Olive, the Other Reindeer
| Olive, the other Reindeer | |
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| Genre | Animated Musical |
| Written by |
Steve Young Book Vivian Walsh |
| Directed by | Oscar Moore |
| Starring |
Drew Barrymore Edward Asner Dan Castellaneta Joe Pantoliano Peter MacNicol Matt Groening |
| Theme music composer | Christopher Tyng |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
John A. Davis Matt Groening |
| Editor(s) | Paul D. Calder |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
DNA Productions Flower Films The Curiosity Company Fox Television Studios 20th Century Fox Animation |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | December 17, 1999 |
Olive, the Other Reindeer is a 1999 CGI animated Christmas television special written by Steve Young, and directed by Oscar Moore. The feature was produced by Matt Groening's The Curiosity Company (best known for Futurama), and animated by DNA Productions. It first aired on December 17, 1999 on Fox, produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Flower Films. The special combines paperlike character art in 3-D environments. Sometimes, traditional animation is used.
The story was based on the 1997 children's book by Vivian Walsh and illustrated by J. Otto Seibold. In the song, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the lyric "All of the other reindeer" can be misheard in dialects with the cot–caught merger as the mondegreen "Olive, the other reindeer".
Drew Barrymore voices the title character.
The story follows an anthropomorphic Jack Russell Terrier named Olive (voiced by Drew Barrymore), who does not act at all like a dog. ("The Days Still Remaining 'Till Christmas") While in town, she meets Martini, a con artist penguin (voiced by Joe Pantoliano), from whom she buys a "Rolexxx". When she returns home from some errands, she finds her owner, Tim (voiced by Jay Mohr), putting away Christmas decorations and announcing morosely that there "won't be any Christmas".
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