Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
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🎄 It’s the Advent Calendar House’s 5th anniversary, so instead of celebrating one Christmas special, we watched three! Clear the runway as we salute Disney’s trilogy of 2009’s “Prep & Landing,” 2010’s “Operation: Secret Santa,” and 2011’s “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice.” Â
SANTA SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains Santa-adjacent spoilers from 1:24:28 to 1:26:49. Â
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🎙 Guests: ÂJeff Somogyi (Linktree: @sommerjam). Â
Paxton Holley (Cavalcade of Awesome, Cult Film Club, Hellbent for Letterbox). Â
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đź’¬ Topics & Tangents: Â1. Disney’s Prep & Landing Website from 2009 is still up with character and gadget profiles. Â
2. “Tiny’s Big Adventure,” a minute-long short starring Magee’s assistant. Â
3. Super Golden Crisp Cereal’s Sugar Bear musical Christmas ornament. Â
4. Prep & Landing Easter eggs. Â
5. Santa’s castle looks familiar. Â
6. Noel’s early cameo in “Operation: Secret Santa.” Â
7. A hat tip to the Classic Film Jerks. Â
8. Captain Avalanche and Snowball’s poster looks like a Batman and Robin Detective Comics cover. Â
9. “Naughty, Naughty Children” by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Â
10. “Nuttin’ for Christmas” by the Plain White T’s. Â
11. “The Ballad of Nessie,” who makes 2 cameos. Â
12. Ralphie from “A Christmas Story” appears. Â
13. “Mansion: Impossible,” featuring Wayne and Lanny prepping the Avengers Mansion. Â
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đź“Ľ Retro Commercial Break: ÂCoca-Cola: Santa Packs are Coming, 1994. Â
Campbell’s Soup: Snowman, 1995. Â
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🎤 And Now, These Messages: ÂCan’t Wait for Christmas’s reminder to play “Underneath the Tree” by Kelly Clarkson more. Â
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“Prep & Landing,” “Operation: Secret Santa,” and “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” © Disney. Â
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. Â
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
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