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🎄 It’s Glo! Join Hasbro’s hive of bioluminescent bugs, the Glo Friends, in their own Christmas special from 1985.  🎙️ Erin Evans and Joey O. join forces as we learn how to selectively melt only certain ice we’re radiating near to save Santa (Carroll O’Connor), who’s been locked in an icicle cage by Blanche, the Wicked Witch of the North Pole (Sally Struthers), who’s jealous of Santa’s publicity. Take notes, Great Pumpkin… or, perhaps, don’t.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  This was a pilot for an eventual series that aired alongside the original “My Little Pony & Friends.”  A helpful guide to identifying every Glo Friend.  Nancy Cartwright was the voice of Baby Glo Worm in the series, but in this pilot, it’s Laurie O’Brien doing her Baby Piggy voice.  Joey interviews Pat Fraley (Glo Worm) on his later performance as Krang.  Glo Worm’s purple outfit here, as opposed to the original toy’s green outfit, was apparently a “source of controversy,” according to Wikipedia.  Can all antlered mammals fly if you go far enough north?  Lorenzo Music doing a weird, nervous lisp instead of his usual Resting Garfield Voice™.  Santa sings the least bluesy blues song ever while his reindeer do Rockettes kicks.  More of Mike’s thoughts on The Glo Friends Save Christmas on the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast.  ****  “The Glo Friends Save Christmas” ©1985 Hasbro, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s3 #1980s #hasbro

🎄 S-s-season’s greetings-s-s! You better watch out, because today we’re kindly rewinding back to a 1985 Christmas episode of “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero,”🎙️ Joey O. parachutes in for “Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town,” featuring the incredible shrinking Cobra troops and a giant parrot.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  We don’t even get 4 minutes into this before bringing up the U.S.S. Flagg.  Then we get caught up in the Crossfire.  A brief history of the G.I. Joe toy line, from “America’s Movable Fighting Man” to the Adventure Team, to “A Real American Hero.”  “The Toys That Made Us” on Netflix.  The “opening monologue that explains the show” has nothing on Voltron’s.  Neil Ross (Shipwreck, Dusty, and Buzzer in this episode) has an audio camero in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “I Can’t Watch This.”  Joey’s interviews with Pat Fraley (Wild Weasel), Gregg Berger (Firefly), Michael Bell (Duke, Blowtorch, Major Bludd), and Rob Paulsen (Tripwire, his earliest known voice credit).  “The Viper is Coming” is both our favorite G.I. Joe episode and my dad’s favorite dad joke.  “King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons,” starring Chris Latta (Cobra Commander).  We try and find Keystone City, which may or may not be somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania.  The titular Cobra CLAW (Covert Light Aerial Weapon), an odd name for a Cobra vehicle, because snakes don’t have claws.  Fenslerfilm’s G.I. Joe PSAs.  ****  📼 Commercials:  William “The Refrigerator” Perry G.I. Joe Action Figure (1987)  Weird Christmas.****  “G.I. Joe” and “Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town” © 1985 Hasbro, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s4 #1980s #hasbro

🎄 It’s 2016, and a Scrooge-like unicorn is brewing a potion to eliminate Hearth’s Warming Eve from the calendar. That’s how potions work, right?  🎙 Jon and Bin from Bin’s Toy Bin and Santa by the Minute join us for a Scrooge Sunday canter through a “Christmas Carol” adaptation set in Equestria, the world of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.”  📺 You can watch “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” for free on YouTube.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Mike on Santa by the Minute.  The first My Little Pony special, from 1984: “Rescue at Midnight Castle.”  Patton Oswalt on My Little Pony.  Patton Oswalt literally on My Little Pony.  “It’s a Pony Kind of Christmas,” featuring characters who don’t celebrate Christmas singing Christmas songs, so the show’s composer had to clarify it wasn’t canon.  The mysterious “Derpy,” a.k.a. Muffins.  A short tangent about “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” air fresheners.  Today’s TV Trope: And You Were There.  A scene was cut featuring Discord in the Jacob Marley role.  He’s not in this episode, but there’s a character named Cheese Sandwich who is literally “Weird Al” Yankovic as a pony.  Bin takes roll call at the Hearth’s Warming Eve party.  ****  📼 Commercials:  My Little Pony Dream Castle Commercial (1983)  The Hub Network: 12 Days of Ponies Promo (2014)  ****  “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” and “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” © 2016 Hasbro Studios.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s9 #2010s #scroogesunday #hasbro