- Yukon Cornelius: This fog's as thick as peanut butter!
- Hermey: You mean pea soup.
- Yukon Cornelius: You eat what you like, and I'll eat what I like!
- Mrs. Claus: [while "We Are Santa's Elves" plays in the background] Eat, Papa, eat.
- Santa Claus: [referring to the song] How *can* I eat? That silly elf song is driving me crazy!
- Mrs. Claus: You're going to disappoint the children; they expect a fat Santa.
- Rudolph: But - But you fell over the side of the cliff.
- Yukon Cornelius: Didn't I ever tell you about Bumbles? Bumbles *bounce*!
- Yukon Cornelius: [to his sled dogs as they watch Santa's sleigh depart for the Island of Misfit Toys] Now, you see how it's done? Wa--hooooo!
- [tosses his pickaxe into the air, picks it up after it falls, and licks one end of it to discover...]
- Yukon Cornelius: Peppermint! What I've been searching for all my life! I've struck it rich! I've got me a peppermint mine! Wa--hooooo!
- Yukon Cornelius: [as he, Hermey and his sled dogs approach the Abominable Snow Monster's cave to find Rudolph] Whoa. Whoaaaaaaaaaaa! Unmush, will ya?
- King Moonracer: [to Rudolph] When someday, you return to Christmas Town, would you tell Santa about our homeless toys? I'm sure he will find little boys and girls who will be happy with them. A toy is never truly happy until it is loved by a child.
- Rudolph: Hey, Clarice? After practice, would you... would you...
- Comet the Coach: Rudolph! You get back here; it's your turn, you know!
- Rudolph: Gee, I gotta go back!
- [starts to run off but then runs back]
- Rudolph: W - Would you walk home with me?
- Clarice: Uh-huh. Rudolph? I think you're cute.
- Rudolph: [jumping around, on first flight, landing in front of Comet] I'm cute! I'm cuuuuuuuute!
- Santa Claus: From what I see now, that will cut through the murkiest storm they can dish up. What I'm trying to say is, Rudolph, with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
- Rudolph: It would be an honor, sir.
- [the other elves and reindeer cheer]
- Yukon Cornelius: You're going to stay with me, and we'll all be rich--with the biggest silver strike this side of Hudson Bay. Sil-verrrrrrr!
- Hermey: I thought you wanted gold.
- Yukon Cornelius: I changed my mind.
- Head Elf: [Entering the workshop room where Hermey is practicing his dental skills; angrily] Why weren't you at elf practice?
- Hermey: [pauses his work] Just fixing these dolls' teeth.
- Head Elf: Just fixing...? Now listen: we have dolls that cry, talk, walk, blink and run a temperature. We don't need any chewing dolls!
- Hermey: But I just thought I'd find a way to - to fit in.
- Head Elf: You'll *never* fit in! Now you come to elf practice, learn how to wiggle your ears, chuckle warmly, go "hee-hee" and "ho-ho", and important stuff like that. A dentist! Good grief!
- [slams door]
- Donner: [holding up Rudolph's new nose for him to try on] All right, son, try it on.
- Rudolph: [His nose continues to glow] I don't wanna. Daddy, I don't like it.
- Donner: You'll like it and wear it!
- Rudolph: Aw, but Daddy...
- [Donner slips the new nose over Rudolph's shiny one]
- Rudolph: [Nasally voice] It's not very comfortable!
- Donner: There are more important things than comfort: self respect! Santa can't object to you now.
- Head Elf: Hermey! Aren't you finished painting that yet? There's a pile-up a mile wide behind you! What's eatin' ya, boy?
- Hermey: Not happy with my work, I guess.
- Head Elf: What?
- Hermey: [sadly] I just don't like to make toys.
- Head Elf: Oh, well, if that's all... What? You don't like to make toys?
- Hermey: [sadly again] Nnno.
- Head Elf: [to the other elves] Hermey doesn't like to make toys!
- Elves: [whispering to each other, then chorusing to Hermey in unison] Hermey doesn't like to make toys. Hermey doesn't like to make toys. Hermey doesn't like to make toys. Shame on you!
- Head Elf: Do you mind telling me what you do want to do?
- Hermey: Well, sir, someday, I'd like to be a... a dentist.
- Head Elf: A - dentist?
- Hermey: Well, we need one up here. I've been studying. It's fascinating; you've no idea. Molars and bicuspids and incisors...
- Head Elf: [interrupts] Now listen, you: you're an elf, and elves make toys.
- [shoving the dentistry book away and shoving the cart that Hermey was painting back to him]
- Head Elf: Now, get to work!
- [whistle blows]
- Head Elf: [to the other elves] Ten minute break!
- [Hermey smiles eagerly and starts to leave, but the head elf jumps him]
- Head Elf: Not for you! Finish the job, or you're fired!
- Comet the Coach: [blows his whistle] All right, all right, my yearlings, back to practice.
- [to Rudolph]
- Comet the Coach: Ohh no, not you. You'd better go home with your folks. From now on, gang, we won't let Rudolph join in any reindeer games. Right?
- [the others reply "Right!" indistinctly]
- [first lines]
- Sam the Snowman: If I live to be 100, I'll never forget that big snow storm a couple of years ago. The weather closed in and... well you might not believe it, but the world *almost* missed Christmas. Oh, excuse me, call me Sam. What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a talking snowman before?
- Rudolph: What do you want?
- Clarice: You - You promised to walk me home.
- Rudolph: Aren't you going to laugh at my nose, too?
- Clarice: I think it's a handsome nose. Much better than that silly false one you were wearing.
- Rudolph: It's terrible... and it's different from everybody else's!
- Clarice: But that's what makes it so grand. Why, any doe would consider herself lucky to be with you.
- Rudolph: Yeah? But I wasn't very lucky today, was I?
- Mrs. Donner: Well, we'll simply have to overlook it.
- Donner: How can you overlook that? His beak blinks like a blinking beacon.
- Head Elf: [extending his hand to Hermey, then Hermey shakes it] All right, you can open a dentist office, next week, after Christmas.
- Hermey: Come here, open your mouth.
- Head Elf: [groaning as he opens his mouth] Ah...
- Hermey: Oh, dear! I'd better set an appointment up for you a week from Tuesday, 4:30 sharp!
- Mrs. Claus: Papa, you haven't touched a morsel. I'll have to take this suit in. Eat!
- Santa Claus: I'm busy, Mama; it's almost Christmas.
- Mrs. Claus: Whoever heard of a skinny Santa? Eat, *eat*!
- Yukon Cornelius: Oh, well, now I'm off to get my life-sustaining supplies: cornmeal and gun powder and hamhocks and guitar strings. I'll give you a lift. Hop aboard, mateys.
- Sam the Snowman: Well, time passed slowly. Rudolph existed as best he could.
- [voiceover]
- Sam the Snowman: The snow monster kept him on the run, but once in a while, he would stop and make a friend - or two. But it wouldn't last long, and Rudolph would be on his own again. But during all that time, a strange and *wonderful* thing was happening... Rudolph was growing up. And growing up made Rudolph realize you *can't* run away from your *troubles*. And pretty soon he knew where he had to go: home.
- Sam the Snowman: [during "Silver and Gold"] What's a Christmas tree without tinsel and pretty silver and gold decorations? Can't really call it a Christmas tree now, can you? And think of all the fun and joy that would be lost on Christmas morning, if all the young folks didn't get to see that sparkling, happy tree.
- Charlie-In-The-Box: I am the official sentry of the Island of Misfit Toys.
- Hermey: [Surprised] A jack-in-the-box for a sentry?
- Charlie-In-The-Box: Yes, and my name is...
- Rudolph: [interrupts] Don't tell me: Jack.
- Charlie-In-The-Box: [Sadly] No, Charlie. That's why I'm a misfit toy. My name is all wrong. No child wants to play with a Charlie-In-The-Box, so I had to come here.
- Hermey: Where's "here"?
- Yukon Cornelius: We'll have to outwit the fiend with our superior intelligence.
- Rudolph: How?
- Yukon Cornelius: Douse your nose and run like crazy!
- [starts running wildly while pulling his sled behind him]
- Yukon Cornelius: Come on!
- Yukon Cornelius: Open up! It isn't a fit night out for man or beast.
- [two elves open the doors so Cornelius enters with the Abominable Snowmonster]
- Yukon Cornelius: Here's the man...
- [Brings in the Abominable Snowmonster on a leash]
- Yukon Cornelius: and here's the *beast*!
- King Moonracer: Come closer. What do you desire?
- Rudolph: Well, we're a couple of misfits from Christmastown, and now we'd like to live here.
- King Moonracer: No, that would not be possible. This island is for toys alone.
- Yukon Cornelius: How do you like that? Even among misfits you're a misfit.
- Sam the Snowman: Ahh. I love this Christmasy time of year. Especially when everything is running happy and smooth, like it is this season. Nothing like that year of the big snow storms.
- [shivers]
- Sam the Snowman: [voiceover] Well, as good as everyone feels, this is no time for celebrating, because the next day is *Christmas Eve*, the biggest day of the year!
- Sam the Snowman: Now aside from the Abominable. Business goes on as usual.
- [voiceover]
- Sam the Snowman: And soon, it is right before Christmas. And everybody's getting ready for that *big*, big sleigh ride on the night of the 24th, *Christmas Eve*. See, all the toys Santa brings are made by these elves. Seems elves have that certain knack for toy making, all except for this... this one misfit.
- Rudolph: Goodbye, Cornelius. I hope you find lots of tinsel. Goodbye, Hermey. Whatever a dentist is, I hope someday that you're the greatest.
- Sam the Snowman: Well, for the first year, the Donners did a pretty fair job of hiding Rudolph's uh... nonconformity. Donner taught Rudolph all the ins and outs of being a reindeer: how to get food, how to fight off enemies, things like that. But most important... most important of all, he taught his son to beware of the Abominable Snow Monster of the North. He's mean. He's nasty. And he hates everything to do with Christmas.
- Head Elf: All up for elf practice!
- Santa Claus: Well, let's get this over with. I have to go down and look over the new deer.
- Head Elf: [in a different voice] Okay, Santa.
- [to the elves]
- Head Elf: Now let's try out the new elf song I wrote. And remember, it's for Santa.
- [starts conducting]
- Head Elf: And a one-a, and a two-a, and a three-a!
- Sam the Snowman: [after Yukon and the Bumble tumble over the cliff and Hermey and Rudolph assume they're dead; voiceover] Well, they are all very sad at the loss of their friend. But they realize that the best thing to do is to get the women back to Christmas Town. So they made it back, and when everybody hears their story, they start to realize maybe they were a little hard on the misfits. Maybe misfits have a place, too. Even Santa realizes that maybe - he was wrong.
- Santa Claus: [examining the weather report that one of the elves gave him] Well, this is it. The storm won't subside by tonight. We - we'll have to cancel Christmas.
- Mrs. Claus: [sympathetically] Papa, are you sure?
- Santa Claus: [crushed] Everything's grounded. Aw, the poor kids, they've been so good this year, too. But I couldn't chance it. I'll have to tell everybody that it's all off this year.
- Santa Claus: [singing; repeated lines] Jingle, jingle, jingle / You will hear my sleigh bells ring / I am old Kris Kringle / I'm the king of jing-a-ling.
- Yukon Cornelius: Observe the Bumble's one weakness.
- [he watches the Bumble put one foot into the water, then sinks]
- Yukon Cornelius: The bumble sinks! Ha ha!
- Santa Claus: Rudolph, I promise. As soon as this storm lets up, I'll find homes for all those misfit toys.
- Sam the Snowman: Well now let me tell you about Rudolph. It all started a couple of years before the big snow.
- [fade to voiceover]
- Sam the Snowman: It was springtime, and Santa's lead reindeer, Donner, had just become a proud papa.
- Hermey: [singing] Why am I such a misfit? I am not just a nitwit. You can't fire me, I quit! Seems I don't fit in.
- Rudolph: [singing sadly] Why am I such a misfit? I am not just a nitwit. Just because my nose glows... why don't I fit in?
- Sam the Snowman: Of course the number one citizens up here are the Clauses, Santa and the Missus. They live right over there. First castle on the left. Matter of fact, the *only* castle on the left.
- [chuckles briefly]
- Sam the Snowman: And so, time passes. Christmas comes and goes on schedule, and soon it is April.
- [voiceover]
- Sam the Snowman: That's when all the new fawns come out with their folks to meet the other new fawns, *and*, to be inspected by Santa.
- Donner: [to Rudolph, as they observe the other fawns mingling with each other] Now don't worry about your nose, son. Just get out there and do your stuff.
- [affectionately]
- Donner: Remember, you're my little buck.
- Rudolph: [after "The Most Wonderful Day of the Year"] Hey, we're all misfits, too. Maybe we could stay here for a while.
- Charlie-In-The-Box: Well, you'll have to get permission from King Moonracer.
- Rudolph: Who's he?
- Charlie-In-The-Box: [points to the castle] He rules here. Every night, he searches the entire earth. When he finds a misfit toy, one that no little girl or boy loves, he brings it here to live on his island till someone wants it. He's holding court in his castle right now.
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By what name was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) officially released in India in English?
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