About this episode
🎄 It’s 1988, the monsters under my bed are real, and they’re stealing Christmas. Follow us under the covers through a wormhole to the home of ’80s kids’ bedding sensation the Pillow People in a Christmas special so obscure, it’s not even listed on IMDb. But it’s real, and it’s ironically nightmarish. **** 🎙 Guest: Ethan ( The Hungry Reader , A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight , Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head ) **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “ Pillow People Save Christmas ” on YouTube. 2. Pillow People on the toy collectors’ website Ghost of the Doll. 2. Toot Sweet Toys , or what’s left of it. 3. TV listing in New York magazine , November 1988. 4. Victor DiMattia (Billy) on filming “The Sandlot.” 5. Window Rattler as seen on “Full House.” 6. The Who Cares Bears . 7. Today’s TV Trope: Introdump , example: the worst Rob Liefeld drawing . 8. Cheryl Chase (Sweet Dreams) mentions working with Cree Summer (Rock-a-Bye Baby) on this special in a 2004 interview about the “Rugrats” spinoff “All Grown Up.” 9. The Far Side: “ …He’s taking it with him! ” 10. Nightmara looks like a cross between Mother Brain in “Captain N: The Game Master” and Madam Hecuba from the 1974 anime adaptation of “Jack and the Beanstalk.” **** 📼 Commercial Break: Pillow People: Pillow Valley Commercial (1988) Holidays After Dark , exploring the strange, unusual, and dark sides of the holidays. **** “Pillow People Save Christmas” © 1988 TMS Entertainment, Inc. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .