🎄 It’s 1984, and all we want for Christmas is our mom back. Join us as we turn around back to 1984 with Punky Brewster during her very special, very crucial first Christmas with her new family.

WARNING: This episode contains Santa spoilers from 23:45 to 27:31.

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🎙 Guests:

Adam Pope (The Retro Network, @hojukoolander).

Steven (UFO Club).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. I totally missed the 2021 Punky Brewster revival series on Peacock.

2. Ami Foster (Margaux) in Wrinkles in Need of Cuddles.

3. The Punky Brewster Wiki exists and is very helpful.

4. What do you mean, “Nobody would want A Bomb for Christmas?”

5. “Santa Claus Lives in Santa Cruz” is a very obscure single that may or may not have been written for this episode.

6. “I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning” from Annie Get Your Gun.

7. Today’s TV Trope: Santa’s Existence Clause.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

NBC’s One to Grow On interstitial with Soleil Moon Frye, circa 1984.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

Wizards! The Podcast Guide to Comics.

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“Punky Brewster” and “Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus” © 1984 NBC Productions.

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🐰 It’s 1983, and despite replacing our entire body with robot parts, we still can’t plow faster than a rapidly growing magic forest baby. Join us as we get things rolling with the mascots of Paas Easter egg coloring kits in a secret hit piece on landlords disguised as a wacky Easter story. On the way, we’ll meet the ever-looming shadow of the Easter Bunny and teach animals to talk by giving them clothes.

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🎙 Guests:

Sammy Hain (@SammyHain).

Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny, @horrormoviebbq).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. The History of Paas.

2. Patton Oswalt on Paas and its short-lived competitors.

3. This special was written by Rankin/Bass legend Romeo Muller, with songs composed by Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles.

4. Charles Woolf (Terrence) in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.

5. The origin of a farmer’s “South 40” and the Homestead Act of 1862.

6. Paas replaced their mascot characters. The only original one left is Feathers — if that’s even the same Feathers.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

Paas Easter Egg Coloring Kit, 1984.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

Holidays After Dark, exploring the strange, unusual, and dark sides of the holidays.

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“Peter and the Magic Egg” © 1983 RLR Associates, Ltd. / Romeo Productions, Inc.

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It’s 1990, and we’re looking a gift horse in the mouth. Join us on a wild ride to the Bar None Ranch for a Very Special Episode™ of Nickelodeon’s Hey Dude disguised as a barely festive Christmas in July special.

WARNING: This episode contains Santa spoilers from 27:07 to 28:58.

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🎙 Guest:

Justin O’Connor (@jm_oconnor).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. An ode to our childhood friends who lied about having an Uncle Who Worked For Nintendo.

2. Hey Dude Reviewed’s episode rankings and review of Ride, She Said.

3. Kelly Brown (Brad) in Danger Zone 4: Mad Girls, Bad Girls (NSFW).

4. Kelly Brown’s boutique on Long Island.

5. Christine Taylor (Melody) in Showdown.

6. Susan Sindelar (Cindy) in the background of a fight scene in Smokey and the Bandit.

6. TROT (Therapeutic Riding of Tucson) is a real place.

7. The Hey Dude set is still somewhat standing in a secluded area of another, actual ranch.

8. The Hangin’ Out Gang.

9. The Huron Carol, believed to be the oldest North American Christmas carol, was written in an indigenous language.

10. The poster for Miracle on 34th Street gives no indication that it’s a Christmas movie.

10 . You know what? I’ll just let y’all search for “star registry” on your own if you want to actually look naming a star after someone.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

California Games for Nintendo, 1987.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

Christmas Creeps, keeping the Christmas spirit alive year-round through the magic of terrible holiday films.

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“Hey Dude” and “Ride She Said” © 1990 MTV Networks.

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🎄 It’s 1983, and Young Republican Alex P. Keaton is sick and tired of hearing “Merry Christmas.” It was a different time. Join us as we airlift our dirty laundry back to before Back to the Future for a Scrooge Sunday edition of Family Ties, in which Michael J. Fox is taken 30 years into the future to fix his family.

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🎙 Guests:

Molly Patton (MollyPatton.com, @molly_patton, @MoMakesStuffUp).

Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. Michael Gross (Steven) on making the Christmas movie Noelle.

2. Chris Hebert (Young Alex) in Fuzzbucket.

3. Justine Bateman as Mallory as the Ghost of Christmas Future is the Best Dressed Ghost of Christmas Future.

4. Justine Bateman as Lady Zara, Superman’s long-lost betrothed wife-to-be on Lois and Clark.

5. Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter (Elyse) as Santa and Mrs. Claus in the 2015 Lifetime Original Movie, Becoming Santa.

6. The time I went shopping on Christmas Day in the year 2000 and ended up finding the loneliest Hollywood Video employee.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

Atari Christmas Commercial, 1983.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

The Christmas Alphabet Podcast, Christmas from A to Z.

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“Family Ties” and “A Keaton Christmas Carol” © 1983 Paramount Pictures Corp.

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