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December 4, 2024 82 mins

🎄It’s 1984, and Santa’s in front of a firing squad because his executioner didn’t appreciate the socks he got last Christmas.  

The slime is an extra festive shade of green in this Christmas episode of the show that defined Nickelodeon’s early years, featuring an all-star cast of the 5 most featured kid actors of “You Can’t Do That on Television.”  

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🎙 Guests:

Shawn Robare (Plastic Rocket Pop, Cult Film Club, Wolfman’s Got Nards)  

Steven (UFO Club, The Bigfoot Club)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. Watch the Christmas episode on Facebook.  

2. Shawn’s piece of the Prevert Family’s living room wallpaper.  

3. Nick Knacks on “You Can’t Do That on Television.”  

4. Mike pitches a sequel to “Santa Claus: The Movie” on SequelQuest (2020).  

5. “UFO Kidnapped,” a TV pilot featuring much of the same cast of kids.  

6. Les Lye as Professor Coldheart in “The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings.”  

7. How we’ve fielded the question of Santa’s one-night flight.  

8. Abby Hagyard (Mom) on YouTube.  

9. Ice Cream Dolls, The Visible Man, and the G.I. Joe Motorized Battle Tank.  

10. Calvin and Hobbes makes the same “Santa wants beer” joke.  

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📼 Commercial Break:

“You Can’t Do That on Television” Green Slime Shampoo (circa 1987)  

The Lost Christmas Podcast.  

“A Very Zelda Christmas,” by DarkNuck, on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.  

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“You Can’t Do That on Television” © 1984 Carleton Productions.  

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

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