Hermey’s Facial Blemishes
Posted on | November 29, 2005 at 3:48 pm | 4 Comments
CBS is trumpeting their showing tomorrow night of the classic Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Digitally re-mastered and in High Definition! proclaim the enthusiastic commercials. Wow. I’m as much or more an HDTV advocate as anyone, but there’s just something wrong about seeing the delightfully primitive Rudolph in full digital clarity. Ideally, it should be watched on an old 19″ black and white console TV that weighs 300 pounds and has bad, snowy reception. I don’t need or want to see every little blemish on dentist-wannabe Hermey’s acne-scarred face. I don’t want to see the strings holding up the Abominable Snowmonster. Stop messing with my childhood memories, CBS!
But I’ll watch it in HiDef anyway.
Latre.
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4 Responses to “Hermey’s Facial Blemishes”
November 30th, 2005 @ 6:48 pm
Editrix may want to chime in here, but I saw this special for I think the first time ever (I was raised by a household that firmly believed that Santa had twelve, and only twelve reindeer) and while we watched it on a hand-me-down TV with snow, etc. in glorious minimum definition, the original ending was replaced with a crazy scene featuring an, um, i’ll go with “urban” (coz it ain’t got no soul) version of the title tune in a sort of recording-studio-cum-ufo.
Caveat watchor.
November 30th, 2005 @ 8:09 pm
Twelve reindeer? Is your family from Russia? Santa has only eight reindeer (nine counting Rudolph).
The CBS version didn’t have the “crazy scene” you mention. Actually, it might have, but my recording cut off too soon. But they were doing the normal version of the song when it stopped, so hopefully a nation’s TV-watching children were not then traumatized by a remix. Was the version you saw from DVD?
December 1st, 2005 @ 5:31 am
It was the execrable Destiny’s Child doing a modern version of the song. There were probably subliminal messages touting McDonald’s in their version. And yes, it was on rat bastard CBS.
December 1st, 2005 @ 9:02 am
Eight, right. I blame my fevered brain for the error. The point is, Rudy was relegated to the apocrypha with extreme prejudice.
I also meant to mention that it was last year’s broadcast that was my first viewing etc., etc. Fever again.