A salute to all TV holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones. Revisit 12 holiday classics and not-so-classics each December and July.
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episode 3: ’Twas the Night Before Christmas
Turn back the clock till it goes kerplunk — or kerplooey — to make some time for Rankin/Bass’s 1974 retelling of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas from the perspective of the mouse and his know-it-all nerdy son.
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???? Guest:Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24).
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???? Topics & Tangents:1. The worst thing we’ve broken that ruined multiple peoples’ day.
2. We prepared for this episode by listening to Green Day’s Kerplunk!
3. South Park covered the song Even a Miracle Needs a Hand.
4. Albert reminds us of a young Julia Stiles in a 1990s Apple Jacks cereal commercial.
5. Dusty Rhodes’s “Hard Times” promo.
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“’Twas the Night Before Christmas” © 1974 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.
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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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