So is Rudolph an "official" Reindeer?

[wildojinx]

Outside of his own song/special, has Rudolph ever been mentioned with the other Reindeer in any other Christmas media? The only time i can find it is in "The Night Santa Went Crazy" where he gets "ground up into reindeer sausage".

[Annette]

I feel as if he was allowed to "join" for good PR and publicity, but the Big 8 don't really consider him to be part of the team.

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Dec 14, 2016 15:06:59 GMT -5 Annette said:

I feel as if he was allowed to "join" for good PR and publicity, but the Big 8 don't really consider him to be part of the team.

I feel this way as well.

He's like taken in orphan level. He's part of the family now, but no, he isn't really and never will be.

I'll bet they rip on his dumb nose constantly.

[James Fabiano]

How about Annabelle? Or Olive the Other Reindeer?

[Glitch]

Rudolph I believe is actually copyrighted. Which is why he is in limited use.


.......although I personally believe it's because Santa thinks he hasn't paid his dues.

[Annette]

Dec 14, 2016 16:01:22 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

How about Annabelle? Or Olive the Other Reindeer?

Who?

[James Fabiano]

Dec 14, 2016 16:14:01 GMT -5 Annette said:

Dec 14, 2016 16:01:22 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

How about Annabelle? Or Olive the Other Reindeer?

Who?

[pegasuswarrior]

Nice thread.

I always say no. He got one Christmas. One. When it was snowing really bad. All over the world. All over the ... yeah.

But yeah, not an official reindeer. I used to say he might join up with them if it's an especially snowy/stormy Christmas. And it legit annoyed me when kids always would say Rudolph's coming and he leads the pack.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

I think he's like Cappadonna is to the Wu-Tang Clan

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Dec 14, 2016 16:17:17 GMT -5 pegasuswarrior said:

Nice thread.

I always say no. He got one Christmas. One. When it was snowing really bad. All over the world. All over the ... yeah.

But yeah, not an official reindeer. I used to say he might join up with them if it's an especially snowy/stormy Christmas. And it legit annoyed me when kids always would say Rudolph's coming and he leads the pack.

But why not just use him? The weather in certain places might suck and what's another reindeer to pull the sled?

[Annette]

Dec 14, 2016 17:01:23 GMT -5 Confused Mark Wahlberg said:

I think he's like Cappadonna is to the Wu-Tang Clan

Sorry for invading in on your sctick, Confused Mark Wahlberg. I couldn't resist! 😆

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Think of it like this, in terms of Pokemon, Rudolph would be that one otherwise useless Pokemon you teach Flash to and only use when you have to go through caves, otherwise they stay in the PC.

[MrBRulzOK]

Dec 14, 2016 17:24:19 GMT -5 Koda, Master Crunchyroller said:

Think of it like this, in terms of Pokemon, Rudolph would be that one otherwise useless Pokemon you teach Flash to and only use when you have to go through caves, otherwise they stay in the PC.

So Rudolph is the Stantler, eh?

[chazraps]

Dec 14, 2016 17:01:23 GMT -5 Confused Mark Wahlberg said:

I think he's like Cappadonna is to the Wu-Tang Clan

That's really low, dude.

Rudolph is at the very least Killah Priest, or an always-around Redman-level affiliate.

Rudolph also didn't go from guiding Santa's sleigh to driving a New York City taxicab within ten years.

[chazraps]

I'd say he is, but he's a later edition, like Jason Newstead to Metallica.

I mean, you know Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid, Donner and Blitzen (or at least know of them), but do you recall that they legit were established in Christmas legend for years and years and years.

Rudolph was the young reindeer prodigy who has only been in the game since 1939. That's literally 100 years after the original 8 were established in 1823's "A Visit From St. Nicolas" (better known today as 'The Night Before Christmas: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire').

Do you consider Elmo a muppet? Is Rocko's Modern Life's a Nicktoon?

Overall, you can make a better case for Rudolph being one of Santa's reindeer than you can for Die Hard being a Christmas movie (for the record, I ascribe to both).

[DSR]

Every Christmas Eve when I was little, my older siblings would take me out to the front porch and point to a far off shining red light and say that that was Rudolph's nose. I eventually realized that light was attached to some kinda tower and I could see it year 'round if I actually paid attention, but still. Dude's a reindeer officially. The "all-new, all-different X-Men" are X-Men, latter day Rudolph is a reindeer.

[Deleted]

He's Donner's son.

He's the greatest second generation reindeer of all time.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Male reindeer don't have their antlers around Christmas. They're all female.

[horsemen4ever]

Funny thing about my childhood, I blieved in Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, etc., but I never believed in Rudolph that was just made up, that is where I drew my line in dis belief.