Inanimate Object

(Props to Monty)

Arthur Rankin, bringer of Christmas for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 89. With his partner Jules Bass, Rankin introduced us to a tooth-pulling elf, a Bouncing Bumble, a Charlie-in-a-box, the oft-injured Burgermeister Meisterburger, a jug-eared Baby New Year, the Heat Miser and Snow Miser, a hat-stealing snowman, a clock-wrecking mouse, the Jack Frost who was not a mutated homicidal snowman, and, of course, a freakish reindeer in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Rudolph's Shiny New Year, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, Twas the Night Before Christmas, and Jack Frost. The rest of the year was less kind, as his hundreds of TV and screen credits included the puppetized Universal catalog Mad Monster Party?, the Japanese take on America’s favorite giant ape King Kong Escapes and the animated version of The King and I.