Podcast Episodes

Cricket on the Hearth

Season 3 Episode 4

🎄 For its first Christmas special after the success of “Rudolph,” Rankin/Bass presented us with a Dickens of a story, but not that one. 

🎙️ Brian Ear…

6 years, 7 months ago

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A Wish for Wings That Work

Season 3 Episode 3

🎄 Opus the Penguin fails to take off in his own TV Christmas special from 1991. 

🎙️ Erin Evans and Joey O. parachute in to rewatch “A Wish for Wings …

6 years, 7 months ago

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Pinocchio’s Christmas

Season 3 Episode 2

🎄 The Advent Calendar House gets overrun by earworms strong enough to burrow into wood. 

🎙️ Michael DiGiovanni and Michael May drop in to help carve …

6 years, 7 months ago

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Mickey’s Christmas Carol

Season 3 Episode 1

🎄 Season 3 of the Advent Calendar House kicks off with a new regular feature: Scrooge Sunday, celebrating the many adaptations of “A Christmas Carol.…

6 years, 7 months ago

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Garfield’s Halloween Adventure

Season 2 Episode 26

🎃 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.

🎙️ …

6 years, 9 months ago

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The Muppets Valentine Show

Season 2 Episode 25

💝 Love and dynamite are in the air as I introduce 2 guests to an early pilot of what would eventually become “The Muppet Show,” guest-starring a preg…

7 years, 5 months ago

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Christmas Eve on Sesame Street

Season 2 Episode 24

🎄 It’s Christmas Eve, and we’re celebrating with the first Christmas special I ever remember watching, from 1978. 

🎙️ Erin Evans and Joey O. help bri…

7 years, 6 months ago

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ALF’s Special Christmas

Season 2 Episode 23

🎄 Remember ALF? He’s back, in podcast form! 

🎙️ Jeff Somogyi drops by as we salute ALF’s two-part Christmas special from 1987, the single most depres…

7 years, 6 months ago

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - We Wish You a Turtle Christmas

Season 2 Episode 22

🎄 We unearthed a Christmas special so low-quality, it happens in a sewer. 

🎙️ Shawn Robare from the Cult Film Club and Jonathan Zelenak from The Sewe…

7 years, 6 months ago

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Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special

Season 2 Episode 21

🎄 Tune in as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pee-wee Herman’s Christmas special the only way we know how: With lots of screaming, lots of fruitc…

7 years, 7 months ago

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