Dolly's Defect

So there was this post over at The Bloggess about the Island of Misfit Toys and how all the toys but Dolly have an obvious defect, and I was inspired to Google about it and ended up spending like twenty minutes reading all these interesting details about Dolly and the beloved "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Christmas television special.

Turns out (and this is my independent final opinion, based on my own extensive internet research)... Dolly wasn't in the original script. She was first added in a limited capacity, only because a "dolly for Sue" is mentioned in their cute little song. Via script revisions, Dolly became a bigger part of the story, but producer Alan Rankin and his team forgot to give her a defect. Later, when repeatedly asked about it, Rankin (perhaps joking) finally said that she was clinically depressed because she was abandoned by her owner.

I told Laura about all this. Her diagnosis for Dolly: "She had boy parts."