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🌴 It’s either 1999 or the year 3000, and a killer robot Santa is…
wait, what month is it?
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Title: Futurama: Xmas Story
🎄It’s the year 2000, and Christmas and Hanukkah have crossed path at my doorstep in the form of Santa Claus and his part-Jewish friend… a weird turtle man.
In honor of Christmas Day and the first night of Hanukkah sharing a day on the calendar this year, we’re revisiting some old Friends, an escaped tarantula, a restaurant we may never be allowed in or out of again, and an unforgettable interfaith holiday mascot fit for a new millennium.
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Becca Petunia (ToughPigs.com, Bear in the Big Blue Podcast, Bluesky)
April Ryley (Bluesky)
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1. How often does the first night of Hanukkah fall on Christmas? (Vox, 2016)
2. What the ‘Friends’ Holiday Armadillo Episode Gets Right About Interfaith Families (Hey Alma, 2021)
3. The “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” drum roll outtake reel.
4. A transcript including deleted scenes reveals Ben wants Santa to bring him an ant farm.
5. Formication (with an M, y’all), the false sense of feeling like bugs are crawling on you.
6. Halloween Adventure is real and still open.
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AT&T True Savings with David Schwimmer (circa 1996)
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“Friends” and “The One with the Holiday Armadillo” © 2000 Warner Bros. Television.
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Title: Friends: The One with the Holiday Armadillo
🎄It’s 1986, and the only way Drew Barrymore can save her new friends is to believe in the magic of toys… and Cincinnati.
From director Clive Donner comes a bonkers adaptation of “Babes in Toyland” starring Drew Barrymore, Keanu Reeves, and Richard Mulligan as a weird, evil guy who lives in a bowling ball.
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Molly Patton (MollyPatton.com)
Becca Petunia (ToughPigs.com, Bear in the Big Blue Podcast, Bluesky)
Adam Pope (The Retro Network, Wizards: The Podcast Guide to Comics, Remember That Show?, Bluesky)
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1. Watch “Babes in Toyland” on Tubi, the full, 3-hour original broadcast with commercials, or the unofficial “Director’s Cut” without ads.
2. Misfits in Toyland (NSFW), an unrelated horror-comedy webcomic.
3. Keanu Reeves (Jack) on “Going Great” (1985).
4. Googy Gress (Georgie) in “Wayne’s World 2.”
5. Today’s TV Trope: And You Were There.
6. The Cookie Jar House of South Jersey.
7. The Undertaker’s entrance at WrestleMania IX, in the middle of the afternoon.
8. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (and Tripping Daisy’s cover of theme song).
9. The Toymaster’s Santa coat looks like Belle’s from “Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.”
10. Was It Great, or Were You 8?
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McDonald’s: Recital (1986)
Give ’Em All a Little Pat of Butter (1986)
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“Babes in Toyland” © 1986 The Finnegan Company.
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Title: Babes in Toyland (1986)
🎄It’s 2010, and I’m hiding in a closet from a flying shark that ate half my screwdriver.
I’ve finally caught up with the timeline of people who have been requesting that I watch the “Doctor Who” Christmas specials, particularly this twisted take on “A Christmas Carol” starring Michael Gambon in the Scrooge role and the 11th Doctor as at least 2 ghosts of Christmas.
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Andre Bennett (Bluesky)
Jack Ford (Total Christmas Podcast)
Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com, Movin’ Right Along, Bluesky)
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1. Andre’s review of this episode from 2011.
2. Anthony ranks all of Steven Moffat’s “Doctor Who” episodes.
3. Amy and Rory’s outfits may or may not be but probably are a nod to a similar scene in a 2001 “Only Fools and Horses” Christmas special.
4. Michael Gambon in “Toys,” as the Ultragorgon on Jim Henson’s “Monster Maker,” and as the Ghost of Christmas Present in 2001’s “Christmas Carol: The Movie.”
5. Abigail is basically Nora Fries from Batman.
6. Katherine Jenkins on “Dancing with the Stars.”
7. Danny Horn (Young Adult Kazran) on Bandcamp.
8. Greenland sharks could live for hundreds of years.
9. “Abigail’s Song (Silence Is All You Know)”
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Tesco Christmas Advert: “Mrs. Belcher” (2010)
Tinsel Tunes: The Christmas Music Podcast
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“Doctor Who” and “A Christmas Carol” © 2010 BBC.
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Title: Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
🎄It’s 1970, and a couple of bear cubs have jumped through my window and are eating all my marshmallows.
Join us on a deeper than expected dive into a Christmas special by former Hanna-Barbera animator Tony Benedict that almost wasn’t released till the owner of a now-defunct Florida theme park swooped in and saved it.
CONTENT WARNING: No animals were harmed in the making of this podcast. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same about one of the 4 versions of this special.
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Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas)
Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight)
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1. “A Yellowstone Christmas” (Tony’s Version), the original cut.
2. The theatrical version with Hal Smith in the intro and added songs and sequences.
3. The Pirates World version with scenes from Ocean World Marine Park. This version was screened for Rifftrax.
4. The Modern Sound Pictures version with the songs but no live-action segments.
5. The Unusual History of Santa and the Three Bears. (The Delbert Cartoon Report, 2021)
6. The soundtrack and some background info.
7. Hal Smith in “The Incredible, Indelible, Magical, Physical Mystery Trip.”
8. Bobby Riha (Chinook) in Hanna-Barbera’s “Jack and the Beanstalk.”
9. Yellowstone National Park’s Zone of Death.
10. Today’s TV Trope: Human Snowball.
11. CBS Storybreak’s “Grinny.”
12. Homer Simpson tries to catch a rabbit.
13. Iceman in X-Men #1.
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Hardee’s Gift Checks (1970s)
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“Santa and the Three Bears” © 1970 Tony Benedict Productions.
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🎄It’s 2003, and nothing puts me in a festive mood quite like a bar fight.
Join us as we spend Christmas break with the Justice League — well, most of it. Wonder Woman’s off doing something else, and Batman… you know, smells.
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Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Bluesky)
James Riley (Twitter)
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1. Mike talks “Comfort and Joy” on Tis the Podcast.
2. Paul Dini’s notes on “Comfort and Joy,” including what where Wonder Woman and Batman were.
3. The Shrine of the Silver Monkey from “Legends of the Hidden Temple.”
4. The “Calvin and Hobbes” snowman gallery of horrors.
5. Santa gives Darkseid a lump of coal.
6. Clark and his parents’ cat, Streaky, are this universe’s Jon Arbuckle and Garfield.
7. One of the stuffed animals on Kara’s bed looks like Zook, one of Martian Manhunter’s comic book sidekicks.
8. “Sam, the Guy from Quincy” by the Arrogant Worms (re: Robert Ito as the Japanese toy company CEO).
9. The end of The Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror IV.”
10. Wild Swamp Thing appeared!
11. Ultra-Humanite is doing a Party Man.
12. A tangent about Oreo cookies, Martian Manhunter’s favorite food.
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Burger King: Justice League Kids’ Meal Toys (2003)
Oreos for Santa (1986)
Wizards: The Podcast Guide to Comics
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“Justice League” and “Comfort and Joy” © 2003 Warner Bros.
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🎄It’s 1986, and Santa looks different after arriving late to the mall due to a flat reindeer.
Unfold that TV Guide you crafted into an angel centerpiece and join us for a semi-festive Christmas episode of “Mama’s Family” that will have you believing in either Santa or ghosts at the end of it.
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Joe Fulton (Christmas Aficionado)
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1. “Santa Mama” on the Internet Archive.
2. A Mama’s Family reunion on “Vicki!”
3. Vicki Lawrence sings “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.”
4. Mama’s house was also seen in “Halloween.”
5. Ken Berry (Vinton) as Peter-No-Tail.
6. The cheapest Christmas gifts we got for childhood crushes.
7. The fragility of one-of-a-kind ornaments.
8. “You Are My Sunshine” on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
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Snuggle Fabric Softener Free Christmas Ornament (1986)
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“Mama’s Family” and “Santa Mama” © 1986 Joe Hamilton Productions, Inc.
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🎄It’s 1990, and Santa’s lost in my confusing network of chimneys.
Prepare yourself for a more silly than spooky Christmas special that takes us from Castle Duckula to a concussion-induced space adventure and back.
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Adam Parker Sibun (Merry Britsmas)
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1. “A Christmas Quacker” on the Internet Archive (it’s mislabeled as another episode).
2. Nick Knacks on “Count Duckula.”
3. Count Duckula’s first appearance on “Danger Mouse.”
4. UK Christmas TV, an extensive archive of Christmas TV listings for the UK’s main channels.
5. Jack May (Igor) was the original English voice of Muzzy.
6. The Odd Case of Dennis the Menace: 2 separate comic strip characters with the same name debuting on the same day on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
7. Return to the Turducken Hunger Games.
8. The daydream scene in “Sidekicks.”
9. Mike Oldfield’s “In Dulci Jubilo.”
10. Today’s TV Trope: Blunder-Correcting Impulse.
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Shreddies Cereal: Count Duckula Adventure Scratch & Win Game (1989)
Muzzy (circa 1989)
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“Count Duckula” and “A Christmas Quacker” © 1990 Carleton Productions.
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Title: Count Duckula: A Christmas Quacker
🎄It’s 2020, and a gift-wrapped puppy licked my face and made my skin turn blue.
From the Chiodo Brothers comes a charming stop-motion Christmas special about how an alien invasion of the North Pole almost ruined Christmas — and the entire planet’s gravity, but also Christmas. Plus: A “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” Easter egg, some cameos from “Elf,” and Santa with nunchucks.
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Michael DiGiovanni (Pop Culture Retrofit, Bluesky)
Sammy Hain (Sammy’s Easter Tails, Bluesky)
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2. A behind-the-scenes interview with the Chiodo Brothers.
3. Bloody Disgusting’s review.
4. A “Killer Klowns” Easter egg hidden in the Klepts’ chamber of stolen stuff.
5. The magnetic north pole vs. the geographic North Pole.
6. Michelle Deco (Noelle) writes Nintendo trailers, including this one for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD.
7. Today’s TV Trope: Tablecloth Yank.
8. “Here’s your problem: Someone set this thing to ‘evil.’”
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Coca-Cola “Santa Packs Are Coming” (1994)
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“Alien Xmas” © 2020 Netflix US, LLC.
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🎄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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Guy Hutchinson (Pointless Nostalgia, GuyHutchinson.com)
William Bruce West (West Week Ever, Remember That Show?)
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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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Toys “R” Us featuring the E.T. Atari 2600 Game (1982)
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“The Love Boat” and “The Christmas Presence” © 1982 The Love Boat Company.
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Title: The Love Boat: The Christmas Presence
🎄It’s 1988, and the Spirit of Christmas just broke down my bedroom door to say hello.
This edition of Scrooge Sunday turns everyone’s favorite festive tale of redemption on its head and blows it out its enormous, muscular backside as great philanthropist and all-around softy Ebenezer Blackadder learns from watching his ancestors and descendants that it’s good to be bad.
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Jack Ford (Total Christmas Podcast)
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1. “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol” on Vimeo.
2. Tony Robinson’s “Christmas Wrapping” and the Total Christmas Podcast episode on it.
3. How have I never heard of humbug candies?
4. “A Merry Messy Kweznuz.”
5. A deleted scene.
6. Miriam Margolyes (Queen Victoria) in “Little Shop of Horrors.”
7. Jim Broadbent (Prince Albert) as Santa in an Aldi Christmas ad.
8. “The Last of Scrooge,” and Jack’s review of it.
9. The cast of “Grange Hill” sings “Just Say No.”
10. Dennis Lill (Beadle) in “Batman” (1989).
11. Spitting Image and “The Chicken Song.”
12. Merry Britsmas on “A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.”
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BBC1 Intro to “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol” (1988)
Barclaycard: “Surveillance” (1995), starring Rowan Atkinson.
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“Blackadder’s Christmas Carol” © 1988 BBC.
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Title: Blackadder’s Christmas Carol
🎄It’s 2001, and a rock giant is chasing us across the ocean, which has been entirely frozen over by fairies with minty fresh breath.
From the makers of “ReBoot” and Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” music video comes Barbie’s first feature-length movie, complete with motion capture of the New York City Ballet, revolutionary hair animation, and Tim Curry as an extra sassy Mouse King.
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Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies.
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1. “Barbie and the Nutcracker” on the Internet Archive.
2. Bad Princess Movies on “Barbie in The Nutcracker.”
3. Motion capture footage of the New York City Ballet.
4. Oops, we went on multiple Zelda tangents about Majora’s Mask and the Song of Storms.
5. It’s usually not a good sign when you find a doll on the ground in a destroyed village.
6. Of course there’s a toy of Marzipan the horse (no relation to the Marzipan with the answering machine).
7. Today’s TV Trope: Literal Cliffhanger.
8. Do the Great Lakes freeze over?
9. Mod Hair Ken and his stick-on facial hair.
10. Barbie eyes new horizons (BBC News, 2001).
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Barbie in the Nutcracker My Size Sugarplum Princess (2001)
“A Very Zelda Christmas,” by DarkNuck, on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.
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“Barbie in The Nutcracker” © 2001 Mattel, Inc.
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🎄It’s 1984, and Santa’s in front of a firing squad because his executioner didn’t appreciate the socks he got last Christmas.
The slime is an extra festive shade of green in this Christmas episode of the show that defined Nickelodeon’s early years, featuring an all-star cast of the 5 most featured kid actors of “You Can’t Do That on Television.”
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Shawn Robare (Plastic Rocket Pop, Cult Film Club, Wolfman’s Got Nards)
Steven (UFO Club, The Bigfoot Club)
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1. Watch the Christmas episode on Facebook.
2. Shawn’s piece of the Prevert Family’s living room wallpaper.
3. Nick Knacks on “You Can’t Do That on Television.”
4. Mike pitches a sequel to “Santa Claus: The Movie” on SequelQuest (2020).
5. “UFO Kidnapped,” a TV pilot featuring much of the same cast of kids.
6. Les Lye as Professor Coldheart in “The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings.”
7. How we’ve fielded the question of Santa’s one-night flight.
8. Abby Hagyard (Mom) on YouTube.
9. Ice Cream Dolls, The Visible Man, and the G.I. Joe Motorized Battle Tank.
10. Calvin and Hobbes makes the same “Santa wants beer” joke.
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“You Can’t Do That on Television” Green Slime Shampoo (circa 1987)
“A Very Zelda Christmas,” by DarkNuck, on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.
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“You Can’t Do That on Television” © 1984 Carleton Productions.
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Title: You Can’t Do That on Television: Christmas
🎄It’s 1995, and Robert Downey Jr. may or may not be holding Kermit the Frog hostage until he gets his perfect Christmas tree.
The Advent Calendar House is back in time for a freakin’ country bear jamberoo as a family of Muppet mice risk their lives to bring home the top of the top of the top of the top of a Christmas tree fit for an eccentric future Iron Man. Also starring shy butler Leslie Nielsen, homesick Swedish maid Stockard Channing, and a pre-Bobo Bobo the Bear.
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Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com, Movin’ Right Along, Bluesky)
Tim Babb (Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast)
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1. Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree: 1995 broadcast with commercials.
3. The original book.
4. An odd TV promo featuring Brian Cummings’ Kermit the Frog impression.
5. Kermit and Miss Piggy’s music video of “She Drives Me Crazy,” featuring Leslie Nielsen.
6. Movin’ Right Along talks Kermit: Unpigged.
7. The Sesame Street Muppets on “The West Wing” with Stockard Channing.
8. Mama and Papa Bear are Beth from “The Muppets Take Manhattan” and the future Bobo from “Muppets Tonight.”
9. “Jim Henson’s Animal Show” on Owls… and Humans.
10. Sandra Bullock plays the glass harp in “Miss Congeniality.”
11. An Oreo commercial where a mall Santa takes off his beard way too quickly.
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Dizzy Grizzlies and Ritz Air Crisps (1995)
“Santa in His Own Words,” a book by North Pole Radio’s Matt Spaulding.
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“Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree” © 1995 Jim Henson Productions, Inc.
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Title: Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
🎄It’s 1992, and there’s no such thing as Buster Bunny.
The Advent Calendar House wraps up Christmas in July with the unofficial series finale of “Tiny Toon Adventures” that sees Buster wishing he’d never been on the show, and the horrors within Montana Max’s Biff Tannen Pleasure Palace or whatever.
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Adam Pope (Geekster, YouTube, Remember That Show?)
William Bruce West (West Week Ever, Remember That Show?)
Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ)
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1. I found this special hiding in a 4-hour Christmas special compilation on the Internet Archive.
2. “Meet the Tiny Toons” in the special edition magazine “Bugs Bunny: He’s 50, Folks” (1990).
3. The title card compared to the “It’s a Wonderful Life” opening credits.
4. “The Chipmunks Go to the Movies.”
5. Tony Pope (God) as Goofy in “Watch O ut for Goofy” (the theme song for Adam’s 2 Goofs Podcast) and as the first voice heard in “Back to the Future.”
6. John Kassir (who voices Buster in this episode) as the Crypt-Keeper in RD’s Retro Detention Halloween Specials in 2019 and 2023.
7. Chad realizes in real time that Elmyra Duff is the Tiny Toons derivative of Elmer Fudd.
8. What education level is Acme Looniversity, anyway?
9. Today’s TV Trope: Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal.
10. Jacoby & Meyers and a 2-minute-long tangent about personal injury lawyer commercials.
11. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s upcoming role as Santa in “The Man with the Bag.”
12. American Express Commercials with Mel Blanc and Jim Davis.
13. Bugs Bunny may have been voiced by an uncredited Noel Blanc, Mel’s son, for a single line at the end.
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Godzilla: The Series Promo (1998)
Toy Story: Holiday TV Spot (1995)
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“Tiny Toon Adventures” and “It’s a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special” © 1992 Warner Bros.
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Title: It’s a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special
🎄It’s 1990… or 1962… and a quantum physicist forgot to powder his boss’s underwear.
This Scrooge Sunday edition of the Advent Calendar House involves time travel of a different sort as we follow Dr. Sam Beckett on a mission to save a mission, and the soul of the man trying to tear it down.
* CONTENT WARNING: This episode briefly discusses the death of actor Charles Rocket and the would-be death of his Scrooge-like character, Michael Blake.
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Erin Evans (@mserinevans).
Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, @imgonnadj24).
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1. Episode guide on Al’s Place.
2. A Christmas story from the Quantum Leap comic: “He Knows If You’ve Been Bad or Good.”
3. Charles Rocket drops an F-bomb on “Saturday Night Live.”
4. “Bringing in the Sheaves” on “The Simpsons” and “Batman” (1966).
5. Polish Christmas desserts piernik and makowiec.
6. Al’s Ghost of Christmas Future costume looks more like Jacob Marley mixed with the Ghost of Christmas Past from “Scrooged.”
7. Goldie Wilson III from “Back to the Future Part II.”
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Squarbles (circa 1987).
Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast.
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“Quantum Leap” and “A Little Miracle” © 1990 Universal City Studios, Inc.
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🦃 It’s 2015, and in my search for a noisy cryptid I accidentally freed 175 roided-up turkeys, but neither of those things is the real monster.
Join us as we rediscover a long lost Thanksgiving special concept Jim Henson dreamed up in the 1960s and meet the Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow.
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Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight, Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head)
Sammy Hain (Sammy’s Easter Tails)
Tony Whitaker (@muppetdude, Muppet Wiki)
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1. Watch “Turkey Hollow” on Disney+.
2. ToughPigs.com Behind the Scenes of Turkey Hollow.
3. Muppet Wiki on this special, Jim Henson’s original concept, and the 2014 graphic novel.
4. Some prototype musical monsters: An early Grover, Snerf, and the Rock and Roll Monster.
5. Director Kirk Thatcher in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.”
6. On-set interviews with Ludacris, Lisa Henson, and Alice Dinnean.
7. Hope you like Beets.
8. Today’s TV Tropes: When You Coming Home, Dad? and Hollywood Law.
9. Station from “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.”
10. “Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge.”
11. Jason Hopley’s (Zorp) IMDb profile picture is from “Goosebumps.”
12. Lewis, Target’s Halloween Ghoul.
13. Homer Simpson eating potato chips on the space shuttle.
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AT&T “Turkey” Commercial (2008)
TGI Podcast, diving into holiday episodes from TGIF and more.
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“Turkey Hollow” © 2015 The Jim Henson Company, Inc.
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Title: Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow
🎄 It’s 1992, and my daydreams of snow are melting into a water getting dumped on my head from an airplane.
Join us as we dive down the rabbit hole to the strange world of The Disney Channel’s “Adventures in Wonderland,” where the White Rabbit wears Rollerblades and the halls are decked with fresh produce, the way Christmas was meant to be celebrated.
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Kit Quinn (@missi0nbreakout, Letterboxd)
Randee Martin (@NeonTailzz, YouTube)
Tyler Green (@TylerFG, Bluesky, The Mask: Gone Viral)
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1. Watch “Christmas in Wonderland” on Disney+, or this copy with a commercial bumper in front of it.
2. Channel KRT on the episodes “Pie Noon” and “Wonderland: The Movie.”
3. “White Rabbits Can’t Jump,” an unaired episode guest starring O.J. Simpson.
4. One Movie Later: Alice Through the Looking Glass.
5. Deadline’s obituary for Armelia McQueen (The Red Queen) uses a photo from this special.
6. Armelia McQueen on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and… “The Fesh Pince of Blair.”
7. Patrick Richwood (White Rabbit) lied to the casting director about knowing how to rollerblade.
8. Cast members on The Tiara Talk Show.
9. The Christmas Pickle.
10. Harry Waters Jr. (Tweedle Dee) in “Back to the Future,” and Wesley Mann (Caterpillar) in “Part II.”
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Disney Channel Holiday Preview Bumper with Jane Seymour (1992)
Juicy Fruit Skiing Commercial (circa 1989)
Cool Kids Club, a nostalgia-filled trip back to childhood.
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“Adventures in Wonderland” and “Christmas in Wonderland” © 1992 The Walt Disney Company.
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Title: Adventures in Wonderland: Christmas in Wonderland
