🕎 It’s 1988, and we’re getting lit at Bubbe’s Boarding House for Hanukkah.
🎙 April Ryley joins us for a spin with a bunch of puppets you’ll never hear from again.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
A Simpsons animator designed the puppets for this weird, wonderful ’80s Hanukkah special (Splinter, 2014)
“Caps for Sale”
Anton and his Easter Island head.
April’s very non-kosher latke recipe.
Mayim Bialik explains the letters on the dreidel and other Hanukkah facts.
Calvin getting trolled by his dad in “Calvin and Hobbes.”
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📼 Commercials:
1970s/’80s PBS Logo ID.
1985 Teddy Ruxpin “Frankenstein” Commercial, preserved by Dinosaur Dracula. Teddy Ruxpin voice actor Phil Baron co-wrote this special.
Cool Kids Club.
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“Chanuka at Bubbe’s” © 1988 Pan-Imago, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Find us at adventcalendar.house.
🎙 April Ryley joins us for a spin with a bunch of puppets you’ll never hear from again.
****
💬 Topics & Tangents:
A Simpsons animator designed the puppets for this weird, wonderful ’80s Hanukkah special (Splinter, 2014)
“Caps for Sale”
Anton and his Easter Island head.
April’s very non-kosher latke recipe.
Mayim Bialik explains the letters on the dreidel and other Hanukkah facts.
Calvin getting trolled by his dad in “Calvin and Hobbes.”
****
📼 Commercials:
1970s/’80s PBS Logo ID.
1985 Teddy Ruxpin “Frankenstein” Commercial, preserved by Dinosaur Dracula. Teddy Ruxpin voice actor Phil Baron co-wrote this special.
Cool Kids Club.
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“Chanuka at Bubbe’s” © 1988 Pan-Imago, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Find us at adventcalendar.house.