Santa and the Three Bears

🎄It’s 1970, and a couple of bear cubs have jumped through my window and are eating all my marshmallows.  

Join us on a deeper than expected dive into a Christmas special by former Hanna-Barbera animator Tony Benedict that almost wasn’t released till the owner of a now-defunct Florida theme park swooped in and saved it.  

CONTENT WARNING: No animals were harmed in the making of this podcast. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same about one of the 4 versions of this special.  

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🎙 Guests:

Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas)  

Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. “A Yellowstone Christmas” (Tony’s Version), the original cut.  

2. The theatrical version with Hal Smith in the intro and added songs and sequences.  

3. The Pirates World version with scenes from Ocean World Marine Park. This version was screened for Rifftrax.  

4. The Modern Sound Pictures version with the songs but no live-action segments.  

5. The Unusual History of Santa and the Three Bears. (The Delbert Cartoon Report, 2021)  

6. The soundtrack and some background info.  

7. Hal Smith in “The Incredible, Indelible, Magical, Physical Mystery Trip.”  

8. Bobby Riha (Chinook) in Hanna-Barbera’s “Jack and the Beanstalk.”  

9. Yellowstone National Park’s Zone of Death.  

10. Today’s TV Trope: Human Snowball.  

11. CBS Storybreak’s “Grinny.”  

12. Homer Simpson tries to catch a rabbit.  

13. Iceman in X-Men #1.  

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📼 Commercial Break:

Hardee’s Gift Checks (1970s)  

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“Santa and the Three Bears” © 1970 Tony Benedict Productions.  

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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