Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
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🎃 The 13th of July means it’s spooky time again in the Advent Calendar House as we wheel our paraphernalia wagon back to 1977 to pay a long-awaited revisit to Who-ville on a Grinch Night we’ll never forget.
Full show notes with links at: https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/halloween-is-grinch-night
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🎙 On This Episode:• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), fuzzy pink endangered species being chased down a mountain for existing.
• James Riley (@yourbuddyspooky), my personal Grinch alarm warden.
• Ethan “The Hungry Reader” (@Gtron), the guest of honor at the exclusive Grinch Night ball, from A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:• Halloween is Grinch Night on the Dr. Seuss Wiki.
• The worst, non-candy items we’ve gotten while trick-or-treating.
• Carlton, Your Doorman.
• Music composer Joe Raposo, whose greatest hits also include the Sesame Street theme, Bein’ Green, and C is for Cookie.
• Hans Conried, the voice of Grinch in this special and Captain Hook in Disney’s Peter Pan, 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.
• Is the Grinch’s magic only active on Grinch Night?
• The Euphemism, and other words I thought Dr. Seuss made up.
• An ode to the Whos' videophone.
• 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.
• The Birthday Bird.
• Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre.
• Is this a prequel or something else? And where does The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat fit?
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:• Franken Berry and Monsters Cereals (1986), preserved by Dinosaur Dracula.
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🎤 And Now, These Messages:• Holly Jolly X’masu.
“Halloween is Grinch Night” © 1977 DePatie–Freleng Enterprises.
The Advent Calendar House can also be found following you down a river of mysterious pink ooze on Twitter (@adventcalhouse) and Instagram (@adventcalendarhouse).
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