Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: We Wish You a Turtle Christmas
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12/22/18 • 55 min
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Tune in as we unearth a 1994 cash-grab video starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — or at least some version of them — a special so low-quality, it happens in a sewer.
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🎙 Guests:
Shawn Robare (Branded in the ’80s, Cult Film Club, @ShawnRobare).
Jonathan Zelenak (@TheSewerDen).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. About the Sewer Den, Jonathan’s massive TMNT collection, and his blog post about We Wish You a Turtle Christmas.
2. Of course we touch on the Turtles’ Coming Out of Their Shells Tour.
3. The Turtles’ smiles look like they’re from Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun music video.
4. Cash-grab video releases like this anime version of The Little Mermaid from 1975, which had a not-at-all-coincidental resurgence around 1990.
5. Writer Tish Rabe also produced Big Bird in China and 3-2-1 Contact, created The Cat in the Hat Learning Library after Dr. Seuss’s death, and has written over 160 children’s books.
6. Y’all want to watch 43 minutes of the Ninja Turtles on Oprah?
7. That time a warehouse that housed the Rock-afire Explosion actually exploded.
8. The resurgence of Rollerblades is right around the corner.
9. The only pizza place willing to appear in this special is Sbarro, which has come a long way since the Fat Boys’ All You Can Eat.
10. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Cookbook is a real book you should own.
11. The cheapest gifts we’ve ever gotten our parents from our elementary school Christmas bazaar.
12. Fun game: Sneak the Wrap Rap on a playlist in the middle of New Kids on the Block’s Christmas album and see if anyone notices.
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“We Wish You a Turtle Christmas” © 1994 Christopher Films, Inc. / Mirage Studios.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Tune in as we unearth a 1994 cash-grab video starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — or at least some version of them — a special so low-quality, it happens in a sewer.
****
🎙 Guests:
Shawn Robare (Branded in the ’80s, Cult Film Club, @ShawnRobare).
Jonathan Zelenak (@TheSewerDen).
****
💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. About the Sewer Den, Jonathan’s massive TMNT collection, and his blog post about We Wish You a Turtle Christmas.
2. Of course we touch on the Turtles’ Coming Out of Their Shells Tour.
3. The Turtles’ smiles look like they’re from Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun music video.
4. Cash-grab video releases like this anime version of The Little Mermaid from 1975, which had a not-at-all-coincidental resurgence around 1990.
5. Writer Tish Rabe also produced Big Bird in China and 3-2-1 Contact, created The Cat in the Hat Learning Library after Dr. Seuss’s death, and has written over 160 children’s books.
6. Y’all want to watch 43 minutes of the Ninja Turtles on Oprah?
7. That time a warehouse that housed the Rock-afire Explosion actually exploded.
8. The resurgence of Rollerblades is right around the corner.
9. The only pizza place willing to appear in this special is Sbarro, which has come a long way since the Fat Boys’ All You Can Eat.
10. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Cookbook is a real book you should own.
11. The cheapest gifts we’ve ever gotten our parents from our elementary school Christmas bazaar.
12. Fun game: Sneak the Wrap Rap on a playlist in the middle of New Kids on the Block’s Christmas album and see if anyone notices.
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“We Wish You a Turtle Christmas” © 1994 Christopher Films, Inc. / Mirage Studios.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Previous Episode
Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special
Tune in as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special the only way we know how: With lots of screaming, lots of fruitcake, and lots more screaming.
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🎙 Guests:
Erin Evans (@mserinmevans).
Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames).
Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Magic Johnson recorded his segment hours before playing in — and winning — a Lakers game. We don’t know the precise date, but one win was against the SuperSonics, possibly (but probably not) on Ice Cube’s “Good Day.”
2. One commercial break includes a bizarre Pringles commercial starring a young Brad Pitt.
4. When did fruitcake become a punchline? Christmas Past has something of an answer. Or is fruitcake a byproduct of the Joys of Jell-O era?
5. A mini ode to the Picture Phone, a giant, stationary Skype machine.
6. The working script and storyboards for this special.
7. Who mailed Grace Jones to the Reagan White House?
8. Pee-wee performing Surfin’ Bird in Back to the Beach.
9. The King of Cartoons’ cartoon: 1936’s Christmas Comes But Once a Year.
10. My feelings about snow mirror this one, particular Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, published 5 days after this special aired.
12. The awkward moment when we realize the Dinosaur Family has a pet dinosaur.
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“Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special” © 1988 Paul Reubens.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Next Episode
ALF’s Special Christmas
Remember ALF? He’s back, in podcast form! Tune in as we salute ALF’s two-part Christmas special from 1987, the single most depressing special starring a wisecracking alien puppet of all time.
Content Warning: In this Christmas special, the goofy alien with the jokes meets a terminally ill child and a man contemplating suicide.
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🎙 Guest:
Jeff Somogyi (Talkin’ Chopp, Down the Rabbit Hole, @sommerjam).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. The heartbreaking true story behind ALF’s Special Christmas.
2. A study in human ignorance: Gordon Shumway has a name, which he’s told everyone, yet everyone still calls him HEY ALIEN!
3. A study in willful alien ignorance: ALF opens everyone else’s Christmas gifts and succeeds in convincing me it’s because he doesn’t know how any of this works.
4. Talking ALF: The Storytelling Alien.
5. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
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“ALF’s Special Christmas” © 1987 Alien Productions.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
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