Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
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We close out another countdown to Christmas in July with a sleigh ride back to the Stone-Age Year of Our Lord 1977 to watch Santa fall off the roof and a guy who acts like a caveman take over his job.
Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-flintstone-christmas.
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🎙 On This Episode:• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), loudly demanding an audience with Santa Claus.
• Gerry Davila (@RadChristmas), who has season’s greetings in his soul and yummy Fruity Pebbles in his bowl, from Totally Rad Christmas.
• Sean Sotka (@xander0527), who tied whiskers tied onto his hat, or at least that’s what it looks like on the cover of the Christmas Podcasts Podcast.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:• Our episode on the Fruity Pebbles Christmas Commercial.
• I found a Flintstones chronology on, of all places, Flickr.
• The Internet Archive’s VHS Vault.
• Domino Rally.
• I want to know more about Santa’s reindeer turn signals.
• Daze Before Christmas for Super Nintendo and Mega Drive (Genesis).
• Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Claus) was the uncredited voice of Norman Bates’s mother in the first 3 Psycho movies.
• Santa’s workshop should have gotten Flintstone Theming.
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:• Fruity Pebbles: Rapping Barney (1988)
• Voice Command Crusher RC Car (1993)
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🎤 And Now, These Messages:• Behind the Bells.
“A Flintstone Christmas” © 1977 Hanna-Barbera Productions.
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