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The Jetsons: A Jetson Christmas Carol

🎄 It’s 1985, but we’re rocketing into the future, when apparently urgent veterinary care no longer exists.

It’s Scrooge Sunday, so join us for a glimpse into the space-age year of 2062 to find out if 3 robotic ghosts of Christmas can convince Mr. Spacely to change his stingy ways, while the clock is ticking for the Jetsons’ dog, Astro, on his deathbed.

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🎙 Guest:

Jack Ford (The Total Christmas Podcast).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. George Jetson apparently was/will be born at the end of July 2022.

2. George O’Hanlon (George Jetson) as Joe McDoakes in a series of instructional parody short films from the 1940s and ’50s.

3. The Jetsons’ “laser tree.”

4. “Bongo Feet and Zip,” the classic Hanna-Barbara running sound effect, is heard 9 times in this episode.

5. This episode marks the last appearance speaking appearance of the Jetsons’ pet alien, Orbitty.

6. Astro’s supposed fever is normal for dogs.

7. How the Flintstones movie teenage Spacely and his future wife watch changes the theory that both shows take place in the same time period.

8. The robotic Ghost of Christmas Past, Present (literally a talking wrapped Christmas present), and “Yet to Be.”

9. I had to look up whether Spacely even had a pet to warrant having a personal veterinarian. Meet Zero.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

George Jetson’s Air Pollution PSA, National Clean Air Coalition, 1990.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

Cool Kids Club, a nostalgia-fueled trip back to the ’80s and ’90s.

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July 17, 2022/by e_xander

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: I’m Dreaming of a White Ranger

🎄 It’s 1995, and a couple of giant space monsters with swords are about to lose a snowball fight against the powerless Power Rangers, who can’t Morph at the North Pole due to a cross-current of holiday magic. And also magnets.

You can watch I’m Dreaming of a White Ranger on the official Powers Rangers YouTube Channel.

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🎙 Guests:

Andre Bennett (@AndreBennettGO).

Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. I’m Dreaming of a White Ranger on Ranger Wiki.

2. Dynaman, an English-dubbed parody of Super Sentai on the USA Network’s Night Flight, circa 1988.

3. Rubber Suit Rumble! and Cult Cinema Cloister Facebook groups, maintained by Andre.

4. Differences between the aired TV episode and the VHS cut, which was released 2 months earlier.

5. The Order, a proposed, Expendables-style film starring former Power Rangers.

6. Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly) directed a Season 2 episode of Superman & Lois.

7. The Ranger “in jail” we alluded to isn’t even in this episode.

8. Affirmative Clothing Company, co-founded by David Yost (Billy).

9. Paul Schrier (Bulk) finally got to play a legit Ranger in 2017 in the web series Power Rangers Hyperforce.

10. Robert von Fliss has 4 credits on IMDb, and they’re all as Santa Claus.

11. The real-life Command Center: The House of the Book at the American Jewish University.

12. Rito Revolto, a giant skeleton warrior, learning about holiday spirit is just the Skeletor scene all over again.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

Pizza Hut: “Right Field,” 1990, from the VHS release of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

Diet Coke: “Choose Wisely,” 1990, from the VHS release of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

OnStar: “Batcave,” 2000, featuring Batman and Michael Gough as Alfred, except I was probably thinking of the Diet Coke ad before Batman ’89.

Saban’s 4½ minutes of commercials in front of the VHS release of I’m Dreaming of a White Ranger, including an ad for THE VIDEO YOU’RE ALREADY WATCHING.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

Behind the Bells, a one-horse open sleigh ride into the world of Christmas movies.

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July 15, 2022/by e_xander

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The Wickedest Witch

🎃 It’s 1989, and Rue McClanahan is trapped in an underground castle inhabited by a bunch of Gremlin-looking puppets called Greevils — and for some reason wants to leave.

Join us for a Halloween in July celebration of The Wickedest Witch, co-written and produced by ALF creator Paul Fusco, and starring Blanche from The Golden Girls as the evil Avarissa. As far as we know, this Halloween special only ever aired once, but somehow managed to capture our hearts and burrow itself into the cavernous depths of our memories.

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🎙 Guest:

Matt from Dinosaur Dracula (The Purple Stuff Podcast, @dinosaurdracula).

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📺 Watch It:

There are 3 copies on YouTube — some include commercials, others hit record a second too late. For the closest we can get to a full picture of the special, here are all 3, courtesy of:

1. Dinosaur Dracula,
2. Jared’s VHS Treasures,
3. trivialord.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. The Wickedest Witch on Dinosaur Dracula.

2. Rue McClanahan on Entertainment Tonight, October 27, 1989 (Interview starts at 6:57).

3. Ronn Lucas (Sammy), creator of Scorch and the 1988 Disney Channel channel special, Who’s in Charge Here?

4. Judge Doom murdering a clown shoe in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

5. Free Stuff for Kids.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

McDonald’s Halloween Gift Certificate Books, 1989 during the airing of The Wickedest Witch.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

Weird Christmas, all things holly, jolly, and odd-ly.

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July 13, 2022/by e_xander

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The Christmas Tree Train

🎄 It’s 1983, and a young bear and fox are lost in the Big City after accidentally riding the rails on the apparently famous Christmas Tree Train in an obscure special that has little to do with Christmas trees or trains. Climb aboard as we explore the first holiday special starring Buttons and Rusty, known later as the Chucklewood Critters.

You can watch The Christmas Tree Train on the Internet Archive.

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🎙 Guest:

Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight, @TeeAitchAre).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. The Unofficial Chucklewood Critters Home Page, which looks like it was created in 2003, last updated in 2011, and is a perfect specimen of an early 2000s Internet fan page.

2. William Boyett (Ranger Jones) in Last Clear Chance, a 1959 driving safety film later featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

3. Foxes actually hang out around bears in nature (Nature.org, 2021).

4. A random shout-out to mid-1990s Sonic the Hedgehog wannabe Bubsy the Bobcat.

5. A very difficult jump in a sewer level in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nintendo game.

6. All the human characters in this special look like they’re related to Gargamel from The Smurfs.

7. RiffTrax Christmas Circus with Whizzo the Clown.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

Santa’s Village in Southern California, circa 1983 during an airing of The Christmas Tree Train.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

North Pole Radio, covering the art of representing Santa and all things Christmas.

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July 11, 2022/by e_xander

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Punky Brewster: Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus

🎄 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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July 9, 2022/by e_xander

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Peter and the Magic Egg

🐰 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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Hey Dude: Ride, She Said

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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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Family Ties: A Keaton Christmas Carol

🎄 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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July 3, 2022/by e_xander

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The Bells of Fraggle Rock

It’s 1984, and it’s time to let the music play down in Fraggle Rock as we ring in Christmas in July on a quest to find the true meaning of the Festival of the Bells. On the way, we’ll visit Outer Space as Doc teaches Sprocket — and us — about the Winter Solstice, Saturnalia, and Christmas around the world.

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🎙 Guests:

Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy, @thepopdaddy).

Donnie Storms (Bronwen’s Ghost, @boxcar45).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. A clip from the British airing of The Bells of Fraggle Rock, in which Doc is replaced by a lighthouse captain.

2. Gerald Parkes (Doc) in An American Christmas Carol as the Ghost of Christmas Present.

3. Doc’s tool-themed Christmas tree.

4. Macy’s Christmas Light Show and Dickens Village in Philadelphia.

5. The Weebabeast, in pictures.

6. Gobo’s maze-like map to the Cave of the Great Bell.

7. St. Nicholas Day.

8. Mokey and the Festival of the Bells, a Christmas-themed Fraggle Rock storybook.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

Fraggle Rock Book Club, 1985.

McDonald’s Fraggle Rock Happy Meal Toys, 1988.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

Hyrule Podcasters, an audio “Let’s Play” through The Legend of Zelda.

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Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town

It’s the 100th episode of the Advent Calendar House! Join us as we put one foot in front of the other back to 1970 to revisit a Rankin/Bass Christmas classic that dares to answer children’s questions about Santa Claus while illegally opening his mail.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/santa-claus-is-comin-to-town.

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🎙 Guests:

• Michael DiGiovanni (@theatomicgeeks) from the Classic Film Jerks and Pop Culture Retrofit podcasts.

• Erin Evans (@mserinevans).

• Michael May (@michaelmaycomix) from MichaelMay.online and AfterLUNCH.

• Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Instagram: @blessedarethegeek).

• Joey O. (@imgonnadj24) from Y-Not Radio.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• Both IMDb and Wikipedia had the premiere date wrong because of a typo in an old book. Rich Goldschmidt’s The Making of Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town and The Daydreamer gets it right.

• Former pro-wrestler Special Delivery Jones.

• Burgermeister Meisterburger is a dead ringer for Mauser from Police Academy 2 and 3.

• Context clues place this special in Sweden.

• Hey, IMDb, I highly doubt the Greg Thomas voicing young Kris Kringle grew up to play the saxophone in Parliament Funkadelic.

• For a while, Topper was renamed Waddles.

• Kris’s weird face he makes after being caught by the Winter Warlock’s angry trees.

• Save the Earth from Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.

• Weddings on Christmas Day used to be popular.

• The first known recording of the song Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, and our favorite versions.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• Folgers Coffee: Peter Comes Home for Christmas, 1982.

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December 24, 2021/by e_xander

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Hey Arnold!: Arnold’s Christmas

It’s 1996, and we’re holding our football-shaped heads high on a quest to find our neighbor’s long-lost daughter… but first, a pair of highly sought after Nancy Spumoni snow boots. Join us for a very special Christmas episode that solidified Hey Arnold! as an unforgettable Nicktoon.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/hey-arnold-christmas.

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🎙 Guests:

• Anthony Caruso (@ACaruso929) from Tis the Podcast.

• Matt Eurich (@MattEurich) from TGI Podcast.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• The story behind the iconic Vietnam Episode of ‘Hey Arnold!’ (NBC News, 2021).

• Arnold’s Claymation origins: Arnold Escapes from Church, 1988.

• Arnold Uses His Imagination on Sesame Street.

• Helga in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl.

• The “Pollyanna,” Philadelphia’s hyper-local Secret Santa.

• Mr. Hyunh’s banana wallpaper.

• Mr. Hyunh’s flashback includes the iconic helicopter image from the Fall of Saigon.

• One-Legged Bob, the Affable Railroad Tramp.

• Hey, grown-ups, remember dot matrix printers?

• Hiep Thi Le’s life could’ve been a movie; instead the refugee became a star playing someone else (Los Angeles Times, 2018).

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• Talkboy Voice Recorder from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

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December 22, 2021/by e_xander

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Mr. T and Emmanuel Lewis in A Christmas Dream

It’s 1984, and the most 1984 pair I can think of, Mr. T and Emmanuel Lewis, are taking us on the most romantic date through New York City on the way to a Christmas party at Radio City Music Hall. Along the way, we spoil David Copperfield’s magic tricks, leave our emergency contact information with Willie Tyler and Lester, share our favorite Christmas songs with Maureen McGovern, and fall asleep while watching the Rockettes rehearse.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/mr-t-emmanual-lewis-a-christmas-dream.

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🎙 Guest:

• Guy Hutchinson (GuyHutchinson.com, Drunk on Disney, Twitter: @guyhutchinson).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• I Pity the Yule: Remembering A Christmas Dream, Mr. T and Emmanuel Lewis’s Lost Holiday Special, (Mental Floss, 2020).

• Be Somebody… or Be Somebody’s Fool.

• New York Mayor Ed Koch in The Muppets Take Manhattan.

• David Copperfield makes the Statue of Liberty disappear.

• Sesame Street’s Don Music.

• Willie Tyler and Lester on Letterman.

• Vintage Christmas tree color wheels.

• The other verses of Silent Night you’ve never heard.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• Soft Scrub Cleaner.

• The GE 2800 Dishwasher commercial that reminds me of the last scene of Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress.

• Masters of the Universe: The Fright Zone Play Set.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• Behind the Bells.

• Totally Rad Christmas.

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December 20, 2021/by e_xander

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A Smoky Mountain Christmas

It’s 1986, and we’re hiding out in a cabin in the mountains with modern-day Snow White and real-life Christmas angel Dolly Parton. Join us as we try to wrap our heads around this Henry Winkler-directed TV movie that gets really weird really quickly.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-smoky-mountain-christmas.

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🎙 Guest:

• April Ryley (@Where2NextApril, @motherchristmascosplay).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• Dolly Parton Meets the Kids.

• Muppet doppelgänger Polly Darton.

• Dolly Parton saved a girl’s life on the set of Christmas on the Square.

• Gennie James (Cindy) in The Hugga Bunch Movie.

• Claude Earl Jones (Bartender) in the Seinfeld episode, The Race.

• Lee Majors (Mountain Dan) and Jean Speegle Howard (Old Woman Jezebel) in The Night the Reindeer Died, the movie-within-a-movie from Scrooged.

• How South Jersey Keeps Muskrat on the Menu (Gastro Obscura).

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• 1988 Dollywood Commercial.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• Christmas Clatter,

• Santa by the Minute.

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December 18, 2021/by e_xander

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X-Men: Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas

It’s 1995, and I call upon the raging wind and the retired hosts of The Hourchive to send us flying into the Marvel Animated Universe where the X-Men spend an uncanny Christmas in the sewer trying to save a sick Morlock. Join us as we size up the X-Mansion Christmas tree, praise Storm’s fashion sense, and berate her leadership skills.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/x-men.

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🎙 Guests:

• Drew Crowley (Pizzanaut.com, Twitter: @pizzanautgo, Instagram: @gopizzanaut).

• John Dedeke (JohnDedeke.com, Twitter: @johndedeke, Instagram: @gratefuldedeke).

• Adam Jurotich (The Ambassadors of Harmony, Instagram: @adam_sr).

• Nick Man (Eat Me in St. Louis, Twitter: @EatMeInStLouis, Instagram: @eatmeinstlouispodcast).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• The Hourchive: The X-Men (2013) and ReduX-Men (2019).

• California Dreams.

• Saturday Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits home video starring Drew Barrymore.

• Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas on the Marvel Animated Universe Wiki.

• Ross Petty (Ape) and his annual holiday pantomime theatre.

• Captive Hearts, featuring the introduction to the Morlocks, Rogue and Gambit in swimsuits, and the Wolverine Crush meme.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• The Uncanny X-Men ToyBiz Action Figures.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• Lit for Christmas.

• The Christmas Book: The Ultimate Guide to Your Favorite Holiday.

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December 16, 2021/by e_xander

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Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper

It’s 1978, and we’re glued to the TV… whether we like it or not. Join us as we catch the next reindeer flight to save Santa’s workshop from being taken over by a palette swapped Wile E. Coyote.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/raggedy-ann-and-andy.

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🎙 Guests:

• Molly Patton (@molly_patton, @MoMakesStuffUp), author, artist, and LEGO builder at MollyPatton.com.

• Adam Pope (@hojukoolander) from RetroDaze and Wizards: The Podcast Guide to Comics.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure and The Greedy.

• Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, in example: A Sheep in the Deep.

• The Gloopstik Corporation’s address on Google Maps.

• Santa’s Reindeer species profile by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

• The Star-On and Star-Off machines from The Sneetches.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• 1978 M&M’s Christmas Commercial.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• A Cozy Christmas.

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December 14, 2021/by e_xander

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A Special Sesame Street Christmas

It’s 1978, and celebrities pretending to be ghosts are gaslighting Oscar the Grouch into participating in Christmas. Also, Michael Jackson shows up. This Scrooge Sunday, witness the other Sesame Street Christmas special from 1978, featuring 3 whole, entire Muppets.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-special-sesame-street-christmas.

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🎙 Guests:

• Alan Johnson (@AlanJ) from Two Bad Neighbors in the 31st Century, now a Futurama Podcast.

• Donnie Storms (@boxcar45) from Bronwen’s Ghost.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• Our episode on Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.

• I thought Tough Pigs made up this special in 2001 to be funny, but nope, it’s real.

• Sesame Street lost an Emmy to Sesame Street.

• Muppet Wiki on A Special Sesame Street Christmas.

• Elmo’s Delicious Christmas.

• Anne Murray Sings for the Sesame Street Generation, an American re-release of There’s a Hippo in My Tub.

• Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street.

• Michael Jackson inadvertently saved Sesame Street from a lawsuit.

• Just One Person at Jim Henson’s memorial service.

• Mike talks about Snoopy! The Musical on A Special Presentation, or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

• Sesame Place, 1984.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• Kringle Talks Kristmas.

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Title: A Special Sesame Street Christmas

December 12, 2021/by e_xander

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A Snow White Christmas

It’s 1980, and we’re having a hiccuping fit that can literally move mountains. Join us on a trip back to the World of Filmation for a barely Christmassy Snow White sequel featuring Seven Friendly Giants, each with their own involuntary reflexes.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-snow-white-christmas.

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