x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

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.

tv & film tv reviews

All Episodes

00:52:53

A Pinky and the Brain Christmas

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/17

Tune in as we apply North Pole to Pinky and the Brain’s 1996 Christmas special, probably the closest the lab mouse duo ever got to actually taking over the world. **** 🎙 Guests: Joey Letson (The Animanicast, @Animanicast). Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. This special won the 1996 Primetime Emmy award for outstanding animated program. 2. Joey O.’s interviews with Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche. 3. The Animanicast’s interview with

en-us

01:07:01

Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/16

Join us as we gush about the Riverbottom Nightmare Band and Kermit riding a bicycle in this episode about the 1977 Jim Henson special, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas. Pa would’ve loved this podcast. **** 🎙 Guest: Emily Rowley (@mlerowley). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Muppet Wiki has the lowdown of all 5 cuts of this. 2. The official outtake reel. 3. The drum roll outtake reel. 4. Of Muppets and Men: The Making of The Muppet Show. 5. The Christmas Price Index. 6. The “ass sliding”

en-us

01:03:51

Saved by the Bell: Home for Christmas

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/15

Hang on to your creepy mistletoe hat as we hit the Bayside Mall for a 2-part Saved by the Bell Christmas special from 1991, in which Zack gets shook upon learning the latest girl of his dreams is homeless. **** 🎙 Guests: Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny, @horrormoviebbq). Tom Coombs (@ClassicTomedy). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Chad’s 2013 write-up on Home for Christmas.2. That time WWE’s Daniel Bryan got fired for choking out an announcer. 3. Puppy Surprise,

en-us

00:53:28

Batman, the Animated Series: Christmas with the Joker

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/14

Tune in as we trace the origins of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, in the 1992 Christmas episode of Batman, the Animated Series. **** 🎙 Guests: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). Jay Ryan (Sludge Central, the Purple Stuff Podcast, @SludgeCentral). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The crowdsourced origins of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells. 2. More discussion on Christmas with the Joker on Batman, the Animated Podcast’s Batman, the Animated Podcast and The Arkham Sessions. 3

en-us

00:41:32

The Small One

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/13

Part 2 of our Christmas donkey double feature takes a deep dive into Don Bluth’s last Disney project, a short film released in front of the 1978 re-release of Pinocchio.**** 🎙 Guests: Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames). Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed are the Geek). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Like so many Disney movies, it’s based on a book — The Small One: A Story for Those Who Like Christmas and Small Donkeys. 2. Dragon’s Lair. 3. The Land Before Time toys from Pizza Hut. 4. Mouse in

en-us

00:39:29

Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/12

We try to make more accurate donkeys in Nativity displays catch on like a certain elf on a certain shelf by revisiting the 1977 Rankin/Bass special, Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey. **** 🎙 Guests: Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames). Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed are the Geek). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Roger Miller performing Do Wacka Do in 1966 with another guitarist, “Stubbs,” who’s wearing a Batman T-shirt. 2. Roger Miller’s Whistle Stop intro to Disney’s Robin Hood is

en-us

01:03:27

Jingle Bell Rap

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/11

We dig down like dogs to the bottom of the VHS bargain bin for an overlooked special from 1991 that had all the potential to become a Christmas classic, but none of the airtime. You can watch Jingle Bell Rap on Amazon Prime. **** 🎙 Guest: Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny, @horrormoviebbq). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Perennial Pictures’ webpage for Jingle Bell Rap. 2. Chad’s on, so of course we talk about Roy Rogers. 3. Fetch and Uncle Jesse are the “wise

en-us

00:42:01

McDonald’s Holiday Commercials

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/10

Lace up your ice skates for a look at 3 classic holiday commercials starring McDonald’s clown in charge: 1. Happy Holidays (the ice skating one). 2. Star Wish. 3. Runaway.**** 🎙 Guest: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Grape jelly is good on Sausage McMuffins. 2. McDonald’s Wiki, which exists, runs down all 7 versions of the ice skating commercial. Yes, there are seven different edits, and they’re all on YouTube: 1982: the original, with

en-us

01:43:17

Christmas at Walt Disney World (1978)

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/09

It’s mime time at the Most Magical Place on Earth in 1978’s Christmas at Walt Disney World, featuring Shields and Yarnell as the most 1978 couple imaginable, Pablo Cruise and their indifference to help a screaming woman escape from pirates, Phyllis Diller in the world’s poofiest princess dress, the Doritos guy as a wildly off-model Geppetto, Dee from What’s Happening as an ungrateful passenger in a magical pumpkin coach, and Broadway’s original Annie singing Christmas carols with surprisingly

en-us

01:13:23

John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/08

We blur the lines of reality, time, and space and practice peace on Earth and good will to men, women, chickens, bears, and Dizzy Gillespie in the 1979 TV special, John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together. **** 🎙 Guests: Bill Hanstock (SBNation, IMDb, Progressive Boink, @sundownmotel). Carlin Trammel (Nerd Lunch, Dragonfly Ripple, @nerdlunch). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Bill’s Uncle Deadly tattoo. 2. Pro-wrestler and Muppets Most Wanted cast member Hornswoggle’s tattoo tribute

en-us

00:50:47

Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/07

In 1987, the California Raisins missed their bus, then made a sleigh out of garbage and flew it into space in the greatest holiday special out of all holiday specials hosted by clay dinosaurs. WARNING: This episode inexplicably contains a major spoiler for the 2014 movie How to Train Your Dragon 2. **** 🎙 Guest: Erin Evans (@mserinmevans). Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). Emily Rowley (@mlerowley). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. RIP Will Vinton (1947–2018), the creator

en-us

01:15:36

A Garfield Christmas Special

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/06

Let’s have a good, old-fashioned Christmas down on the farm in 1987’s A Garfield Christmas Special, featuring the voices of Squiggy and Ursula. **** 🎙 Guest: Jeff Somogyi (Talkin’ Chopp, Down the Rabbit Hole, @sommerjam). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Joey O. interviews Gregg Berger, the voice of Odie. 2. On lasagna as a Christmas food and how including shrimp as one of the Seven Fishes is cheating, you cheaters. 3. Dinosaur Dracula identifies all the presents in Garfield’s dream. 4. Going

en-us

01:08:17

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/05

Rankin/Bass goes off the rails in its last-ever stop motion animated Christmas special, 1985’s The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, based on the 1902 book by Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, which explains a lot. **** 🎙 Guests: Paxton Holley (Cavalcade of Awesome, I Read Movies, Nerd Lunch, Cult Film Club, Hellbent for Letterbox, @paxtonholley). Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed Are the Geek). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Santa Claus’s growth to manhood, from J.D. Roth to Mumm-ra, and

en-us

01:21:01

Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/04

Hanukkah is here, so here’s a 1995 special starring sock puppets hanging out with Mr. Miyagi, the dad from Growing Pains, and the mayor of Gotham City. **** 🎙 Guest: Sarah Shay (Pilot House Podcast, Bandcamp, @thesarahshay). Check out her 2 new albums: You Have Queer Street Cred and The Shay & Shay Radio Hour! **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The special audio featured here is from a YouTube upload by some guy holding his iPad’s camera up to his TV screen. 2. Shari Lewis’s amazing single-color

en-us

00:41:23

’Twas the Night Before Christmas

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/03

Turn back the clock till it goes kerplunk — or kerplooey — to make some time for Rankin/Bass’s 1974 retelling of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas from the perspective of the mouse and his know-it-all nerdy son. **** 🎙 Guest: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The worst thing we’ve broken that ruined multiple peoples’ day. 2. We prepared for this episode by listening to Green Day’s Kerplunk! 3. South Park covered the song Even a Miracle Needs

en-us

01:02:04

The Star Wars Holiday Special

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/02

Get ready to blast off for Space Church as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Star Wars Holiday Special, the farthest point from the bright center of our favorite galaxy far, far away. **** 🎙 Guest: Liz Twachtman (@thelizzietea, Random Chatter Network, Enchanted Chatter) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. “Some folks are in space for the benefit of nobody,” by Jon Bois for SB Nation. 2. Our disappointment that Chewbacca’s family didn’t show up in Solo, but at least we got L3-37, who was

en-us

01:11:01

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/12/01

It’s time once again to count down to Christmas Eve, starting with 3 versions of Dr. Seuss’s classic Christmas tale from 1966, 2000, and 2018. **** 🎙 Guest: Michael DiGiovanni (The Atomic Geeks, Classic Film Jerks, Pop Culture Retrofit, @theatomicgeeks). Michael May (MichaelMay.online, Sleigh Bell Cinema, @michaelmaycomix). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., Dr. Seuss’s first — and last — feature film screenplay. 2. DiGio discovers Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice behind

en-us

00:34:24

Christmas Podcast Network Crossover / Season 2 Teaser

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/11/22

It’s time to dust off the cobwebs and get the Advent Calendar House ready for Season 2, featuring a new episode every day from December 1 through Christmas Eve, 2018. In between commercial teasers for all 24 episodes coming in Season 2 — though not necessarily in order — the members of the all-new Christmas Podcast Network share stories of Christmas music traditions. **** 🎙 Guests: 1. Brian Earl (Christmas Past) 2. Tim Babb (Can’t Wait for Christmas) 3. Craig Kringle (Weird Christmas) 4

en-us

01:02:08

Witch’s Night Out

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/09/24

The Advent Calendar House presents a dazzling display of magical mischief as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Witch’s Night Out, an often remembered, then forgotten, then re-remembered Halloween classic from 1978. You can watch Witch’s Night Out at Shout! Factory TV. **** 🎙 Guest: Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, @horrormoviebbq). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. WitchsNightOut.com, the official website. 2. @BazooeyWNO on Twitter. 3. Anytown Series, a planned sequel and other holiday

en-us

01:13:29

The Adventures of the American Rabbit

Advent Calendar House ·

2018/07/03

We’re back for a surprise summertime episode on the 1986 animated movie, The Adventures of the American Rabbit, a star-spangled box-office bomb starring the voices of Donatello, Baby Piggy, and King Triton. **** 🎙 Guest: Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, @horrormoviebbq). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Fred Wolf Films. 2. Toei Animation. 3. The late Stewart Moskowitz’s archived gallery and current website, operated by his family. 4. Too-Loose, the Chocolate Moose. 5. Ping Pong, the Gorilla

en-us

189 results

Similar Podcasts

BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

David Yontef

Nerd Culture - A Gamekings Podcast

Blammo Media

UPodcast

UPodcast

The Writers Hangout

Sandy Adomaitis

The Sarah Fraser Show

Sarah Fraser