Christmas Conundrum

I have a cold and am spending the first part of my day on the couch. I have not one but two Christmas parties to attend later today, so right now I'm conserving my energy. As part of the conservation effort, I've been watching Christmas specials. I have a tape from the 80s that has Muppet Family Christmas, Rudolph and Pee Wee's Christmas special (including a bunch of awesome 80s commericals). Watching these reminded me of a question that has plagued me for years:

Why is this toy a misfit?



Even as a small child, I could not figure it out because I always thought she'd make a good toy. Granted, I thought that pretty much all the misfit toys were pretty sweet (especially the spotted elephant), but I cannot figure out what her flaw was. She has a normal doll body, she's not a train with square wheels and she's not a bird who swims. The toy doesn't have a specific name, so we know she can't be suffering from Charlie in the Box syndrome.

And something disturbing: At the end when the elves start throwing the misfit toys off the sleigh with umbrellla, the elf throws the bird out without an umbrella! As we all know, this bird was a misfit because he can't fly. Basically the elf committed misfit-toyicide and no one seemed to care. I hope they didn't go over a body of water and throw the sinking boat in, because then that elf is a serial killer and we just can't have that. Then again, Santa was racist, so god only knows what was going on up in the north pole.