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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’s Impact on Popular Culture

It’s the Christmas season once again, so I thought I’d get everyone in the spirit by making a look-a-like list based off that cult classic TV Special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Sure, the moral of the tale is a little suspect and if you are reading this you probably have A) never seen the TV Special or B) Don’t remember watching it two decades ago. Still, I’m going to go ahead and do it anyway. So, without further ado, here are ten celebrities/things that have uncanny similarities to those timeless, stop-animated characters.

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Catering To The Fun-Loving Typist

Let’s consider the layout of letters on a computer keyboard. Why not alphabetical? I’ll tell you why: because the alphabet isn’t that fun. You know what is fun? The word: QWERTY. Type it out and any drab office turns into a Slip n’ Slide fiasco! Am I writing or stealing home base? I don’t know! Not to mention how fun QWERTY is to pronounce, a ‘Q’, ‘W’ and ‘Y’? Someone call Dr.Seuss, we’ve got a perfect storm of wackiness! The only problem is QWERTY isn’t so much a word as a classification of keyboards.

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