About this episode
🎄It’s 1995, and Robert Downey Jr. may or may not be holding Kermit the Frog hostage until he gets his perfect Christmas tree. The Advent Calendar House is back in time for a freakin’ country bear jamberoo as a family of Muppet mice risk their lives to bring home the top of the top of the top of the top of a Christmas tree fit for an eccentric future Iron Man. Also starring shy butler Leslie Nielsen, homesick Swedish maid Stockard Channing, and a pre-Bobo Bobo the Bear. **** 🎙 Guests: Anthony Strand ( ToughPigs.com , Movin’ Right Along , Bluesky ) Tim Babb ( Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast ) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree: 1995 broadcast with commercials . 2. Muppet Wiki entry . 3. The original book . 4. An odd TV promo featuring Brian Cummings’ Kermit the Frog impression. 5. Kermit and Miss Piggy’s music video of “ She Drives Me Crazy ,” featuring Leslie Nielsen. 6. Movin’ Right Along talks Kermit: Unpigged . 7. The Sesame Street Muppets on “The West Wing” with Stockard Channing . 8. Mama and Papa Bear are Beth from “The Muppets Take Manhattan” and the future Bobo from “Muppets Tonight.” 9. “Jim Henson’s Animal Show” on Owls … and Humans . 10. Sandra Bullock plays the glass harp in “Miss Congeniality.” 11. An Oreo commercial where a mall Santa takes off his beard way too quickly. **** 📼 Commercial Break: Dizzy Grizzlies and Ritz Air Crisps (1995) “ Santa in His Own Words ,” a book by North Pole Radio’s Matt Spaulding. **** “Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree” © 1995 Jim Henson Productions, Inc. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .