This behaviour would continue in other situations, such as Oates at a dinner party (in full Antarctic expedition gear) refusing the last roast potato in a way obviously designed to elicit sympathy. In the original version of the 1999 Robbie the Reindeer cartoon Hooves of Fire, Robbie quotes Oates's last words when telling Blitzen that he's leaving Santa's sleigh team. In the American dub of the special, the line is changed.