The Love Boat: The Christmas Presence

It’s 1982, and I’m trapped at sea while Mickey Rooney butts into everyone’s conversation.

Join us as we embark on a Christmas cruise aboard the Pacific Princess for a very merry episode of “The Love Boat” featuring Maureen McCormick, Donny Osmond, and Mickey Rooney as an angel in disguise as your nosy neighbor.

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Guests:

Guy Hutchinson (Pointless Nostalgia, GuyHutchinson.com)

William Bruce West (West Week Ever, Remember That Show?)

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Topics & Tangents:

1. “The Christmas Presence” on Paramount+, Pluto TV, and Facebook.

2. Sesame Street’s Love Boat parody and “Song of Ten.”

3. Guy on the history of the Lacoste Crocodile.

4. “Brady Bunch” references: Maureen McCormick can’t stop getting hit in the face , and Mrs. Brady gets her voice back.

5. What’s in Santa Stubing’s bag: Stadium Checkers, a Jeep Honcho model truck, and more.

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Commercial Break:

Toys “R” Us featuring the E.T. Atari 2600 Game (1982)

Remember That Show?

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“The Love Boat” and “The Christmas Presence” © 1982 The Love Boat Company.

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.