali G, but that's how I'm hearing it in my head (and it is making me giggle).

i think that the doll on the island of misfit toys was there b/c she was psycho. she later went on to become chuckie's mom, or something.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, December 20, 2004 11:08 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

i'm inexplicably proud of this post.

agreed

I'm drunk enough to attempt a serious answer: AFAICT the lesson is that if you are different in any way, you may well find that you are a target of ostracism and rejection from your peers. However, you do not need to listen to them. The characteristic that distinguishes you might actually be a unique talent or skill that turns out to be of value. Once your peers observe that an authority figure recognizes this, they may well completely change their attitude. Yes, people often are that dumb and shallow. This is why you should not feel that you always need to listen to them.

Yes, I agree with this.

It's never specified whether Rudolph becomes a full time part of the team or just a role player who comes in for certain situations. They need him when Christmas Eve is foggy, but what if the night is clear with high visibility?

Either way, all the reindeer love him and his name goes down in history! I mean, we're still singing about him. So much the better for him if he only needs to work on rare occasions.

if rudolph was on ilx what would go down in his-to-ree is that all of the other reindeer would have sb'ed him so on that foggy christmas eve when santa called he wouldn't know about poor rudolph stuck in sberia arguing with deeznuts about that video of the dog and the train. the moral lesson is that we are no better than all of the other reindeer.

The moral seems very utilitarian, which is a little difficult to get behind. If Santa's opinion holds so much sway in reindeer circles then he should probably have asked them to be nicer to Rudolph during his awkward adolescent phase. I can't help but feel that the whole thing is an elaborate penis metaphor.

What I'm hearing is that reindeer can have ugly duckling syndrome. We need one more species and we've got something akin to moral turducken.

Gives a whole new meaning to "Guide my sleigh tonight"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4V4O9PFOGk&feature=player_embedded

I think there should be a final verse where Rudolph says "oh so *now* you all like me now that I'm successful, but you never even gave me the time of day when I was just a red-nosed reindeer. Well you can all just FUCK OFF" (or words to that effect).
― rener (rener), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:11 (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like that last verse in friend in low places Garth sings live

Wham!'s Last Christmas (on repeat) : Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Dark Side of the Moon : The Wizard of Oz

They used to laugh at him. And call him names. So he killed them. He killed them all. pic.twitter.com/uxx6b2sE4e

— Phaedra (@PhaedraXTeddy) December 4, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4