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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 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 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 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