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A Thanksgiving Tale

🦃 We’re talking turkey as we dig up and dig in to a 1983 Thanksgiving special from puppeteer Paul Fusco, the creator of ALF.

Find links and complete show notes at: https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-thanksgiving-tale

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🎙 On This Episode:

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), nearsighted, hard-of-hearing turkey with a dream of making it in showbiz.

• Chad Young (@HorrorMovieBBQ), a rat I promised $3 to if he made a silly face on my podcast, from the Horror Movie BBQ.

• Tom Coombs (@classictomedy), an alley cat who talks like a Muppet but, for legal reasons, is definitely not a Muppet.

• Jayme Kilsby (@brainexploderrr), hiding in a trash can to avoid being eaten alive.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• Imagicom Productions’ Holiday Specials Collection.

• A Thanksgiving Tale, with curated retro Thanksgiving commercials.

• The Joker at the 1989 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

• A November 16, 1983 TV listing in an archived New York Magazine.

• Paul Fusco’s Space Cats.

• David Lander in Funland.

• Mental Floss’s Oral History of ALF.

• Today’s TV Trope: Invited as Dinner.

• The You Bet Your Life Duck.

• The art of making puppets fight: Throw them into the air from behind a fence.

• We compare the Thanksgiving play in this special to the one in Addams Family Values.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• Butterball Turkey Commercial (1985)

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• Christmas Time in the City.

“A Thanksgiving Tale” © 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc.

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26. Scrubs: My Own Personal Jesus

Welcome back to another CHRISTMAS IN JULY episode! This week we are diving into Scrubs for the first time!

Matt talks about his newfound love of Scrubs, how Donald Faison absolutely CRUSHED it in this episode and how the Christmas feels really are top-notch in this one. As always, be sure to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and we will send you a FREE TGI Podcast sticker!

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Episode 21 – Ryoko Moriyama’s “Christmas Hymnbook II”

Welcome to episode 21 of Holly Jolly X’masu! In this episode, I cover Ryoko Moriyama’s 1975 album, “Christmas Hymnbook II.” This is the third of four episodes dedicated to Ryoko Moriyama, and the second of her two hymnbook albums. This album features more traditional hymns in her classical style, and has a couple wonderful songs that were new to me. It’s easily as good as her first hymnbook album and is a great way to take your mind off the summer heat.

Christmas Hymnbook II – 1975

Thanks for listening, and I hope you’re enjoying Ryoko Moriyama’s music as much as I do. I look forward to covering her last Christmas album later this month. Be sure to listen in. And don’t forget that my regularly-scheduled Christmas in July episode should be available on the 25th. I have some really great songs planned for that, and you don’t want to miss it.

As always, any feedback on this episode would be appreciated. If have any suggestions, or if you’d like to recommend a song or album for a future episode, drop me a line and let me know.

Remember, I’ve added a button to my Ko-fi page. If you’d like to support me one cup of coffee at a time, a donation is only $3. Any donations received will be put towards purchasing new Japanese Christmas music to review for future episodes. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And if you get a chance, leave me a review on iTunes. Thanks!

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The Way I See It, You Can Divide The World Up Into Two Kinds Of People: Those Who Like Fruitcake And The Rest Of Us. (Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer)

Happy Monday, Christmas fanatics! This week, Julia, Thom, and Anthony cover the questionable holiday special from the year 2000, “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” – based on the Christmas song of the same name! Though there’s some debate and trolling regarding who actually put this cartoon on the list, the elves are all in agreement over its quality, and it begs the question: has “Tis the Podcast” hit a new low? Also discussed in this episode – restaurants that the hosts only tend to visit during the holiday season!

So settle in and enjoy this episode which is much more fun than the content discussed! In addition, keep your eyes on your podcast feeds this upcoming Thursday for the next installment of “Another Christmas Story”, as read by Lauren Simone this week, in addition to Saturday for a special, Christmas in July episode!

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Dinosaurs: Refrigerator Day

Get your frying pan ready and join us on a journey to what feels like 60 million years ago back to 1991 to observe the most wonderful time of the year for the Jim Henson Company’s Dinosaurs, which by some Fridge Day miracle is the Advent Calendar House’s first TGIF episode.

Full show notes with links at: https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/dinosaurs-refrigerator-day

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🎙 On This Episode:

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), unidentified furry creature about to become breakfast.

• Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames), the hot toddy serving middle manager of my dreams.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• The Dinosaurs parody on The Simpsons.

• We go from talking about the Økėÿ Døkęÿ Køøkïñ segment of Muppets Now to Netflix’s Nailed It!

• Sally Struthers (Charlene) for International Correspondence School.

• A brief history of the Christmas bonus, or “thirteenth salary.”

• Sam McMurray in the very short-lived A League of Their Own TV sitcom, and my own pitch for a TV adaptation on Nerd Lunch’s Fourth Chair Army Invasion.

• Pons Maar (Roy’s body actor) as the original voice of The Noid.

• Unisaurs: The Dinosaurs equivalent to the Anything Muppet.

• The biggest gifts we ended up returning.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• Talking Baby Dinosaur and Dinosaurs Figures (1991).

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• TGI Podcast.

“Dinosaurs” and “Refrigerator Day” © 1991 The Walt Disney Company.

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Christmas Podding- Is there an official Christmas Dress Code or does anything Go?

This week we ask the question When is the right age to stop buying gifts for extended family, or are you expected to buy Christmas Presents for life?

What is the official Christmas Dress Code or are all rules thrown out the window when it comes to fashion on Christmas Day. Plus

We make a last minute pitch to encourage you to celebrate Christmas in July, there’s still time to get the family together and do something special. We’ll run you through possible options as we talk all things Christmas ALL YEAR LONG on Christmas Podding.

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Live Aid Anniversary and Do They Know It’s Christmas

Ken Kessler from the Sounds of Christmas talks about the recent 36th anniversary of Live Aid, and about the Band Aid single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (and all of its sequels).

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Episode 34 – Little Drummer Boy

Hello you beautiful person!

It’s another fun filled episode of the TCP.

We start with a very crappy version of A Christmas Carol. This was part of the ‘Tales from Dickens’ TV series and stars Basil Rathbone as an actor who’s career has fallen so far that he’s reduced to wearing a traffic cone on his head to play Ebenezer Scrooge.
I don’t recommend watching it, but if you really must, here’s a link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LdUtugLbK4&t=3s

We have another Joke from Benji Pearson.

Then it’s the return of Santa Claus is NOT Coming to Town.  I had to scour the internet for stories and managed to find a half decent one.  When will parents learn that when it comes to Santa, you can lie your way out of anything.

Next up we look at a lovely cover version of the Bowie and Crosby classic Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth.  This one was recorded for Children in Need and sees two stalwarts of British broadcasting, Aled Jones and Terry Wogan.
If you want to have a look and a listen here’s a link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AWdrUUMsYU

Whilst researching the little drummer boy I found out about The Little Drummer Boy challenge, and also Whamageddon.  Both are games where you try to avoid hearing the song during the festive season.

This episodes recommendation is Ooh Spooky, one of the funniest podcasts I’ve had the pleasure of listening to.
Definitely check this one out, they don’t have a website, so here’s the facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/OoohSpooky/

If you want to get in touch, email totalchristmas@gmail.com

The website is totalchristmaspodcast.com

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The Christmas Hirelings Part 2: Chapters 3-4

In these chapters, we find out what happens on the first day that three children come to stay with Sir John Penlyon for Christmas. Will he further shut off his broken heart from them or will they charm their way through his gruff exterior?

Enjoy the second part of a heart warming Christmas tale!

Due to life being crazy and my inability to read a calendar correctly (long story, don’t ask) I don’t think I’m going to be able to get another regular episode out on Monday this week, but no worries, I will have part 3 of this story out next Friday. I’ll also be taking a vacation at the end of July/early August, so there will be a couple weeks break.

Here’s the Upcoming Schedule for the rest of Christmas in July and August (subject to change):

7/24 Part 3 of The Christmas Hirelings

7/26 Episode 47, Bill from thevillagecollector.com will be back, and other Christmas fun!

7/31 Part 4 of The Christmas Hirelings

8/15 Episode 49

8/30 EPISODE 50!!

Ways to support the show:

Buy me a coffee? www.ko-fi.com/cozychristmas

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Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation

I know what we’re going to podcast about today, so get ready for a toboggan ride without even getting out of bed back to 2009 to watch Phineas and Ferb save their very nice town’s Christmas Vacation.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/phineas-and-ferb-christmas-vacation.

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🎙 On This Episode:

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), swinging from the rooftops on a string of Christmas lights like Spider-Man.

• Brandon Medley (@brandmed), frantically trying to find out what to get me for Christmas when all I really wanted was for him to be on my podcast.

• James Riley (@yourbuddyspooky), who invited himself onto this episode and won’t go until he gets some figgy pudding.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Ferb) in Love Actually  and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

• The time James accidentally knocked over Ben Stiller.

• The Sears Wish Book catalog.

• Today’s TV Trope: Look Both Ways.

• “What Does He Want?” was cut for time and restored later. Also, it sounds like “Monster Mash.”

• Doofenshmirtz’s Naughty-inator reminds me of the Riddler’s Brain Box from Batman Forever.

• U.S.A. for Africa’s “We Are the World.”

• Walt Disney World’s Candlelight Processional and Raglan Road.

• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s “Christmas Is Starting Now.”

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• Sears Wish Book (1992).

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• Merry Britsmas.

“Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation” © 2009 Disney.

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Episode 20 – Ryoko Moriyama’s “Christmas Hymnbook I”

Welcome to episode 20 of Holly Jolly X’masu! In this episode, I cover Ryoko Moriyama’s 1974 album, “Christmas Hymnbook.” This is my second of four episodes dedicated to Ryoko Moriyama, and the first of her two hymnbook albums. On these albums, she shows off her classical style and delivers a couple of the most wonderful vocal Christmas albums to come out of Japan. These albums deliver a diverse selection of Christmas hymns from around the world. You’ll be familiar with some of them, while others will likely be ones you’ve seldom if ever heard before.

Christmas Hymnbook – 1974

Thanks for listening, and I hope you’re enjoying Ryoko Moriyama’s music as much as I do. I look forward to covering her two remaining Christmas albums in the coming weeks. Be sure to listen in. And don’t forget that my regularly-scheduled Christmas in July episode should be available on the 25th. I have some really great songs planned for that, and you don’t want to miss it.

As always, any feedback on this episode would be appreciated. If have any suggestions, or if you’d like to recommend a song or album for a future episode, drop me a line and let me know.

Remember, I’ve added a button to my Ko-fi page. If you’d like to support me one cup of coffee at a time, a donation is only $3. Any donations received will be put towards purchasing new Japanese Christmas music to review for future episodes. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And if you get a chance, leave me a review on iTunes. Thanks!

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“Another Christmas Story” – Chapter Twenty-Four – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! – As Read By Glen Warren Of “Seasons Eatings”

Happy Thursday, Christmas fanatics! Welcome to the twenty-fifth official installment of “Another Christmas Story“!

This week, Glen Warren of “Seasons Eatings” will read to all of you Chapter Twenty-Four of our tale, entitled “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”. Within this chapter, we take a deep dive into the mindsets of Officers Dwyer and Lee and spend some time with Elizabeth Meyer and Noah Clarke as well!!

We hope you like it! If you do, make sure to share this episode and our website, upon which the text of this installment is posted, to get it in front of as many ears and eyes as possible! Make sure to check your main feeds on Monday as well to hear all three elves discuss the animated holiday special from the year 2000, “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer“, in addition to checking it next Thursday for the twenty-fifth official chapter of this story – “Chapter Twenty-Five: My Grown Up Christmas List”, which Lauren Simone will be reading to you!

Enjoy, y’all!

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The Adventures of Pete & Pete: O’ Christmas Pete

It’s Garbage Day! Join us as we look happily deranged back to 1996 to follow Pete and Pete’s brother, Pete, on their mission to keep the Christmas spirit alive for as long as possible, and keep their Christmas tree safe from the evil Garbageman.

Find full show notes and links at: https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/adventures-of-pete-and-pete-o-christmas-pete

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🎙 On This Episode:

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), pile of garbage slowly and steadily growing at the front curb.

• Tom Coombs (@classictomedy), armed with a flamethrower I got him for Christmas to help clean his room.

• Chad Young (@HorrorMovieBBQ), crusher of dreams, from the Horror Movie BBQ.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• Michael C. Maronna (Big Pete) in Home Alone, and in a series of Ameritrade commercials circa 1999.

• Snow Day was originally conceived as a Pete & Pete movie.

• The first Pete & Pete short, “What Would You Do for a Dollar?”

• The Pete & Pete 20th Anniversary Reunion.

• Danny Tamberelli (Little Pete) as Jimmy De Santa in Grand Theft Auto 5.

• Judy Grafe’s (Mom) résumé, and her current work for FEMA.

• Hardy Rawls (Dad) as the Maytag Repairman circa 2005.

• Sludge Central on Pete & Pete filming in New Jersey.

• Chad and Michael May talk Silent Night, Deadly Night on Sleigh Bell Cinema.

• David Johansen sings “Garbageman’s Ballad.”

• Garbageman’s hijacking of Little Pete’s Yule Log reminds us of the Max Headroom Pirating Incident.

• A mini ode to character actress Marilyn Dobrin as the Wrigleys’ notably loud neighbor.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• The Adventures of Pete & Pete: “Mom’s Plate” (1991).

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• Christmas Clatter.

“The Adventures of Pete & Pete” and “O’ Christmas Pete” © 1995 Viacom.

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Episode 28: Acapella Christmas Songs

This week, Jay and Scott explore acapella Christmas Songs. Artists include VoicePlay, Backtrack Vocals, Cimorelli, The Manhattan Transfer, and Home Free.

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Minute 66 – Something Special

BZ starts to show interest in Patch’s big idea of making “something special”.   Especially when the elf informs BZ that BZ would have to stop producing all of his normal toys.  Plus: The book reveals the reasons why BZ never got presents from Santa as a child! Should Patch be wary of someone who has been on the Naughty List?  And we talk about John Lithgow’s animated roles that never were!  Join us as we discuss Minute 66 of Santa Claus: The Movie (1985).

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Ya’ll Coming For Scraps?

Ken Smith of the Faces To Places Podcast joins Todd to discuss his love of Christmas, his Christmas traditions, and more.  Faces To Places is a podcast that drives the country’s back roads to find stories of Americana.

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25. Everybody Loves Raymond: The Ball

Welcome back to another Christmas in July edition of TGI Podcast! This week we are going back to the world of Everybody Loves Raymond for the first time since covering Snow Day back in January 2021.

This week we talk about whether or not it is okay to fib to your kids, why Everybody Loves Raymond had a “realness” to the show in comparison to other family sitcoms of that era and how Frank and Ray had one of the best sweet moments we’ve covered so far on the podcast.

Be sure to continue to look out for a new episode each week this month for more Christmas in July content!

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Halloween Is Grinch Night

🎃 The 13th of July means it’s spooky time again in the Advent Calendar House as we wheel our paraphernalia wagon back to 1977 to pay a long-awaited revisit to Who-ville on a Grinch Night we’ll never forget.

Full show notes with links at: https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/halloween-is-grinch-night

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🎙 On This Episode:

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), fuzzy pink endangered species being chased down a mountain for existing.

• James Riley (@yourbuddyspooky), my personal Grinch alarm warden.

• Ethan “The Hungry Reader” (@Gtron), the guest of honor at the exclusive Grinch Night ball, from A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• Halloween is Grinch Night on the Dr. Seuss Wiki.

• The worst, non-candy items we’ve gotten while trick-or-treating.

• Carlton, Your Doorman.

• Music composer Joe Raposo, whose greatest hits also include the Sesame Street theme, Bein’ Green, and C is for Cookie.

• Hans Conried, the voice of Grinch in this special and Captain Hook in Disney’s Peter Pan, was also the titular character in Dr. Seuss’s The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

• I badly describe the plot of Midnight Madness.

• The Hakken-Kraks in Oh, the Places You’ll Go.

• Is the Grinch’s magic only active on Grinch Night?

• The Euphemism, and other words I thought Dr. Seuss made up.

• An ode to the Whos’ videophone.

• Dr. Seuss Goes to War, and other creators of great works doing terrible things.

• Bogleech’s gallery of the Grinch’s monsters, and our personal favorites.

• The Vug under the Rug.

• The Jibboo.

• The Birthday Bird.

• Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre.

• Is this a prequel or something else? And where does The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat fit?

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• Franken Berry and Monsters Cereals (1986), preserved by Dinosaur Dracula.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• Holly Jolly X’masu.

“Halloween is Grinch Night” © 1977 DePatie–Freleng Enterprises.

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