Was watching Rudolph Christmas special tonight and said to my husband, “I wonder if the line from the character, Yukon Cornelius was a comm(?):
(In the classic 1964 TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Yukon Cornelius is originally searching for gold (he’s constantly licking his pickaxe to “taste” for minerals).
Near the end of the film, after the big storm and everyone is back at Christmastown, Yukon Cornelius bursts in with Bumble (the now-tamed Abominable Snow Monster) and triumphantly announces that he has finally found what he was looking for.
The exact line is:
“Silver! Silver! I found silver! … And gold too, of course. But silver and gold, now what’s the difference? Silver and gold!”
He then throws his pickaxe up in the air, it spins, and when he catches it, he licks it and declares:
“Nothin’! Silver and gold taste exactly the same!”
(This is the moment that reveals he wasn’t really switching from gold to silver—he actually discovered a peppermint mine, which is why silver and gold both taste like peppermint to him.)
So the key lines are:
- “Silver! Silver! I found silver!”
- “Silver and gold taste exactly the same”
Hermie said, “I thought you liked gold(?) He said, “well, I switched”.
Was this it?:
I love the concept- but race, religion, creed, etc. passively promotes division, in my opinion. The other themes represent what we all have in common as American citizens.