Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
I'll get a lump of coal for saying this, but let's be honest. People love Rankin-Bass Christmas specials the way they love marshmallow Peeps — for the memories more than the quality. But as disposable as some of them were (I'm looking at you, Frosty!) the 1964 stop-motion story of a teeny, fire-schnozzed rein-runt was a sweet yet freaky work of low-fi animation. (1974's The Year Without a Santa Claus, with its show-stopping villains Heat and Snow Miser, is a close second.) Misfit toys! A dentistry-besotted elf! Burl Ives as a portly snowman! All these years later, as a reminder that every oddball fits in somewhere, it still shines. You could even say it glows.