🎄 “This just in: Santa Claus is dead… or he might as well be, because there’s an even fatter man who’s holding families at nice-point!”
’Tis the Advent Calendar House’s 15th season, so this December’s dozen begins with a similarly titled episode of “The Simpsons” from 2003.
Shane Keating from ToughPigs.com, Erin Evans, and Joey O. join the mission to stop being selfish and start being good.
📺 As of this recording, “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” (Season 15, Episode 7) is available on Disney+.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
This episode premiered the day after Saddam Hussein was caught.
Marge’s couch gag anime costume: Jun the Swan from “Gatchaman.”
“How Low Can DVD Players Go?” (New York Times, 2003)
Kathy from Personnel.
The Joe DiMaggio rookie card is real.
Today’s TV Trope: Art Shift — “Christmas with the California Prunes” and “The Year Santa Got Lost,” animated by the Chiodo Bros.
Animaniacs’ 50 State Capitals.
Of course I looked up the astrolabe’s coordinates.
Convoy, and the cover by Sifl & Olly.
Operation: The Simpsons Edition.
The first on-screen appearance of Nelson’s mom.
The end of “Treehouse of Horror IV.”
Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed Television — and America — Forever, by Alan Siegel.
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📼 Commercials:
Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1991)
Butterfinger - The Power Cut (1993)
A Bomb for Christmas 2: Past, Present, and Future on the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast.
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“The Simpsons” and “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Hosted by The Retro Network.
’Tis the Advent Calendar House’s 15th season, so this December’s dozen begins with a similarly titled episode of “The Simpsons” from 2003.
Shane Keating from ToughPigs.com, Erin Evans, and Joey O. join the mission to stop being selfish and start being good.
📺 As of this recording, “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” (Season 15, Episode 7) is available on Disney+.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
This episode premiered the day after Saddam Hussein was caught.
Marge’s couch gag anime costume: Jun the Swan from “Gatchaman.”
“How Low Can DVD Players Go?” (New York Times, 2003)
Kathy from Personnel.
The Joe DiMaggio rookie card is real.
Today’s TV Trope: Art Shift — “Christmas with the California Prunes” and “The Year Santa Got Lost,” animated by the Chiodo Bros.
Animaniacs’ 50 State Capitals.
Of course I looked up the astrolabe’s coordinates.
Convoy, and the cover by Sifl & Olly.
Operation: The Simpsons Edition.
The first on-screen appearance of Nelson’s mom.
The end of “Treehouse of Horror IV.”
Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed Television — and America — Forever, by Alan Siegel.
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📼 Commercials:
Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1991)
Butterfinger - The Power Cut (1993)
A Bomb for Christmas 2: Past, Present, and Future on the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast.
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“The Simpsons” and “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Hosted by The Retro Network.