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Advent Calendar House

A salute to all TV holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones. Revisit 12 holiday classics and not-so-classics each December and July.

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00:54:22

A Johnny Bravo Christmas

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2020/12/08

🎄 It’s time to catch a last-minute flight to the North Pole and do the monkey with me back to 2001 for a well-deserved punch in the face that’s a little bit rock ’n’ roll. **** 🎙 Guest: James Riley (@yourbuddyspooky). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. ’Twas the Night, a 1997 Johnny Bravo segment which this special accounts for in the show’s continuity… sort of. 2. Larry & Steve, Seth MacFarlane’s proto-Family Guy short film before from before he worked as a Johnny Bravo staff writer. 3. People

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00:47:01

BraveStarr: Tex’s Terrible Night

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2020/12/06

🎄 Hang on to your hats as we blast back to 1987 to revisit the Filmation space western BraveStarr and its dickens of a backstory. **** 🎙 Guests: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). Sammy Hain (@SammyHain). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The official BraveStarr YouTube channel. 2. The Fisher-Price Western Town I used as a backdrop for the much larger Bravestarr action figure. 3. Joey’s interview with Pat Fraley (Marshal BraveStarr). 4. This episode uses flashback scenes

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01:26:55

The Christmas Toy

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2020/12/04

🎄 Join us on a stroll down Jim Henson’s dark hall of nightmares to 1986 to rewatch The Christmas Toy, an idea no one has repeated since. **** 🎙 Guests: Beth Cieslik (@BethTheObscure). Adam Jurotich (The Hourchive). Donnie Storms (Bronwen’s Ghost, @boxcar45). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Kermit was cut from the DVD release, but he’s back in the version 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

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00:50:08

Christmas Comes to Pacland

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2020/12/02

🎄 The Advent Calendar House kicks off another Christmas countdown by rewinding back to 1982, when Santa found himself stranded in Pac-Man’s neighborhood in the original video game crash. WARNING: This episode contains spoilers about Santa Claus from 11:25 to 13:30. **** 🎙 Guests: Lindy (@ieatvideogames) and Alicia (@thinkbluee), the Sour Puss and Chomp-Chomp to my Pac-Baby. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Santa is flying with 8 reindeer, including Rudolph. Who got the night off? 2. Why some

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00:56:30

Garfield’s Thanksgiving

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2020/07/23

🦃 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. **** 🎙 Guest: Jeff Somogyi (Talkin’ Chopp, @sommerjam). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Orson the Pig from U.S. Acres makes a cameo in Liz’s waiting room. 2. The dumbest

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00:40:28

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

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2020/07/21

🎄 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. **** 🎙 Guest: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). **** 💬 Topics & 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”

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01:02:46

The Stingiest Man in Town

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2020/07/19

🎄 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. **** 🎙 Guests: Michael DiGiovanni (Classic Film Jerks, Pop Culture Retrofit, @theatomicgeeks). Michael May (MichaelMay.online, Sleigh Bell Cinema, Mystery Movie Night, AfterLUNCH, @michaelmaycomix). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. This is specifically an adaptation of a 1956 production on The Alcoa Hour starring Basil Rathbone as Scrooge

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00:51:01

The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold

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2020/07/17

🎄 Sail back to 1981 with us as we dig up Rankin/Bass’s penultimate and possibly most obscure stop-motion Christmas special ever, which may or may not only exist because they had the rights to use Christmas in Killarney and needed someplace to put it. **** 🎙 Guests: Michael DiGiovanni (Classic Film Jerks, Pop Culture Retrofit, @theatomicgeeks). Michael May (MichaelMay.online, Sleigh Bell Cinema, Mystery Movie Night, AfterLUNCH, @michaelmaycomix). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Ken Jennings

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00:52:23

Super Mario Bros. Super Show: Koopa Klaus / Santa...

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2020/07/15

🎄 Hey, paisanos! Join us as 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. **** 🎙 Guest: Adam Pope (Retro-Daze, Retro Detention, The Retro Network, @hojukoolander). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Nintendo Power’s Preview of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, as

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00:47:33

The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t

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2020/07/13

🎃 It’s the 13th of July, so it’s time for the Advent Calendar House to unearth one of our favorite Halloween haunts, 1979’s The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t, starring an exceptionally great Judd Hirsch as Count Dracula. **** 🎙 Guest: Tom Coombs (TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny, @ClassicTomedy). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. This was renamed for its VHS release as The Night Dracula Saved the World, except no, he doesn’t. 2. Lyndhurst Mansion plays the role of both Dracula’s castle and the Witch’s

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00:56:39

Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas

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2020/07/11

🎄 Go-go Gadget podcast! It’s time to spring back to 1992 to take Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas in for questioning. **** 🎙 Guest: Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, @horrormoviebbq). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Nick Knacks, a show-by-show video history of Nickelodeon. 2. Halloween 1992 was the year of white kids dressing like Steve Urkel. 3. Inspector Gadget’s run on Nickelodeon got me into Get Smart on Nick at Nite. 4. The time Chad got an crew jacket from the set of the Inspector

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00:43:07

Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls

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2020/07/09

🎄 Join us as we slowly slink sideways back to 1983 to celebrate the time someone literally threw an idea at the wall to see if it would stick. It’s Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls, an animated Christmas special about Wacky WallWalkers. But first, we need to talk about the man behind the WallWalkers, Dr. Fad. **** 🎙 Guest: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The Dr. Fad Show. 2. Eight ’80s Xmas Specials You Might’ve Forgotten, from Dinosaur

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00:51:47

The Tale of the Bunny Picnic

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2020/07/07

🐰 Hello, sunshine! Join us for a hop back to Easter 1986 to revisit the Jim Henson special, The Tale of the Bunny Picnic — which is about neither Easter, nor a bunny picnic — but it did introduce the world to Bean Bunny, the Muppets’ Nermal. **** 🎙 Guest: Emily Rowley (@mlerowley). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Jim Henson’s original introduction to The Tale of the Bunny Picnic. 2. The Jim Henson Hour. 3. Bean Bunny is still around at Muppet*Vision 3D in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. 4. Bean

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00:43:43

The Real Ghostbusters: Xmas Marks the Spot

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2020/07/05

🎄 It’s another Scrooge Sunday in the Advent Calendar House as we’re swept through a rip in the space-time continuum back to 1986 for a Christmas Carol-themed episode of The Real Ghostbusters, who accidentally save Scrooge from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. **** 🎙 Guests: Tom Coombs (@ClassicTomedy, TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny). Chad “Ecto” Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, TPIF, @horrormoviebbq). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Hey, grown-ups! Remember getting lost while

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01:07:00

Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July

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2020/07/03

🎄 Rankin/Bass’s Avengers assemble in 1979’s Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July. The studio’s longest holiday special ever opens with the shine on Rudolph’s nose blipping out of existence, and what happens to Frosty and his whole family is worse. **** 🎙 Guest: Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed Are the Geek, Star Weirdos). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Frosty’s a dad! And Rudolph’s a fake uncle! 2. King Winterbolt’s genie of the ice scepter, allegedly Thurl Ravenscroft, is the stuff of

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00:44:45

Frosty’s Winter Wonderland

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2020/07/01

🎄 Happy birthday! The Advent Calendar House kicks off a countdown to Christmas in July by setting the table for Rankin/Bass’s eventual epic crossover, starting with Frosty’s Winter Wonderland, a snowy sequel from 1976 starring a strange, tall goblin claiming to be Andy Griffith.**** 🎙 Guest: Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed Are the Geek, Star Weirdos). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. A brief guide to finding obsure things on Disney+, like Melody Time, starring Dennis Day, (the voice of Parson

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00:52:29

30 Rock: Leap Day

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2020/02/29

How do you do, fellow holiday special enthusiasts? The Advent Calendar House has emerged from its slumber in the Mariana Trench a few months early for an important visit to the 30 Rock universe and its celebration of Leap Day. As such, nothing that happens in this episode counts, and we’re just your imaginary friends whom no one else can hear. **** 🎙 Guest: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Steve Buscemi, whose name I mispronounce right out

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00:44:42

Rudolph’s Shiny New Year

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2019/12/30

🎉 It’s a special, post-Christmas bonus episode of the Advent Calendar House as we turn back the years to 1976 and tip our oversized hat hiding our oversized ears to Rankin/Bass’s first sequel special, in which Rudolph has to save the Baby New Year from a big, angry bird. **** 🎙 Guests: Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed Are the Geek). Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Rudolph devolves into a younger-looking reindeer, because the original

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00:57:10

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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2019/12/24

🎄 It’s the 50th episode of the Advent Calendar House, so it’s time to address the spotted elephant in the room and tackle the 1964 Christmas special that put Rankin/Bass on the map and into our hearts. **** 🎙 Guests: Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed Are the Geek). Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Is Santa really this big of a jerk or just hangry? 2. The History Channel on the creation of Rudolph. 3. Mashable’s 12 ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed

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01:00:50

Shalom Sesame: Chanukah

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2019/12/22

🕎 To kick off Hanukkah, we’re shining a light on a 1990 episode of Shalom Sesame, an on-again, off-again co-production of Sesame Street and its Israeli counterpart, Rechov Sumsum, featuring the objectively better son from Growing Pains. **** 🎙 Guest: Sarah Shay (SarayShay.com, Bandcamp, Pilot House Podcast, @thesarahshay). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. A brief history of Shalom Sesame, provided by the ever-thorough Muppet Wiki. 2. Israel’s Big Bird stand-in, Kippi Ben Kippod, is

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