🎄 “This just in: Santa Claus is dead… or he might as well be, because there’s an even fatter man who’s holding families at nice-point!”
’Tis the Advent Calendar House’s 15th season, so this December’s dozen begins with a similarly titled episode of “The Simpsons” from 2003.
Shane Keating from ToughPigs.com, Erin Evans, and Joey O. join the mission to stop being selfish and start being good.
📺 As of this recording, “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” (Season 15, Episode 7) is available on Disney+.
****
💬 Topics & Tangents:
This episode premiered the day after Saddam Hussein was caught.
Marge’s couch gag anime costume: Jun the Swan from “Gatchaman.”
“How Low Can DVD Players Go?” (New York Times, 2003)
The Joe DiMaggio rookie card is real.
Today’s TV Trope: Art Shift — “Christmas with the California Prunes” and “The Year Santa Got Lost,” animated by the Chiodo Bros.
Animaniacs’ 50 State Capitals.
Of course I looked up the astrolabe’s coordinates.
Convoy, and the cover by Sifl & Olly.
Operation: The Simpsons Edition.
The first on-screen appearance of Nelson’s mom.
The end of “Treehouse of Horror IV.”
Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed Television — and America — Forever, by Alan Siegel.
****
📼 Commercials:
Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1991)
Butterfinger - The Power Cut (1993)
A Bomb for Christmas 2: Past, Present, and Future on the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast.
****
“The Simpsons” and “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Hosted by The Retro Network.
