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G.I. Joe: Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
English - July 21, 2020 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB - â â â â â - 32 ratingsTV Reviews TV & Film christmas holidays holiday specials christmas specials christmas commercials classic tv advent calendar christmas tv Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
đ S-s-seasonâs greetings-s-s! You better watch out, because today weâre kindly rewinding back to a 1985 Christmas episode of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, entitled Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town. Â
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đ Guest: ÂJoey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24). Â
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đŹ Topics & Tangents: Â1. We donât even get 4 minutes into this without talking about the U.S.S. Flagg. Â
2. Crossfire comes up for no reason. Â
3. A brief history of the G.I. Joe toy line, from âAmericaâs Movable Fighting Manâ to the Adventure Team, to âA Real American Hero.â Â
4. The Toys That Made Us on Netflix. Â
5. The âopening monologue that explains the showâ has nothing on Voltronâs. Â
6. Neil Ross (Shipwreck, Dusty, and Buzzer in this episode) has an audio camero in âWeird Alâ Yankovicâs I Canât Watch This. Â
7. Joeyâs interviews with Pat Fraley (Wild Weasel), Gregg Berger (Firefly), Michael Bell (Duke, Blowtorch, Major Bludd), and Rob Paulsen (Tripwire, his earliest known voice credit). Â
8. The Viper is Coming is both our favorite G.I. Joe episode and my dadâs favorite dad joke. Â
9. King Koopaâs Kool Kartoons, starring Christopher Collins, a.k.a. Chris Latta, the voice of Cobra Commander. Â
10. We try and find Keystone City, which may or may not be somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania. Â
11. The titular Cobra CLAW (Covert Light Aerial Weapon), an odd name for a Cobra vehicle, because snakes donât have claws. Â
12. The Definitive Ranking of all 25 Fensler G.I. Joe Parodies, by DailyDot. Â
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đŒ Retro Commercial Break: ÂWilliam âThe Refrigeratorâ Perry G.I. Joe Action Figure, 1987. Â
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âG.I. Joeâ and âCobra CLAWs Are Coming to Townâ © 1985 Hasbro, Inc. Â
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Theme song by Bronwenâs Ghost. Â
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