Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
TV & Film:TV Reviews
🎄 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. Â
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🎙 Guest: ÂJoey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24). Â
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đź’¬ Topics & Tangents: Â1. Joey’s Christmas TV lineup that he wrote on a piece of paper around 1991 and found again 30 years later. Â
2. The TaleSpin/Quantum Leap joke. Â
3. Disney’s “The Jungle Book,” the animated one, is somehow Germany’s biggest box office draw ever. Â
4. “Tales of the Gold Monkey,” a single-season TV show that inspired “TaleSpin.” Â
5. “What a Dummy,” an even shorter single-season TV show featuring Janna Michaels (Molly) and a living ventriloquist’s dummy. Â
6. Joey’s Interview with Pat Fraley (Wildcat), again!  Â
7. Today’s TV Trope: String-on-Finger Reminder. Â
8. Cape Suzette and Louie’s Place on the Disney Wiki. Â
9. Flunkey, the Einstein-haired monkey from “The Jungle Book” whose “TaleSpin” counterpart appears to be Santa Louie’s “elf,” Waldo. Â
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đź“Ľ Retro Commercial Break: ÂMcDonald’s TaleSpin Happy Meal Toys, 1990. Â
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🎤 And Now, These Messages: ÂSnow in Southtown, holiday TV specials, movies, music, and more! Â
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“TaleSpin” and “Jolly Molly Christmas” © 1990 The Walt Disney Company. Â
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. Â
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Frasier: Look Before You Leap
A Christmas Carol (1984)
Yogi’s First Christmas
The Great Santa Claus Switch
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Season’s Greedings
Santa, Baby!
Tales From the Crypt: And All Through the House
An American Christmas Carol
Full-Court Miracle
A Mouse, A Mystery, and Me
The Soulmates in The Gift of Light
Christmastime with Mister Rogers
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Animaniacs: A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners
A Flintstones Christmas Carol
ALF: Turkey in the Straw
The Little Drummer Boy, Book II
Elmo Saves Christmas
It’s Punky Brewster: Christmas in July
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A Christmas Carol: Dramatic Reading
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The Professional Santa Claus’ Podcast
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