About this episode
🎄 It’s 1983, and my emotional support jack-in-the-box is not providing much help for my Imposter Syndrome. Prepare for a deep dive into another pre-ALF puppet special from Paul Fusco starring a very depressed elf in training trying to find where he belongs in Santa’s workshop by first finding everywhere he doesn’t belong. Plus: Santa’s Swedish Chef-like human hands! A three-eyed purple teddy bear we never get to see! Paul Fusco inserting himself into his own Christmas fan fiction! **** 🎙 Guests: Tom Coombs ( The Pop Daddy ) Jayme Kilsby ( Forever Bogus Podcast ) Chad Young ( The Horror Movie BBQ ) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “Santa’s Magic Toy Bag” on Tubi . 2. Sherman looks like A Gnome Named Gnorm . 3. The hot dog puppet from “Funland.” 4. The History of the Nickelodeon Hotel (Defunctland). 5. The keeper of Santa’s Magic Toy Bag reminds me of the presidential designated survivor . 6. Superman impales some jerk’s truck on a telephone pole in “Man of Steel.” 7. Cracked: We Ruined Santa With Math . **** 📼 Commercial Break: Sears Video Game Arcade Christmas Sale (1983) The Studio Demands It! , a podcast that recreates, reimagines, or flat out fixes existing film franchises when a hypothetical studio demands more films. **** “Santa’s Magic Toy Bag” © 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .