Every year leading up to Christmas I still love to catch all the animated kid shows.  Behind the night before Christmas with the Christmas clock that breaks, Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer was my favorite.  I say was because seeing Rudolph through adult eyes leaves a pretty different impression.

I never realized how crappy Santa and Comet are through pretty much the entire show until the end.  I know that the other kid reindeer shun Rudolph, but the parent reindeer suck too.

And when you really look at it, Santa is a user because he doesn’t really accept Rudolph until he needs him to drive the sleigh because of the storm.  If there was never that storm, Rudolph might still be wandering around the tundra running from the snow monster.

Its kind of sad when great memories of things from your childhood gets messed up when you revisit it from an adults perspective.  I better not watch The Night Before Christmas and I find some kind of crapiness about that one as well.