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The Jack Benny Program: Jack Goes Christmas Shopping

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CONTENT WARNING: This podcast discusses a 1960 episode of “The Jack Benny Program” in which a character shoots himself offscreen.

On this beautifully wrapped and unwrapped and rewrapped episode of the official podcast for 40-year-olds whose parents associate cigarette commercials with Christmas, we’re second-, third-, and fourth-guessing ourselves way back to 1960 to go Christmas Shopping with “The Jack Benny Program,” the last televised version of a longtime radio favorite.

On This Episode:

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), surprisingly brittle for an unbreakable, crystal $12 watch.
  2. Guy Hutchinson (@GuyHutchinson), wrapped in beautiful paper and tinsel at least 4 times before we started recording, author, public speaker, and host of the Drunk On Disney Podcast.

Topics and Tangents:

  1. The Television Academy Foundation’s page on Jack Benny’s “Christmas Shopping” show, including a video interview with show writer George Balzer.
  2. The earliest “Christmas Shopping” variant I could find, from 1937.
  3. Eddie “Rochester” Anderson and the progression of race relations, and also a quick tangent on his becoming the first African-American to enter a racehorse in the Kentucky Derby.
  4. Finally I get to talk about Mel Blanc, the real star of this show.
  5. Adjusting the $1.98 and $40 wallets for inflation.
  6. A 2002 message board post on JackBenny.org answering whether Jack was a practicing Jew.
  7. A tribute to Frank “Yyyyyeeeees?” Nelson.
  8. The dumbest things we’ve made pets wear.
  9. Dennis Day and the dying practice of actors legally changing their names to their most popular characters’.
  10. Stupid “the customer is always right” stories.

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“The Jack Benny Program” and “Jack Goes Christmas Shopping” ©1960 J&M Productions, Inc.

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The Christmas Raccoons

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In this very environmentally aware edition of the official holiday podcast for people who make hockey sweaters for vermin, we’re responsibly deforesting our way back to 1980 to dig up “The Christmas Raccoons,” the first appearance of early Disney Channel imports The Raccoons and the greedy Cyril Sneer.

On This Episode:

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), generous married couple’s permanent houseguest in a tree that’s clearly bigger on the inside.
  2. Michael DiGiovanni (@theatomicgeeks), the barely clothed college graduate son of a lumber baron, from The Atomic Geeks, Pop Culture Retrofit, and Classic Film Jerks.
  3. Christian Nielsen (@hunkburger), whom I may or may not have completely dreamed up, from The Atomic Geeks and Pop Culture Retrofit.

Topics and Tangents:

  1. This special and an accompanying story album were narrated by Rich Little, a “Man of a Thousand Voices,” in his own, regular voice.
  2. The voice of Forest Ranger Dan is Rupert Holmes, the singer/songwriter behind “Escape (The Piña Colada Song).”
  3. Tammy Bourne (Julie) and Hadley Kay (Tommy) were both in other movies in 1980 as children who fall from a great height.
  4. The Raccoons’ tree is clearly a lot bigger on the inside.
  5. The classic tropes of rolling down a snowy hill into a giant snowball and the big dust ball of violence.
  6. Much of this special is contained in an identical dream by both kids and possibly also their dog. From there, it’s hard to tell what parts were the dream and what parts weren’t. Maybe it’s all in St. Elsewhere’s Snow Globe Universe of Tommy Westphall (no relation).

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

“The Christmas Raccoons” ©1980 PFS Christmas Raccoons / PFS Pooled Film Services, Inc.

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The Weinerville Chanukah Special

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On a very unnecessarily loud episode of the increasingly inaccurately named Advent Calendar House, we noisily snowmobile back to 1995 to try and figure out what everyone’s yelling about in “The Weinerville Chanukah Special,” Nickelodeon’s first Hanukkah exclusive, created by Marc Weiner and his puppets who can’t stop screaming.

On This Episode:

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), cheap Stormtrooper ripoff who wouldn’t look out of place in a Devo video.
  2. April Ryley (@AprilandPJ), city mayor by day and ski lodge manager by night for at least 8 of them.

Topics and Tangents:

  1. We watched this videotaped original broadcast of “The Weinerville Chanukah Special,” complete with commercials.
  2. Weinerville.com is alive and well in 2020.
  3. Marc Weiner went on to be the voice of Swiper the Fox and the Map in “Dora the Explorer.”
  4. Two notes on Marc Summers, who opens the special with a take on the classic Disney storybook opening trope:
  5. Sour cream vs. applesauce for latke dipping.
  6. Michael Gunst (Sinrek) may or may not be this puppeteer and mask maker.
  7. Brian O’Connor (Antidorkus) was also Schemer from “Shining Time Station.”
  8. Thanks to Nickelodeon being under the MTV Networks umbrella, this special featured music by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Miami Sound Machine, and the B-52’s.
  9. The bulk of this special was filmed at the Summit Lodge in Killington, Vermont.
  10. Telephone booths still exist at Walt Disney World.
  11. Liver as a go-to food kids hate.
  12. A cameo by Diesel, better known as Kevin Nash, who was likely still WWF Champion when taping his lines, but lost it shortly before the special aired.
  13. The art of making your own menorah out of household items, recyclable objects, or fruit.

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“The Weinerville Chanukah Special” © 1995 Nickelodeon.

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A Johnny Bravo Christmas

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It’s time to catch a last-minute flight to the North Pole and do the monkey with me back to 2001 for an out-of-order dive into “A Johnny Bravo Christmas,” a well-deserved punch in the face that’s a little bit rock ’n’ roll.

On This Episode:

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), former blond pompadour-haver until my wife said she liked my hair better short.
  2. James Riley (@yourbuddyspooky), flying through the skies above the Arctic with his magic umbrella.

Topics and Tangents:

  1. “’Twas the Night,” a 1997 segment of “Johnny Bravo” which this special accounts for in the show’s continuity… sort of.
  2. “Larry & Steve,” Seth MacFarlane’s short film for the “What a Cartoon!” show which would become a rough template for “Family Guy.” After this short, Seth worked as a staff writer for “Johnny Bravo.”
  3. The Bravos appear to be of a dying breed of people who wait till Christmas Eve or a few days before to start decorating.
  4. This special first aired less than 3 months after 9/11, on Pearl Harbor Day, and opens with Johnny unnecessarily calling the fire department to tell them he’s “the bomb.”
  5. Homer Simpson’s sandwich.
  6. The worst things we’ve found in our couches.
  7. The latest you can mail something to guarantee arrival before Christmas, according to the U.S. Postal Service’s Holiday Shipping Deadlines.
  8. A rare “true meaning of Christmas” monologue in a cartoon that begins with baby Jesus.
  9. The voice of the truck driver is Vanessa Marshall, who may or may have provided the scream of Samus dying in the Metroid Prime games.
  10. Santa’s village is hidden behind a fake mountain acting as a Wakanda-like cloaking device, and also looks like the Wicked Witch’s castle from “The Wizard of Oz.”

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“A Johnny Bravo Christmas” ©2001 Cartoon Network.

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BraveStarr: Tex’s Terrible Night

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It’s Scrooge Sunday in the Advent Calendar House, so hang on to your hats as we blast back to 1987 to revisit the Filmation space western, “BraveStarr,” and its dickens of a backstory, “Tex’s Terrible Night.”

On This Episode:

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), a sometimes bipedal talking horse you forgot was in this show.
  2. Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24), whom some people call space cowboy, from Y-Not Radio.
  3. Sammy Hain (@SammyHain), the personification of the unknown future wearing a hat over his hood for some reason.

Topics and Tangents:

  1. The official BraveStarr YouTube channel.
  2. The Fisher-Price Western Town I used to use as a backdrop for the much, much larger Bravestarr action figure.
  3. Joey’s interview with Pat Fraley, the voice of Marshal BraveStarr.
  4. This episode of the show uses flashback scenes from the movie, “BraveStarr: The Legend,” which explains why the animation quality isn’t consistent.
  5. Young Tex Hex looks like a purple Faker from He-Man.
  6. Stampede, the show’s even bigger bad, grants Tex Hex the power of transformation, because Filmation really wanted to teach kids that things that transform are evil.
  7. The “present-day” husband of Tex’s former love, Ursula, looks like Fred Ward.
  8. The time Marshal BraveStarr found a kid dead of a drug overdose.

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“BraveStarr” and “Tex’s Terrible Night” ©1987 Filmation Associates.

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The Christmas Toy

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It’s time to meet the Advent Calendar House’s seasonal Muppets quota as we secretly stroll down Jim Henson’s dark nightmare hall to 1986 to rewatch “The Christmas Toy,” an idea no one has repeated since.

On This Episode:

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), not dressed right at all.
  2. Beth Cieslik (@BethTheObscure), Queen of the Asteroids.
  3. Adam Jurotich, a wise old bear who’s here to teach us about Christmas, as soon as he’s able to climb to the top of a very large dollhouse, from The Hourchive.
  4. Donnie Storms (@boxcar45), the world’s smartest cat toy, from Bronwen’s Ghost.

Topics and Tangents:

  1. The DVD release cut Kermit dressed in a Santa suit from the intro and outro, but he’s back in the version streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
  2. Rugby crashing his skateboard into a block tower is the 1980s Muppet version of WWE’s Titus O’Neil tripping and sliding underneath the ring.
  3. “Teacup Furby,” as named by Donnie.
  4. The pink-haired doll playing the drums during “Toys Love to Play” reminds Beth of a similar song from “Mother Goose Rock ’n’ Rhyme.”
  5. Apple is closer to a female version of My Buddy than Kid Sister, the actual female version of My Buddy.
  6. The inevitable “How much did ‘Toy Story’ take from this?” conversation.
  7. Somehow we worked in a Christmas Shoes joke. I don’t have a link for that. I just wanted to let you know.
  8. Apple riding down the staircase on the back of Cruiser’s taxi beat Thelma and Louise by 5 years.
  9. A quick shout-out to “Don’t Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
  10. Why the humans heard Meteora fighting chess pieces in the living room, but not every toy throwing a party in the playroom with the lights on across the hall.
  11. The family cat’s name is pronounced like “Ouija,” but the DVD’s captioning spells it “Weegie.”
  12. “The Secret Life of Toys,” the short-lived 1994 sequel series featuring Rugby, Mew, and a few others in a new home with new friends.

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“The Christmas Toy” ©1986 Henson Associates, Inc.

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Christmas Comes to Pacland

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The Advent Calendar House kicks off another Christmas countdown with the original video game crash, which leaves Santa stranded in Pac-Man’s neighborhood in 1982’s “Christmas Comes to Pacland.”

WARNING: This episode contains spoilers about Santa Claus from 11:25 to 13:30.

On This Episode

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), apparently necessary police officer in a town named after its own savior.
  2. Lindy (@ieatvideogames), and
  3. Alicia (@thinkbluee), the Sour Puss and Chomp-Chomp to my Pac-Baby.

Topics and Tangents

  1. Santa is flying with 8 reindeer, including Rudolph. Who got the night off?
  2. Why some reindeer actually have red noses.
  3. This might be the first time a Christmas special shows Santa using a computer.
  4. Russi Taylor’s Pac-Baby has the same voice she would later use as Robin in “Muppet Babies.”
  5. No one in Pacland knows about Christmas, yet the Ghost Monsters know “Jingle Bells,” which admittedly isn’t all that Christmassy, so it gets a pass.
  6. Absent from this special is the Ghost Monsters’ boss, Mezmaron, who looks like Darth Vader with his helmet off at the end of “Return of the Jedi.”
  7. Is Pac-Man living in a town where everything is shaped like him the Pac-person equivalent of cartoonists drawing faces or eyes on everything to personify them?

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“Christmas Comes to Pacland” © 1982 Hanna-Barbera Productions.

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Garfield’s Thanksgiving

We end our countdown to Christmas in July by badly dancing back to 1989 to celebrate the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season in “Garfield’s Thanksgiving,” the clear bronze medalist of Garfield’s holiday trilogy, thanks to Jon Arbuckle going from goofy pet owner to gaslighting, mansplaining, hopelessly inept creep.

On This Episode

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), 10 minutes into a diet and have already lost his sense of humor.
  2. Jeff Somogyi (@sommerjam), a motivational electronic talking scale that’s also a film enthusiast, from Talkin’ Chopp.

Topics and Tangents

  1. Orson the Pig from “U.S. Acres” makes a cameo in Liz’s waiting room.
  2. The dumbest things we’ve done to get a date pale in comparison to Jon holding his breath until Liz concedes to going out with him. Hey, y’all, don’t do that. Please.
  3. Pat Carroll is back as Grandma in her 2nd greatest vocal performance of November 1989.
  4. Julie Payne (Liz) was also briefly the voice of another cartoon doctor, Janice N!Godatu, from the other animated segment of “The Tracey Ullman Show.”
  5. A brief history of sock garters.
  6. This special confirms Jon can’t hear Garfield speaking, but somehow Garfield’s computerized scale with the fat-shaming jokes can hear him.
  7. The best of Calvin’s dad from “Calvin and Hobbes,” in example.
  8. Grandma Arbuckle’s Sweet Potatoes, as prepared by Dinosaur Dracula.
  9. Cranberry sauce tastes better when it’s shaped like the inside of a can.
  10. Desirée Goyette, the female singing voice in Garfield’s specials and also the voice of Nermal, also sang the title theme to “It’s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown.”

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“Garfield’s Thanksgiving” © 1989 United Feature Syndicate, Inc./Anderson Digital.

Commercial Break: Garfield Alpo Cat Food Commercial, 1989.

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G.I. Joe: Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town

S-s-season’s greetings-s-s! You better watch out, because today we’re kindly rewinding back to a 1985 Christmas episode of “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero,” entitled “Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town!”

On This Episode

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), rambunctious Navy SEAL looking for a meaningful relationship with a large slab of frozen meat.
  2. Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24), 50-foot-tall wise cracking parrot from Y-Not Radio and Words With Nerds.

Topics and Tangents

  1. We don’t even get 4 minutes into this without talking about the U.S.S. Flagg.
  2. Crossfire comes up for no reason.
  3. A brief history of the G.I. Joe toy line, from “America’s Movable Fighting Man” to the Adventure Team, to “A Real American Hero.”
  4. “The Toys That Made Us” on Netflix.
  5. The “opening monologue that explains the show” has nothing on Voltron’s.
  6. Neil Ross (Shipwreck, Dusty, and Buzzer in this episode) has an audio camero in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “I Can’t Watch This.”
  7. Joey’s interviews with Pat Fraley (Wild Weasel), Gregg Berger (Firefly), Michael Bell (Duke, Blowtorch, Major Bludd), and Rob Paulsen (Tripwire, in Paulsen’s earliest known voice credit).
  8. “The Viper is Coming” is both our favorite “G.I. Joe” episode and my dad’s favorite dad joke.
  9. “King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons,” starring Christopher Collins (Chris Latta), the voice of Cobra Commander.
  10. We try and find Keystone City, which may or may not be somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania.
  11. The titular Cobra CLAW (Covert Light Aerial Weapon), an odd name for a Cobra vehicle, because snakes don’t have claws.
  12. The Definitive Ranking of all 25 Fensler G.I. Joe Parodies, by DailyDot.

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“G.I. Joe” and “Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town” © 1985 Hasbro Inc.

Commercial Break: William “The Refrigerator” Perry G.I. Joe Action Figure, 1987.

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The Stingiest Man in Town

On another Scrooge Sunday edition of the Advent Calendar House, we fly back in time to 1978 to revisit Rankin/Bass’s turn at “A Christmas Carol,” “The Stingiest Man in Town.”

On This Episode

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), your ghost host of Christmases Past and Present.
  2. Michael DiGiovanni (@theatomicgeeks), the scariest door knocker in all of Scroogedom, from the Classic Film Jerks, Pop Culture Retrofit, and The Atomic Geeks podcasts.
  3. Michael May (@michaelmaycomix), hobo insect taking a break from rockin’ and rollin’ all week long, from his Adventure Blog and the Sleigh Bell Cinema, Mystery Movie Night, and AfterLUNCH podcasts.

Topics and Tangents

  1. This is specifically an adaptation of a 1956 production on “The Alcoa Hour,” starring Basil Rathbone as Scrooge. Rankin/Bass uses most of the songs from that special.
  2. The original “Stingiest Man in Town” on Sleigh Bell Cinema.
  3. Michael May’s annual coverage of scenes from this and other “Christmas Carol” adaptations.
  4. Sonny Melendrez (Bob Cratchit) in “You and Me, Kid.”
  5. This has my all-time favorite, super creepy version of Marley’s face appearing on Scrooge’s door knocker.
  6. This special gets older Belle completely wrong.
  7. Tiny Tim has skinny robot legs.
  8. The eldest Cratchit sibling, Martha, is Debbie Clinger of the Clinger Sisters, a.k.a. Superchick from the “Krofft Supershow” host band Kaptain Kool and the Kongs.
  9. Rankin/Bass should have made a south seas-themed special called “Christmas Island.”
  10. Scrooge’s grave morphing into a giant devil face is a reminder in hindsight that this special was animated in Japan by Topcraft, the predecessor to Studio Ghibli.

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“The Stingiest Man in Town” © 1978 Rankin/Bass Productions.

Commercial Break: Glad Trash Bags Commercial starring Tom Bosley, 1981.

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The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold

Sail back to 1981 with us as we dig up Rankin/Bass’s penultimate and possibly most obscure stop-motion Christmas special ever, “The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold,” which may or may not only exist because they had the rights to “Christmas in Killarney” and needed someplace to put it.

On This Episode

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), tiny but prolific cobbler who only makes shoes in primary colors.
  2. Michael DiGiovanni (@theatomicgeeks), who insists on hiding his life savings in a magic cave, from the Classic Film Jerks, Pop Culture Retrofit, and the Atomic Geeks podcasts.
  3. Michael May (@michaelmaycomix), the Lord of the Leprechauns, of his Adventure Blog and the Sleigh Bell Cinema, Mystery Movie Night, and AfterLUNCH podcasts.

Topics and Tangents

  1. Ken Jennings (the voice of Dinty Doyle, not the “Jeopardy!” guy) in the short-lived Epcot Center attraction, “The Astuter Computer Revue.”
  2. Mag the Hag’s entrance reminds me of Rita Repulsa in the opening of “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.”
  3. Blarney Kilakilarney and his wife are a poster Irish couple and the reason everyone’s advice at your wedding is: “Never go to bed angry.”
  4. This special keeps adding new rules about how both banshees and rainbows work, like they’re Mogwai.
  5. The Leprechauns’ “phantom island of Tralee” shares a name with an actual mainland town in Ireland, but is closer to Dursey Island, population (as of 2016): 4.
  6. The only thing many remember about this special is its Nightmare Face reveal that a beautiful woman Dinty finds washed ashore is the banshee in disguise.
  7. According to the Christmas Specials Wiki, Arthur Rankin said a promotion was planned involving prizes buried in random places around the United States for children to dig up, but was abandoned for safety concerns.
  8. “Jack O’Lantern,” from Rankin/Bass’s “Festival of Family Classics” TV series, featuring a leprechaun disguised as a pumpkin.

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“The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold” © 1981 Rankin/Bass Productions.

Commercial Break: “Gremlins” Gizmo Plush Pet, 1984.

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Super Mario Bros. Super Show: Koopa Klaus / Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush

Hey, paisanos! We warp back to 1989 for a double dose of Christmas segments from “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show” — the live-action “Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush,” featuring Santa losing his “transportation” in Brooklyn; and the animated “Koopa Klaus,” featuring a plot to… freeze the North Pole.

On This Episode

  1. Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), tiny selfish mushroom baby.
  2. Adam Pope (@hojukoolander), another fun guy, fresh out of Retro Detention, from Retro-Daze and The Retro Network.

Topics and Tangents

  1. Nintendo Power’s Preview of “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show,” as tweeted by Adam, and preserved on the Internet Archive (for now) (it’s on page 93).
  2. I didn’t realize till recently the music in the “Back to the Future” Nintendo game is a sped up version of “The Power of Love.”
  3. “King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons,” a live-in-studio spinoff show local to Los Angeles and hosted by King Koopa, performed at one point by Christopher Collins, the voice of Cobra Commander.
  4. Captain Lou Albano’s Wrestling Hotline 1-900 number.
  5. We map out where Mario and Luigi lived in Brooklyn.
  6. “Stunt Dawgs,” an obscure 1992 cartoon featuring Harvey Atkin playing another character with the same King Koopa voice.
  7. A brief discussion on the term “teeter-totter,” used by Mario here, versus “see-saw.”
  8. How tall is Mario? Captain Lou was 5-foot-10, though other sources range from 5-foot-1 to 3-foot-8.
  9. Preview of Super Nintendo World, coming to Universal theme parks.
  10. Finally, I get to talk at length about The Legend of Zelda!
  11. Adam’s SequelQuest episode on the “Super Mario Bros.” movie, featuring a parody of the Super Show theme song.

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“The Super Mario Bros. Super Show,” “Koopa Klaus,” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush” © 1989 DiC Entertainment.
“Super Mario Bros.” © Nintendo Co. Ltd.

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