Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
153 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsA salute to all TV holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones. Revisit 12 holiday classics and not-so-classics each December and July.
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Frasier: Look Before You Leap
February 29, 2024 08:25 - 1 hour - 70 MBThe 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). **** 💬 Topic...
A Christmas Carol (1984)
December 24, 2023 08:25 - 2 hours - 130 MB🎄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 Pennywo...
Yogi’s First Christmas
December 22, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 82.6 MB🎄It’s 1980, and my spoiled nephew just got beaten in a ski-jumping contest by a bear who’s never seen winter before. Join us we fail upward through middle to upper hotel management featuring a simultaneously very mature and very immature conversation about cartoon bears discovering mistletoe. What could be the Jellystone Winter Lodge’s final Christmas carnival manages to wake up Yogi Bear, who hibernates directly underneath it but somehow never knew about it before now. **** 🎙 Guest...
The Great Santa Claus Switch
December 20, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 94.4 MB🎄It’s 1970, and Santa’s been locked up in an underground cave with 2 giant Muppet monsters. Join us as we venture through the tunnels under Santa’s workshop to uncover Jim Henson’s first ever TV holiday special, presented by The Ed Sullivan Show and featuring the first Muppet performances by Richard Hunt, Fran Brill, Marilyn Sokol, and John Lovelady, as well as the first appearances of Thog and a familiar-looking Frackle who’d later be reworked into the Great Gonzo. **** 🎙 Guests: ...
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
December 18, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB🎄It’s 1983, and the Worst Kids in the World are taking over the church Nativity play, smoking in the ladies’ room, and helping themselves to the sacramental grape juice. Join us as we meet the Herdmans in a classic Christmas story turned TV movie starring Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H and a young Fairuza Balk in her on-screen debut. **** 🎙 Guests: Scott Leopold (Holly Jolly X’masu) Bob Baker (Festive Foreign Film Fans) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Today’s TV Tropes: It’s ...
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Season’s Greedings
December 16, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB🎄It’s 1994, and the Jeffersons are poisoning Metropolis with greed spray from toy atomic space rats. Join us on an unpredictable flight through the first Christmas episode of “Lois and Clark,” written by Dean Cain and starring Sherman Hemsley as the Toyman and Isabel Sanford as his reluctant assistant, plus Denise Richards, Dick Van Patten, Doug Llewellyn, and terrible special effects. **** 🎙 Guests: Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas) Paxton Holley (Cavalcade of Awesome, Cul...
Santa, Baby!
December 14, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 73.7 MB🎄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 S...
Tales From the Crypt: And All Through the House
December 12, 2023 08:25 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB🎄It’s 1989, and a killer in a Santa suit is making it really hard to hide my dead husband’s body. You better watch out as we dig up the first filmed episode of “Tales From the Crypt,” a cozy Christmas nightmare directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring his then-wife and talented screamer, Mary Ellen Trainor, and the kid who gets her hoverboard stolen by Marty McFly. **** 🎙 Guests: Jamie Ray (Fave Five From Fans, Complete Disarray with Jamie Ray) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: ...
An American Christmas Carol
December 10, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 61.2 MB🎄 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 & Tangen...
Full-Court Miracle
December 08, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB🕎 It’s 2003, and a team of Hebrew school basketball players think they’ve found the ghost of Judah Maccabee in a random guy living in a van. It’s time once again to think about the Seleucid Empire as we watch a Disney Channel Original Hanukkah Movie very loosely based on the true story of former college basketball star Lamont Carr and a yeshiva’s struggling team looking for a leader. **** 🎙 Guests: April Ryley (@where2nextapril, @thefancygeologist). J.W. Friedman (I Don’t Even...
A Mouse, A Mystery, and Me
December 06, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB🎄 It’s 1987, and someone stole Santa Claus in the middle of his hot dog break. Join us as we follow a renowned novelist who may or may not be a teenager and her animated mouse writing partner on a quest find out who kidnapped a department store Santa, while we solve the mystery of how anyone remembers this Christmas special that only aired once. **** 🎙 Guests: Lindy Kempe (Bluesky). Emily Rowley (Threads). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Dick Van Patten’s shout-out in “W...
The Soulmates in The Gift of Light
December 04, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 93.1 MB🎄 It’s 1991, and Santa Claus is fighting with a talking dog over a park bench. By some Christmas miracle, this obscure special was rediscovered over 30 years later. For years, people on the Internet tried to identify it on a TV in the background of an old family photo, until finally, thanks to the power of positivity, it was identified as “The Soulmates in The Gift of Light.” Join us as we meet the intergalactic Soulmates in what seems like a pilot that never got off the ground. **** ...
Christmastime with Mister Rogers
December 02, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 101 MB🎄 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...
Trailer
November 30, 2023 10:10 - 53 seconds - 841 KBThis 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.
Animaniacs: A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners
November 01, 2023 07:25 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MB🎄 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...
A Flintstones Christmas Carol
July 23, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 91.7 MB🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we watched a cavemen take over Santa’s job after he fell off the roof in “A Flintstone Christmas.” This time, our reunion tour of previously podcasted-about characters makes its final stop of the season in Bedrock, where Fred Flintstone is letting the lead role of “Ebonezer” Scrooge go to his head, while Wilma is doing the workload of I lost count of how many victims of the highly contagious Bedrock Bug. We also make the strongest case yet that t...
ALF: Turkey in the Straw
July 21, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBPreviously 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 (For...
The Little Drummer Boy, Book II
July 19, 2023 07:25 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB🎄 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 (Mel...
Elmo Saves Christmas
July 17, 2023 07:25 - 2 hours - 116 MB🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we spent Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Hanukkah on “Shalom Sesame,” and even uncovered the oddity, “A Special Sesame Street Christmas.” This time, join us as we fly faster than time backwards around the globe to 1996 to watch Elmo save, then ruin, then fix Christmas, featuring Maya Angelou, Harvey Fierstein as the Easter Bunny, and “Doc Hopper,” himself, Charles Durning as Santa. **** 🎙 Guests: Becca Petunia (ToughPigs.com, Hubba-Wha?!...
It’s Punky Brewster: Christmas in July
July 15, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB🎄 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 t...
Claymation Comedy of Horrors
July 13, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBPreviously 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, @horrormovi...
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Alpha’s Magical Christmas
July 11, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 74 MB🎄 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: ...
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll
July 09, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 66.4 MB🎄 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 D...
A Rugrats Passover
July 07, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 109 MB🫓 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, @thesarahshay). Zach Gozlan (@zachgozlan, “How I Got (Somewhat) Smart(er in Five Months)”)...
’Tis the Season to be Smurfy
July 05, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we witnessed goodness make the badness go away in “The Smurfs’ Christmas Special.” This time, we’re taking a one giant puppy open sleigh ride back to 1987 to help the Smurfs save Christmas for a poor human toymaker and his gravely ill wife, while Brainy and Hefty get lost in medieval Crime Alley. **** 🎙 Guests: Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames). Donnie Storms (Bronwen’s Ghost, @boxcar45). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “’Tis ...
The Berenstain Bears’ Comic Valentine
July 03, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 64.3 MB💝 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we visited the Easter Bunny’s underground nightmare factory in “The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise.” This time, it’s 1982, and love and hockey are in the air as Brother Bear gets stalked by a secret admirer, and his Papa’s public displays of affection send him into orbit. **** 🎙 Guest: Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “The Berenstain Bears’ Comic Valentine” on YouTube. 2. The Broad Str...
The New Batman Adventures: Holiday Knights
July 01, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour - 80.2 MB🎄 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 P...
Regift: The Muppets Valentine Show
February 13, 2023 19:15 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MB🎁 This is a Regift — an episode from the Advent Calendar House’s back catalog shared again for a limited time to spread even more holiday cheer. Our first Regift episode, originally published in February 2019, is a salute to “The Muppets Valentine Show,” a 1974 pilot of what would eventually become “The Muppet Show,” guest-starring a pregnant Mia Farrow. Guests: Brian Arnold, Joey O. Full show notes with links and credits on the original episode: https://adventcalendar.house/muppet...
It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
December 24, 2022 08:25 - 2 hours - 110 MB🎄 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 Harm...
The Snowman and The Snowdog
December 22, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 68 MB🎄 It’s 2012, and I found a 60-year-old tangerine under a floorboard in my bedroom that’s the perfect size for a snowman’s nose… or is it? Join us for another walk in the air back to 2012 for the charming sequel to the British Christmas classic, “The Snowman,” by the now-late Raymond Briggs. **** 🎙 Guest: Adam Parker Sibun (Merry Britsmas). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. I finally got a copy of the original Raymond Briggs book! 2. UK Christmas’s “The Snowman” TV listing ...
The Nanny: The Hanukkah Story
December 20, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 64.3 MB🕎 It’s 1998, and we’re praying for a miracle after getting stuck in a snow bank on the side of a dark highway with only an eighth of a tank of gas. Join us on an enlightening revisit to the Flashy Girl from Flushing on her first Hanukkah as a married woman. Also, Ray Charles is here! **** 🎙 Guest: April Ryley (@Where2NextApril). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “The Hanukkah Story” on Facebook. 2. April visits the Sheffield residence, and so can you. 3. Fran Dres...
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A Hearth’s Warming Tail
December 18, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB🎄 It’s 2016, and a Scrooge-like unicorn is brewing a potion to eliminate Hearth’s Warming Eve from the calendar. That’s how potions work, right? Join us for a Scrooge Sunday canter through a “Christmas Carol” adaptation set in Equestria, the world of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.” **** 🎙 Guests: Jon and Bin (Bin’s Toy Bin, Santa by the Minute). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” on YouTube. 2. Mike on Santa by the Minute. 3. The fi...
A Very Merry Cricket
December 16, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB🎄 It’s 1973, and a musical cricket is about to save the Christmas spirit during New York City’s quietest power failure. Join us for a one-cat open sleigh ride into Chuck Jones’s beautifully animated sequel to “The Cricket in Times Square.” **** 🎙 Guest: Michael DiGiovanni (Pop Culture Retrofit, Classic Film Jerks, @TheyCallMeDiGio). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. A very insightful Letterboxd review. 2. Name That Christmas Special’s screenshot gallery for this special. ...
The Wonder Years: A Very Cutlip Christmas
December 14, 2022 08:25 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB🎄 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 ...
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
December 12, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 100 MB🎄 It’s 1997, and Tim Curry as an evil pipe organ is literally bringing down the house. Join us as we journey into the depths of Disney’s direct-to-video library for an unnecessary but charming midquel that explains why the Beast hates Christmas and raises even more questions about the curse on his castle. **** 🎙 Guests: Kristi (@BadPrincessMov) and Bri (@wallabri) from Bad Princess Movies. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Bad Princess Movies on Disney’s original “Beauty and ...
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
December 10, 2022 08:25 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MB🎄 It’s 1975, and a shepherd boy just lost his sight after staring directly at a lightning bolt. Join us as we return to enchanted world of Rankin/Bass Christmas specials for an overlooked, underrated, and redundantly titled hidden gem about neither the first Christmas, nor the first Christmas snow. **** 🎙 Guest: Mike Troxell (@Prune_Tracy, Mastodon: [email protected]). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Vox’s Emily St. James ranks all the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials....
TaleSpin: Jolly Molly Christmas
December 08, 2022 08:25 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB🎄 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. ...
Pat Boone and Family Christmas Special
December 06, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB🎄 It’s 1979, and no one wants to go to Pat Boone’s lame Christmas party, but we hope you’ll accept our invitation to discover this bizarre but wholesome special featuring the Hudson Brothers, the stars of “The Ropers” as themselves but also still as the Ropers, and a criminally brief appearance by Yogi Bear and his Hanna-Barbera friends. **** 🎙 Guest: Guy Hutchinson (GuyHutchinson.com, Drunk on Disney). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch the Pat Boone and Family Christmas S...
A Christmas Carol (1971)
December 04, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 70.6 MB🎄 It’s 1971, and Alastair Sim is delivering an even more animated performance as Scrooge. Join us as we invade your personal space for salute an animated adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” that bent the rules and became the last TV special to win an Oscar, directed by Richard Williams and executive produced by Chuck Jones. **** 🎙 Guests: Michael May (MichaelMay.online, AfterLUNCH). Rob Graham (AfterLUNCH, @spidey004). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Michael May’s Christma...
Prep & Landing Trilogy
December 01, 2022 08:25 - 2 hours - 138 MB🎄 It’s the Advent Calendar House’s 5th anniversary, so instead of celebrating one Christmas special, we watched three! Clear the runway as we salute Disney’s trilogy of 2009’s “Prep & Landing,” 2010’s “Operation: Secret Santa,” and 2011’s “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice.” SANTA SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains Santa-adjacent spoilers from 1:24:28 to 1:26:49. **** 🎙 Guests: Jeff Somogyi (Linktree: @sommerjam). Paxton Holley (Cavalcade of Awesome, Cult Film Club, Hellben...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948)
November 01, 2022 07:25 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB🎄 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). **** ...
The Weird Al Show: The Obligatory Holiday Episode
July 23, 2022 07:25 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MB🎄 It’s 1997, and we couldn’t decide which holiday to end the season with, so we’re celebrating them all. Pack up your accordion and join us on a journey 20 miles below the surface of the Earth to the very Pee-wee’s Playhouse-like split-level cave of “Weird Al” Yankovic as he learns to listen to his friends and family. **** 🎙 Guests: Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Weirdle, the “Weird Al”-themed offshoot of Heardle, the mus...
Q*bert: Thanksgiving for the Memories
July 21, 2022 07:25 - 1 hour - 72.1 MB🦃 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 whil...
Beverly Hills 90210: It’s a Totally Happening Life
July 19, 2022 07:25 - 1 hour - 81.6 MB🎄 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). **...
The Jetsons: A Jetson Christmas Carol
July 17, 2022 07:25 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB🎄 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 b...
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: I’m Dreaming of a White Ranger
July 15, 2022 07:25 - 1 hour - 91 MB🎄 It’s 1995, and a couple of giant space monsters with swords are about to lose a snowball fight against the powerless Power Rangers, who can’t Morph at the North Pole due to a cross-current of holiday magic. And also magnets. You can watch I’m Dreaming of a White Ranger on the official Powers Rangers YouTube Channel. **** 🎙 Guests: Andre Bennett (@AndreBennettGO). Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. I’m Dreaming of a White Ranger on Ranger Wik...
The Wickedest Witch
July 13, 2022 07:25 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MB🎃 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 cavern...
The Christmas Tree Train
July 11, 2022 07:25 - 1 hour - 61.5 MB🎄 It’s 1983, and a young bear and fox are lost in the Big City after accidentally riding the rails on the apparently famous Christmas Tree Train in an obscure special that has little to do with Christmas trees or trains. Climb aboard as we explore the first holiday special starring Buttons and Rusty, known later as the Chucklewood Critters. You can watch The Christmas Tree Train on the Internet Archive. **** 🎙 Guest: Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will No...
Punky Brewster: Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus
July 09, 2022 07:25 - 1 hour - 66.8 MB🎄 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 Wri...
Peter and the Magic Egg
July 07, 2022 07:25 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB🐰 It’s 1983, and despite replacing our entire body with robot parts, we still can’t plow faster than a rapidly growing magic forest baby. Join us as we get things rolling with the mascots of Paas Easter egg coloring kits in a secret hit piece on landlords disguised as a wacky Easter story. On the way, we’ll meet the ever-looming shadow of the Easter Bunny and teach animals to talk by giving them clothes. **** 🎙 Guests: Sammy Hain (@SammyHain). Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, TP...