About this episode
🎄 The Advent Calendar House gets overrun by earworms strong enough to burrow into wood as we carve into the 1980 Rankin/Bass Christmas special starring Pinocchio. **** 🎙 Guests: Michael DiGiovanni ( @theatomicgeeks , The Atomic Geeks , Classic Film Jerks , Pop Culture Retrofit ). Michael May ( @michaelmaycomix , MichaelMay.online , Sleigh Bell Cinema , Mystery Movie Night , Nerd Lunch Fourth Chair Army Invasion , and I think that might be it… FOR NOW). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Two songs, Dancin’ and The Very Best Friend I Ever Had , were cut from and later restored to TV broadcasts. 2. Starstuff , a Philadelphia market, Saturday morning kids’ sci-fi TV series starring Todd Porter, the voice of Pinocchio. 3. The most disappointing gifts we’ve ever received, including what Santa gave me after I allegedly misspelled “ Alpha Critters .” 4. We question the less-than-clear laws that govern Pinocchio’s lie-detecting nose, which appear to grant him a mulligan here. 5. Those classic Christmas puppet show characters, Don Quixote and an alligator. 6. The strange flash-forward to the rest of Pinocchio’s better-known adventures, even though Rankin/Bass already made a Pinocchio TV series , its first ever stop-motion animation project. **** “Pinocchio’s Christmas” ©1980 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .