About this episode
🎅 It’s the 100th episode of the Advent Calendar House! Join us as we put one foot in front of the other back to 1970 to revisit a Rankin/Bass Christmas classic that dares to answer children’s questions about Santa Claus while illegally opening his mail. **** 🎙 Guests: Michael DiGiovanni ( Classic Film Jerks , Pop Culture Retrofit , @theatomicgeeks ). Erin Evans ( @mserinevans ). Michael May ( MichaelMay.online , AfterLUNCH , @michaelmaycomix ). Brandon Medley ( @brandmed , 📸 @blessedarethegeek ). Joey O. ( Y-Not Radio , Words With Nerds , @imgonnadj24 ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Both IMDb and Wikipedia had the premiere date wrong because of a typo in an old book . Rich Goldschmidt’s The Making of Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town and The Daydreamer gets it right. 2. Former pro-wrestler Special Delivery Jones (no relation). 3. Burgermeister Meisterburger is a dead ringer for Mauser from Police Academy 2 . 4. Hey, IMDb, I highly doubt the Greg Thomas voicing young Kris Kringle grew up to play the saxophone in Parliament Funkadelic. 5. For a while, Topper was renamed Waddles . 6. Kris’s weird face he makes after being caught by the Winter Warlock’s angry trees. 7. Save the Earth from Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster . 8. Weddings on Christmas Day used to be popular. 9. The first known recording of the song Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town , and our favorite versions. **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: Folgers Coffee: Peter Comes Home for Christmas , 1982. **** “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” © 1970 Rankin/Bass Productions. Say hi on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .