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🦃 This Thanksgiving in July, I’ve put out some extra table settings for some old friends.  Previously, on the Advent Calendar House, we watched Zack Morris be trash but still manage to find a girl and her dad a Home for Christmas. Now, thankfully, we get to see him a tiny bit more grown-up as we get wheeled directly into a wall back to 1993 for a special Turkey Day episode of “Saved by the Bell: The College Years” that’s packed with last-minute surprise celebrity guests.  🎙️ Adam Pope and Chad Young swoop in to save this Turkey Day, plus we left open a 4th chair in memory of our friend, William Bruce West.  📺 You can watch “Saved by the Bell: The College Years” on Tubi. “A Thanksgiving Story” is Episode 11.  ****  (00:00) - In Memory of William Bruce West  (02:06) - Intro  (04:30) - Show and Guest Histories  (07:52) - Act 1  (35:45) - Retro Commercial Break  (37:37) - Act 2  (52:07) - Act 3  (1:25:58) - Final Thoughts  (1:32:42) - Will’s Highlight Reel ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  After Lunch’s Tribute to William Bruce West.  NBC’s promo for this episode as part of “Special Guest Tuesday.”  California University isn’t real, but pretend it’s where UC Berkeley is.  Remember That Show? on “Good Morning, Miss Bliss,” “Saved by the Bell: The College Years,” “The New Class,” and the 2020 revival. Oh, and “Learning the Ropes.”  Who did it better: Stephanie dancing on “Full House” or Meatwad on “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”?  Paul Rudd brought a clip.  “Steven Banks’ Home Entertainment Center.”  “This is like that ‘Twilight Zone’…” (“Seinfeld”)  “Sleeping Beauty” makes the same “1 tsp” joke.  J. Curtis Swanson (Delivery Man) has only 1 other credit on IMDb: Another Thanksgiving episode that aired the day after this did.  Where is Zack’s phone?  Today’s TV Trope: Onion Tears.  Simon Says on expert mode.  Brian Austin Green in the “Good Morning, Miss Bliss” pilot.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Swanson Turkey Dinner (1986)  WIZARDS The Podcast Guide to Comics  ****  “Saved by the Bell: The College Years” and “A Thanksgiving Story” © 1993 National Broadcasting Company, Inc.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  Hosted by The Retro Network.  #s16 #1990s #thanksgiving

🎄 This podcast was created as part of a seemingly endless life debt that resulted in a wish to give the world the gift of a bunch of nerds with microphones talking about old TV holiday specials. And now you know my dark origins.  🎙️ Collin Murr from Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Podcast and Jeff Loftin from the Lost Christmas Podcast join us as we get violently tossed off course back to 1996 and rediscover “The Story of Santa Claus,” or at least a story of Santa Claus, the first to star Ed Asner as the big man, featuring Betty White as Mrs. Claus and Tim Curry as a very annoyed elf wizard.  📺 We found “The Story of Santa Claus” with commercials on the Internet Archive.  ****  (00:00) - Intro  (02:31) - Guest and Special Histories  (06:39) - Act 1  (36:35) - Act 2  (43:31) - Retro Commercial Break  (45:05) - Act 3  (1:17:21) - Final Thoughts ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Why Ed Asner accepted the titular role in The Story of Santa Claus (MeTV, 2025)  Jim Cummings takes over as Scar in the last part of “Be Prepared” in “The Lion King.”  Kate Zaremba (Aurora) as Annie in the sequel musical “Annie Warbucks,” and her present-day art studio.  Today’s TV Tropes: Slipped on the Wheels and Villainy-Free Villain.  There’s a whole debate elsewhere about whether Clement Moore was the true author of “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”  Mr. Meeseeks from “Rick and Morty.”  Dark Heart from “The Care Bears Movie II.”  Lois Lane’s poem in “Superman: The Movie.”  ****  📼 Commercials:  True Value Hardware Christmas Commercial (1997)  Closer to Christmas  Tiger Electronics Name That Tune Handheld Game (1997)  ****  “The Story of Santa Claus” © 1996 CBS, Inc.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  Hosted by The Retro Network.  #s16 #1990s