Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow

🦃 It’s 2015, and in my search for a noisy cryptid I accidentally freed 175 roided-up turkeys, but neither of those things is the real monster.  

Join us as we rediscover a long lost Thanksgiving special concept Jim Henson dreamed up in the 1960s and meet the Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight, Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head)  

Sammy Hain (Sammy’s Easter Tails)  

Tony Whitaker (@muppetdude, Muppet Wiki)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. Watch “Turkey Hollow” on Disney+.  

2. ToughPigs.com Behind the Scenes of Turkey Hollow.  

3. Muppet Wiki on this special, Jim Henson’s original concept, and the 2014 graphic novel.  

4. Some prototype musical monsters: An early Grover, Snerf, and the Rock and Roll Monster.  

5. Director Kirk Thatcher in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.”  

6. On-set interviews with Ludacris, Lisa Henson, and Alice Dinnean.  

7. Hope you like Beets.  

8. Today’s TV Tropes: When You Coming Home, Dad? and Hollywood Law.  

9. Station from “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.”  

10. “Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge.”  

11. Jason Hopley’s (Zorp) IMDb profile picture is from “Goosebumps.”  

12. Lewis, Target’s Halloween Ghoul.  

13. Homer Simpson eating potato chips on the space shuttle.  

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📼 Commercial Break:  

AT&T “Turkey” Commercial (2008)  

TGI Podcast, diving into holiday episodes from TGIF and more.  

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“Turkey Hollow” © 2015 The Jim Henson Company, Inc.  

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.