Misfits

When Rudolph's red nose hit the screens in homes across the nation in 1964 via Rankin & Bass' holiday movie special entitled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, viewers fell in love with this glowy-snouted oddball. When the outcast saved Christmas by guiding Santa's sleigh through a stormy Christmas Eve, the world cheered as his eccentricity became the source of his triumph. But when the film ended without redemption for those many exiled toys he met on the Island of Misfits, public outcry was so strong that the original ending was pulled and replaced to include a resolution for these banished playthings. Deep down, each of us relate to those who do not fit in, and, it is each of our deep-seated desire to see this fixed. By leaving the toys behind, the statement made was that such oddballs deserved to be left behind—and people were allowing no such standard to be raised. Many of us have an inner misfit: a lonely or out-of-place individual who we often keep hidden. Behind the veil of succes