Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials

🎄It’s 1990, and Santa’s lost in my confusing network of chimneys.  

Prepare yourself for a more silly than spooky Christmas special that takes us from Castle Duckula to a concussion-induced space adventure and back.  

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🎙 Guest:

Adam Parker Sibun (Merry Britsmas)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. “A Christmas Quacker” on the Internet Archive (it’s mislabeled as another episode).  

2. Nick Knacks on “Count Duckula.”  

3. Count Duckula’s first appearance on “Danger Mouse.”  

4. UK Christmas TV, an extensive archive of Christmas TV listings for the UK’s main channels.  

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🎄It’s 2020, and a gift-wrapped puppy licked my face and made my skin turn blue.  

From the Chiodo Brothers comes a charming stop-motion Christmas special about how an alien invasion of the North Pole almost ruined Christmas — and the entire planet’s gravity, but also Christmas. Plus: A “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” Easter egg, some cameos from “Elf,” and Santa with nunchucks.  

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🎙 Guests:

Michael DiGiovanni (Pop Culture Retrofit, Bluesky)  

Sammy Hain (Sammy’s Easter Tails, Bluesky)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. “Alien Xmas” on Netflix.  

2. A

🎄It’s 1982, and I’m trapped at sea while Mickey Rooney butts into everyone’s conversation.  

Join us as we embark on a Christmas cruise aboard the Pacific Princess for a very merry episode of “The Love Boat” featuring Maureen McCormick, Donny Osmond, and Mickey Rooney as an angel in disguise as your nosy neighbor.  

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🎙 Guests:

Guy Hutchinson (Pointless Nostalgia, GuyHutchinson.com)  

William Bruce West (West Week Ever, Remember That Show?)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. “The Christmas Presence” on Paramount+,

🎄It’s 1988, and the Spirit of Christmas just broke down my bedroom door to say hello.  

This edition of Scrooge Sunday turns everyone’s favorite festive tale of redemption on its head and blows it out its enormous, muscular backside as great philanthropist and all-around softy Ebenezer Blackadder learns from watching his ancestors and descendants that it’s good to be bad.  

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🎙 Guest:  

Jack Ford (Total Christmas Podcast)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol” on Vimeo.  

2. Tony Robinson’s “Christmas Wrapping” and the Total Christmas Podcast episode on it...

🎄It’s 2001, and a rock giant is chasing us across the ocean, which has been entirely frozen over by fairies with minty fresh breath.  

From the makers of “ReBoot” and Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” music video comes Barbie’s first feature-length movie, complete with motion capture of the New York City Ballet, revolutionary hair animation, and Tim Curry as an extra sassy Mouse King.  

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🎙 Guests:

Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies.  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. “Barbie and the Nutcracker” on the Internet Archive.  

2. Bad Princess Movies on “Barbie in...

🎄It’s 1984, and Santa’s in front of a firing squad because his executioner didn’t appreciate the socks he got last Christmas.  

The slime is an extra festive shade of green in this Christmas episode of the show that defined Nickelodeon’s early years, featuring an all-star cast of the 5 most featured kid actors of “You Can’t Do That on Television.”  

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🎙 Guests:

Shawn Robare (Plastic Rocket Pop, Cult Film Club, Wolfman’s Got Nards)  

Steven (UFO Club, The Bigfoot Club)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. Watch the Christmas episod

🎄It’s 1995, and Robert Downey Jr. may or may not be holding Kermit the Frog hostage until he gets his perfect Christmas tree.  

The Advent Calendar House is back in time for a freakin’ country bear jamberoo as a family of Muppet mice risk their lives to bring home the top of the top of the top of the top of a Christmas tree fit for an eccentric future Iron Man. Also starring shy butler Leslie Nielsen, homesick Swedish maid Stockard Channing, and a pre-Bobo Bobo the Bear.  

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🎙 Guests:

Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com...

🎄It’s 1992, and there’s no such thing as Buster Bunny.  

The Advent Calendar House wraps up Christmas in July with the unofficial series finale of “Tiny Toon Adventures,” when Buster wishes he’d never been on the show, and the horrors within Montana Max’s Biff Tannen Pleasure Palace or whatever.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Adam Pope (Geekster, YouTube, Remember That Show?)  

William Bruce West (West Week Ever, Remember That Show?)  

Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. I found this special hiding in a 4-hour Christmas spe

🎄It’s 1990… or 1962… and a quantum physicist forgot to powder his boss’s underwear.  

This Scrooge Sunday edition of the Advent Calendar House involves time travel of a different sort as we follow Dr. Sam Beckett on a mission to save a mission, and the soul of the man trying to tear it down.  

* CONTENT WARNING: This episode briefly discusses the death of actor Charles Rocket and the would-be death of his Scrooge-like character, Michael Blake.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Erin Evans (@mserinevans).  

Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, @imgonnadj24).  

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💬 Topics & Tangent...

🦃 It’s 2015, and in my search for a noisy cryptid I accidentally freed 175 roided-up turkeys, but neither of those things is the real monster.  

Join us as we rediscover a long lost Thanksgiving special concept Jim Henson dreamed up in the 1960s and meet the Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight, Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head)  

Sammy Hain (Sammy’s Easter Tails)  

Tony Whitaker (@muppetdude, Muppet Wiki)  

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