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Fruity Pebbles Christmas Commercial
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
12/14/17 • 10 min
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Ho-ho-ho, I’m hu-hu-hungry! Fill your soul with season’s greetings as we revisit a collection of Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles cereal commercials of Christmas past.
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🎙 Guest:
Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, @ImGonnaDJ24).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Fruity Pebbles Christmas commercial, dated between 1986 and 1989.
2. Recut commercial, with Jim Cummings as Santa, dated between 1992 and 1995.
3. Older Fruity Pebbles Christmas commercial, dated 1980.
4. Newer Cocoa Pebbles “Christmas Carol” commercial.
5. “I’m the Master Rapper and I’m here to say, I love Fruity Pebbles in a major way!”
6. Fred and Barney know about Christmas because The Flintstones takes place in a post-apocalyptic future.
7. The Rock’s Fruity Pebbles promo on John Cena, 2011.
8. WWE’s Christmas in Baghdad opening from 2003, featuring “Stone Cold” Steve Austin disguised as Santa Claus.
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Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.
12/14/17 • 10 min


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Elmo Saves Christmas
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
07/17/23 • 126 min
🎄 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.
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🎙 Guests:
Becca Petunia (ToughPigs.com, Hubba-Wha?!, @UnclePetunio)
Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com, Movin’ Right Along)
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. “Brats of the Lost Nebula.”
2. Early “proto-Elmo” appearances.
3. Miss Piggy’s cookbook has a recipe by Maya Angelou.
5. 14 Karat Soul sings “Down Below the Street.”
6. Cookie Monster disguised as Ernie.
7. A petition to remake “White Christmas” with Elmo and Rosita’s military veteran dads.
8. This special’s unique News Flash logo.
9. The soundtrack that’s not actually a soundtrack.
10. Big Bird sings “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” but not THAT one.
11. Elmo as the ring bearer at Luis and Maria’s wedding.
12. Ranking all the jokes in “Elmo Says BOO!”
13. Bert and Ernie meet their “It’s a Wonderful Life” counterparts.
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📼 Commercial Break:
“Elmo Saves BOO!,” 1997.
Returning Student, a 40-year-old’s journey to finish the college degree he never got.
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“Elmo Saves Christmas” © 1996 Children’s Television Workshop.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
07/17/23 • 126 min

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The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
07/13/20 • 47 min
🎃 It’s the 13th of July, so it’s time for the Advent Calendar House to unearth one of our favorite Halloween haunts, 1979’s The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t, starring an exceptionally great Judd Hirsch as Count Dracula.
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🎙 Guest:
Tom Coombs (TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny, @ClassicTomedy).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. This was renamed for its VHS release as The Night Dracula Saved the World, except no, he doesn’t.
2. Lyndhurst Mansion plays the role of both Dracula’s castle and the Witch’s castle. It’s located in New York state, not far from Sleepy Hollow.
3. The opening music, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, was never in a Dracula movie. Its first uses in sound film were in 1931’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and 1934’s The Black Cat, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
4. My association of the music to Dracula probably stems from its use on Castle Dracula, a haunted boat ride on the Wildwood, New Jersey boardwalk that burned down in 2002.
5. Jack Riley (Warren the Werewolf) was also the voice of Stu Pickles on Rugrats, and did a bunch of Country Crock spread commercials.
6. Judd Hirsch as Dracula exaggeratedly disco dancing in a white Saturday Night Fever jumpsuit is the greatest way to end anything ever.
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:
McDonald’s Scared Silly Halloween commercial, starring Ronald McDonald and the Chicken McNuggets, circa 1986.
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“The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t” © 1979 Concepts Unlimited.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.
07/13/20 • 47 min

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TaleSpin: Jolly Molly Christmas
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
12/08/22 • 50 min
🎄 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.
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🎙 Guest:
Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24).
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💬 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 animated one, is somehow Germany’s biggest box office draw ever.
4. “Tales of the Gold Monkey,” a single-season TV show that inspired “TaleSpin.”
5. “What a Dummy,” an even shorter single-season TV show featuring Janna Michaels (Molly) and a living ventriloquist’s dummy.
6. Joey’s Interview with Pat Fraley (Wildcat), again!
7. Today’s TV Trope: String-on-Finger Reminder.
8. Cape Suzette and Louie’s Place on the Disney Wiki.
9. Flunkey, the Einstein-haired monkey from “The Jungle Book” whose “TaleSpin” counterpart appears to be Santa Louie’s “elf,” Waldo.
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:
McDonald’s TaleSpin Happy Meal Toys, 1990.
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🎤 And Now, These Messages:
Snow in Southtown, holiday TV specials, movies, music, and more!
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“TaleSpin” and “Jolly Molly Christmas” © 1990 The Walt Disney Company.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
12/08/22 • 50 min

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Halloween Is Grinch Night
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
07/13/21 • 81 min
🎃 It’s spooky time as we wheel our paraphernalia wagon back to 1977 for a Grinch Night we’ll never forget.
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🎙 Guests:
James Riley (@yourbuddyspooky).
Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight, @TeeAitchAre).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Halloween is Grinch Night on the Dr. Seuss Wiki.
2. The worst, non-candy Halloween treats.
4. This special’s music was by Sesame Street composer Joe Raposo.
5. Hans Conried (The Grinch) was also the titular character in Dr. Seuss’s The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
6. I badly describe the plot of Midnight Madness.
7. The Hakken-Kraks in Oh, the Places You’ll Go.
8. Is the Grinch’s magic only active on Grinch Night?
9. The Euphemism, and other words I thought Dr. Seuss made up.
10. An ode to the Whos' videophone.
11. Dr. Seuss Goes to War, and other creators of great works doing terrible things.
12. Bogleech’s gallery of the Grinch’s monsters, and our personal favorites.
13. The Vug under the Rug, the Jibboo, and the Birthday Bird.
14. Danse macabre.
15. Is this a prequel? And where does The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat fit?
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:
Franken Berry and Monster Cereals, 1986, preserved by Dinosaur Dracula.
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🎤 And Now, These Messages:
“Halloween is Grinch Night” © 1977 DePatie–Freleng Enterprises.
Say hi on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
07/13/21 • 81 min

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Alpha’s Magical Christmas
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
07/11/23 • 80 min
🎄 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.
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🎙 Guests:
Andre Bennett (Cult Cinema Cloister, Philadelphia Championship Rock Paper Scissors, @AndreBennettGO).
C.J. Bélanger (Christmas Sessions).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Watch “Alpha’s Magical Christmas,” preserved by Dinosaur Dracula.
2. “Chosen Sentai Jetman” on Shout Factory TV.
3. “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always” on Netflix.
4. Morphed: Cheryl Saban’s Journey from Beach Bunny to Philanthropist.
5. The real-life Command Center: The House of the Book at the American Jewish University.
6. Baby Groot and the bomb that will kill everyone.
7. Andre proves “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie.
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📼 Commercial Break:
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Karate Club Video, 1994.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Fan Club, 1994.
The Magic of the Season, a podcast celebrating the holidays that we live for.
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“Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” and “Alpha’s Magical Christmas” © 1994 Saban Entertainment, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
07/11/23 • 80 min

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Claymation Comedy of Horrors
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
07/13/23 • 67 min
Previously 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.
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🎙 Guests:
Sammy Hain (@SammyHain).
Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, @horrormoviebbq).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. IMDb’s photo gallery from this special.
2. “The Adventures of Mark Twain.”
3. Todd Tolces’ website and YouTube résumé.
4. Michele Mariana (Wilshire) on “Sesame Street” as Cecile, the singing ball of clay.
5. Herb from Burger King.
6. Will Vinton wanted to build a theme park called Claymation Station with Wilshire Pig as its Mickey Mouse.
7. Raphael opened the floodgates for characters made for children saying curse words.
8. Sheldon the Snail bears a passing resemblance to The Noid.
9. A closer examination of the bathroom graffiti.
10. Today’s TV Trope: Removable Shell.
11. Does Famine’s business card say he’s from Limbo, Illinois?
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📼 Commercial Break:
McDonald’s Coke Float Commercial, 1991, aired during this special.
Another Zelda Podcast... you’ll never guess what it’s about.
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“Claymation Comedy of Horrors” © 1991 Will Vinton Productions.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
07/13/23 • 67 min

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Garfield’s Halloween Adventure
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
10/10/19 • 80 min
🎃 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.
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🎙 Guests:
Jeff Somogyi (@sommerjam, Talkin’ Chopp).
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💬 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 going through the bottom of a falling jack-o’-lantern could have killed him at worst and concussed him at best.
5. How many kids in the history of trick-or-treating got suckered into getting double the candy for their siblings?
6. The time a raccoon broke into Jeff’s attic and left a hornet’s nest inside a Nativity scene shepherd.
7. Speaking of attics, the Pink Panther advertising Owens Corning fiberglass insulation.
8. The Roy Ogle of the very random passing reference “Roy Ogle’s roots” was a plant breeder at Clemson University. They’re sweet potatoes.
9. The black cat pajamas may be a callback to the killer panther from 1984’s Garfield in the Rough, another good special to put on if you want to give your kids nightmares.
10. If ghosts are real, as this special establishes, was the ghost of Jon’s grandfather watching all the Christmas festivities in that special?
11. C. Lindsay Workman, the voice of the old man, and also Garfield’s grandfather in Garfield on the Town, and God in Garfield: His 9 Lives.
12. The “double burn” glowing effect used on the ghosts reminds us of the Night on Bald Mountain sequence of Fantasia.
13. We had to ask: Did Garfield an Odie really survive the night, or is everything thereafter really Garfield Minus Garfield?
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:
McDonald’s Halloween Pumpkin Pails!
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“Garfield’s Halloween Adventure” ©1985 United Feature Syndicate, Inc./Anderson Digital.
Closing Music: Witch’s Night Out, by Razoreater, written by Peter Rochon.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.
The Advent Calendar House is on the web at adventcalendar.house, on Twitter @adventcalhouse, and part of the Christmas Podcast Network.
10/10/19 • 80 min

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A Muppet Family Christmas
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
12/04/17 • 58 min
To mark the 30th anniversary of the shredded wheat and cranberry sauce of TV specials, we take a head count of every unexpected guest Fozzie Bear’s mother graciously welcomed into her home on Christmas Eve, 1987. It’s a lot.
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🎙 Guest:
Carlin Trammel (Nerd Lunch, Dragonfly Ripple, @nerdlunch).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. We try and piece together the various home video cuts and music rights issues.
2. The dizzying continuity issues surrounding the Muppet Babies.
3. Can you say “OshKosh B’gosh”?
4. A milk PSA and the world’s most forward-thinking bullies.
5. Osvaldo el Gruñón, Oscar the Grouch’s Puerto Rican counterpart.
6. Parting words from the guy with the beard doing the dishes.
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“A Muppet Family Christmas” © 1987 Jim Henson Productions.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.
12/04/17 • 58 min

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The Little Drummer Boy, Book II
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
07/19/23 • 52 min
🎄 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.
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🎙 Guests:
Brandon Medley (@brandmed, 📸 @blessedarethegeek)
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Allen Swift (Melchior) as Twinkie the Kid.
2. Simeon the bellmaker is very loosely based on the Biblical Simeon, but his Song of Simeon is left out.
3. Ray Owens (Simeon) as the voice of Superbook, and Jesus in “The Flying House.”
4. Zero Mostel (Brutus) on “The Muppet Show.”
5. “Money Money Money” (not the song from “Mamma Mia!”)
6. How bad is Brutus compared to the other Rankin/Bass Christmas villains?
7. “Do You Hear What I Hear?” was written during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
8. Our favorite recordings of “Do You Hear What I Hear?” by Copeland, the Mike Sammes Singers for Disneyland Records, and one by Spiraling that invokes The Who’s “Baba O’Riley.”
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📼 Commercial Break:
Kodak XL Movie Camera: “One Christmas,” 1976.
Holly Jolly X’masu, your podcast destination for Japanese Christmas music.
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“The Little Drummer Boy, Book II” © 1976 Rankin/Bass Productions.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
07/19/23 • 52 min

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The podcast is about Leisure, Holidays, Christmas, Classic Tv, Podcasts, Animation & Manga, Tv, Tv Reviews and Tv & Film.
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The average episode length on Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials is 65 minutes.
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