Babes in Toyland (1986)

🎄It’s 1986, and the only way Drew Barrymore can save her new friends is to believe in the magic of toys… and Cincinnati.  

From director Clive Donner comes a bonkers adaptation of “Babes in Toyland” starring Drew Barrymore, Keanu Reeves, and Richard Mulligan as a weird, evil guy who lives in a bowling ball.  

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🎙 Guests:

Molly Patton (MollyPatton.com)  

Becca Petunia (ToughPigs.com, Bear in the Big Blue Podcast, Bluesky)  

Adam Pope (The Retro Network, Wizards: The Podcast Guide to Comics, Remember That Show?, Bluesky)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. Watch “Babes in Toyland” on Tubi, the full, 3-hour original broadcast with commercials, or the unofficial “Director’s Cut” without ads.  

2. Misfits in Toyland (NSFW), an unrelated horror-comedy webcomic.  

3. Keanu Reeves (Jack) on “Going Great” (1985).  

4. Googy Gress (Georgie) in “Wayne’s World 2.”  

5. Today’s TV Trope: And You Were There.  

6. The Cookie Jar House of South Jersey.  

7. The Undertaker’s entrance at WrestleMania IX, in the middle of the afternoon.  

8. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (and Tripping Daisy’s cover of theme song).  

9. The Toymaster’s Santa coat looks like Belle’s from “Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.”  

10. Was It Great, or Were You 8?  

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📼 Commercial Break:

McDonald’s: Recital (1986)  

Give ’Em All a Little Pat of Butter (1986)  

TGI Podcast  

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“Babes in Toyland” © 1986 The Finnegan Company.  

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