Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
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07/07/24 • 75 min
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🐰 It’s 2004, and a stuffed toy rabbit voluntold me to clean his house.
The Advent Calendar House celebrates both Easter in July and Scrooge Sunday with a trip to the Hundred Acre Wood as Rabbit does double duty as both the Easter Bunny and Scrooge, all while Christopher Robin is somewhere else entirely.
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🎙 Guests:
Sammy Hain (Sammy’s Easter Tails)
Matt Spaulding (North Pole Radio, Two Broke Geeks)
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Watch “Springtime with Roo” on Disney+.
2. Ads from the 2004 DVD, plus a video of some dude walking through the menu screen.
3. Why do Christopher Robin’s toys have American accents?
4. John Fiedler (Piglet) in “The Golden Girls” and “12 Angry Men.”
5. “Christmas in the Stars,” the Star Wars Christmas album.
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📼 Commercial Break:
Sears Video Game Arcade Christmas Sale (1983)
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“Winnie the Pooh” and “Springtime with Roo” © 2004 Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
🐰 It’s 2004, and a stuffed toy rabbit voluntold me to clean his house.
The Advent Calendar House celebrates both Easter in July and Scrooge Sunday with a trip to the Hundred Acre Wood as Rabbit does double duty as both the Easter Bunny and Scrooge, all while Christopher Robin is somewhere else entirely.
****
🎙 Guests:
Sammy Hain (Sammy’s Easter Tails)
Matt Spaulding (North Pole Radio, Two Broke Geeks)
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Watch “Springtime with Roo” on Disney+.
2. Ads from the 2004 DVD, plus a video of some dude walking through the menu screen.
3. Why do Christopher Robin’s toys have American accents?
4. John Fiedler (Piglet) in “The Golden Girls” and “12 Angry Men.”
5. “Christmas in the Stars,” the Star Wars Christmas album.
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📼 Commercial Break:
Sears Video Game Arcade Christmas Sale (1983)
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“Winnie the Pooh” and “Springtime with Roo” © 2004 Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Previous Episode
Santa’s Magic Toy Bag
🎄 It’s 1983, and my emotional support jack-in-the-box is not providing much help for my Imposter Syndrome.
Prepare for a deep dive into another pre-ALF puppet special from Paul Fusco starring a very depressed elf in training trying to find where he belongs in Santa’s workshop by first finding everywhere he doesn’t belong.
Plus:
Santa’s Swedish Chef-like human hands!
A three-eyed purple teddy bear we never get to see!
Paul Fusco inserting himself into his own Christmas fan fiction!
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🎙 Guests:
Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy)
Jayme Kilsby (Forever Bogus Podcast)
Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ)
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Watch “Santa’s Magic Toy Bag” on Tubi.
2. Sherman looks like A Gnome Named Gnorm.
3. The hot dog puppet from “Funland.”
4. The History of the Nickelodeon Hotel (Defunctland).
5. The keeper of Santa’s Magic Toy Bag reminds me of the presidential designated survivor.
6. Superman impales some jerk’s truck on a telephone pole in “Man of Steel.”
7. Cracked: We Ruined Santa With Math.
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📼 Commercial Break:
Sears Video Game Arcade Christmas Sale (1983)
The Studio Demands It!, a podcast that recreates, reimagines, or flat out fixes existing film franchises when a hypothetical studio demands more films.
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“Santa’s Magic Toy Bag” © 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Next Episode
Around the World with Dot
🎄 It’s 1981, and a jolly swagman who may or may not be Santa Claus is flying me around the world in a sleigh built out of a bench and some rope we had lying around to search the globe for a lost baby kangaroo.
Today’s Christmas in July episode begins where it’s actually winter in July, and only gets stranger and more inappropriate from there. It’s “Around the World with Dot,” also known as “Dot and Santa Claus,” starring the title character from an 1899 Australian children’s book, “Dot and the Kangaroo.”
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🎙 Guest:
Dan MacPherson (@danmacpherson.bsky.social)
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Watch “Around the World with Dot” on YouTube (Aussie Kids TV).
2. But you may want to watch “Dot and the Kangaroo” first.
3. Director Yoram Gross endured World War II in Poland; his family was on Schindler’s list. His studio, now Flying Bark Productions, more recently animated “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and Marvel’s “What If...?”
4. Barbara Frawley (Dot) singing “The Black Cat” on “Play School.”
5. Today’s TV Trope: Magical Homeless Person.
6. “Sakura Sakura,” which I recognized from Punch-Out!!
7. How a White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas. (Gastro Obscura)
8. “The Real World of the Circus” opens similarly to the movie “Chaplin.”
9. Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon.
10. “Alouette” is about plucking the feathers off a lark.
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📼 Commercial Break:
Mortein “Louie the Fly” Commercial (1980s)
Myer “Celebrate Christmas” Commercial (1980s)
Bad Princess Movies, a catalogue of terrible movies about princesses and princesses-to-be.
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“Dot and the Kangaroo” © 1981 Yoram Gross Filmstudio Pty Ltd.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
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