Beth Cieslik

🎄 Join us on a stroll down Jim Henson’s dark hall of nightmares to 1986 to rewatch “The Christmas Toy,” an idea no one has repeated since.  🎙 Beth Cieslik, Adam Jurotich, and Donnie Storms are the newest friends in the playroom who have to learn the horrors of getting caught out of place.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Kermit was cut from the DVD release, but he’s back in the version on Amazon Prime Video.  Rugby crashing his skateboard into a block tower is the 1980s Muppet version of WWE’s Titus O’Neil tripping and sliding underneath the ring.  “Teacup Furby.”  “Mother Goose Rock ’n’ Rhyme” and the song “Gordon (Never Really Learned to Play).”  Apple is closer to a female My Buddy than Kid Sister, the actual female My Buddy.  The inevitable “Toy Story” comparison.  Somehow we worked in a “Christmas Shoes” joke. I’m not linking to that. I just wanted you to know.  “Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”  “The Secret Life of Toys,” the short-lived 1994 sequel series.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Kraft Holiday Recipes featuring “The Christmas Toy” poster (1986), preserved by Dinosaur Dracula.  Crispy Critters Cereal (1987)  Snow in Southtown.  ****  “The Christmas Toy” ©1986 Henson Associates, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.