About this episode
🎄 It’s 1973, and a musical cricket is about to save the Christmas spirit during New York City’s quietest power failure. Join us for a one-cat open sleigh ride into Chuck Jones’s beautifully animated sequel to “The Cricket in Times Square.” **** 🎙 Guest: Michael DiGiovanni ( Pop Culture Retrofit , Classic Film Jerks , @TheyCallMeDiGio ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. A very insightful Letterboxd review . 2. Name That Christmas Special’s screenshot gallery for this special. 3. Today’s TV Trope: Bully Bulldog . 4. Mel Blanc’s voice for the Alley Cat sounds his voice for Clarence the Cat in “ Birds Anonymous .” 5. DiGio introduces me to Yorkshire pudding . 6. “ Down by the Old Mill Stream .” 7. The similar “ Joy to the World ” segment from “ Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration .” 8. The final Classic Film Jerks movie, “ Babes in Toyland (March of the Wooden Soldiers) .” **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: Mel Blanc American Express Card Commercial, 1971 . **** 🎤 And Now, These Messages: Rediscover the 80s podcasts, including The 80s Weekly and Memory Jogger . **** “A Very Merry Cricket” © 1973 Chuck Jones Enterprises. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .