About this episode
🎄 It’s 1988, and we’re staring intensely at the totally nuts series finale of The Care Bears Family , the Care Bears’ last TV appearance for 16 years. **** 🎙 Guests: Lindy Kempe ( @ieatvideogames ). Karen Flieger ( @karenflieger8 , The Retro Network ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The World’s Smallest Tenderheart Bear . 2. Karen’s awesome Nutcracker socks . 3. Abby Hagyard on Twitter (Ms. Walker, and also Mom on You Can’t Do That on Television ). 4. The Wild Puffalumps . 5. Billie Mae Richards, the voice of Rudolph, as Tenderheart Bear in The Care Bears Movie . 6. That time a goose flew into Fabio’s face on a roller coaster . 7. Today’s TV Tropes: Identity Amnesia , Evil Chancellor , Rail-Car Separation . 8. The Sad Story of Henry from Thomas the Tank Engine . 9. The train runs on soda, like the time machine in the first draft of Back to the Future . 10. When we recorded this, the special’s Wikipedia entry was oddly specific about setting this story in 1967. **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: Care Bears Drinking Glasses from Pizza Hut , 1984. **** 🎤 And Now, These Messages: The Christmas Book: The Ultimate Guide to Your Favorite Holiday . Snow in Southtown . “Care Bears Nutcracker Suite” © 1988 Nelvana Ltd. 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 .