Santa is so nasty and non-understanding

Santa is the worst in this show! He is such a dickhead to poor Rudolph until he needed Rudolph.

hahaha i watched this last night for the first time since i was little, and the whole time i was like, "omg, santa is kind of a DB". actually, almost everyone in the town was. i mean, i know they're supposed to make fun of rudolph, but wow, the writers really didn't hold back.

like when comet (or one of the deer) says "let's not let rudolph join in any reindeer games" i was like what?! i mean, it's one thing for one's peers to be nasty, but when an instructor says something so obviously demented, to a child, that's attention grabbing. i was like...wow. i'm used to my coach's demanding we all get along.

and then when santa was like, gee, rudolph is obviously a prodigy, being as young as he was and able to fly so well, but i'm still not going to put him on my sleigh team. his nose is red. i was like whatt? lol. he exceeds at the job you need him to do, but you're not going to use him...because of something that's completely irrelevant to the job? i could understand if he had a flesh eating disease or something, but wow lol.

did anyone else notice when the elves were excited to show santa their routine, he just wanted to get it over with, and looked bored, and at the end told them that they weren't good enough. that wasn't a very jolly thing to do.

i don't know if it was just the time period, or whether they were really trying to express how removed from society rudolph's nose made him, but it was a little shocking to me lol. put in rudolph's shoes at the end, when asked to guide the sleigh, i probably wouldn't have been a good champ about it like rudolph. i'd be like *beep* you santa", even if they all apologized already.

I'll make it to the moon if I have to crawl <3 RHCP

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worse than that, he wears a dear-stalker hat, and wears it in the first scene he appears in when he visits donner and the baby rudolph, talk about tact-less

"All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names. They never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games"

The reindeer are suppose to be mean to Rudolph... a lot of this movie is taken from the song. The whole film is about being a misfit and how misfits can overcome. True to real life - people will make fun of others who are a bit different.

Santa? He's just a grumpy old man that gets his Holly Jollies out of Christmas - but maybe not until that time! Hahaaaaha 





"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." ~ The Invisible Man

No kidding. He was rude and dismissive to his wife and the elves and all but discarded Rudolf as he as saw him! What is the deal?

Santa's a busy man with an extreme responsibity. I get that, but would it have hurt him to be a bit appeciative of the effort everyone else was going to?

It is because this movie was made in 1964 before snowflakes and safe spaces.

My son and I laughed when Donner told Rudolph that he should be ashamed for having a red nose.

Well, near the part where Rudolph pulls the sleigh, he does complain about elf songs..