Four year old Caroline was down in my office yesterday, and she came running up to me waving a DVD box. “Daddy…I found TREASURE!” she informed me and handed me her discovery: A set of Rankin-Bass Christmas specials, most prominently being “Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer.” Caroline had become intrigued by Rudolph, you see, because the Build-A-Bear catalogue had arrived here the other day and she’d become enchanted by their Christmas offering of a plush version of the R-B Rudolph (not to mention Clarice.) She thrust the DVD box at me and said firmly, “See Rudolph, please?”
I shrugged and said, “Sure.” She hadn’t watched much TV that day and it would keep her entertained while I continued work on the “Iron Man” novelization.
She watched it. Then she watched it again. And a third time. She would have watched it a fourth time if we’d let her.
In the meantime last night Kath swung by our local DVD shop and picked up “Ratatouille,” a collection of all the Pixar shorts, and “Shrek III,” all DVDs we’d been planning to get for a while.
This morning Caroline came downstairs and announced she wanted to watch “Rudolph.” I pointed out all the new DVDs we’d acquired. “I want to see Rudolph” she said firmly. As of this writing she’s on her second (and I swear last) viewing for today.
And I have to say, it sure brings back memories. I still remember being utterly terrified as a kid of the Abominable Snowman, even though the character design is truly ludicrous. Hëll, I even remember the commercials with elves riding on electric shavers. Still, I have a feeling that I’m going to be well and truly sick of this special by Christmastime.
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