Referenced By / Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

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• Nickmas: The "Holiday Party" short contains several references to the special.

Comic Strips

• Bizarro: Rudolph and his friends visit the Island of Fitbit Toys.
• FoxTrot:
  • Paige dreams about visiting the land of animated Christmas TV specials, with Rudolph and Hermey among the characters she meets.
  • Jason once made a TV special that was a crossover between this special and The Lord of the Rings.
    • He also dresses like Hermey at the end of a storyline where Paige got a zit on her nose and compared herself to Rudolph.
• Off the Mark:
  • Rudolph fights Toucan Sam in the boxing ring to see whose nose should be followed.
  • The Island of Fit Toys

Western Animation

• The Fairly OddParents!: One of the shows the Timmys and fairies visit in "Channel Chasers" is a parody of this special, albeit with a Frosty the Snowman reference as well.
• Kim Possible: Two references in "A Very Possible Christmas":
  • Snowman Hank is an Expy of Sam the Snowman.
  • This exchange after Ron and Drakken land in the North Pole:
  Ron: Land ho!
  Drakken: No kidding.
• MAD: "FROST" is a crossover between this special and Toy Story.
• Rugrats: The elf foreman Angelica meets in "Babies in Toyland" is named Hermey.
• The Simpsons: In "'Tis the Fifteenth Season", Homer watches "The Year Santa Got Lost", where a few Misfit Toys listen to the eponymous story.
• VeggieTales: In the last scene of "The VeggieTales Christmas Spectacular", Bob and Larry realize the network executives missed "The Toy That Saved Christmas" after Pa Grape implies that they watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer instead.
  Pa Grape: They said they especially liked the part where that funny little elf pulled all the teeth out of the... out of the what?... the abdominal snowman so Rudolph and his friends could get back home.

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