I Watched Every Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Special - TheHappySpaceman Reviews

I Watched Every Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Special - TheHappySpaceman Reviews

For a late Christmas special, TheHappySpaceman sits down and reviews every single Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer film and TV special. Yes, even that one.

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Okay, I wasn't going to reblog this post, because I am making a very lengthy video about all the Rudolph movies and I don't want to spoil anything, but when I saw this addition I felt I had to respond, as someone who has dedicated way too much time learning about this character.

Yes, it is true that Rudolph was a marketing mascot from Montgomery Ward. It is also true that Robert L. May created Rudolph and wrote the original book, although it's debated how that came about and whether he created the character for Montgomery Ward or whether he came up with Rudolph first.

However, there is a happy ending to this story: In 1946, Montgomery Ward president Sewell Avery directly gave the copyright to Rudolph back to May. And for the rest of his life, May owned the copyright to the Rudolph character and thus directly profited from sales of the book and the many animated specials.

Sources:

Rumore, Kori. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created in Chicago: Here's how the story became a book, song and TV special." Chicago Tribune, Dec 24, 2021.

"The History Of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." NPR, Dec 25, 2013.

"Did Montgomery Ward Give the Rights to “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Back to the Story’s Author for Free?" Legends Revealed, Dec 20, 2012.

There are many issues with the Rudolph story and Rudolph as a character, and it is okay to take issue with them! I just wanted to clear this up to make sure all the facts were being shared.

somebody has got to stop the santa claus thing btw. It's getting out of hand. we keep yes-anding new additions to a lore that became outdated a century ago. Most houses don't even have chimneys anymore and nobody wears stockings. At some point we accepted the idea that Santa Claus watches children while they sleep and now we have elf on the shelf to deal with. Honestly we should have put a stop to the whole thing with rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. "Hey so what if there was a reindeer born with a congenital condition that makes him the worlds first known bioluminescent ungulate, and because of this he experienced reindeer ableism" who comes up with something like that

Thanks to Artomatic and RisersFest for the compliment on my recent performance with the Falsies! I do enjoy rocking the keytar. :D

To quote one of my favorite Rush songs:

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Anyway, vote, dammit. And enjoy the tunes while you're at it.

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

Is this anything?

yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.