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{{work|wppage=Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)}}{{cleanup|This article starts out as a discussion of the ''Rudolph'' "franchise" and mutates into a page mostly about the Rankin-Bass special. It should be split into a franchise page and individual works pages.}}
[[File:rudolph.png|frame|Do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?]]
'''''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer''''' is a song and popular Christmas story about Santa Claus's ninth and lead reindeer who possesses an unusually red-colored nose that gives off its own light, powerful enough to illuminate the team's path through inclement weather.
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{{tropelist|The Rankin/Bass Christmas Special provides examples of:}}
* [[Abusive Parent]]: Some of the things Rudolph's father says and does are seriously close to the border of emotional abuse.
** Although [[Values Dissonance|considering the time when the creators were growing up and when the
*** To be fair, though the narrator does state that Donner felt pretty bad about the way he treated Rudolph when Rudolph runs off.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Trope namer.
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{{quote|'''Yukon Cornelius:''' I'm off to get my life-sustaining supplies: cornmeal, gunpowder, hamhocks and guitar strings.}}
* [[Badass]]: Yukon Cornelius, and Hermey, too, for going out of their way in defeating the Bumble (although they didn't ''really'' defeat him).
** [[Badass Beard]]: Yukon Cornelius has one that even fuller than Santa's!
* [[Broken Aesop]]/[[Fridge Horror]]: The only reason Rudolph is accepted by anyone is because his deformity can be put to good use; however, it may have served as an inspiration to other deformed people in [[Real Life]] to put their own deformities to good use (for example, by participating in a [[Boston Marathon]] for the disabled, [[Soul Surfer|surfing with only one arm]], [[Ludwig Van Beethoven|composing music without even being able to hear it]], or [[Ray Charles|playing the piano without even being able to see the keys]]--and let's not even go into [[Satoshi Tajiri|how]] [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|many]] [[Albert Einstein|geniuses]] are or may have been autistic).
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Yukon Cornelius crying "Land ho!" ''after'' their ice floe crashes into the shore.
{{quote|'''Hermey:''' No kidding.}}
* [[Cloning Blues]]: The majority of Santa's elves -- most of the males, and all of the females -- seem to be identical copies of each other.
* [[Christmas Elves]]
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* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: The Abominable Snowmonster, of course.
* [[Disney Death]]: Yukon Cornelius.
* [[Fingertip Drug Analysis|Fingertip Ore Analysis]]: Yukon Cornelius routinely sniffs and licks his pickaxe to see what it's just been embedded in.
* [[Freak Out]]: Fireball, at the sight of Rudolph's nose.▼
* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: The elves, and only the elves.
* [[Gold Fever]]: Subverted by Yukon Cornelius, who ''seems'' to suffer from this (and its cousin, Silver Fever), but as the uncut version reveals, he's actually been looking for ''peppermint'' when he finally finds what he's been looking for in the polar snow. (Yeah, yeah, we know, just go with it.)
* [[Hand Wave]]: How do Rudolph and especially Hermey survive a night in the open at the North Pole before Yukon Cornelius finds them? "Somehow", that's how.
* [[Haven't You Seen X Before?]]: "What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a talking snowman before?"
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'''Cornelius:''' I CHANGED MY MIND! }}
* [[Lonely Together]]: Rudolph and Hermey most certainly.
{{quote|'''Hermey:''' Hey, what do you say we both be [[Fridge Logic|independent together]], huh?
'''Rudolph:''' You wouldn't mind my... red nose?
'''Hermey:''' Not if you don't mind me being a dentist.
'''Rudolph:''' It's a deal! }}
* [[Matryoshka Object]]: One of the Misfit Toys is a clown nesting doll, whose smallest doll contains a wind-up mouse.
* [[Money Song]]: Burl Ives' song "Silver and Gold" sorta straddles the line.
* [[Mrs. Claus]]: Who admonished Santa for not eating enough, and that kids wouldn't want a skinny Santa.
* [[Narrator]]: Sam the Snowman.
* [[Now You Tell Me]]: Yukon Cornelius bellows "Land ho!" the moment the protagonists' ice floe collides with the shore of the Island of Misfit Toys. Hermie the elf then mutters, "No kidding."
* [[Older Than They Look]]: It's implied that Santa's elves are this.
* [[Our Elves Are Different]]: Hermey very literally is!
* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]: The elves.
* [[Product Placement]]: The special was originally commissioned and sponsored by GE, which was selling new smaller Christmas Tree lights -- that looked very much like Rudolph's nose....
* [[
** The original 1964 broadcast differs from later versions through Rudolph's and Hermy's performance of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwlOUAAyPQE We're a Couple of Misfits]," Donner expressing pride in his son guiding Santa's sleigh, Yukon Cornelius striking peppermint, and elves dropping presents from the sleigh during the end credits.
** Beginning in 1965, "We're a Couple of Misfits" was replaced with "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GkAylFbnMY Fame and Fortune]," and "We Are Santa's Elves" lost an instrumental scene with physical humor, to make room for commercials. Also, at the request of viewers, a new scene featured Santa collecting the Misfit Toys from the island and a new credits sequence showed elves delivering them to unseen households. As a result, Donner and Yukon Cornelius's witnessing Santa's flight was removed. [[The Other Wiki]] says this is the same version sold on VHS.
** [[Platypus Comix]]'s [http://www.platypuscomix.net/hollywood/misfit28.html review] of a 1979 broadcast<ref>which actually spends more time discussing the cheesy commercials than reviewing the special</ref> reveals a version which cuts ''all'' of "We Are Santa's Elves," as well as a brief moment when Donner tells his wife to [[Stay in the Kitchen]]. (The author claims every other version he's seen contains the latter moment, suggesting it was reinstated during the mid-1980s.)
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* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Clarice, somewhat.
** Subverted with Zoey from [[The Movie]] below.
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Earth, basically, when one storm can blanket the planet (per the newspapers at the beginning).
* [[Sneaky Departure]]: Rudolph feels he's endangering the others because his nose attracts the [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|Abominable Snowmonster]], so he leaves them in the middle of the night.
* [[Spinning Paper]]: The opening sequence of newspaper headlines over footage of extreme winter weather.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: When Donner's wife asks if she can help look for Rudolph, he responds, "No. This is man's work." Joined by Clarice, she follows up, though, and [[It Gets Worse]] for both of them when they get captured by the Abominable Snowmonster.
* [[Stop Motion]]: A classic example.
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Clarice. Red bow and huge eyelashes!
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