Advent Calendar House

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A Muppet Family Christmas Dec 04, 2017

Show notes

🎄 How many Muppets can fit inside a farmhouse? We took a head count. It’s a lot.

🎙️ Carlin Trammel from Nerd Lunch stops by the Advent Calendar House to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of “A Muppet Family Christmas,” the shredded wheat and cranberry sauce of TV specials. Together, we try and piece together the various home video cuts over music rights, and wrap around heads around the dizzying continuity issues surrounding the Muppet Babies.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

Can you say “OshKosh B’gosh”?

A milk PSA and the world’s most forward-thinking bullies.

Osvaldo el Gruñón, Oscar the Grouch’s Puerto Rican counterpart.

Parting words from the guy with the beard doing the dishes.

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#s1 #1980s #muppets

Frosty the Snowman Dec 01, 2017

Show notes

🎄 Happy birthday! Join us as we begin our salute to all holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones by attempting to answer questions no one asked about the 1969 Rankin/Bass TV special, “Frosty the Snowman.”

🎙️ Brandon Medley joins the parade as we try to find out how hard it is to escape a locked greenhouse, when something you throw away stops legally being yours, and how long it would actually take to write, “I am very sorry for what I did to Frosty” a hundred zillion times.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

Oatmeal is a perfectly adorable name for a snowman.

Frosty Day in Armonk, New York.

A closer look at the absurdly long and zigzagged train route to the North Pole.

The stupidest places we’ve ever been dropped off.

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#s1 #1960s #rankinbass #frosty

Trailer Nov 30, 2017

Show notes

This 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 episodes and links at adventcalendar.house.