Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
TV & Film:TV Reviews
đŚ Weâre talking turkey as we dig up and dig in to a 1983 Thanksgiving special from puppeteer Paul Fusco, the creator of ALF. Â
Find links and complete show notes at: https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-thanksgiving-tale Â
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đ On This Episode: Â⢠Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), nearsighted, hard-of-hearing turkey with a dream of making it in showbiz. Â
⢠Chad Young (@HorrorMovieBBQ), a rat I promised $3 to if he made a silly face on my podcast, from the Horror Movie BBQ. Â
⢠Tom Coombs (@classictomedy), an alley cat who talks like a Muppet but, for legal reasons, is definitely not a Muppet. Â
⢠Jayme Kilsby (@brainexploderrr), hiding in a trash can to avoid being eaten alive. Â
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đŹ Topics & Tangents: Â⢠Imagicom Productionsâ Holiday Specials Collection. Â
⢠A Thanksgiving Tale, with curated retro Thanksgiving commercials. Â
⢠The Joker at the 1989 Macyâs Thanksgiving Day Parade. Â
⢠A November 16, 1983 TV listing in an archived New York Magazine. Â
⢠Paul Fuscoâs Space Cats. Â
⢠David Lander in Funland. Â
⢠Mental Flossâs Oral History of ALF. Â
⢠Todayâs TV Trope: Invited as Dinner. Â
⢠The You Bet Your Life Duck. Â
⢠The art of making puppets fight: Throw them into the air from behind a fence. Â
⢠We compare the Thanksgiving play in this special to the one in Addams Family Values. Â
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đź Retro Commercial Break: Â⢠Butterball Turkey Commercial (1985) Â
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đ¤ And Now, These Messages: Â⢠Christmas Time in the City. Â
âA Thanksgiving Taleâ Š 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc. Â
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