I’m still suffering from the flu. I woke up Saturday with a fever that was almost as bad as Friday’s. It’s come down since then, and now my symptoms are more like a cold than the flu. This Aflac commercial with an under-the-weather Rudolph, a nicely done homage to the 1964 stop-motion cartoon, is at least five years old, but I didn’t see it on TV until today.
It’s the second dead-on Rudolph recreation for a commercial that I know of. I featured this one from Verizon a few years ago.
I’ve never seen these! It’s amazing how close they are to the original. Just last week, the teens in our play were all talking about seeing “Rudolph” on TV the night before and how much they loved it. One turned to me and said, “Too bad it wasn’t on TV when you were a kid.” I said, “Excuse me? I was alive when it first aired for the first time!” Just goes to show how something so timeless becomes “new” for every generation.