Advent Calendar House
🎄 A podcast salute to all holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones by @makewistful.com. Mind the icy patch.
🎧 https://adventcalendar.house
- Groundhog Day exists because Jack Frost got friend-zoned.
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- watchin’ a christmas special.
- My friend @williambwest.bsky.social had a stroke. Really grateful to see all our pals rally around his family so quickly.
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- I look forward to this every year. A great, biting little exclamation point on Christmas after the pixie dust or whatever has settled.
- While they’re fresh in your head, I’ll take requests for next July and December.
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- 🎄 Warn the people, tell the paper, It’s our 200th podcast caper! It’s a Christmas Eve fever dream with “The Year Without a Santa Claus,” our final Rankin/Bass Christmas special. With @imgonnadj24.bsky.social, @christmaspod.bsky.social, @theycallmedigio.bsky.social, & @theaceofknaves.bsky.social!
- 1979’s “Jack Frost” has an evil king with abandonment issues, a groundhog dressed like a pro wrestling manager, and the neighbors of those angels your grandma told you were bowling during a thunderstorm. With @lostchristmaspod.bsky.social, @theaceofknaves.bsky.social, & @radchristmas.bsky.social.
- The very last special Rankin/Bass produced was in 2001. Eartha Kitt’s the voice of the cat. This is an old podcast with @andrebennettgo.bsky.social & @christmaspod.bsky.social.
- Rogue One: A Nativity Story. With @brandonmedley.bsky.social.
- “The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow” is about neither of those things.
- And now, the Rankin/Bass Christmas classic that dares to answer children’s questions about Santa Claus while illegally opening his mail. With @mserinmevans.bsky.social, @imgonnadj24.bsky.social, @brandonmedley.bsky.social, @michaelmay.bsky.social, & @theycallmedigio.bsky.social.
- Young Conan the Barbarian meets baby Jesus. With @brandonmedley.bsky.social & @michaelmay.bsky.social.
- “The Stingiest Man in Town” features my favorite spooky Marley head in the door knocker, Tom Bosley as an insect named H.H. Humbug, and a song about Santa Claus for no reason. Here’s a podcast about it with @theycallmedigio.bsky.social & @michaelmay.bsky.social.
- Y’all want to hear me find out what a Waitrose is? (Publix. It’s Publix.)
- I’m convinced “The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold” only exists because Rankin/Bass had the rights to use the song “Christmas in Killarney” and wrote around that. Here’s a podcast with @theycallmedigio.bsky.social & @michaelmay.bsky.social.
- Rankin/Bass’s Avengers assembled in theaters in 1979. This movie opens with Rudolph’s shine blipping out of existence, and what happens to Frosty and his whole family is even worse. Here’s an old podcast with @brandonmedley.bsky.social.
- “Frosty’s Winter Wonderland” is the “Weird Science” of Christmas specials. with @brandonmedley.bsky.social.
- Nothing about “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” makes sense, but that’s not a bug. It’s a feature. Here’s an old podcast with @imgonnadj24.bsky.social & @brandonmedley.bsky.social.
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- Was Santa just hangry? Why was the doll on the Island of Misfit Toys? Why weren’t you at elf practice? These questions and more answered in this old podcast with @brandonmedley.bsky.social & @imgonnadj24.bsky.social.
- Rankin/Bass’s first Christmas special after Rudolph was the traditionally animated “Cricket on the Hearth.” This version takes a hard left turn into a song about fish ’n’ chips performed by a burlesque cat, and it only gets weirder. So here’s an old podcast about it with @christmaspast.bsky.social.
- In 1980, Rankin/Bass unleashed “Pinocchio’s Christmas” from its wood-burrowing earworm factory. I’ve had “Knock on Wood” stuck in my head for over 40 years. Send help. Anyway here’s an old podcast with @theycallmedigio.bsky.social & @michaelmay.bsky.social.
- This podcast is about a Christmas special narrated by Roger Miller so of course I had to go off about “hey remember the hampster dance” And @ieatvideogames.bsky.social was there, and @brandonmedley.bsky.social was there…
- Rankin/Bass went delightfully nuts with its last-ever stop-motion Christmas special in 1985, based on L. Frank Baum’s “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.” Here’s an old podcast with @paxholley.com & @brandonmedley.bsky.social.
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- The best example of search engine optimization I’ve ever seen was a copy of Rankin/Bass’s “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo or wherever that was just titled “mouse christmas cartoon.” Aw heck, here’s our podcast from 2018 with @imgonnadj24.bsky.social.
- Today I’m sharing all our Rankin/Bass podcast episodes, starting with Episode 1, from 2017, with @brandonmedley.bsky.social. I can hear my own nerves.
- The first appearance of early Disney Channel imports The Raccoons was an anti-deforestation-themed Christmas special from 1980, narrated by Rich Little in his boring, resting Rich voice. Here’s an old podcast with @hunkburger.bsky.social & @theycallmedigio.bsky.social.
- There’s a lot going on in this Walt Disney World Christmas special from 1978: Mimes pretending to be robots! Off-model Geppetto! Phyllis Diller as a fairy godmother! A band completely ignoring a woman’s screams for help while being chased by pirates! Jerry Lawler’s entrance theme for some reason!
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- In this special, Yogi Bear fails upward to essentially become President of Christmas, a holiday he’s never experienced before, and also Cindy Bear has the cartoon for children equivalent of a sexual awakening. Here’s an old podcast with @sundownmotel.bsky.social.
- In 1987, the California Raisins missed their bus, then made a sleigh out of garbage and flew it into space in the greatest holiday special out of all holiday specials hosted by clay dinosaurs. Here’s an old podcast with @mlerowley.bsky.social, @mserinmevans.bsky.social, & @imgonnadj24.bsky.social.
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- Before she was Ursula, Pat Carroll won my heart as Jon Arbuckle’s grandma. Here’s an old podcast about Garfield’s Christmas on the farm, with @sommerjamfilm.bsky.social.
- One time @stormspeed.bsky.social helped me count everyone who showed up at Fozzie’s mom’s farmhouse in “A Muppet Family Christmas.” It’s a lot.
