Who is Easter Bunny? OMG, Bear is Easter Bunny! How can that be? Guests: Alan Johnson, Emily Rowley. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
🐰 Hop, hop, hop with us back to 1981 for our first trip to Bear Country, which it turns out was built on top of the Easter Bunny’s industrial nightmare factory.
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Alan Johnson (Two Bad Neighbors – A Simpsons Podcast, Talespin Trivia, @AlanJ).
Emily Rowley (smiling politely, @mlerowley).
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1. The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise on the official YouTube channel.
2. Yes, we all collectively mispronounced “Berenstain.”
3. The VHS cover, for reference.
4. The Berenstain Bears: The Very First Easter, being the story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus, who is also a bear.
5. Inside the Berenstain Bears’ Tree House.
6. The widest tree in the world, for comparison.
7. Things this special has in common with Steel Magnolias: Knowl Johnson and dozens of broken Easter eggs.
8. An ode to the Bear Family’s tiny, antique, circular porthole TV set.
9. Today’s TV Trope: Packed Hero.
10. Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video, featuring young Zachary Danziger (Bill Bunny) and a host of way more familiar names.
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Kellogg’s Raisin Bran: Morgan the Mockingbird Commercial, 1981, preserved from the original airing of this special.
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Mike on the Two Bad Neighbors podcast for Marge Be Not Proud and Monty Can’t Buy Me Love.
Jingle Jank.
“The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise” © 1981 Joseph Cates Co., Inc.
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