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🎄 It’s time once again to count down to Christmas Eve, starting with 3 versions of Dr. Seuss’s classic Christmas tale from 1966, 2000, and 2018.  🎙️ Michael DiGiovanni and Michael May drop by as all 3 Mikes compare and contrast 3 very different Grinches.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.,” Dr. Seuss’s first — and last — feature film screenplay.  DiGio discovers Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice behind “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” was also Tony the Tiger.  Grinchmas, the annual Christmas celebration at Universal Studios Hollywood and Islands of Adventure in Orlando.  “How Murray Saved Christmas,” a 2014 animated TV special starring Jerry Stiller that just made my to-do list.  “The Muppet Christmas Carol” on Sleigh Bell Cinema.  ****  “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” © 1966 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.  “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” © 2000 LUNI Productions GmbH & Co. KG.  “The Grinch” © 2018 Universal Studios.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1960s #2000s #2010s #drseuss

🎃 It’s a wonderful night for eyebrows and the wildest trip to the euphemism we’ve ever taken.  🎙️ James Riley and Ethan “The Hungry Reader” hitch a ride in our paraphernalia wagon as we wheel it back to 1977 for a Grinch Night we’ll never forget.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  The worst, non-candy Halloween treats.  “Carlton, Your Doorman.”  Longtime Sesame Street composer Joe Raposo composed this special’s music.  Hans Conried (The Grinch) was also the titular character in Dr. Seuss’s The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.  I badly describe the plot of “Midnight Madness.”  The Hakken-Kraks in “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.”  The Euphemism, and other words I thought Dr. Seuss made up.  “Dr. Seuss Goes to War,” and other creators of great works doing terrible things.  Bogleech’s gallery of the Grinch’s monsters, and our personal favorites.  The Vug under the Rug, the Jibboo, and the Birthday Bird.  “Danse macabre.”  Is this a prequel, and where does “The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat” fit into it?  ****  📼 Commercials:  Franken Berry and Monster Cereals (1986), preserved by Dinosaur Dracula.  Holly Jolly X’masu.  ****  “Halloween is Grinch Night” © 1977 DePatie–Freleng Enterprises.  Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.  #s6 #1970s #halloween #drseuss

🎄 Now it’s time for a Muppety holiday fix, so let’s turn the clock back to 1996, to a show I’m excited to reintroduce: it’s “The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss.”  🎙️ The Advent Calendar House welcomes 2 of Muppet Wiki’s finest, Tony Whitaker and Shane Keating, to join our Jingle Day pageant.  📺 You can watch “Mrs. Zabarelli’s Holiday Baton” on the Jim Henson’s Family Hub YouTube channel.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Where in the who-heck is the Grinch?  “The noozle at the end of the hoose,” (surprisingly not a Dr. Seuss reference).  Michael K. Frith on Muppet Wiki.  The Muppets on “Family Feud” (2001).  Kathy Mullen (Morton) interview with ToughPigs.com (2013).  These aren’t Whatnots; they’re Whozits.  “Sesame English,” an English as a second language “Sesame Street” series.  “Good grief! The comedian’s a bear!”  Cindy Lou Who’s on First?  Defunctland Podcast: Working in a Wubbulous World with Stephanie D’Abruzzo and Craig Shemin.  There’s a rolling drum gag, so here’s the “Emmet Otter” outtake reel again.  “You’re the poet laureate of…”  Shane and the ToughPigs staff visit the “Sesame Street” set.  Shane’s supercut of Gordon from “Sesame Street” saying, “Oh, hi!”  ****  📼 Commercials:  Hallmark’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” Collection (1998)  Closer to Christmas.  ****  “The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss” and “Mrs. Zabarelli’s Holiday Baton” © 1996 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s14 #1990s #drseuss #muppets