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🎄 Hey, remember the Christmas episode of that show on ABC where Snow White and Prince Charming are transported by the Evil Queen to a land without magic and have to adjust to modern-day America? No, you don’t, because you’re thinking of “Once Upon a Time,” which didn’t have a Christmas episode, which was rude.  🎙️ Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies join us as we go back an even longer time ago to the enchanted year of 1987 to meet The Charmings, who did have a Christmas episode!  📺 You can watch “Yes, Lillian, There Is a Santa Claus” on YouTube, or this VHS-recorded copy with commercials.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  This episode was advertised during the original broadcast of “A Muppet Family Christmas.”  The first season’s opening credits explains the backstory.  Judy Parfitt (Lillian) as another fairytale queen in “Ever After: A Cinderella Story.”  Carol Huston Signs for ‘The Charmings’ (L.A. Times, 1987).  The Calgary Castle and the even crazier themed vacation homes being built near me.  The Enchanted Forest park in British Columbia.  John Astin as the Devil in another episode of “The Charmings.”  The “He-Man village” was actually the massive Eternia playset.  Tony Steedman (Santa) as Socrates in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”  Judy Parfitt on the pain of losing her husband (Steedman) to dementia (Daily Mail, 2014).  Dick Van Dyke’s Learn Not to Burn hot door PSA.  Gordon Ramsay should play Santa.  Robert Bork, or: Yes, Virginia, You Can Reject a Supreme Court Nominee.  One originally cut episode finally aired on CTV in 2021.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Masters of the Universe: Eternia Playset (1986)  ****  “The Charmings” and “Yes, Lillian, There Is a Santa Claus” © 1987 Embassy Communications.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.

🎄It’s 2001, and a rock giant is chasing us across the ocean, which has been entirely frozen over by fairies with minty fresh breath.  🎙 Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies join us for Barbie’s first feature-length movie, from the makers of “ReBoot” and Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” music video, complete with motion capture of the New York City Ballet, revolutionary hair animation, and Tim Curry as an extra sassy Mouse King.  📺 You can watch “Barbie and the Nutcracker” on the Internet Archive.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  “Barbie in the Nutcracker” on Bad Princess Movies.  Motion capture footage of the New York City Ballet.  Oops, we went on multiple Zelda tangents about Majora’s Mask and the Song of Storms.  It’s usually not a good sign when you find a doll on the ground in a destroyed village.  Of course there’s a toy of Marzipan the horse (no relation to the Marzipan with the answering machine).  Today’s TV Trope: Literal Cliffhanger.  Do the Great Lakes freeze over?  Mod Hair Ken and his stick-on facial hair.  Barbie eyes new horizons (BBC News, 2001)  ****  📼 Commercials:  Barbie in the Nutcracker My Size Sugarplum Princess (2001)  “A Very Zelda Christmas,” by DarkNuck, on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.  ****  “Barbie in The Nutcracker” © 2001 Mattel, Inc.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.

🎄 It’s 1997, and Tim Curry as an evil pipe organ is literally bringing down the house.  🎙 Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies join us as we journey into the depths of Disney’s direct-to-video library for an unnecessary but charming midquel that explains why the Beast hates Christmas and raises even more questions about the curse on his castle.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Bad Princess Movies on Disney’s original “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Enchanted Christmas.”  Coming Soon previews from the original VHS.  Kathie Lee Gifford sang the soundtrack for “Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin.”  Behind “Prince Adam,” the Beast’s real name Disney never made official but keeps occasionally using.  Tim Curry as Darkness in “Legend”  and as Hexxus in “FernGully: The Last Rainforest.”  How tall is the Beast’s castle compared to the real world’s tallest castle?  Disney can’t keep the Feather Duster’s name straight, either.  The West Wing at Be Our Guest Restaurant in the Magic Kingdom.  The terrifying air conditioner in “The Brave Little Toaster.”  The loudest organ ever built.  Belle wears her dress from this special during Christmastime at Disney parks.   Lisa Temming on designing Belle’s Christmas dress.  ****  📼 Commerciasls:  Disney Home Video Collection (1997)  Tiger Electronics Beauty and the Beast handheld game (1994)  Holidays After Dark.  ****  “Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas” © 1997 Disney Enterprises, Inc.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.

🎄 It’s 1980, and we’re having a hiccuping fit that can literally move mountains.  🎙 Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies join us on a trip back to the World of Filmation for a barely Christmassy Snow White sequel starring Snow White’s daughter, also named Snow White, who meets Seven Friendly Giants, each with their own involuntary reflexes.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Bad Princess Movies on Filmation’s “Happily Ever After.”  “Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation.”  Cash-grab home videos including “The Reef,” “Ratatoing,” and Toei Animation’s “The Little Mermaid,” which I discovered in a Toys “R” Us in 1989.  Larry Mann (Yukon Cornelius) as the Magic Mirror vs. Dom DeLuise as the Looking Glass in “Happily Ever After.”  “The Thief and the Cobbler.”  Am I Hot or Not?  The word CLINK appears as a key is dropped onto a table, but this is the only time that effect happens in the whole special.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Barbie Dreamhouse (1982)  Weird Christmas.  ****  “A Snow White Christmas” © 1980 Filmation Associates.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.