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Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsQuantum Leap: A Little Miracle🎄It’s 1990… or 1962… and a quantum physicist forgot to powder his boss’s underwear.  This Scrooge Sunday edition of the Advent Calendar House involves time travel of a different sort as we follow Dr. Sam Beckett on a mission to save a mission, and the soul of the man trying to tear it down.  * CONTENT WARNING: This episode briefly discusses the death of actor Charles Rocket and the would-be death of his Scrooge-like character, Michael Blake.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Erin Evans (@mserinevans).  Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, @imgonnadj24).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangent...2024-07-211h 15
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsFrasier: Look Before You LeapThe Advent Calendar House has awoken early from its long winter’s 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 “Frasier” cast’s 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.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Erin Evans (@mserinevans).  Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, @imgonnadj24).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. Kelsey Grammer in “Mr. St. Nick” and “The Twelv...2024-02-291h 16
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Christmas Carol (1984)🎄It’s 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 it’s also the Advent Calendar House’s 150th episode. To celebrate, I let listeners vote for which “Christmas Carol” to cover, and the winner is the 1984 TV movie starring George S. Scott, along with original “Equalizer” 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.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Erin Evans (@mserinevans...2023-12-242h 21
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsAnimaniacs: A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners🎄 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months locked in a water tower, the Advent Calendar House has escaped in time for Christmas Podcast Day, a fake holiday originally made up for a hashtag back when social media was slightly less stupid.  It’s not Scrooge Sunday, but the theme for this year’s Christmas Podcast Day is “A Christmas Carol,” so I’m playing a long, but also cheating a little by covering both segments of a 1993 Christmas episode of “Animaniacs.”  You can follow #ChristmasPodcastDay on Facebook, Instagram, and that other one. And probably TikTok, but I’m not on that.  ...2023-11-0159 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsOlive, the Other Reindeer🎄 10 years after The Simpsons debuted, Matt Groening presented this misheard but not forgotten doggie treat from 1999.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Erin Evans (@mserinevans).  Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. The Making of Olive, the Other Reindeer.  2. PaRappa the Rapper.  3. Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride, the first book by Olive creators Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold.  4. The Goonies II.  5. Jay Mohr in Camp Wilder.  6. Famous mondegreens and the stupidest lyric I’ve ever misheard.  7. Da...2020-12-221h 05
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsSimpsons Roasting on an Open Fire🎄 Every unstoppable monster has a beginning. Squeeze onto the couch as a perfectly cromulent panel of Advent Calendar House regulars celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Simpsons and its series premiere, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, or as it was advertised to us in 1989, “The Simpsons’ Christmas Special.”CONTENT WARNING: We briefly discuss Mall Santas and 10-year-olds’ feelings on Mall Santas.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed Are the Geek).  Erin Evans (@mserinmevans).  Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. Remembering the...2019-12-171h 07
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Glo Friends Save Christmas🎄 It’s Glo! We learn how to selectively melt only certain ice we’re radiating near with Hasbro’s hive of bioluminescent bugs, the Glo Friends, in their 1985 Christmas special starring Carroll O’Connor as Santa and Sally Struthers as Blanche, the Wicked Witch of the North Pole, who exists and is jealous of Santa’s publicity. Take notes, Great Pumpkin… or, perhaps, don’t.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Erin Evans (@mserinmevans).  Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24, Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. Like many Christmas specials, this is a pilot for an eventual series...2019-12-1145 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsChristmas Eve on Sesame StreetIt’s Christmas Eve! Tune in as we bring Advent to a close with the first Christmas special I ever remember watching, from 1978.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Erin Evans (@mserinmevans).  Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. My taped copy of this is interrupted in the middle by a WHYY telethon with Philadelphia TV legend Ed Cunningham.  2. The Count’s amazing ice-skating cape.  3. The wibbly-wobbly physics of Oscar’s trash can.  4. Olivia married the Predator.  5. An actual clue into how to get to...2018-12-241h 04