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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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01:06:08

’Tis the Season to be Smurfy

Advent Calendar House ·

2023/07/05

🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we witnessed goodness make the badness go away in “The Smurfs’ Christmas Special.” This time, we’re taking a one giant puppy open sleigh ride back to 1987 to help the Smurfs save Christmas for a poor human toymaker and his gravely ill wife, while Brainy and Hefty get lost in medieval Crime Alley. **** 🎙 Guests: Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames). Donnie Storms (Bronwen’s Ghost, @boxcar45). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “’Tis the Season to be

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01:10:13

The Berenstain Bears’ Comic Valentine

Advent Calendar House ·

2023/07/03

💝 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we visited the Easter Bunny’s underground nightmare factory in “The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise.”This time, it’s 1982, and love and hockey are in the air as Brother Bear gets stalked by a secret admirer, and his Papa’s public displays of affection send him into orbit. **** 🎙 Guest: Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “The Berenstain Bears’ Comic Valentine” on YouTube. 2. The Broad Street Bullies. 3

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01:27:34

The New Batman Adventures: Holiday Knights

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2023/07/01

🎄 It’s the Advent Calendar House’s 10th season, and to celebrate, every episode is revisiting familiar faces and places already covered on the podcast. Previously, we spent Christmas with the Joker in “Batman: The Animated Series.” This time, we’re on a festive tour of Gotham City through the Joker’s hideously redrawn eyes in the 1997 premiere of the redesigned, rebranded “New Batman Adventures.” **** 🎙 Guests: Andre Bennett (Cult Cinema Cloister, Philadelphia Championship Rock Paper Scissors,

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02:00:00

It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/24

🎄 It’s 2002, and we’re trapped in a horrifying world where Kermit the Frog doesn’t exist. Join us for a spectacular, spectacular Christmas Eve extravaganza starring Kermit in the George Bailey role of the Muppets’ perfectly silly take on “It’s a Wonderful Life,” also featuring Joan Cusack, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, the cast of “Scrubs,” and Whoopi Goldberg as God, Herself. **** 🎙 Guests: Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames, 📸 @pinkmedley). Adam Jurotich (The Ambassadors of Harmony, 📸

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01:14:18

The Snowman and The Snowdog

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/22

🎄 It’s 2012, and I found a 60-year-old tangerine under a floorboard in my bedroom that’s the perfect size for a snowman’s nose… or is it? Join us for another walk in the air back to 2012 for the charming sequel to the British Christmas classic, “The Snowman,” by the now-late Raymond Briggs. **** 🎙 Guest: Adam Parker Sibun (Merry Britsmas). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. I finally got a copy of the original Raymond Briggs book! 2. UK Christmas’s “The Snowman” TV listing history. 3. Raymond

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01:10:16

The Nanny: The Hanukkah Story

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/20

🕎 It’s 1998, and we’re praying for a miracle after getting stuck in a snow bank on the side of a dark highway with only an eighth of a tank of gas. Join us on an enlightening revisit to the Flashy Girl from Flushing on her first Hanukkah as a married woman. Also, Ray Charles is here! **** 🎙 Guest: April Ryley (@Where2NextApril). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “The Hanukkah Story” on Facebook. 2. April visits the Sheffield residence, and so can you. 3. Fran Drescher in “UHF.” 4. Fran

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01:05:02

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A Hearth’s...

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/18

🎄 It’s 2016, and a Scrooge-like unicorn is brewing a potion to eliminate Hearth’s Warming Eve from the calendar. That’s how potions work, right? Join us for a Scrooge Sunday canter through a “Christmas Carol” adaptation set in Equestria, the world of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.” **** 🎙 Guests: Jon and Bin (Bin’s Toy Bin, Santa by the Minute). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” on YouTube. 2. Mike on Santa by the Minute. 3. The first My Little Pony

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01:06:25

A Very Merry Cricket

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/16

🎄 It’s 1973, and a musical cricket is about to save the Christmas spirit during New York City’s quietest power failure. Join us for a one-cat open sleigh ride into Chuck Jones’s beautifully animated sequel to “The Cricket in Times Square.” **** 🎙 Guest: Michael DiGiovanni (Pop Culture Retrofit, Classic Film Jerks, @TheyCallMeDiGio). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. A very insightful Letterboxd review. 2. Name That Christmas Special’s screenshot gallery for this special. 3. Today’s TV Trope:

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00:52:30

The Wonder Years: A Very Cutlip Christmas

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/14

🎄 It’s 1970 by way of 1990, and I just noticed the Santa Claus at the mall is actually my gym teacher. Join us on a revealing trip back to The Wonder Years as we salute Robert Picardo’s standout performance as Coach Cutlip… and Santa. **** 🎙 Guest: Andy Gattis (Straight Chilling, AndyGattis.com). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Joe Cocker’s version of “With a Little Help from My Friends” over the opening credits was replaced for streaming with a soundalike, only they don’t sound alike. 2

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01:49:10

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/12

🎄 It’s 1997, and Tim Curry as an evil pipe organ is literally bringing down the house. Join us as we journey into the depths of Disney’s direct-to-video library for an unnecessary but charming midquel that explains why the Beast hates Christmas and raises even more questions about the curse on his castle. **** 🎙 Guests: Kristi (@BadPrincessMov) and Bri (@wallabri) from Bad Princess Movies. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Bad Princess Movies on Disney’s original “Beauty and the Beast” and “The

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00:48:56

The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas...

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/10

🎄 It’s 1975, and a shepherd boy just lost his sight after staring directly at a lightning bolt. Join us as we return to enchanted world of Rankin/Bass Christmas specials for an overlooked, underrated, and redundantly titled hidden gem about neither the first Christmas, nor the first Christmas snow. **** 🎙 Guest: Mike Troxell (@Prune_Tracy, Mastodon: PruneTracy@sharetron.com). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Vox’s Emily St. James ranks all the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials. 2. A very brief

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00:50:08

TaleSpin: Jolly Molly Christmas

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/08

🎄 It’s 1990, and a little girl’s Christmas wish is about to get shot out of the sky. Join us for the podcast’s first voyage into the Disney Afternoon as Baloo the cargo pilot bear attempts to save his boss’s daughter’s belief in Santa. **** 🎙 Guest: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Joey’s Christmas TV lineup that he wrote on a piece of paper around 1991 and found again 30 years later. 2. The TaleSpin/Quantum Leap joke. 3. Disney’s “The

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01:11:18

Pat Boone and Family Christmas Special

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/06

🎄 It’s 1979, and no one wants to go to Pat Boone’s lame Christmas party, but we hope you’ll accept our invitation to discover this bizarre but wholesome special featuring the Hudson Brothers, the stars of “The Ropers” as themselves but also still as the Ropers, and a criminally brief appearance by Yogi Bear and his Hanna-Barbera friends. **** 🎙 Guest: Guy Hutchinson (GuyHutchinson.com, Drunk on Disney). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch the Pat Boone and Family Christmas Special on Tubi

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01:17:04

A Christmas Carol (1971)

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/04

🎄 It’s 1971, and Alastair Sim is delivering an even more animated performance as Scrooge. Join us as we invade your personal space for salute an animated adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” that bent the rules and became the last TV special to win an Oscar, directed by Richard Williams and executive produced by Chuck Jones. **** 🎙 Guests: Michael May (MichaelMay.online, AfterLUNCH). Rob Graham (AfterLUNCH, @spidey004). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Michael May’s Christmas Carol Project

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02:31:11

Prep & Landing Trilogy

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/12/01

🎄 It’s the Advent Calendar House’s 5th anniversary, so instead of celebrating one Christmas special, we watched three! Clear the runway as we salute Disney’s trilogy of 2009’s “Prep & Landing,” 2010’s “Operation: Secret Santa,” and 2011’s “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice.” SANTA SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains Santa-adjacent spoilers from 1:24:28 to 1:26:49. **** 🎙 Guests: Jeff Somogyi (Linktree: @sommerjam). Paxton Holley (Cavalcade of Awesome, Cult Film Club, Hellbent for

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00:53:42

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948)

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/11/01

🎄 November 1st is Christmas Podcast Day! I don’t make the rules; I just use the hashtag. So join us as on a very important mission to dig up the original animated adventures of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in a 1948 short film that predates the song. You can follow #ChristmasPodcastDay on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And probably TikTok, but I’m not on that. **** 🎙 Guests: Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas, @RadChristmas). Matt Spaulding (North Pole Radio). **** 💬 Topics &

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00:59:45

The Weird Al Show: The Obligatory Holiday Episode

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/07/23

🎄 It’s 1997, and we couldn’t decide which holiday to end the season with, so we’re celebrating them all. Pack up your accordion and join us on a journey 20 miles below the surface of the Earth to the very Pee-wee’s Playhouse-like split-level cave of “Weird Al” Yankovic as he learns to listen to his friends and family. **** 🎙 Guests: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Weirdle, the “Weird Al”-themed offshoot of Heardle, the music-themed

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01:18:45

Q*bert: Thanksgiving for the Memories

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/07/21

🦃 It’s 1983, and we’re spending Thanksgiving in July at the Saturday Supercade. Join us as we take a cue from Q*bert and pals and try to stay on topic as they learn how to build a Q home in a Q land. **** 🎙 Guests: Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny, @horrormoviebbq). Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy, @thepopdaddy). Jayme Kilsby (@brainexploderrr). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. We all tried to remember who brought up the Q*bert special last year while talking about A

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01:29:05

Beverly Hills 90210: It’s a Totally Happening Life

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/07/19

🎄 It’s 1992, and a group of 30-year-old teenagers are on a bus trip to their doom unless an angel in training can convince her supervisor they’re worth saving. Join us for a very strange and very special visit to America’s most famous ZIP code in our first adaptation of It’s a Wonderful Life, even though this episode seems to have forgotten to actually adapt it. **** 🎙 Guest: Ed Daly (The Christmas Book: The Ultimate Guide to Your Favorite Holiday, EZEdDaly.com, @ezeddaly). **** 💬 Topics &

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01:04:32

The Jetsons: A Jetson Christmas Carol

Advent Calendar House ·

2022/07/17

🎄 It’s 1985, but we’re rocketing into the future, when apparently urgent veterinary care no longer exists.It’s Scrooge Sunday, so join us for a glimpse into the space-age year of 2062 to find out if 3 robotic ghosts of Christmas can convince Mr. Spacely to change his stingy ways, while the clock is ticking for the Jetsons’ dog, Astro, on his deathbed. **** 🎙 Guest: Jack Ford (The Total Christmas Podcast). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. George Jetson apparently was/will be born at the end of

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