With Your Nose So Cheap and Shoddy
So, am I the only one who jokingly thinks that Rudolph’s red-tinted nose is actually a real General Electric Light bulb (more specifically, one of those mini red and green holiday light bulbs that people use as Christmas lights that wrap around their porch) that’s been glued to his nose when he was being conceived at birth?
You see, when Mrs. Donner was ready, it also so happened to be the day when General Electric was signing an agreement with NBC to run the little reindeer’s special under their newly created format, “The General Electric Fantasy Hour”. A shortly lived advertising technique where NBC would air Brand new Full-color specials that would be tattooed with General Electric commercials. There were three of these; first being “Return to Oz” from 1964, the last being “The Ballad of Smokey The Bear” from 1966, and the funny “I swear we didn’t mean to make it look like Rudolph completely forgot about the misfit toys even though he was on the dam island for like ⅕ of the special” Tv Musical Spectacular from… also 1964. I guess that Smokey was so important for the formerly named “Videocraft” that they jumped over 1965.
Anyways, after the contract was signed, Lady Boreal (because I actively will go out of my way to talk about the other two Rudolph specials because I think they’re so completely bonkers, they’re good) decided to surgery remove Rudolph’s nose and perform a nose transplant using a random General Electric light bulb from a pack she found at Sears that afternoon. Why would she, of all people, ever do something like this? Because it’s completely batshit insane yet it’s still kinda believable in their world (which is how I describe a good amount of the Rankin/bass filmography).
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