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🕎 In the Advent Calendar House’s first Hanukkah episode, we follow the Rugrats on their mission to stop the “Meanie of Chanukah” and make him take a nap.  🎙️ Sarah Shay joins the search and helps count all the misspoken “babyisms” along the way.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Sarah’s top 2 favorite spellings of “Hanukkah.”  E.G. Daily (Tommy) as Dottie in “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.”  A tale of 2 panics: Babies climbing up to open flames vs. babies trying to blow out Hanukkah candles.  Stu’s giant, tacky menorah vs. the Miami Marlins’ home run celebration monstrosity.  The TV trope of the Sitcom Arch-Nemesis.  Our worst on-stage mishaps.  ****  “A Rugrats Chanukah” © 1996 Klasky-Csupo, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s1 #1990s #hanukkah #nickelodeon

🎄 Joey O. returns to the Advent Calendar House bearing the gift of his favorite regional holiday commercial. Join us as we spend 17 times the length of a 30-second lottery commercial talking about the spot that had a whole commonwealth singing “Five Cash Fives!”  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  The original Pennsylvania Lottery Christmas Commercial from 1992.  The updated commercial from 2012, remade shot-for-shot like 1998’s Psycho.  PA Lottery’s Holiday Ad Gets Makeover (CBS Philly, 2012)  “Move Closer to Your World,” the greatest broadcast news theme song ever composed.  Philadelphia Eagles fans’ longing for kelly green football uniforms.  Major League Baseball’s endless array of ugly hats for every holiday.  ****  “Snowfall” © 1992, 2012 PA Lottery.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s1 #1990s #2010s #commercials

🕎 Hanukkah is here, so here’s a 1995 special starring sock puppets hanging out with Mr. Miyagi, the dad from Growing Pains, and the mayor of Gotham City.  🎙️ Sarah Shay returns to the Advent Calendar House to reintroduce me to “Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah,” which miraculously brings together Pat Morita, Alan Thicke, and Lloyd Bochner as both dinner guests and computer-generated, one-dimensional superheroes.  There’s now a better copy of “Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah” on YouTube. The one we watched for this podcast was from some guy holding his iPad’s camera up to a TV.  Check out Sarah’s albums: “You Have Queer Street Cred” and “The Shay & Shay Radio Hour.”  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Shari Lewis’s amazing single-color red dreamcoat and stylin’ menorah.  Alan Thicke on “Celebrity Family Feud.”  “Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio,” an earlier Halloween special also featuring Alan Thicke.  Charlie Horse’s prize-winning superhero, the stuff of someone’s very specific nightmares.  They almost make it through a whole Hanukkah special without mentioning Christmas, but blow it at the end for no reason.  ****  “Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah” © 1995 8 Candles Production, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1990s #hanukkah #puppets

🎄 Lace up your ice skates for a look at 3 classic holiday commercials starring 3 different iterations of McDonald’s clown in charge: “Happy Holidays” (the ice skating one), “Star Wish,” and “Runaway.”  🎙 Joey O. swoops in just in time to convince me not to leave home and run away to McDonaldland, which is honestly tempting.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Grape jelly is good on Sausage McMuffins. Try it.  McDonald’s Wiki, which exists, runs down all 7 versions of the ice skating commercial. Yes, there are 7, and they’re all on YouTube:  1982: the original, with King Moody as Ronald and the “You Deserve a Break Today” jingle variant.  1983: with the “McDonald’s and You” jingle variant.  1984: with the “It’s a Good Time for the Great Taste” jingle variant.  1986: with Squire Fridell as Ronald, the version I remember most.  1988: with Fridell and the original jingle.  1990: with Fridell and the “Food, Folks and Fun” jingle variant.  1991: with Jack Doepke as Ronald, bad lighting, and “The Wish that Changed Christmas.”  King Booker.  Squire Fridell as Ronald McDonald in “Mac and Me” and Paul Rudd’s ongoing prank on Conan O’Brien.  Grimace’s last appearance as of this recording was at Dodger Stadium, though as we know, nothing can kill the Grimace.  The “World’s Largest Entertainment McDonald’s” in Orlando, home to an animatronic Mac Tonight that hangs from the ceiling.  ****  “Happy Holidays,” “Star Wish,” and “Runaway” © McDonald’s.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1980s #1990s #commercials

🎄 We dug down like dogs to the bottom of the VHS bargain bin and found “Jingle Bell Rap,” an overlooked special from 1991 that had all the potential to become a Christmas classic, but none of the airtime.  🎙️ Chad Young drops in to introduce me to this special from Perennial Pictures, a studio that managed to spend the entire 1990s producing a whole slew of holiday specials I never knew about till now.  📺 You can watch “Jingle Bell Rap” in Tubi.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  “Jingle Bell Rap” on Perennial Pictures.  Fruity Pebbles’ “Master Rapper” commercial.  Shout-out to the Cult Film Club and “Plot in 60 Seconds.”  Rollover’s dad looks like angry Homer Simpson.  Ralph Wiggum’s heart breaks in slow motion.  New Kids on the Block perform “Funky Funky Xmas” on “The Arsenio Hall Show.”  ****  “Jingle Bell Rap” © 1991 Perennial Pictures.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1990s

🎄 Coming to you from Gotham City, it’s the podcast nobody wanted to see, but everyone will hear.  🎙️ Jay from the Purple Stuff Podcast and Joey O. drop in to spend Christmas with the Joker on a 1992 episode of “Batman: The Animated Series.”  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  The crowdsourced origins of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells.  More discussion on “Christmas with the Joker” on Batman: The Animated Podcast and The Arkham Sessions.  Gotham City is in New Jersey.  Mark Hamill’s original performance as Ferris Boyle in “Heart of Ice.”  “Comic Book: The Movie.”  Mark Hamill’s longtime obsession with David Letterman.  Charles Manson apparently spent this Christmas at Arkham Asylum before spending a later Christmas in Nebraska on “South Park.”  Joker’s “Laffy” hand puppet reminds us of Señor Wences. His upside-down mouth puppet is even weirder.  Betty Blooper looks like Toot from “Drawn Together.”  Of course the Joker is hiding out at the Laffco Toy Factory. Look at it!  ****  “Batman: The Animated Series” and “Christmas with the Joker” © 1992 Warner Bros.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1990s #warnerbros #dc #comics

🎄 Hang on to your creepy mistletoe hat as we hit the Bayside Mall for a 2-part “Saved by the Bell” Christmas special from 1991.  🎙️ Chad Young and Tommy Coombs drop in to watch Zack get way too shook upon learning the latest girl of his dreams is homeless.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Chad’s write-up on “Home for Christmas” from 2013.  That time WWE’s Daniel Bryan got fired for choking out an announcer.  Puppy Surprise, the dog that’s pregnant.  Dustin Diamond’s terrible heel turn on “Celebrity Fit Club.”  Homer Simpson beat Screech to the “What’s the number for 911?” joke by a year in “Bart vs. Thanksgiving.”  Who waits until Christmas Eve to buy a tree?  The Evolution of the Zack Morris phone.  Funny or Die: The Time Zack Morris Gave Himself A Homeless Girl For Christmas.  ****  “Saved by the Bell” and “Home for Christmas” © 1991 National Broadcasting Company, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1990s

🎄 Tonight in the Advent Calendar House, we’re doing the same thing we do every night… watchin’ a bunch of holiday specials!  🎙️ Joey O. and special guest Joey Letson from The Animanicast joins the mission to apply North Pole to Pinky and the Brain’s 1996 Christmas special, probably the closest the lab mouse duo ever got to actually taking over the world.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  This special won the 1996 Primetime Emmy award for outstanding animated program.  Joey O. interviewed Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche.  The Animanicast interview with Maurice LaMarche.  “Powerhouse,” Warner Bros.’ go-to “assembly line” music.  io9 ranked this episode dead last among the Brain’s plans to take over the world.  ****  “A Pinky and the Brain Christmas” © 1996 Warner Bros.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1990s #warnerbros

🎄 Live from the Turducken Hunger Games comes Part 1 of a Disney Christmas double feature featuring Mickey Mouse and his pals.  🎙️ Drew Crowley and John Dedeke from The Hourchive help me attempt to make sense of time, space, and the Disney fowl food chain as we watch Disney’s 1999 direct to video Christmas special.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Donald Duck’s comically enormous, fanmade family tree.  Happy Duck to the Future Day!  The “Quack Pack” intro will tell you everything you need to know about “Quack Pack.”  Donald Jr., a tiny, semi-realistic duck introduced in “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.”  The Fab Five supposedly live in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota, on the Pacific coast.  Pete has been a cat this entire time!  Pete smokes a cigar, something since reportedly banned from Disney movies, despite still showing up in Disney movies.  Recycled animation alert: Mickey’s wacky, tongue-waggling dance first appeared in 1942’s “Mickey’s Birthday Party.”  ****  “Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas” © 1999 Disney Enterprises, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1990s #disney #christmaseveryday #giftofthemagi

🎄 We unearthed a Christmas special so low-quality, it happens in a sewer.  🎙️ Shawn Robare from the Cult Film Club and Jonathan Zelenak from The Sewer Den drop in for a radically recollection of “We Wish You a Turtle Christmas,” a 1994 cash-grab video starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… or at least some version of them.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  About the Sewer Den, Jonathan’s massive TMNT collection, and his blog post about this special.  The Coming Out of Their Shells Tour.  The Turtles’ smiles look like they’re from Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” music video.  A 1975 anime version of “The Little Mermaid” had a not-at-all-coincidental resurgence around 1990.  Writer Tish Rabe also produced “Big Bird in China” and “3-2-1 Contact,” created The Cat in the Hat Learning Library after Dr. Seuss’s death, and has written over 160 children’s books.  Y’all want to watch 43 minutes of the Ninja Turtles on Oprah?  That time a warehouse that housed the Rock-afire Explosion actually exploded.  The only pizza place willing to appear in this special is Sbarro, which has come a long way since the Fat Boys’ “All You Can Eat.”  The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Cookbook is a real book you should own.  The cheapest gifts we’ve ever gotten our parents from our elementary school Christmas bazaar.  Fun game: Sneak the “Wrap Rap” on a playlist in the middle of New Kids on the Block’s Christmas album and see if anyone notices.  ****  “We Wish You a Turtle Christmas” © 1994 Christopher Films, Inc. / Mirage Studios.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1990s #tmnt #comics

🎄 Opus the Penguin fails to take off in his own TV Christmas special from 1991.  🎙️ Erin Evans and Joey O. parachute in to rewatch “A Wish for Wings That Work,” starring Opus and Bill from the comic strip series “Bloom County” and “Outland.”  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  This is based on a book version you can watch someone read to you on YouTube, if you’d like.  “Bloom County” creator Berkeley Breathed was not happy with this special. He also confirmed the animators hid some naughty bits in the opening.  Bill the Cat’s 1988 presidential run, including the other candidates trying to translate the song “Louie Louie.”  Joey interviews Michael Bell (Opus).  “The Ant and the Aardvark” starring John Byner (Bill).  Surprise cameos by Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman, who may or may not have walked over from the set of “Hook.”  Larry Walters has a flying lawn chair and a BB gun.  “Lost Horizon.”  “A Frog Thing,” a children’s book with a very similar plot, but less Christmassy.  Opus plushes with Santa hats are pretty easy to find on eBay.  ****  “A Wish for Wings That Work” ©1991 Universal Cartoon Studios, Inc. / Amblin Entertainment, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s3 #1990s #comics

🕎 Kick off Hanukkah with the objectively better son from “Growing Pains” spinning bad puns like he made them out of clay.  🎙️Sarah Shay stops by as we shine a light on a 1990 episode of “Shalom Sesame,” an on-again, off-again co-production of “Sesame Street” and its counterpart in Israel, “Rechov Sumsum.”  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  “Shalom Sesame” on Muppet Wiki.  Israel’s Big Bird stand-in, Kippi Ben Kippod, is mistranslated as a porcupine despite clearly being a hedgehog. A similar but unclothed costume was used in Spain’s Barrio Sésamo for Espinete, who’s identified as a hedgehog.  Jeremy Miller, as Linus, sings “The Vigil” in “Snoopy! The Musical.”  Yoav Tzafir’s other credits include the Hebrew-dubbed voices of Ninja Turtle Michaelangelo and Super Mario. Later he directed Israel’s version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”  The real, actual, annual Hanukkah Torch Relay.  Moishe Oofnik, Israel’s counterpart to Oscar, looks less like a grouch and more like a standard Muppet monster. Probably because he has a nose.  Baby Bear teaches Telly Monster how to play dreidel.  A supposed folktale listed on the Wikipedia entry for sufganiyah may or may not be full of something that’s not jelly.  Sarah met the head puppeteer from “Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah.”  Nell Carter, a Jewish convert, appeared on other episodes of “Shalom Sesame” as herself.  ****  “Shalom Sesame” © 1990 Children’s Television Workshop.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s3 #1990s #hanukkah #muppets

🎄 Go-go Gadget podcast! It’s time to spring back to 1992 to take “Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas” in for questioning.  🎙 Chad Young accepts our assignment to investigate the time Dr. Claw took over Santa’s workshop for some reason.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Nick Knacks, a show-by-show video history of Nickelodeon.  Halloween 1992 was the year of white kids dressing like Steve Urkel.  Inspector Gadget’s run on Nickelodeon got me into “Get Smart” on Nick at Nite.  The time Chad got a crew jacket from the set of the “Inspector Gadget” movie.  The action figure that revealed Dr. Claw’s goofy face.  The Inspector Gadget Super Nintendo game, featuring the same alternate theme song as this special.  Maurice LaMarche subbing for Don Adams for Gadget’s weird version of “The 12 Days of Christmas” is similar to Jim Cummings finishing “Be Prepared” for Jeremy Irons in “The Lion King.”  Where’s the camera Penny’s Not Apple Watch uses to see Brain?  Jerry “The King” Lawler entering the 1997 Royal Rumble Match in the middle of a sentence, then finishing it after being eliminated in 4 seconds.  “Disney’s Christmas All-Time Favorites.”  ****  📼 Commercials:  Cookie Crisp Cereal Christmas Commercial (1992)  Tinsel Tunes.  ****  “Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas” © 1992 DiC Entertainment.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s4 #1990s #dic

🕎 Marc Weiner and his puppets won’t stop screaming in Nickelodeon’s first Hanukkah special.  🎙 April Ryley joins us as we noisily snowmobile back to 1995 to try and figure out what everyone’s yelling about. Unexpectedly, it all started in outer space.  📺 You can watch “The Weinerville Chanukah Special” on YouTube.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Weinerville.com is alive and well in 2020.  Marc Weiner as Swiper the Fox and the Map in “Dora the Explorer.”  Marc Summers on his OCD being “blown out of freakin’ proportion,” and why he dropped his given last name.  Sour cream vs. applesauce for latke dipping.  Michael Gunst (Sinrek) may or may not be this puppeteer and mask maker.  Brian O’Connor (Antidorkus) as Schemer on “Shining Time Station.”  Thanks to Nickelodeon being under the MTV Networks umbrella, this special featured music by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Miami Sound Machine, and the B-52’s.  The bulk of this special was filmed at the Summit Lodge in Killington, Vermont.  Telephone booths still exist at Walt Disney World.  Liver as a go-to food kids hate.  Kevin “Diesel” Nash was still WWF Champion during taping, but lost it shortly before the special aired.  The art of making your own menorah out of household items, recyclable objects, or fruit.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Kmart Holiday Commercial starring Rosie O’Donnell and Penny Marshall (1995)  Holly Jolly X’masu.  ****  “The Weinerville Chanukah Special” © 1995 Nickelodeon.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s5 #1990s #hanukkah #nickelodeon #puppets

🎄 Doug uses weaponized cupcakes to break Porkchop out of doggie death row.  🎙 Gregiffer Stevens from the Pop Arena and Nick Knacks joins us as we skate on thin ice back to 1993 for a very educational trip to Bluffington that I forgot was a Christmas episode while I was watching it.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Disney’s “Doug” was fine, y’all.  “Doug” creator Jim Jinkins worked on Nickelodeon’s first show, “Pinwheel.”  Early versions of Doug in a bumper for USA Network and a PSA for Florida Grapefruit Juice narrated by Lorenzo Music.  Today’s TV Trope: Danger: Thin Ice.  Alice Playten (Beebe) in “Really Rosie” as Alligator.  Constance Shulman (Patti) in “Weekend at Bernie’s II.”  Every car in Bluffington looks like Homer Simpson designed it.  Greg Lee from “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” voices the now-former mayor White, and boy, am I glad we recorded this after election week.  “The Phred on Your Head Show.”  Mr. Dink’s last name is apparently an acronym for “Double Income, No Kids.”  Don’t wrap pets in boxes!  What is Pork Chop?  The topper on the Funnies’ Christmas tree is Mr. Dink’s face.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Nicktoons Pizza Hut Kids’ Pizza Pack Commercial, (1991)  SequelQuest.  TGI Podcast.  ****  “Doug” and “Doug’s Christmas Story” © 1993 Jumbo Pictures, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s5 #1990s #nickelodeon

🎄 10 years after “The Simpsons” debuted, Matt Groening presented another Christmas special about another Santa’s little helper.  🎙 Erin Evans and Joey O. joins us on a 2-dimensional flight back to 1999 to revisit “Olive, the Other Reindeer,” a misheard but not forgotten doggie treat.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  The Making of “Olive, the Other Reindeer.”  “PaRappa the Rapper.”  “Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride,” the first book by “Olive” creators Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold.  “The Goonies II.”  Jay Mohr in “Camp Wilder.”  Famous mondegreens and the stupidest lyric I’ve ever misheard.  Dan Castellaneta’s Postman voice sounds like his Robot Devil.  “You’re no Jack Kennedy.”  Bullwinkle tried to kidnap my baby.  R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me?, formerly U Talkin’ U2 to Me? and currently U Talkin’ Talking Heads 2 My Talking Head?  Michael Stipe on “The Adventures of Pete & Pete.”  The pope gets a Phillies hat.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Amazon.com Christmas Countdown Commercial (1999)  Santa by the Minute.  The Christmas Podcasts Podcast.  ****  “Olive, the Other Reindeer” © 1999 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s5 #1990s

🎄 Happy Back to the Future Day! Set your time circuits to 1845 by way of 1991 for a special Christmas in July episode of the “Back to the Future” Saturday morning cartoon featuring hologram clothes, the hoverboard equivalent to texting while driving, and Bill Nye the Science Guy. 🎙 Joey O., along with Joseph Wade from Christmas Creeps and The O/S/T Party, are our partners in time for a “Dickens of a Christmas,” featuring Dan Castellaneta as the voice of the animated Doc, Thomas F. Wilson as Ebiffnezer Tannen, and Christmas movie all-star Mary Steenburger as Clara.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Mary Steenburger playing “Informer” on the accordion in “Last Man on Earth.”  Series art director James S. Baker storyboards his own blog.  The Back to the Future pinball game and its random movie quotes.  Futurepedia on how Doc’s clothing converter camera works.  Weird things we did as kids to show our parents we were responsible.  Some toys in Fedgewick’s shop shouldn’t be there yet in 1845.  Did “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” exist in 1845? Possibly, but not the version we know.  Doc’s wad of cash vs. England’s bank notes circa 1845.  Wilkins’s dog looks like 1980s T-shirt icon Rude Dog.  My Back to the Future-themed Good Friday and Easter Sunday tweets.  The closest thing we could find to a Kaiju Christmas movie is 1962’s “Gorath.”  ****  📼 Commercials:  Back to the Future: The Ride at Universal Studios Florida (1996)  Hi-C Ecto Cooler Commercial (1989), starring David Kaufmann, the voice of Marty.  ****  “Back to the Future,” the Animated Series, and “Dickens of a Christmas” © 1991 Universal Cartoon Studios / Amblin Television.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s6 #1990s #scroogesunday

🎄 Garbageman is here for your Christmas spirit.  🎙️ Tommy Coombs and Chad Young join us as we look happily deranged back to 1996 to follow Pete and Pete’s brother, Pete, on their mission to keep Christmas going for as long as possible, and keep their Christmas tree safe from the evil Garbageman.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Michael C. Maronna (Big Pete) in “Home Alone,” and in a series of Ameritrade commercials circa 1999.  “Snow Day” was originally conceived as a Pete & Pete movie.  The first Pete & Pete short, “What Would You Do for a Dollar?”  The Pete & Pete 20th Anniversary Reunion.  Danny Tamberelli (Little Pete) as Jimmy De Santa in “Grand Theft Auto 5.”  Hardy Rawls (Dad) as the Maytag Repairman circa 2005.  Sludge Central on “Pete & Pete” filming in New Jersey.  Chad and Michael May talk “Silent Night, Deadly Night.”  David Johansen sings “Garbageman’s Ballad.”  The Max Headroom Pirating Incident.  A mini ode to character actress Marilyn Dobrin as the Wrigleys’ notably loud neighbor.  ****  📼 Commercials:  The Adventures of Pete & Pete: “Mom’s Plate” (1991)  Christmas Clatter.  ****  “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” and “O’ Christmas Pete” © 1995 Viacom.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s6 #1990s #nickelodeon

🦖 It’s the most wonderful time of 60 million years ago, so come in and buy paint.  🎙️ Lindy Kempe joins us with frying pan ready to celebrate Refrigerator Day with the Jim Henson Company’s “Dinosaurs,” which is somehow the Advent Calendar House’s first TGIF episode.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  “The Simpsons” parodies “Dinosaurs.”  We go from talking about the “Økėÿ Døkęÿ Køøkïñ” segment of “Muppets Now” to Netflix’s “Nailed It!”  Sally Struthers (Charlene) for International Correspondence School.  A brief history of the Christmas bonus, or “thirteenth salary.”  Sam McMurray in the very short-lived “A League of Their Own” sitcom, and my own pitch for a TV adaptation on Nerd Lunch’s Fourth Chair Army Invasion.  Pons Maar (Roy’s body actor) as the original voice of The Noid.  Unisaurs: The Dinosaurs equivalent to the Anything Muppet.  The biggest gifts we ended up returning.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Talking Baby Dinosaur and Dinosaurs Figures (1991)  TGI Podcast.  ****  “Dinosaurs” and “Refrigerator Day” © 1991 The Walt Disney Company.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s6 #1990s #muppets

🎄 It’s 1995, and a cozy Christmas at X-Mansion has quickly turned into a risky blood transfusion in a sewer.  🎙 I call upon the raging wind and the retired hosts of The Hourchive — Drew Crowley, John Dedeke, Adam Jurotich, and Nick Main — to send us flying into the Marvel Animated Universe as we size up the X-Mansion Christmas tree, praise Storm’s fashion sense, and berate her leadership skills.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  The Hourchive on The X-Men (2013) and ReduX-Men (2019).  “California Dreams.”  “Saturday Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits” home video starring Drew Barrymore.  “Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas” on the Marvel Animated Universe Wiki.  Ross Petty (Ape) and his annual holiday pantomime theatre.  “Captive Hearts,” featuring the introduction to the Morlocks, Rogue and Gambit in swimsuits, and the Wolverine Crush meme.  ****  📼 Commercials:  The Uncanny X-Men ToyBiz Action Figures.  Lit for Christmas.  “The Christmas Book: The Ultimate Guide to Your Favorite Holiday” by Ed Daly.  ****  “X-Men” and “Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas” © 1995 Filmation Associates.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s7 #1990s #marvel