Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Answer to the November 2015 Puzzler: Father Christmas

Here are 6 father figures or role models of the Christmas TV season, from quintessential to questionable.

Question: What are the names of the 6 children characters?
 


Bonus question: Only one of these dad-like or role-modeling characters is actually portraying the father of the child in the scene depicted. Which one?
 

Answer:

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Answers:
  1. Susan Walker sits on the lap of Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street.
  2. Michael Hobbs watches Buddy the Elf drink a lot of soda in Elf.
  3. Cindy Lou Who receives a pat on the head in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
  4. Zuzu Bailey gets some help with her petals and a hug in It's a Wonderful Life.
  5. Ralphie Parker can't remember what special present he wants Santa to bring him in A Christmas Story.
  6. Hermey the Dentist learns from Yukon Cornelius that he's not such a misfit in Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer.
Bonus answer:
George Bailey
is the father of Zuzu. None of the other "Father Christmases" are the actual fathers of the children characters depicted: Susan speculates that Kris Kringle is just a nice old man with whiskers. Or is he? Buddy the elf is the older half-brother to Michael. As far as Mr. Grinch, he's a mean one, and at best only a very distant relative to Cindy Lou and all the Whos down in Whoville. Department Store Santa ("You'll shoot your eye out, Kid") is just one more adult obstacle in the way of Ralphie's dream of acquiring an official Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred-shot range model air rifle. And finally (spoiler alert), Yukon Cornelius and Hermie's relationship is simply that of a man in need of a Bumble tooth puller.

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