About this episode
🎄 It’s 1963, and we’re watching a show about a show within a show putting on a show for Christmas. Don’t ask us to make sense of it. We can’t stop tripping over our own home furniture. **** 🎙 Guest: Tim Babb ( Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast , @TimBabbComedian , @ChristmasPod ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Dick Van Dyke as Tubby the Tuba . 2. 8 great little details you never noticed in The Dick Van Dyke Show Christmas episode (MeTV). 3. Every Episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show , Ranked (Vulture). 4. 92-year-old Dick Van Dyke dancing to Step in Time . 5. Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins Returns . 6. John Brown’s Body . 7. Key & Peele’s Negrotown sketch and the trope of interrupting someone’s song. 8. The Dick Van Dyke Show cast reunites on Comic Relief , 1992. 9. The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book’s history of I Am a Fine Musician . 10. The theme song’s secret lyrics . **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: Learn Not to Burn: Holiday Fire Safety PSA , 1977. Also mentioned, this Fire Safety PSA with Dick Van Dyke pretending to be a door . **** “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Alan Brady Show Presents” © 1963 Calvada Productions. 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 .