5. The Bumble from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The mentally-challenged, Christmas-hating abominable snowman barely edges out Yukon Cornelius as my favorite character from the Rankin/Bass stop motion classic. After all, we both share an intense dislike of Rudolph.
4. Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey (from the classic Christmas carol of the same name): Star of my favorite non-traditional Christmas song, Dominick the Donkey helps deliver toys to all the children of Italy. Sure, reindeer can fly while Dominick must climb the treacherous mountains surrounding Italy, but that just shows making children happy means more to him than it does to those lazy, flash-in-the-pan reindeer.
3. The Old Man (from A Christmas Story): Ralphie's dad makes this list for the way he "worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay," his appreciation of fine art, and for coming through for Ralphie and getting him is Red Ryder BB gun.
2. Ebenezer Scrooge (from A Christmas Carol): My favorite performances of this venerable character are from Michael Caine and Scrooge McDuck.
1. Santa Claus: Duh, right? I mean, if all the various holiday characters got together in some kind of Hall of Justice, Santa Claus would be their Superman. My favorite Santa Claus story is his "origin"in the the claymation "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," in which he fights the evil Burgermeister Meisterburger.
"I mean, if all the various holiday characters got together in some kind of Hall of Justice, Santa Claus would be their Superman."
ReplyDeleteWhat about....y'know...Jesus?
Jesus schmesus...
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I originally titled this post "Teebore's 5 Favorite Non-religious Christmas Characters" just to avoid this very issue, but found it a bit unwieldy and changed it at the last minute (for the record, if I was including religious figures, not only would Jesus be included, but so would the 3 Wise Men. Those dudes rock).
As it is, I suppose you could argue that Jesus isn't a holiday "character" in the same way as someone like the Bumble or Scrooge is; when picturing the holiday characters in their Hall of Justice, I was imagining entirely fictional characters presided over by the commercially-designed Santa Claus.
I dunno...I don't see a problem with comparing Jesus to the Bumble. Of course, a lot of the Bumble's charity work has gone unnoticed by the liberal media and their attempt portray their beloved commie Rudolph in a better light.
ReplyDeletePfft...every reindeer should be allowed to play in the "reindeer games." Sounds like pink-o talk to me.
Love the Bumble! I keep a stuffed bumble in our guest bedroom year-round. He even talks; and of course, haunts my guests dreams
ReplyDeleteVery disapponted there's no Bad Santa.
ReplyDeleteSadly, despite all the good things I've heard about it, I have yet to see Bad Santa.
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