đ Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we watched a cavemen take over Santaâs job after he fell off the roof in âA Flintstone Christmas.â
This time, our reunion tour of previously podcasted-about characters makes its final stop of the season in Bedrock, where Fred Flintstone is letting the lead role of âEbonezerâ Scrooge go to his head, while Wilma is doing the workload of I lost count of how many victims of the highly contagious Bedrock Bug. We also make the strongest case yet that this Modern Stone-Age Family does, indeed, know about who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
PLUS: Help choose which version of âA Christmas Carolâ we cover for Christmas Eve! VOTE HERE.
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đ Guests:
âAnt-stonyâ Strand (ToughPigs.com, Movinâ Right Along).
âMi-coalâ May (MichaelMay.online, AfterLUNCH).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:
1. âA Flintstone Family Christmas,â from a year before, was the last appearance of adult Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.
2. âThe Flintstones & WWE: Stone-Age Smackdown!â
3. The latest weâve waited to shop for our spouses.
4. A grown-up Philo Quartz from âThe Flintstone Kidsâ appears here and then never again.
5. The Piltdown Man hoax.
6. How big is the stage, and how are the actors playing ghosts appearing translucent?
7. They added a âlove sceneâ with Belle, and Maggie Magma is way too excited about it.
8. Brian Cummings (Ernie/The Ghost of Christmas Present) did a weird Kermit the Frog voice in a promo for âMr. Willowbyâs Christmas Tree.â
9. Other Dickens characters have headstones in the graveyard.
10. IMDb credits Rip Taylor as the voice of a Venus flytrap tuba in the orchestra pit.
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đŒ Commercial Break:
Cocoa Pebbles âChristmas Carolâ commercial, 1998.
âDinner & a Movieâ makes standing rib roast with âRockshireâ pudding, 1996.
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âA Flintstones Christmas Carolâ © 1994 Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.