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The Advent Calendar House has awoken early from its long winterâs nap to take the Leap Year challenge as prescribed by Dr. Frasier Crane on one unseasonably warm February morning in 1996. On the way we look up the âFrasierâ castâs Christmas connections, explore the world of complicated opera solos and bad Western ballads, and call in to a PBS pledge drive to try and talk to Big Bird.
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đ Guests:Erin Evans (@mserinevans).
Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, @imgonnadj24).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Kelsey Grammer in âMr. St. Nickâ and âThe Twelve Days of Christmas Eve.â
2. Our adventures on the mid-1990s internet, when it was All About the Pentiums.
3. âFrasierâ episodes ranked on Variety, Frasier Online, and Thrillist.
4. âWhen You Had Left Our Pirate Foldâ from âThe Pirates of Penzance,â in which Leap Day becomes a plot point.
5. Oleg Cassini and the worst title card gag.
6. KACL is a real radio station, but not in Seattle.
7. âRigolettoâ and the aria âElla mi fu rapita / Parmi veder le lagrime.â
8. Kelsey Grammer sings âThe Star-Spangled Bannerâ at the 1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Philadelphia.
9. âButtons and Bows,â as sung by Bob Hope in âThe Palefaceâ and by Leap Day baby Dinah Shore.
10. Adam âEdgeâ Copeland talks âMoney Planeâ on Hey! (EW).
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đŒ Commercial Break:McDonaldâs âMorning Breakâ Commercial starring Kelsey Grammer, 1995.
Remember That Show?, a podcast journey to explore obscure and forgotten TV series.
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âFrasierâ and âLook Before You Leapâ © 1996 Paramount Productions.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đItâs 1984, and Ebenezer Scrooge is threatening to raise his asking price for a warehouse full of corn.
This Christmas Eve episode not only drops on a Scrooge Sunday, but itâs also the Advent Calendar Houseâs 150th episode. To celebrate, I let listeners vote for which âChristmas Carolâ to cover, and the winner is the 1984 TV movie starring George S. Scott, along with original âEqualizerâ Edward Woodward as a sassy Ghost of Christmas Present, and we even spotted our favorite Alfred Pennyworth, Michael Gough, as a not-so-portly gentleman.
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đ Guests:Erin Evans (@mserinevans).
Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, @imgonnadj24).
Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com, Movinâ Right Along, @durwoodclapper.bsky.social).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. David Warner in âTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.â
2. George S. Scott in âAngusâ and âCartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.â
3. âGod Bless Us Everyone,â this movieâs theme music by Nick BicĂąt.
4. Wikipedia and NO ONE ELSE names one Cratchit child âMichael,â played by Susannah Yorkâs (Mrs. Cratchit) real-life son, Orlando Wells.
5. Michael Carter (Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) as Bib Fortuna in âReturn of the Jedi.â
6. âItâs Corn,â and My favorite âFuturamaâ joke.
7. Scroogeâs grave, allegedly a real, reinscribed headstone, at St. Chadâs Church in Shrewsbury.
8. Twelve Hundred Ghosts - A Christmas Carol in Supercut.
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đŒ Commercial Break:IBM Sponsored Commercial Break from the original airing of âA Christmas Carol.â
George C. Scott âRead More About Itâ PSA.
The Christmas Podcast Network All-Star Comedy Christmas Show!
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âA Christmas Carolâ © 1984 Travenol Laboratories Limited.
In memory of Jason Gross (1976â2023).
âChristmas in Your Heartâ (from âA Garfield Christmas Specialâ) performed by Todd from Vista Blue/Second Saturday.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đItâs 1980, and my spoiled nephew just got beaten in a ski-jumping contest by a bear whoâs never seen winter before.
Join us we fail upward through middle to upper hotel management featuring a simultaneously very mature and very immature conversation about cartoon bears discovering mistletoe. What could be the Jellystone Winter Lodgeâs final Christmas carnival manages to wake up Yogi Bear, who hibernates directly underneath it but somehow never knew about it before now.
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đ Guest:Bill Hanstock (@sundownmotel, âWe Promised You a Great Main Event: An Unauthorized WWE Historyâ)
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. This special opens with a typo: The sign reads âYellystone Park.â
2. Daws Butlerâs Snagglepuss voice was a Bert Lahr impression that was so spot on, Lahr threatened to sue when Snagglepuss started endorsing Kelloggâs cereal.
3. Hanna-Barberaâs Christmas Sing-A-Long album, featuring songs from this special.
4. Yogi was in âCasperâs First Christmasâ in 1979, so this isnât really Yogiâs First Christmas.
5. Fruity Pebbles Christmas Commercial episode, 2017.
6. The Wonkamobile.
7. ClickHole: âWhich One of My Garbage Sons Are You?â Clickhole, 2014.
8. Eddie the Eagle.
9. Mickey Mouseâs shirtless (and hatless) Steamboat Willie winter look at Disneyland.
10. âMean, Sour, Crafty, and Cruelâ in âOliver and the Artful Dodgerâ and âSmurfs.â
11. The Zone of Death in the part of Yellowstone National Park thatâs in Idaho.
12. âChristmas Is Hereâ in âA Flintstone Christmas.â
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đŒ Commercial Break:Cocoa Krispies Snagglepuss âHeavens to Murgatroydâ Commercial, circa 1963.
Bad Princess Movies, a catalogue of terrible movies about princesses and princesses-to-be.
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âYogiâs First Christmasâ © 1980 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đItâs 1970, and Santaâs been locked up in an underground cave with 2 giant Muppet monsters.
Join us as we venture through the tunnels under Santaâs workshop to uncover Jim Hensonâs first ever TV holiday special, presented by The Ed Sullivan Show and featuring the first Muppet performances by Richard Hunt, Fran Brill, Marilyn Sokol, and John Lovelady, as well as the first appearances of Thog and a familiar-looking Frackle whoâd later be reworked into the Great Gonzo.
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đ Guests:Tori Schmidt (Muppets No Context, The Muppetwt Awards)
Tony Whitaker (@muppetdude, Muppet Wiki)
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. âThe Great Santa Claus Switchâ on Muppet Wiki.
2. ToughPigs.comâs transcript of the special, 2004.
3. Jim Henson, Thog, and Lothar on âThe Dick Cavett Show,â 1971.
4. Taminella Grinderfall in âTales of the Tinkerdee.â
5. Jim Hensonâs Red Book entries on the specialâs casting and debut.
6. Tonyâs art of the Two-Headed Monster as the Miser Brothers.
7. So Many Muppets Are Named Fred.
8. Daniel Seagren as Spider-Man on âThe Electric Company.â
9. Richard Hunt as Elmo.
10. Snarl, the Frackle who would become Gonzo.
11. My Emmet Otterâs Teenage Mutant Jug-Band Christmas T-shirt.
12. We have dubbed the green Frackle who looks like Thig with a beak and horns âTheg.â
13. âThis Is Halloweenâ in a Sesame Place parade.
14. â8 Balls of Fur.â
15. Stop calling them âMuppeteers.â
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đŒ Commercial Break:FritoLay Holiday Party Display Commercial, 1970.
âNoĂ«lcoâ Razor Santa Commercial, 1970.
Merry Britsmas, all things Christmas from a British perspective.
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âThe Great Santa Claus Switchâ © 1970 Sullivan Productions, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đItâs 1983, and the Worst Kids in the World are taking over the church Nativity play, smoking in the ladiesâ room, and helping themselves to the sacramental grape juice.
Join us as we meet the Herdmans in a classic Christmas story turned TV movie starring Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H and a young Fairuza Balk in her on-screen debut.
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đ Guests:Scott Leopold (Holly Jolly Xâmasu)
Bob Baker (Festive Foreign Film Fans)
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Todayâs TV Tropes: Itâs the Best Whatever, Ever and Title Drop.
2. Author Barbara Robinson wrote 2 sequels: âThe Best School Year Everâ (1994) and âThe Best Halloween Everâ (2004).
3. Fairuza Balk (Beth) in âThe Waterboy.â
4. Loretta Swit (Grace) interview: âMeanest kids in town make the best pageant,â AP via The Free Lance-Star, 1983.
5. Jason Michas (Leroy) as Johnny Arcade in âThe Power Teamâ animated segment from Season 1 of âVideo Power.â
6. Antony Holland (Reverend Hopkins) as Dr. Light â er, âDr. Wrightâ â in âCaptain N: The Game Master.â
7. Ocean Hellman (Alice) in âDanger Bay,â which keeps coming up this season.
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đŒ Commercial Break:Duracell âNo Longer Under the Christmas Treeâ Commercial, 1983.
Festive Foreign Film Fans, covering festive movies and music from around the world.
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âThe Best Christmas Pageant Everâ © 1983 Comworld Productions.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đItâs 1994, and the Jeffersons are poisoning Metropolis with greed spray from toy atomic space rats.
Join us on an unpredictable flight through the first Christmas episode of âLois and Clark,â written by Dean Cain and starring Sherman Hemsley as the Toyman and Isabel Sanford as his reluctant assistant, plus Denise Richards, Dick Van Patten, Doug Llewellyn, and terrible special effects.
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đ Guests:Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas)
Paxton Holley (Cavalcade of Awesome, Cult Film Club, Hellbent for Letterbox)
Jeeg (Nerd Lunch)
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. C.T. brings up this episode and Jeeg seals his fate on Nerd Lunchâs âNerdstradamus 2013 Redux.â
2. Winslow Schottâs plan to dump his greed toxin into Metropolisâs water supply is similar to Scarecrowâs plan in âBatman Begins.â
3. Progressive Insurance âBarbieâ Commercial.
4. Denise Richards (Angela) in âTammy and the T-Rex.â
5. Eddie Jones (Jonathan Kent) in âA League of Their Own.â
6. Christmas at Graceland.
7. Totally Rad Christmas on âItâs Gary Shandlingâs Christmas Showâ featuring Dom Irrera (Hecklebaum).
8. Homer Simpson licking poisonous toads.
9. Todayâs TV Trope: Anticipatory Breath Spray.
10. âHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmasâ by The Pretenders.
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đŒ Commercial Break:Burger King Holiday Disney Glasses Commercial, 1994.
Children First âRead a Bookâ PSA featuring Brett Butler, 1994.
Totally Rad Christmas, celebrating all things Christmas in the â80s.
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âLois and Clark: The New Adventures of Supermanâ and âSeasonâs Greedingsâ © 1994 Warner Bros. Television.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đItâs 2001, and a magical partridge is sending me on a coat drive for some kind of Karate Kid-style Santa training.
Hop in our light blue â54 convertible and buckle up as we take you on a joyride through the very last and most forgotten Rankin/Bass Christmas special, featuring a mostly black cast starring Patti LaBelle, Gregory Hines, and a criminally underused Eartha Kitt as a talking cat.
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đ Guests:Andre Bennett (Cult Cinema Cloister, Philadelphia Championship Rock Paper Scissors).
Tim Babb (Canât Wait for Christmas Podcast).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. This special was co-written by Suzanne Collins, who went on to write âThe Hunger Games.â
2. The other co-writer, Peter Bakalian, also has a book series. Itâs called âThe F.A.R.T. Diaries.â
3. Patti LaBelle in Philadelphiaâs âGet to Know Usâ tourism campaign, 1985.
4. Patti LaBelle on âSesame Streetâ singing âHow I Miss My X.â
5. IMDbâs photo gallery for âSanta, Baby!â is full of high-quality promotional images.
6. RankinBass.comâs first look at âSanta, Baby!â from December 2001.
7. Gregory Hines in âThe Muppets Take Manhattanâ and âRunning Scared.â
8. Rankin/Bass finally includes âThe Twelve Days of Christmasâ and âJingle Bellsâ in a Christmas special.
8. Natalie Toro (Samson) lists âSanta Baby!â on her bio page.
10. Andreâs uncle co-wrote K-Ci & JoJoâs âAll My Life.â
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đŒ Commercial Break:McDonaldâs âWake Upâ Breakfast Commercial featuring Patti LaBelle, 1990.
Canât Wait for Christmas, the podcast dedicated to keeping the spirit of Christmas alive all year round.
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âSanta, Babyâ © 2001 Perisphere Pictures, Inc.
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đItâs 1989, and a killer in a Santa suit is making it really hard to hide my dead husbandâs body.
You better watch out as we dig up the first filmed episode of âTales From the Crypt,â a cozy Christmas nightmare directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring his then-wife and talented screamer, Mary Ellen Trainor, and the kid who gets her hoverboard stolen by Marty McFly.
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đ Guests:Jamie Ray (Fave Five From Fans, Complete Disarray with Jamie Ray)
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Mike on Fave Five From Fans with my Fave Five Christmas TV Specials (already covered them all here).
2. Fave Five Christmas Horror Movies.
3. The Vault of Horror No. 35, from 1954.
4. âAnd All Through the Houseâ segment of the 1972 âTales from the Cryptâ movie.
5. HBO Feature Presentation opening, 1983.
6. John Kassir (The Crypt-Keeper) in a commercial for The Legend of Zelda, 1987.
7. Mary Ellen Trainor (Elizabeth) and Lyndsey Whitney Barry (Carrie Ann) in âBack to the Future Part II.â
8. Todayâs TV Trope: Tempting Fate.
9. Elizabeth calls the operator because 9-1-1 was only available in about half the U.S. by 1989.
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đŒ Commercial Break:The Crypt-Keeperâs Ghoulish Guide to the Howlidays on Kidsâ WB, 2001.
Holidays After Dark, exploring the strange, unusual, and dark sides of the holidays.
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âTales From the Cryptâ and âAnd All Through the Houseâ © 1989 Tales From the Crypt Venture.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đ Itâs 1979, by way of 1933 â or the other way around â and the human from Fraggle Rock has broken into my garage with a haunted choir of singing children.
Join us as we turn the dial on our haunted time-traveling radio to find Henry Winkler at the height of his fame as the Fonz hiding under multiple layers of makeup as a Scrooge figure in Great Depression-era New England.
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đ Guests:Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy)
Scott Leopold (Holly Jolly Xâmasu)
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Watch âAn American Christmas Carolâ on YouTube, courtesy of Shout Factory.
2. Henry Winkler interview on being asked to play a Scrooge figure.
3. The Ford Model TT truck, in example.
4. Dorian Harewood (Matt Reeves/Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) filling in for James Avery as Shredder.
5. Todayâs TV Trope: Recursive Fiction â and âThe Identical.â
6. Robin Williams on âSesame Streetâ showing Elmo different ways to play with a stick.
7. âSister Kenny,â based on the true story of an Australian nurse.
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đŒ Commercial Break:McDonaldâs Gift Certificates Christmas Commercial, 1979.
Holly Jolly Xâmasu, your podcast destination for Japanese Christmas music.
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âAn American Christmas Carolâ © 1979 Scrooge Productions, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đ Itâs 2003, and a team of Hebrew school basketball players think theyâve found the ghost of Judah Maccabee in a random guy living in a van.
Itâs time once again to think about the Seleucid Empire as we watch a Disney Channel Original Hanukkah Movie very loosely based on the true story of former college basketball star Lamont Carr and a yeshivaâs struggling team looking for a leader.
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đ Guests:April Ryley (@where2nextapril, @thefancygeologist).
J.W. Friedman (I Donât Even Own a Television).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. âFull-Court Miracleâ on Disney+.
2. Lamont Carrâs obituary in Virginia Magazine, 2017.
3. Psychocandy, an experimental pop duo of Cassie Steele (Julie) and Jase Blankfort (Stick).
4. UVAâs Athletics website circa 2003.
5. Alexâs prized Dr. J basketball card isnât even a rookie card and isnât that valuable.
6. âJewball,â a novel featuring the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association basketball team.
7. Sadly, the only upload I could find of the hip-hop cover of the Dreidel song is a smartphone recording of a TV playing this movie.
8. This basketball movieâs NBA star cameo is provided by Jerome Williams.
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đŒ Commercial Break:Microsoft Encarta Commercial, 1995.
Returning Student, a 40-year-oldâs journey to finish the college degree he never got.
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âFull-Court Miracleâ © 2003 Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đ Itâs 1987, and someone stole Santa Claus in the middle of his hot dog break.
Join us as we follow a renowned novelist who may or may not be a teenager and her animated mouse writing partner on a quest find out who kidnapped a department store Santa, while we solve the mystery of how anyone remembers this Christmas special that only aired once.
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đ Guests:Lindy Kempe (Bluesky).
Emily Rowley (Threads).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Dick Van Pattenâs shout-out in âWayneâs Worldâ and cameo in âRobin Hood: Men In Tights.â
2. Darcy Marta (Jill) on Totally Rad Christmas.
3. Gene Kelly and Jerry Mouse dancing in âAnchors Aweigh.â
4. Jillâs Miami Mice poster â no relation to the âSesame Streetâ parody of the same name.
5. Donald OâConnor (Alex) in âSinginâ in the Rain.â
6. Helen Hughes (whoever the woman who answers Jillâs door is supposed to be) in âBilly Madison.â
7. Todayâs TV Trope: 555.
8. Francis Dambegerâs (Jerry) 1991 film âSolitaire,â and its solitaire review on IMDb.
9. The realistic looking toy gun predates the same federal law that forced Nintendo to recolor its Zapper orange.
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đŒ Commercial Break:7up Christmas Commercial, 1986â1987.
Wild Puffalumps Commercial, 1987.
The Magic of the Season, covering holiday nostalgia, family, kids, decor, music, and so much more.
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âA Mouse, A Mystery, and Meâ © 1987 Ruby-Spears Productions.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đ Itâs 1991, and Santa Claus is fighting with a talking dog over a park bench.
By some Christmas miracle, this obscure special was rediscovered over 30 years later. For years, people on the Internet tried to identify it on a TV in the background of an old family photo, until finally, thanks to the power of positivity, it was identified as âThe Soulmates in The Gift of Light.â Join us as we meet the intergalactic Soulmates in what seems like a pilot that never got off the ground.
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đ Guests:Michael DiGiovanni (Pop Culture Retrofit, @TheyCallMeDiGio).
Jeff Somogyi (Classic Film Jerks, Linktree: @sommerjam).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Watch âThe Soulmates in The Gift of Lightâ on YouTube, uploaded by creator Gabrielle St. George.
2. Tumblr post: âCan You Figure Out Who This Is?â by Sophie Campbell, 2016.
3. Will Sloanâs tweet of the screenshot, September 2022.
4. CBC News: Canadian cartoon mystery finally solved after 6 years, thanks to the internet, 2022.
5. The Littles, for comparison.
6. Todayâs TV Trope: Mind-Control Eyes.
7. Soulmates Productions, Inc. defaulted in 2007.
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đŒ Commercial Break:Canadian Tire: Scrooge / Nintendo Action Set Commercial, 1991.
Pop Tarts Commercial starring Dan and Dave, 1990.
Remember That Show?, a monthly journey to explore obscure and forgotten TV series from the â80s and â90s.
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âThe Soulmates in The Gift of Lightâ © 1991 Soulmates Productions, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đ Itâs 1977, and Happy Gilmoreâs grandmother is surrounded by dancing chickens.
Itâs a beautiful day for a podcast, and this season of the Advent Calendar House begins with a visit to Mister Rogersâ Neighborhood in a Christmas special that hadnât been available for more than 40 years until it resurfaced in 2022. Itâs surprisingly less festive than some might expect, but it makes up for that with some extremely bizarre adventures.
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đ Guests:Guy Hutchinson (Pointless Nostalgia, GuyHutchinson.com).
Tim Lybarger (The Neighborhood Archive, Third Quarter Run, TimLybarger.com).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Watch âChristmastime with Mister Rogersâ at MisterRogers.org.
2. The Neighborhood Archive entry on âChristmastime with Mister Rogers.â
3. âMister Rogersâ Neighborhood: A Visual History,â co-written by Tim.
4. Frances Bay (Mrs. Hamilton) in âThe Karate Kid.â
5. Todayâs TV Trope: Hollywood Giftwrap.
6. Mr. Rogers and François Clemmons sharing a wading pool.
7. Lesser-known Christmas hymns âThe Friendly Beasts,â âRise Up, Shepherd, and Follow,â and âMy Sheep Were Grazing.â
8. Was Music Man Stan from âDaniel Tigerâs Neighborhoodâ inspired by the Music Man from this special?
9. âThe Littlest Angel,â 1969.
10. Chuck Ozeas (Andrew) is now a director of photography.
11. âA Very Young Dancerâ and The Life That Followed, 2011.
12. Stephanie Selbyâs obituary, 2022.
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đŒ Commercial Break:Hersheyâs Kisses Christmas Bells Commercial, 1989.
Dirt Cheap Liquors Chicken Commercial.
Closer to Christmas, a podcast featuring a random Christmas topic every episode.
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âChristmastime with Mister Rogersâ © 1977 Family Communications, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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This holiday season, experience the joy of rewatching the same TV specials you watch every year in podcast form! Itâs the Advent Calendar House: A salute to all holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones.
Revisit 12 holiday TV classics and not-so-classics each December and July.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đ After spending 3 months locked in a water tower, the Advent Calendar House has escaped in time for Christmas Podcast Day, a fake holiday originally made up for a hashtag back when social media was slightly less stupid.
Itâs not Scrooge Sunday, but the theme for this yearâs Christmas Podcast Day is âA Christmas Carol,â so Iâm playing a long, but also cheating a little by covering both segments of a 1993 Christmas episode of âAnimaniacs.â
You can follow #ChristmasPodcastDay on Facebook, Instagram, and that other one. And probably TikTok, but Iâm not on that.
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đ Guests:Erin Evans (@mserinevans).
Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. The Animanicast.
2. Animaniacs Wiki entry for this episode.
3. Sherri Stoner (Slappy Squirrel) was the live action reference model for Disney Princesses Ariel and Belle.
4. A Christmas Plotz: The Hip-Hop Musical.
5. Rock Sugar, Jess Harnellâs (Wakko) band.
6. Jess Harnell sang the Taz-Mania theme.
7. Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
8. Todayâs TV Tropes: Sensational Staircase Sequence and Scooby Stack.
9. Baby Jesus is in a thatched-roof cottage.
10. Kathryn Pageâs gag credits.
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đŒ Commercial Break:Animaniacs McDonaldâs Happy Meal Toys, 1994.
Snow in Southtown Christmas Podcast.
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âAnimaniacs,â âA Christmas Plotz,â and âLittle Drummer Warnersâ © 1993 Warner Bros.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
âChristmas Podcast Dayâ song by Tim Babb from the Canât Wait for Christmas Podcast. Parody of âWeasel Stomping Dayâ by âWeird Alâ Yankovic.Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
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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.
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Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we let the goofy alien puppet with the jokes toy with our emotions in âALFâs Special Christmas.â
đŠ This time, join us around the Fappiano table as we aim a spoonful of squash back to 1988 for a special, 2-part Thanksgiving episode of âALF.â Too bad heâs already eaten the turkey, but there might still be some sweet potato pie in the garage, with the homeless man.
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đ Guests:Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy, @thepopdaddy).
Jayme Kilsby (Forever Bogus Podcast, @brainexploderrr).
Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, @horrormoviebbq).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Watch âTurkey in the Strawâ Part 1 and Part 2 on ALFâs official YouTube channel.
2. ALF ruined Willieâs best belt to make his Thanksgiving pageant headdress.
3. Oh no, Tom brought up Gerbert.
4. Melmacâs version of Thanksgiving is named for Bob Fappiano, ALFâs assistant puppeteer.
5. ALF trying to eat wax fruit reminded me of Rizzo in âThe Muppet Christmas Carol.â
6. Iâm sad to report âDas Cornucopia, from Wagner Straussâs âDer Feaster Famine,ââ is not real.
7. Is turkey really an aphrodisiac?
8. What football game were the Alien Task Force agents watching?
9. Chad still has his ALF doll from Burger King.
10. ALF co-hosting the 1989 Macyâs Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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đŒ Commercial Break:Nobody Beats The Wiz Super Thanksgiving Sale, 1985.
Fan Fix-tion, a podcast about nerdy things.
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âALFâ and âTurkey in the Strawâ © 1988 Alien Productions.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
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đ Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we went on an apocryphal adventure with the story of The Little Drummer Boy.
This time, Rankin/Bass drums up an unnecessary sequel from 1976, its busiest year for holiday specials. Join Aaron on a side quest to retrieve the stolen silver bells from a troop of greedy Roman soldiers in the âRogue Oneâ of Christmas stories.
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đ Guests:Brandon Medley (@brandmed, đž @blessedarethegeek)
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Allen Swift (Melchior) as Twinkie the Kid.
2. Simeon the bellmaker is very loosely based on the Biblical Simeon, but his Song of Simeon is left out.
3. Ray Owens (Simeon) as the voice of Superbook, and Jesus in âThe Flying House.â
4. Zero Mostel (Brutus) on âThe Muppet Show.â
5. âMoney Money Moneyâ (not the song from âMamma Mia!â)
6. How bad is Brutus compared to the other Rankin/Bass Christmas villains?
7. âDo You Hear What I Hear?â was written during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
8. Our favorite recordings of âDo You Hear What I Hear?â by Copeland, the Mike Sammes Singers for Disneyland Records, and one by Spiraling that invokes The Whoâs âBaba OâRiley.â
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đŒ Commercial Break:Kodak XL Movie Camera: âOne Christmas,â 1976.
Holly Jolly Xâmasu, your podcast destination for Japanese Christmas music.
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âThe Little Drummer Boy, Book IIâ © 1976 Rankin/Bass Productions.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đ Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we spent Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Hanukkah on âShalom Sesame,â and even uncovered the oddity, âA Special Sesame Street Christmas.â
This time, join us as we fly faster than time backwards around the globe to 1996 to watch Elmo save, then ruin, then fix Christmas, featuring Maya Angelou, Harvey Fierstein as the Easter Bunny, and âDoc Hopper,â himself, Charles Durning as Santa.
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đ Guests:Becca Petunia (ToughPigs.com, Hubba-Wha?!, @UnclePetunio)
Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com, Movinâ Right Along)
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. âBrats of the Lost Nebula.â
2. Early âproto-Elmoâ appearances.
3. Miss Piggyâs cookbook has a recipe by Maya Angelou.
4. Baby Bear is Jewish.
5. 14 Karat Soul sings âDown Below the Street.â
6. Cookie Monster disguised as Ernie.
7. A petition to remake âWhite Christmasâ with Elmo and Rositaâs military veteran dads.
8. This specialâs unique News Flash logo.
9. The soundtrack thatâs not actually a soundtrack.
10. Big Bird sings âAll I Want for Christmas Is You,â but not THAT one.
11. Elmo as the ring bearer at Luis and Mariaâs wedding.
12. Ranking all the jokes in âElmo Says BOO!â
13. Bert and Ernie meet their âItâs a Wonderful Lifeâ counterparts.
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đŒ Commercial Break:âElmo Saves BOO!,â 1997.
Returning Student, a 40-year-oldâs journey to finish the college degree he never got.
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âElmo Saves Christmasâ © 1996 Childrenâs Television Workshop.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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đ Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we saved Punky Brewsterâs Christmas spirit in âYes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus.â
This time, join Punky in 1985 on an animated adventure to the North Pole, courtesy of Glomer, her new magical leprechaun-gopher Ewok lookinâ friend. The â80s were weird.
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đ Guests:Adam Pope (WIZARDS The Podcast Guide to Comics, @hojukoolander).
Steven (UFO Club).
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đŹ Topics & Tangents:1. Comparing the original sitcomâs theme song to the cartoonâs theme.
2. Galoob made a plush Glomer.
3. Adamâs VHS cover has a very off-model Glomer.
4. The Master Christmas Switchâs effect on time reminded me of the âFuturamaâ episode âTime Keeps on Slippinâ.â
5. Punky taught Adam how to wink.
6. Santa drops off the kids on the roof again, just in like in âFrosty the Snowman.â
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đŒ Commercial Break:The Story of Phroomf commercial featuring baseball star Bob Boone, 1986.
WIZARDS The Podcast Guide to Comics.
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âItâs Punky Brewsterâ and âChristmas in Julyâ © 1985 National Broadcasting Company, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost.
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