Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
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🎄 It’s 1997, and we couldn’t decide which holiday to end the season with, so we’re celebrating them all. Pack up your accordion and join us on a journey 20 miles below the surface of the Earth to the very Pee-wee’s Playhouse-like split-level cave of “Weird Al” Yankovic as he learns to listen to his friends and family. Â
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🎙 Guests: ÂJoey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24). Â
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đź’¬ Topics & Tangents: Â1. Weirdle, the “Weird Al”-themed offshoot of Heardle, the music-themed offshoot of Wordle. Â
2. The Weird Accordion to Al, by Nathan Rabin. Â
3. Joey interviews Ben Kweller about his appearance with Radish on The Weird Al Show. Â
4. Al’s got a thing for the number 27, which makes its way into this episode. Â
5. Stan Freberg’s Christmas Dragnet, which I know from a compilation CD from Philadelphia radio station WOGL. Â
6. Ed Marques (Varna) as the Surf Guru on ZDTV’s Internet Tonight. Â
7. I had no idea I Lost on Jeopardy! was a full parody of an actual song. Â
8. “Weird Al,” Paul Reubens, and Danny Elfman singing Kidnap the Sandy Claws. Â
9. National Hamster Day exists. It’s May 10. Â
10. Funny or Die’s original fake trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Â
11. “Weird Al” Yankovic: There’s No Going Home, part of The Disney Channel’s Going Home concert/documentary series.
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đź“Ľ Retro Commercial Break: Â1990 Encyclopedia Britannica commercial starring Donavan Freberg (Baby Boolie). Â
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“The Weird Al Show” and “The Obligatory Holiday Episode” © 1997. Â
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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. Â
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
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Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
He-Man/She-Ra: A Christmas Special
A Pinky and the Brain Christmas
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas
Saved by the Bell: Home for Christmas
Batman, the Animated Series: Christmas with the Joker
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McDonald’s Holiday Commercials
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Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration
A Garfield Christmas Special
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
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’Twas the Night Before Christmas
The Star Wars Holiday Special
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