About this episode
🎄 We’re skating on thin ice back to 1993 for a very educational trip to Bluffington in an episode of Doug that I forgot was a Christmas episode I was watching for the podcast. **** 🎙 On This Episode: Greg Stevens ( Pop Arena , Nick Knacks , @pop_arena ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Disney’s Doug was fine, y’all. 2. Doug creator Jim Jinkins worked on Nickelodeon’s first show, Pinwheel . 3. Early versions of Doug in a bumper for USA Network and a PSA for Florida Grapefruit Juice narrated by Lorenzo Music. 4. Today’s TV Trope: Danger: Thin Ice . 5. Alice Playten (Beebe) in Maurice Sendak’s Really Rosie as Alligator. 6.Constance Shulman (Patti) in Weekend at Bernie’s II . 7. Every car in Bluffington looks like Homer Simpson designed it . 8. Greg Lee from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? voices the now-former mayor White, and boy, am I glad we recorded this after election week. 9. The Phred on Your Head Show . 10. Mr. Dink’s last name is apparently an acronym for “ Double Income, No Kids .” 11. Don’t wrap pets in boxes! 12. What is Pork Chop? 13. The topper on the Funnies’ Christmas tree is Mr. Dink’s face. **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: Nicktoons Pizza Hut Kids’ Pizza Pack Commercial , 1991. **** 🎤 And Now, These Messages: SequelQuest . TGI Podcast . “Doug” and “Doug’s Christmas Story” © 1993 Jumbo Pictures, Inc. Say hi on Twitter and Instagram . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .