A Muppet Family Christmas

Advent Calendar House

Dec 04, 2017•58 min•Season 1Ep. 2

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Episode description

To mark the 30th anniversary of the shredded wheat and cranberry sauce of TV specials, we take a head count of every unexpected guest Fozzie Bear’s mother graciously welcomed into her home on Christmas Eve, 1987. It’s a lot.

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🎙 Guest:

Carlin Trammel (Nerd Lunch, Dragonfly Ripple, @nerdlunch).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. We try and piece together the various home video cuts and music rights issues.

2. The dizzying continuity issues surrounding the Muppet Babies.

3. Can you say “OshKosh B’gosh”?

4. A milk PSA and the world’s most forward-thinking bullies.

5. Osvaldo el Gruñón, Oscar the Grouch’s Puerto Rican counterpart.

6. Parting words from the guy with the beard doing the dishes.

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