About this episode
🎄 “This just in: Santa Claus is dead… or he might as well be, because there’s an even fatter man who’s holding families at nice-point!” ’Tis the Advent Calendar House’s 15th season, so this December’s dozen begins with a similarly titled episode of “The Simpsons” from 2003. Shane Keating from ToughPigs.com , Erin Evans , and Joey O. join the mission to stop being selfish and start being good. 📺 As of this recording, “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” (Season 15, Episode 7) is available on Disney+ . **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: This episode premiered the day after Saddam Hussein was caught . Marge’s couch gag anime costume: Jun the Swan from “Gatchaman.” “ How Low Can DVD Players Go? ” (New York Times, 2003) Kathy from Personnel . The Joe DiMaggio rookie card is real. Today’s TV Trope: Art Shift — “Christmas with the California Prunes ” and “The Year Santa Got Lost,” animated by the Chiodo Bros. Animaniacs’ 50 State Capitals . Of course I looked up the astrolabe’s coordinates . Convoy , and the cover by Sifl & Olly . Operation: The Simpsons Edition . The first on-screen appearance of Nelson’s mom . The end of “ Treehouse of Horror IV .” Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed Television — and America — Forever , by Alan Siegel. **** 📼 Commercials: Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1991) Butterfinger - The Power Cut (1993) A Bomb for Christmas 2: Past, Present, and Future on the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast . **** “The Simpsons” and “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Hosted by The Retro Network .