Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen …

… and they’re all trash.

Rudolph, the red-nosed prince of Christmas, is the only good reindeer. If you have another favorite reindeer, it’s time to switch allegiances and go all in for Rudolph.

The other reindeer are terrible, exploitative bullies.

The most obvious evidence that the other reindeer are bad lies in the very lyrics of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” In Rudolph’s early days — his childhood, his most formative years! — he was met with nothing but disdain from his peers, who “laughed” at him, “called him names,” and refused to include him in activities. (In the 1964 Rankin/Bass stop-motion film, bro reindeer Donner was the ringleader of this gang of tormentors.) Read more…

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