Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
TV & Film:TV Reviews
🎄 It’s 1973, and a musical cricket is about to save the Christmas spirit during New York City’s quietest power failure. Â
Join us for a one-cat open sleigh ride into Chuck Jones’s beautifully animated sequel to “The Cricket in Times Square.” Â
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🎙 Guest: ÂMichael DiGiovanni (Pop Culture Retrofit, Classic Film Jerks, @TheyCallMeDiGio). Â
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đź’¬ Topics & Tangents: Â1. A very insightful Letterboxd review. Â
2. Name That Christmas Special’s screenshot gallery for this special. Â
3. Today’s TV Trope: Bully Bulldog. Â
4. Mel Blanc’s voice for the Alley Cat sounds his voice for Clarence the Cat in “Birds Anonymous.” Â
5. DiGio introduces me to Yorkshire pudding. Â
6. “Down by the Old Mill Stream.” Â
7. The similar “Joy to the World” segment from “Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration.” Â
8. The final Classic Film Jerks movie, “Babes in Toyland (March of the Wooden Soldiers).” Â
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đź“Ľ Retro Commercial Break: ÂMel Blanc American Express Card Commercial, 1971. Â
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🎤 And Now, These Messages: ÂRediscover the 80s podcasts, including The 80s Weekly and Memory Jogger. Â
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“A Very Merry Cricket” © 1973 Chuck Jones Enterprises. Â
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. Â
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Care Bears Nutcracker Suite
Chanuka at Bubbe’s
The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Alan Brady Show Presents
The Snowman
A Flintstone Christmas
A Thanksgiving Tale
Dinosaurs: Refrigerator Day
Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation
The Adventures of Pete & Pete: O’ Christmas Pete
Halloween Is Grinch Night
Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
How Murray Saved Christmas
The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise
Rubik, the Amazing Cube: Rubik’s First Christmas
A Cosmic Christmas
A Chipmunk Christmas
The Smurfs’ Christmas Special
Olive, the Other Reindeer
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
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