About this episode
🎄 Put on your cute little helmet and join us on a journey back to 1984 for a Christmas special based on the toy craze that turned holiday shopping from a winter wonderland to a warzone. Julia ( Tis the Podcast ) and Steven ( The Bigfoot Club ) join the adventure from the hidden home of the Cabbage Patch Kids to the unnamed but totally identifiable big city in search of the Christmas spirit, while we evade 2 nearly identical but probably not related trios trying to kidnap us. It’ll all make sense. Actually, no. It will not. 📺 “The Cabbage Patch Kids’ First Christmas” is well preserved on YouTube. Here’s an upscaled version . Watch Steven’s film, “The Bigfoot Club,” on Prime Video . **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: The totally official, extremely bonkers Legend of the Cabbage Patch Kids . Babyland General Hospital . ‘Custody’ fight over Cabbage Patch dolls (Christian Science Monitor, 1983) Josh Rodine (Dawson Glenn) in “ Sparky’s Magic Piano ” (1987) Sparky Marcus (Xavier) as Banjo the Woodpile Cat (1979) “ Kudzu: The Invasive Vine that Ate the South .” Piedmont Park . What idiot took the gay out of “Don we now our gay apparel”? **** 📼 Commercials: Cabbage Patch Kids Talking Phone (1984) Cabbage Patch Kids Hide and Seek Game (1984) **** “The Cabbage Patch Kids’ First Christmas” © 1984 Ruby-Spears Enterprises, Inc. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Hosted by The Retro Network .