A Thanksgiving Tale

🦃 We’re talking turkey as we dig up and dig in to a 1983 Thanksgiving special from puppeteer Paul Fusco, the creator of ALF.  

Find links and complete show notes at: https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-thanksgiving-tale  

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🎙 On This Episode:  

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), nearsighted, hard-of-hearing turkey with a dream of making it in showbiz.  

• Chad Young (@HorrorMovieBBQ), a rat I promised $3 to if he made a silly face on my podcast, from the Horror Movie BBQ.  

• Tom Coombs (@classictomedy), an alley cat who talks like a Muppet but, for legal reasons, is definitely not a Muppet.  

• Jayme Kilsby (@brainexploderrr), hiding in a trash can to avoid being eaten alive.  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

• Imagicom Productions’ Holiday Specials Collection.  

• A Thanksgiving Tale, with curated retro Thanksgiving commercials.  

• The Joker at the 1989 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.  

• A November 16, 1983 TV listing in an archived New York Magazine.  

• Paul Fusco’s Space Cats.  

• David Lander in Funland.  

• Mental Floss’s Oral History of ALF.  

• Today’s TV Trope: Invited as Dinner.  

• The You Bet Your Life Duck.  

• The art of making puppets fight: Throw them into the air from behind a fence.  

• We compare the Thanksgiving play in this special to the one in Addams Family Values.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

• Butterball Turkey Commercial (1985)  

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:  

• Christmas Time in the City.  

“A Thanksgiving Tale” © 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc.  

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