Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
TV & Film:TV Reviews
It’s 1980, and we’re having a hiccuping fit that can literally move mountains. Join us on a trip back to the World of Filmation for a barely Christmassy Snow White sequel featuring Seven Friendly Giants, each with their own involuntary reflexes.
Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-snow-white-christmas.
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🎙 Guests:• Kristi (@BadPrincessMov) and Bri (@wallabri) from Bad Princess Movies.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:• Bad Princess Movies on Happily Ever After.
• Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation.
• Cash-grab home videos including The Reef, Ratatoing, and Toei Animation’s The Little Mermaid, which I discovered in a Toys “R” Us in 1989.
• Larry Mann (Yukon Cornelius) as the Magic Mirror vs. Dom DeLuise as the Looking Glass in Happily Ever After.
• The Thief and the Cobbler.
• Am I Hot or Not?
• The word CLINK appears as a key is dropped onto a table, but this is the only time that effect happens in the whole special.
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:• Barbie Dreamhouse, 1982.
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🎤 And Now, These Messages:• Weird Christmas.
A Snow White Christmas © 1980 Filmation Associates.
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