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Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsJustice League: Comfort and Joy🎄It’s 2003, and nothing puts me in a festive mood quite like a bar fight.  Join us as we spend Christmas break with the Justice League — well, most of it. Wonder Woman’s off doing something else, and Batman… you know, smells.  ****  🎙 Guests:Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Bluesky)  James Riley (Twitter)  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:1. Mike talks “Comfort and Joy” on Tis the Podcast.  2. Paul Dini’s notes on “Comfort and Joy,” including what where Wonder Woman and Batman were.  3. The Shrine of the Silver Monkey from “Leg...2024-12-181h 07
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 SpecialsThe New Batman Adventures: Holiday Knights🎄 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, @AndreBennettGO).  Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. T...2023-07-011h 27
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsTaleSpin: Jolly Molly Christmas🎄 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 Jungle Book,” the animat...2022-12-0850 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsFamily Ties: A Keaton Christmas Carol🎄 It’s 1983, and Young Republican Alex P. Keaton is sick and tired of hearing “Merry Christmas.” It was a different time. Join us as we airlift our dirty laundry back to before Back to the Future for a Scrooge Sunday edition of Family Ties, in which Michael J. Fox is taken 30 years into the future to fix his family.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Molly Patton (MollyPatton.com, @molly_patton, @MoMakesStuffUp).  Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. Michael Gross (Steven) on making the Christmas movie Noelle.  2. Chr...2022-07-0346 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
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Pinky and the Brain ChristmasTune 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 Maurice LaMarche.  4. Powerhouse: Warner Bros.’ go-to “assembly line” music.  5. io...2018-12-1752 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsBatman, the Animated Series: Christmas with the JokerTune 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. Gotham City is in New Jersey.  4. Mark Hamill’s original performance...2018-12-1453 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Christmas Carol Cast DraftIn our Christmas Eve season finale, the Advent Calendar House is haunted by 3 spirited guests as we each draft our own casts of A Christmas Carol from a pool of characters from Christmas past.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Sue London (@cmdrsue), romance novelist of Christmas past.  Jonathan MacFarlane (@otherjmac), Discoverography podcast host of Christmas present.  Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24), Y-Not Radio and Words with Nerds co-host of Christmas yet to come.  ****  🎄 A Christmas Carol Renditions Mentioned:  In chronological order:  1951: Scrooge (starring Alastair Sim).  1954: Shower of Stars’...2017-12-241h 22