About this episode
🦃 We’re talking turkey as we dig up and dig in to a 1983 Thanksgiving special from puppeteer Paul Fusco, the creator of ALF. **** 🎙 Guests: Chad “Ecto” Young ( The Horror Movie BBQ , TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny , @horrormoviebbq ). Tom Coombs ( @ClassicTomedy , TPIF ). Jayme Kilsby ( @brainexploderrr ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Imagicom Productions’ Holiday Specials Collection . 2. A Thanksgiving Tale, with curated retro Thanksgiving commercials . 3. The Joker at the 1989 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade . 4. A November 16, 1983 TV listing in an archived New York Magazine . 5. Paul Fusco’s Space Cats . 6. David Lander in Funland . 7. Mental Floss’s Oral History of ALF . 8. Today’s TV Trope: Invited as Dinner . 9. The You Bet Your Life Duck. 10. The art of making puppets fight: Throw them into the air from behind a fence. 11. We compare the Thanksgiving play in this special to the one in Addams Family Values . **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: Butterball Turkey Commercial (1985) **** 🎤 And Now, These Messages: Christmas Time in the City . “A Thanksgiving Tale” © 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc. Say hi on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .