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🎄 By the power of Grayskull, the only holiday podcast with Battle Damage action is back to be nice, kind, and wonderful to 1985’s He-Man and She-Ra Christmas special, in which Skeletor’s heart grows three sizes.  🎙️ Brandon Medley and Chad Young are here to help me identify everyone at Eternia’s first ever Christmas party. And Brandon’s dog stops by because he heard us talking about the Beast Monster!  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  He-Man and She-Ra are between 18 and 21 years old and gave children unreasonable expectations of what they’d look like when they grow up.  Greyskull Wiki has an entire section of Queen Marlena’s entry dedicated to speculating about her religion.  The Monstroids exist because the makers of He-Man toys want you to believe giant robots that can transform are evil.    Skeletor and Hordak are basically Miracle Max and his wife from “The Princess Bride.”  This may have been the first time I’d ever seen someone yank off Santa’s beard.  ****  “He-Man/She-Ra: A Christmas Special” © 1985 Mattel, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s2 #1980s #filmation

🎄 Filmation’s space western gets a dickens of a backstory.  🎙 Joey O. and Sammy Hain saddle up for a Scrooge Sunday edition of the Advent Calendar House looking back at a 1987 Christmas episode of “BraveStarr.”  📺 You can watch “Tex’s Terrible Night” on YouTube.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  The Fisher-Price Western Town I used as a backdrop for the much larger Bravestarr action figure.  Joey’s interview with Pat Fraley (Marshal BraveStarr).  This episode uses flashback scenes from the movie “BraveStarr: The Legend,” which explains why the animation quality isn’t consistent.  Young Tex Hex looks like a purple Faker from “He-Man.”  Stampede, the show’s even bigger bad, grants Tex Hex the power of transformation, because Filmation really wanted to teach kids that things that transform are evil.  The “present-day” husband of Tex’s former love, Ursula, looks like Fred Ward.  The time BraveStarr found a kid dead of a drug overdose.  ****  📼 Commercial:  Marshal BraveStarr, Tex Hex, and Neutralaser Toy Commercial (1986)  Christmas Time in the City.  ****  “BraveStarr” and “Tex’s Terrible Night” ©1987 Filmation Associates.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s5 #1980s #scroogesunday #filmation

🎄 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.  #s7 #1980s #filmation