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Total Christmas PodcastEpisode 134 - Chipmunks, a Quiz and 2 Silent NightsHello and welcome to the show.We begin with this episode's version of A Christmas Carol and it's A Chipmunk Christmas carol.You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvugRKHpP4s&t=1325sMike Westfall covered this version on an episode of The Advent Calendar House Podcast, and you can have a listen here:https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/alvin-and-the-chipmunks-merry-christmas-mr-carrollThen it's Where Are You Christmas? and Bob Baker is looking at the North Pole in Alaska.I scored 10 in this episode's C...2025-06-0851 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsFriends: The One with the Holiday Armadillo🕎 It’s the year 2000, and Christmas and Hanukkah have crossed paths at my doorstep in the form of Santa Claus and his part-Jewish friend… a weird turtle man. In honor of Christmas Day and the first night of Hanukkah sharing a day on the calendar this year, we’re revisiting some old Friends, an escaped tarantula, a restaurant we may never be allowed in or out of again, and an unforgettable interfaith holiday mascot fit for a new millennium. **** 🎙 Guests:Becca Petunia (ToughPigs.com, Bear in the Big Blue Podcast, Bluesky) April Ryley...2024-12-251h 40
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsBabes in Toyland (1986)🎄It’s 1986, and the only way Drew Barrymore can save her new friends is to believe in the magic of toys… and Cincinnati. From director Clive Donner comes a bonkers adaptation of “Babes in Toyland” starring Drew Barrymore, Keanu Reeves, and Richard Mulligan as a weird, evil guy who lives in a bowling ball. **** 🎙 Guests:Molly Patton (MollyPatton.com) Becca Petunia (ToughPigs.com, Bear in the Big Blue Podcast, Bluesky) Adam Pope (The Retro Network, Wizards: The Podcast Guide to Comics, Remember That Show?, Bluesky) **** 💬 Topics & Tangen...2024-12-242h 05
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsDoctor Who: A Christmas Carol🎄It’s 2010, and I’m hiding in a closet from a flying shark that ate half my screwdriver. I’ve finally caught up with the timeline of people who have been requesting that I watch the “Doctor Who” Christmas specials, particularly this twisted take on “A Christmas Carol” starring Michael Gambon in the Scrooge role and the 11th Doctor as at least 2 ghosts of Christmas. **** 🎙 Guests:Andre Bennett (Bluesky) Jack Ford (Total Christmas Podcast) Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com, Movin’ Right Along, Bluesky) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents:1. Andre’s revie...2024-12-222h 28
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsSanta and the Three Bears🎄It’s 1970, and a couple of bear cubs have jumped through my window and are eating all my marshmallows. Join us on a deeper than expected dive into a Christmas special by former Hanna-Barbera animator Tony Benedict that almost wasn’t released till the owner of a now-defunct Florida theme park swooped in and saved it. CONTENT WARNING: No animals were harmed in the making of this podcast. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same about one of the 4 versions of this special. **** 🎙 Guests:Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas) Ethan (The Hun...2024-12-201h 18
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 07Total Christmas PodcastEpisode 123 - Return to the Christmas VillageMerry Christmas you beautiful people.It's a packed show so let's not mess about.First up it's Santa Claus is NOT Coming to Town, and listener Timothy Dumont has shared the story of how he spoiled the myth of Santa to a bunch of teenagers.Do you know the difference between a Sidewalk and Pavement? Well there isn't one and, in Do You Hear What I Hear, Bob Baker explains it all.Then it's our yearly visit to Shelli and Frank Arnold's Christmas village. It's a true work of art and if yo...2024-12-131h 13
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsBlackadder’s Christmas Carol🎄It’s 1988, and the Spirit of Christmas just broke down my bedroom door to say hello. This edition of Scrooge Sunday turns everyone’s favorite festive tale of redemption on its head and blows it out its enormous, muscular backside as great philanthropist and all-around softy Ebenezer Blackadder learns from watching his ancestors and descendants that it’s good to be bad. **** 🎙 Guest: Jack Ford (Total Christmas Podcast) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol” on Vimeo. 2. Tony Robinson’s “Christmas Wrapping” and the Total Christmas Podcast episode on it...2024-12-081h 43Total Christmas PodcastEpisode 122 - The King of ChristmasMerry Christmas!It's a packed show, and we start off with a not particularly good version of A Christmas Carol from 2001. It's animated and has the voices of Kate Winslet, Simon Callow and Nic Cage as Jacon Marley.You can watch here, or not, it's your life:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptEiotEFUdk&t=4116sNext up is A Story of Shame from our listener Nettie Tebeau. Then it's our yearly chat with Scott Newman of Tinsel Tunes. This time we look at the King of Christmas (at least in the U...2024-12-051h 18
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsYou Can’t Do That on Television: Christmas🎄It’s 1984, and Santa’s in front of a firing squad because his executioner didn’t appreciate the socks he got last Christmas. The slime is an extra festive shade of green in this Christmas episode of the show that defined Nickelodeon’s early years, featuring an all-star cast of the 5 most featured kid actors of “You Can’t Do That on Television.” **** 🎙 Guests:Shawn Robare (Plastic Rocket Pop, Cult Film Club, Wolfman’s Got Nards) Steven (UFO Club, The Bigfoot Club) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents:1. Watch the Christmas episod...2024-12-041h 22
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsMr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree🎄It’s 1995, and Robert Downey Jr. may or may not be holding Kermit the Frog hostage until he gets his perfect Christmas tree. The Advent Calendar House is back in time for a freakin’ country bear jamberoo as a family of Muppet mice risk their lives to bring home the top of the top of the top of the top of a Christmas tree fit for an eccentric future Iron Man. Also starring shy butler Leslie Nielsen, homesick Swedish maid Stockard Channing, and a pre-Bobo Bobo the Bear. **** 🎙 Guests:Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com...2024-12-021h 17
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsIt’s a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special🎄It’s 1992, and there’s no such thing as Buster Bunny. The Advent Calendar House wraps up Christmas in July with the unofficial series finale of “Tiny Toon Adventures,” when Buster wishes he’d never been on the show, and the horrors within Montana Max’s Biff Tannen Pleasure Palace or whatever. **** 🎙 Guests: Adam Pope (Geekster, YouTube, Remember That Show?) William Bruce West (West Week Ever, Remember That Show?) Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. I found this special hiding in a 4-hour Christmas spe...2024-07-231h 42
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 SpecialsJim Henson’s Turkey Hollow🦃 It’s 2015, and in my search for a noisy cryptid I accidentally freed 175 roided-up turkeys, but neither of those things is the real monster. Join us as we rediscover a long lost Thanksgiving special concept Jim Henson dreamed up in the 1960s and meet the Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow. **** 🎙 Guests: Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight, Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head) Sammy Hain (Sammy’s Easter Tails) Tony Whitaker (@muppetdude, Muppet Wiki) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 2024-07-191h 55
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Annie Christmas Show🎄 It’s 1977, and the cast of Broadway’s hottest new musical is taking drastic measures to convince 4 different unions keep the theater open for a Christmas party because they forgot to book a venue. Join the original Broadway cast of “Annie” as somewhere in between themselves and their characters in a unique TV Christmas special which may very well have been many TV viewers’ first exposure to the musical. **** 🎙 Guest: Guy Hutchinson (Pointless Nostalgia, GuyHutchinson.com). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “The Annie Christmas Show” on the Internet Archive. 2. Th...2024-07-111h 16
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsSanta’s Magic Toy Bag🎄 It’s 1983, and my emotional support jack-in-the-box is not providing much help for my Imposter Syndrome. Prepare for a deep dive into another pre-ALF puppet special from Paul Fusco starring a very depressed elf in training trying to find where he belongs in Santa’s workshop by first finding everywhere he doesn’t belong. Plus: Santa’s Swedish Chef-like human hands! A three-eyed purple teddy bear we never get to see! Paul Fusco inserting himself into his own Christmas fan fiction! **** 🎙 Guests: Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy) Jayme K...2024-07-051h 32
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 SpecialsSanta, Baby!🎄It’s 2001, and a magical partridge is sending me on a coat drive for some kind of Karate Kid-style Santa training. Hop in our light blue ’54 convertible and buckle up as we take you on a joyride through the very last and most forgotten Rankin/Bass Christmas special, featuring a mostly black cast starring Patti LaBelle, Gregory Hines, and a criminally underused Eartha Kitt as a talking cat. **** 🎙 Guests: Andre Bennett (Cult Cinema Cloister, Philadelphia Championship Rock Paper Scissors). Tim Babb (Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast). **** 💬 Topics & Tan...2023-12-141h 20
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsAn American Christmas Carol🎄 It’s 1979, by way of 1933 — or the other way around — and the human from Fraggle Rock has broken into my garage with a haunted choir of singing children. Join us as we turn the dial on our haunted time-traveling radio to find Henry Winkler at the height of his fame as the Fonz hiding under multiple layers of makeup as a Scrooge figure in Great Depression-era New England. **** 🎙 Guests: Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy) Scott Leopold (Holly Jolly X’masu) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “An American Christmas Carol”...2023-12-101h 06
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsChristmastime with Mister Rogers🎄 It’s 1977, and Happy Gilmore’s grandmother is surrounded by dancing chickens. It’s a beautiful day for a podcast, and this season of the Advent Calendar House begins with a visit to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in a Christmas special that hadn’t been available for more than 40 years until it resurfaced in 2022. It’s surprisingly less festive than some might expect, but it makes up for that with some extremely bizarre adventures. **** 🎙 Guests: Guy Hutchinson (Pointless Nostalgia, GuyHutchinson.com). Tim Lybarger (The Neighborhood Archive, Third Quarter Run, TimLybarger.com). **** 2023-12-021h 50
Fave Five From FansFFFF Ep105 Fave Five Christmas TV SpecialsThe jolly ol’ Mike Westfall of the Advent Calendar House ( @adventcalhouse ) joins me for Christmas 2023 to discuss our Favorite Christmas Specials. Mike is an INCREDIBLE wealth of knowledge about Christmas, a lot of which is due to his vast VHS library of recorded Specials. Join us as we discuss everything from lasagna to dozers.
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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 minTotal Christmas PodcastEpisode 87 - Christmas in South AfricaMerry Christmas.It's another packed episode with all sorts of festive goodness.First up we have a change from our regular quiz format. Our American-Scandinavian correspondent Benji Pearson has sent in a quiz about Christmas in Scandinavia and, spoiler alert, it's a tricky one.Then Bob Baker gives us a lovely suggestion on how to make the most of Christmas in July with it's lovely summer Christmas music.Then I have an interview with a friend of my family, Jade, who spent the first 14 years of her life in South Africa. She te...2023-07-3058 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsALF: Turkey in the StrawPreviously on the Advent Calendar House, we let the goofy alien puppet with the jokes toy with our emotions in “ALF’s Special Christmas.” 🦃 This time, join us around the Fappiano table as we aim a spoonful of squash back to 1988 for a special, 2-part Thanksgiving episode of “ALF.” Too bad he’s already eaten the turkey, but there might still be some sweet potato pie in the garage, with the homeless man. **** 🎙 Guests: Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy, @thepopdaddy). Jayme Kilsby (Forever Bogus Podcast, @brainexploderrr). Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ...2023-07-211h 34
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Little Drummer Boy, Book II🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we went on an apocryphal adventure with the story of The Little Drummer Boy. This time, Rankin/Bass drums up an unnecessary sequel from 1976, its busiest year for holiday specials. Join Aaron on a side quest to retrieve the stolen silver bells from a troop of greedy Roman soldiers in the “Rogue One” of Christmas stories. **** 🎙 Guests: Brandon Medley (@brandmed, 📸 @blessedarethegeek) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Allen Swift (Melchior) as Twinkie the Kid. 2. Simeon the bellmaker is very loosely based on the Biblical Simeon, but...2023-07-1952 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsIt’s Punky Brewster: Christmas in July🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we saved Punky Brewster’s Christmas spirit in “Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus.” This time, join Punky in 1985 on an animated adventure to the North Pole, courtesy of Glomer, her new magical leprechaun-gopher Ewok lookin’ friend. The ’80s were weird. **** 🎙 Guests: Adam Pope (WIZARDS The Podcast Guide to Comics, @hojukoolander). Steven (UFO Club). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Comparing the original sitcom’s theme song to the cartoon’s theme. 2. Galoob made a plush Glomer. 3. Adam’s VHS cover has a very off...2023-07-151h 03
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsClaymation Comedy of HorrorsPreviously on the Advent Calendar House, we flew a sleigh made out of a dumpster into space with the California Raisins in “Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration.” 🎃 This time, we’re reanimating a creepier creation of his from 1991 — a Halloween special that premiered in May for some reason — starring the scheming Wilshire Pig on a quest to uncover the secret lab of Dr. Frankenswine. **** 🎙 Guests: Sammy Hain (@SammyHain). Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, @horrormoviebbq). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. IMDb’s photo gallery from this special. 2. “The Ad...2023-07-131h 07
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsMighty Morphin Power Rangers: Alpha’s Magical Christmas🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we were Dreaming of a White Ranger with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. This time, they’re away helping Santa, so Zordon surprises Alpha by teleporting in a bunch of children for a Christmas party. Join us for this very bonkers Power Rangers home video, plus our mini tribute to the late Jason David Frank, who’s seen as both the Green and White Ranger here because nobody cares about continuity during Christmas, I guess. **** 🎙 Guests: Andre Bennett (Cult Cinema Cloister, Philadelphia Championship Rock Paper Scissors, @Andr...2023-07-111h 20
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsAlvin and the Chipmunks: Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, our hearts and golden harmonicas went out to “A Chipmunk Christmas.” This time, it’s Scrooge Sunday, and our Christmas in July reunion tour arrives in Hollywood — or at least a nearby cartoon suburb where Alvin turns his greed up to 11 and blames it on his lonely old neighbor who doesn’t know how to plant a garden. So get set to have some fun in this Dickens of an episode of “Alvin and the Chipmunks.” **** 🎙 Guests: Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy, @thepopdaddy). Sean Sotka (The Christmas...2023-07-091h 12
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Rugrats Passover🫓 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we helped our favorite talking babies stop a true meanie in “A Rugrats Chanukah.” This time, we’re ignoring the rules of another long-standing tradition as we travel by baby basket back to 1995 to witness grown men throwing temper tantrums and ending up locked in the attic. **** 🎙 Guests: Sarah Shay (sarahshay.com, Bandcamp, Pilot House Podcast) Zach Gozlan (zachgozlan.info) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. I found this special hiding in a 4-hour VHS recording of Nick on CBS from 2003. 2. Pilot House on “...2023-07-071h 58
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 SpecialsIt’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie🎄 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, 📸 @adam_sr). Erik Johnson (Erik Johnson Illustrator, 📸 @erikjohnsonillustrator). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Muppet Wiki’s list of...2022-12-242h 00
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Wonder Years: A Very Cutlip Christmas🎄 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. Almost all the original music is repla...2022-12-1452 min
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 SpecialsRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948)🎄 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 & Tangents: 1. Watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Library of Congress...2022-11-0153 minTotal Christmas PodcastEpisode 61 - God Bless Us Every OneI recorded this the week after the previous podcast, so I was in a bit of a rush but I've done my best.We start with Do You Hear What I Hear and our self-appointed podcast barman, Bob Baker, explains to us the word 'bum'. Is it your bottom, is it a hobo or is it both?Next up we have our second Story of Shame from the wonderful Jennifer Kay she shares the story of waking her mum up (who'd been working all night in the ICU) to the sound of her and her sister's g...2022-07-3138 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsQ*bert: Thanksgiving for the Memories🦃 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 T...2022-07-211h 18
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsBeverly Hills 90210: It’s a Totally Happening Life🎄 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 & Tangents: 1. Bonnie Urseth (Miri...2022-07-191h 29
A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen TonightA Special Presentation 146: Revenge of Computer Magazine Comics (With Mike Westfall)We had so much fun delving into the bizarre ways that video games get adapted into comics, we had to take another dive in! This time we’ve got more familiar faces like Mario and Zelda, some obscure ones like Plok and the Battletoads, and even REALLY obscure ones like Rad Gravity and Psycho Fox! Joining us to wax lyrical on Legend of Zelda is returning friend of the pod (and co-creator of Hyspace) Mike Westfall of Advent Calendar House— hear more of him at http://adventcalendar.house! This podcast is also available in vidcast form— see us react in real t...2022-07-182h 04
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Jetsons: A Jetson Christmas Carol🎄 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 July 2022. 2. George O’Hanlon (George...2022-07-171h 04Total Christmas PodcastEpisode 60 - Christmas in JulyMerry Christmas in July you beautiful people.This episode starts with our weekly quiz. Do you know what colour mistletoe berries are? If you do, you'll get at least one question right. If you don't.... what? of course you know what colour they are.Then we have a Story of Shame sent in by the mom of our podcast mascot Elmer, Jennifer Kay.This week the Do You Hear What I Hear from our podcast barman, Bob Baker, is all about Nappies.Then I talk about Christmas in July, the history of wh...2022-07-1744 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Wickedest Witch🎃 It’s 1989, and Rue McClanahan is trapped in an underground castle inhabited by a bunch of Gremlin-looking puppets called Greevils — and for some reason wants to leave. Join us for a Halloween in July celebration of The Wickedest Witch, co-written and produced by ALF creator Paul Fusco, and starring Blanche from The Golden Girls as the evil Avarissa. As far as we know, this Halloween special only ever aired once, but somehow managed to capture our hearts and burrow itself into the cavernous depths of our memories. **** 🎙 Guest: Matt from Dinosaur Dracula (The P...2022-07-1347 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsPunky Brewster: Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus🎄 It’s 1984, and all we want for Christmas is our mom back. Join us as we turn around back to 1984 with Punky Brewster during her very special, very crucial first Christmas with her new family. WARNING: This episode contains Santa spoilers from 23:45 to 27:31. **** 🎙 Guests: Adam Pope (The Retro Network, @hojukoolander). Steven (UFO Club). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. I totally missed the 2021 Punky Brewster revival series on Peacock. 2. Ami Foster (Margaux) in Wrinkles in Need of Cuddles. 3. The Punky Brewster Wiki exists and is very helpful...2022-07-091h 12
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 SpecialsHey Arnold!: Arnold’s Christmas🎄 It’s 1996, and we’re holding our football-shaped heads high on a quest to find our neighbor’s long-lost daughter… but first, a pair of highly sought after Nancy Spumoni snow boots! Join us for a very special Christmas episode that solidified Hey Arnold! as an unforgettable Nicktoon. **** 🎙 Guests: Anthony Caruso (Tis the Podcast, @ACaruso929). Matt Eurich (TGI Podcast, @MattEurich). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The story behind the iconic Vietnam Episode of ‘Hey Arnold!’ (NBC News, 2021). 2. Arnold’s Claymation origins: Arnold Escapes from Church, 1988. 3. Arnold Uses His Imagination...2021-12-221h 02
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsRaggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper🎄 It’s 1978, and we’re glued to the TV… whether we like it or not. Join us as we catch the next reindeer flight to save Santa’s workshop from being taken over by a palette swapped Wile E. Coyote. **** 🎙 Guests: Molly Patton (MollyPatton.com, @molly_patton, @MoMakesStuffUp). Adam Pope (RetroDaze, Wizards: The Podcast Guide to Comics, @hojukoolander). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure and The Greedy. 2. Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, in example: A Sheep in the Deep. 3. The Gloopstik Corpora...2021-12-141h 02
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Special Sesame Street Christmas🎄 It’s 1978, and celebrities pretending to be ghosts are gaslighting Oscar the Grouch into participating in Christmas. Also, Michael Jackson shows up. This Scrooge Sunday, witness the other Sesame Street Christmas special from 1978, featuring 3 whole, entire Muppets. **** 🎙 Guests: Alan Johnson (@AlanJ) from Two Bad Neighbors in the 31st Century, now a Futurama Podcast. Donnie Storms (@boxcar45, Bronwen’s Ghost). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Our episode on Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. 2. I thought Tough Pigs made up this special in 2001 to be funny, but nope, it’s real. 3...2021-12-121h 26
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Dick Van Dyke Show: The Alan Brady Show Presents🎄 It’s 1963, and we’re watching a show about a show within a show putting on a show for Christmas. Don’t ask us to make sense of it. We can’t stop tripping over our own home furniture. **** 🎙 Guest: Tim Babb (Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast, @TimBabbComedian, @ChristmasPod). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Dick Van Dyke as Tubby the Tuba. 2. 8 great little details you never noticed in The Dick Van Dyke Show Christmas episode (MeTV). 3. Every Episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Ranked (Vulture). 4. 92-yea...2021-12-0446 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Snowman☃️ It’s 1982, and we’re walking in the air. The Advent Calendar House takes flight for its 7th season as we melt over a British Christmas classic and a personal favorite I wish was more beloved stateside. **** 🎙 Guest: Adam Parker Sibun from the Merry Britsmas Podcast (@MerryBritsmas). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. New theme song! Thanks, Bronwen’s Ghost! 2. Merry Britsmas episode on Raymond Briggs. 3. The British Film Institute’s Top 100 British TV Programmes of the 20th Century. 4. The special’s 3 openings, featuring Briggs, David Bowie, and Mel Smith as...2021-12-021h 16
Totally Rad Christmas!The Legend of Zelda (w/ Chad and Mike)What’s up, dudes? It’s dangerous to podcast alone. Take this. That’s right! Mike Westfall from Advent Calendar House and Chad Young from Horror Movie BBQ join me to talk all things Hyrule and the Legend of Zelda! The Adventure of Link was one of the hottest selling games in Christmas of 1988! There was even a Christmas album based on Zelda music! So grab your ocarina, your Master Sword, and your silver arrow, and enjoy this NES filled trip down Christmas past!http://www.horrormoviebbq.com/https://adventcalendar.house/Give us a buzz...2021-10-191h 30
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Flintstone Christmas🎄 We close out another countdown to Christmas in July with a sleigh ride back to the Stone-Age Year of Our Lord 1977 to watch Santa fall off the roof and a guy who acts like a caveman take over his job. **** 🎙 Guests: Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas, @RadChristmas). Sean Sotka (The Christmas Podcasts Podcast, @xander0527). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Our episode on the Fruity Pebbles Christmas Commercial. 2. I found a Flintstones chronology on, of all places, Flickr. 3. The Internet Archive’s VHS Vault. 4. Domino Rally. ...2021-07-231h 21
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsDinosaurs: Refrigerator Day🦖 Get your frying pan ready and join us on a journey to what feels like 60 million years ago back to 1991 to observe the most wonderful time of the year for the Jim Henson Company’s Dinosaurs, which by some Fridge Day miracle is the Advent Calendar House’s first TGIF episode. **** 🎙 Guest: Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The Dinosaurs parody on The Simpsons. 2. We go from talking about the Økėÿ Døkęÿ Køøkïñ segment of Muppets Now to Netflix’s Nailed It! 3. Sally Struthers (Charlene) for In...2021-07-191h 10
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsPhineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation🎄 I know what we’re going to podcast about today, so get ready for a toboggan ride without even getting out of bed back to 2009 to watch Phineas and Ferb save their very nice town’s Christmas Vacation. **** 🎙 Guests: Brandon Medley (@brandmed, @blessedarethegeek). James Riley (@yourbuddyspooky). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Ferb) in Love Actually and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. 2. The time James accidentally knocked over Ben Stiller. 3. The Sears Wish Book catalog. 4. Today’s TV Trope: Look Both Ways. 5. What Does...2021-07-171h 19
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise🐰 Hop, hop, hop with us back to 1981 for our first trip to Bear Country, which it turns out was built on top of the Easter Bunny’s industrial nightmare factory. **** 🎙 Guests: Alan Johnson (Two Bad Neighbors – A Simpsons Podcast, Talespin Trivia, @AlanJ). Emily Rowley (smiling politely, @mlerowley). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise on the official YouTube channel. 2. Yes, we all collectively mispronounced “Berenstain.” 3. The VHS cover, for reference. 4. The Berenstain Bears: The Very First Easter, being the story of the Passion and Resu...2021-07-0752 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Cosmic Christmas🎄 By special request, this episode of the official podcast of teaching aliens about Christmas takes you on a domesticated goose chase back to 1977 through the first fully animated feature by Canadian studio Nelvana. **** 🎙 Guest: Jeff Fox (Name That Christmas Special, @chrspecials). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Jeff’s collection of A Cosmic Christmas music and scanned promotional items. 2. Joanna Wilson’s Christmas TV History. 3. This special got George Lucas’s attention and led to Nelvana producing the animated segment of the Star Wars Holiday Special. 4. The Nelvana Story: T...2021-07-031h 10
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Chipmunk Christmas🎄 It’s time for toys and time for cheer as the Advent Calendar House begins another 12-episode countdown to Christmas in July, starting by rewinding at twice the normal speed back to 1981 to revisit the Christmas special that helped kick off the revival of Alvin and the Chipmunks. **** 🎙 Guests: Steven Tsapelas (Wizards: The Podcast Guide to Comics, @StevenStaples81). Sean Sotka (The Christmas Podcasts Podcast, @xander0527). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Steven’s story of accidentally erasing his VHS recording of this special, only to find another recording of the same broadcast y...2021-07-011h 01Total Christmas PodcastEpisode 28 - Jingle Bells, Batman SmellsIt's Episode 28 and if my knowledge of numerology is correct, I foresee that this show will be full of the usual stuff.After last week's wonderful rendition of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells we revisit the song to learn a bit about it's origins and Robin sings some of the numerous versions of the song.We have a fantastic quiz about the book A Christmas Carol. It's your chance to find out if you know as much as you think you know about this great classic.Then we look at Bugs Bunny's Looney Tunes C...2021-04-2541 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Smurfs’ Christmas Special🎄 It’s Christmas Eve in the Advent Calendar House as we walk through a ring of fire back to 1982 to dance with the Smurfs and watch goodness make the badness go away. **** 🎙 Guests: Thom Crowe (Tis the Podcast, @thomcrowe). Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas, @RadChristmas). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch The Smurfs’ Christmas Special on the official Smurfs YouTube channel. 2. We want to try Greedy Smurf’s cauldron of pink pudding. 3. My son thinks the king of Hyrule is Santa. 4. I just now learned about Wa...2020-12-241h 09
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 SpecialsDoug’s Christmas Story🎄 We’re skating on thin ice back to 1993 for a very educational trip to Bluffington in an episode of Doug that I forgot was a Christmas episode I was watching for the podcast. **** 🎙 On This Episode: Greg Stevens (Pop Arena, Nick Knacks, @pop_arena). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Disney’s Doug was fine, y’all. 2. Doug creator Jim Jinkins worked on Nickelodeon’s first show, Pinwheel. 3. Early versions of Doug in a bumper for USA Network and a PSA for Florida Grapefruit Juice narrated by Lorenzo Music. 4...2020-12-1857 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Little Drummer Boy🎄On this episode of the official holiday podcast for people who hate all humans — which, in 2020, is most of us — we dance to the beat of our own drum back to 1968 and back into the Rankin/Bass universe for their stop-motion follow-up to Rudolph. **** 🎙 Guests Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Star Weirdos). Michael May (MichaelMay.online, Sleigh Bell Cinema, AfterLUNCH, Mystery Movie Night, @michaelmaycomix). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. This was Romeo Muller’s favorite Christmas special he wrote for Rankin/Bass. Also, that link on Rankin/Bass’s website is from 2003 and looks li...2020-12-1653 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Jack Benny Program: Jack Goes Christmas Shopping⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This podcast discusses a 1960 episode of The Jack Benny Program in which a character shoots himself offscreen. 🎄 Join us as we second-, third-, and fourth-guess ourselves back to 1960 to go Christmas shopping with Jack Benny, the last televised version of a longtime radio favorite. **** 🎙 Guest: Guy Hutchinson (GuyHutchinson.com, Drunk On Disney Podcast, @GuyHutchinson). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The Television Academy Foundation’s page on Jack Benny’s Christmas Shopping show, including a video interview with show writer George Balzer. 2. The earliest Christmas Shopping variant I could...2020-12-1453 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsChristmas Comes to Pacland🎄 The Advent Calendar House kicks off another Christmas countdown by rewinding back to 1982, when Santa found himself stranded in Pac-Man’s neighborhood in the original video game crash. WARNING: This episode contains spoilers about Santa Claus from 11:25 to 13:30. **** 🎙 Guests: Lindy (@ieatvideogames) and Alicia (@thinkbluee), the Sour Puss and Chomp-Chomp to my Pac-Baby. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Santa is flying with 8 reindeer, including Rudolph. Who got the night off? 2. Why some reindeer actually have red noses. 3. This might be the first time a Christmas special shows Santa u...2020-12-0250 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsInspector Gadget Saves Christmas🎄 Go-go Gadget podcast! It’s time to spring back to 1992 to take Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas in for questioning. **** 🎙 Guest: Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, @horrormoviebbq). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Nick Knacks, a show-by-show video history of Nickelodeon. 2. Halloween 1992 was the year of white kids dressing like Steve Urkel. 3. Inspector Gadget’s run on Nickelodeon got me into Get Smart on Nick at Nite. 4. The time Chad got an crew jacket from the set of the Inspector Gadget movie. 5. The action figure that reve...2020-07-1156 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsShalom Sesame: Chanukah🕎 To kick off Hanukkah, we’re shining a light on a 1990 episode of Shalom Sesame, an on-again, off-again co-production of Sesame Street and its Israeli counterpart, Rechov Sumsum, featuring the objectively better son from Growing Pains. **** 🎙 Guest: Sarah Shay (SarayShay.com, Bandcamp, Pilot House Podcast, @thesarahshay). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. A brief history of Shalom Sesame, provided by the ever-thorough Muppet Wiki. 2. Israel’s Big Bird stand-in, Kippi Ben Kippod, is mistranslated as a porcupine despite clearly being a hedgehog. A similar but unclothed costume was used in Spain’s Barrio Sés...2019-12-221h 00
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 SpecialsMister Magoo’s Christmas Carol🎄 It’s a very special Scrooge Sunday episode as we nearly-blindly fumble back to 1962 to celebrate TV’s first ever animated Christmas special. **** 🎙 Guests: Anthony Caruso (@acaruso929) and Julia Colburn from Tis the Podcast. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Jim Backus, the voice of Mister Magoo, based his portrayal of Thurston Howell III from Gilligan’s Island on another character he played on a radio show hosted by another famous future Scrooge, Alan Young. 2. Nephew Fred is cut entirely to make room for a song about Broadway that sometimes also gets cu...2019-12-1554 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsSealab 2021: Feast of AlvisContent Warning: If you usually let your children listen to your podcast feed with you, you may want to get the kids out of the pool for this one as we dive into a very festive, very inappropriate 2002 episode of the Adult Swim cartoon Sealab 2021 to wage war on the Feast of Alvis. **** 🎙 Guests: Zac Shipley (@zacshipley). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Sealab 2020, the very different, very boring original 1972 cartoon that serves as the butt of Sealab 2021’s joke. 2. The usual Sealab theme song by Calamine is absent here to make ro...2019-12-1340 min
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 SpecialsGarfield’s Halloween Adventure🎃 Put out the oars and surrender yourself to the mercy of the rivers of time as they take us back to Garfield’s terrifying 1985 Halloween special. **** 🎙 Guests: Jeff Somogyi (@sommerjam, Talkin’ Chopp). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Jim Davis wanted ‘Garfield’s Halloween Adventure’ to ‘at least scare 4-year-olds’ (The A.V. Club, 2014). 2. Samples of the comic book adaptation, Garfield in Disguise, from Rotten Ink and Goodwill Hunting 4 Geeks, including even creepier drawings of the old man and pirate ghosts. 3. The first appearance of Binky the Clown! 4. Jon’s head go...2019-10-101h 20
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 SpecialsALF’s Special ChristmasRemember ALF? He’s back, in podcast form! Tune in as we salute ALF’s two-part Christmas special from 1987, the single most depressing special starring a wisecracking alien puppet of all time. Content Warning: In this Christmas special, the goofy alien with the jokes meets a terminally ill child and a man contemplating suicide. **** 🎙 Guest: Jeff Somogyi (Talkin’ Chopp, Down the Rabbit Hole, @sommerjam). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The heartbreaking true story behind ALF’s Special Christmas. 2. A study in human ignorance: Gordon Shumway has a name, which he’s tol...2018-12-2357 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsMickey’s Twice Upon a ChristmasMickey Mouse drags his pals into third dimension in this 2004 direct-to-DVD Disney Christmas special. **** 🎙 Guests: Drew Crowley (@pizzanautgo) and John Dedeke (@johndedeke) from The Hourchive. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. If you haven’t been to a Disney theme park in the last year or two, Mickey has a different face now. 2. The hippo and crocodile from “Fantasia” have names. 3. Chuck McCann, the voice of Santa, was the Dreamfinder in the original Journey Into Imagination. 4. A quick lesson on how time zones work. 5. Putting someone’s...2018-12-201h 01
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 SpecialsEmmet Otter’s Jug-Band ChristmasJoin 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” scene from Rad. 7. Jerr...2018-12-161h 07
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 SpecialsJohn Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas TogetherWe 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 to the Muppets. 3. The Muppet Show Season 4 DVD promised at Disney’s 2009 D23 Expo, but...2018-12-081h 13
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsLamb Chop’s Special ChanukahHanukkah 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 red dreamcoat and stylin’ menorah. 3. A...2018-12-041h 21
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsChristmas Podcast Network Crossover / Season 2 TeaserIt’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. Duane Bailey (Tinsel Tunes) 5. Joseph Wade (Christmas Creeps), with Libby Cudmore 6...2018-11-2234 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
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Rugrats ChanukahIn the Advent Calendar House’s first Hanukkah episode, we follow the Rugrats on their mission to stop the “Meanie of Chanukah” and make him take a nap, counting all the Yiddish words and misspoken “babyisms” along the way. **** 🎙 Guest: Sarah Shay (Pilot House Podcast, Bandcamp, @thesarahshay). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Sarah’s top 2 favorite spellings of “Hanukkah.” 2. Going back to watch Pee-wee’s Big Adventure with the knowledge that Dottie (E.G. Daily) is the voice of Tommy Pickles. 3. A tale of 2 panics: Babies climbing up to open flames vs. b...2017-12-181h 03
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsTrailerThis holiday season, experience the joy of rewatching the same TV specials you watch every year in podcast form! It’s the Advent Calendar House: A salute to all holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones.Revisit 12 holiday TV classics and not-so-classics each December and July.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.2017-11-3000 min