🎄 It’s 1990, and a little girl’s Christmas wish is about to get shot out of the sky.
🎙 Joey O. join us for the podcast’s first voyage into the Disney Afternoon as Baloo the cargo pilot bear attempts to save his boss’s daughter’s belief in Santa.
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đź’¬ Topics & Tangents:
Joey’s Christmas TV lineup that he wrote on a piece of paper around 1991 and found again 30 years later.
The TaleSpin/Quantum Leap joke.
Disney’s “The Jungle Book,” the animated one, is somehow Germany’s biggest box office draw ever.
“Tales of the Gold Monkey,” a single-season TV show that inspired “TaleSpin.”
“What a Dummy,” an even shorter single-season TV show featuring Janna Michaels (Molly) and a living ventriloquist’s dummy.
Joey’s Interview with Pat Fraley (Wildcat), again!
Today’s TV Trope: String-on-Finger Reminder.
Cape Suzette and Louie’s Place on the Disney Wiki.
Flunkey, the Einstein-haired monkey from “The Jungle Book” whose “TaleSpin” counterpart appears to be Santa Louie’s “elf,” Waldo.
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đź“Ľ Commercials:
McDonald’s TaleSpin Happy Meal Toys (1990)
Snow in Southtown.
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“TaleSpin” and “Jolly Molly Christmas” © 1990 The Walt Disney Company.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Find us at adventcalendar.house.
🎙 Joey O. join us for the podcast’s first voyage into the Disney Afternoon as Baloo the cargo pilot bear attempts to save his boss’s daughter’s belief in Santa.
****
đź’¬ Topics & Tangents:
Joey’s Christmas TV lineup that he wrote on a piece of paper around 1991 and found again 30 years later.
The TaleSpin/Quantum Leap joke.
Disney’s “The Jungle Book,” the animated one, is somehow Germany’s biggest box office draw ever.
“Tales of the Gold Monkey,” a single-season TV show that inspired “TaleSpin.”
“What a Dummy,” an even shorter single-season TV show featuring Janna Michaels (Molly) and a living ventriloquist’s dummy.
Joey’s Interview with Pat Fraley (Wildcat), again!
Today’s TV Trope: String-on-Finger Reminder.
Cape Suzette and Louie’s Place on the Disney Wiki.
Flunkey, the Einstein-haired monkey from “The Jungle Book” whose “TaleSpin” counterpart appears to be Santa Louie’s “elf,” Waldo.
****
đź“Ľ Commercials:
McDonald’s TaleSpin Happy Meal Toys (1990)
Snow in Southtown.
****
“TaleSpin” and “Jolly Molly Christmas” © 1990 The Walt Disney Company.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Find us at adventcalendar.house.