Advent Calendar House, is a podcast salute to all holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones, revisits holiday TV classics and not-so-classics every December and July.
💝 We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day in July with a deep dive into a 1990 “DuckTales” special that aired on “The Magical World of Disney.”
🎙️ Erin Evans and Joey O. join us as we tune our heart-shaped TVs to watch Scrooge McDuck search for the lost treasure of Aphroducky, which nearly ends in him marrying the avian goddess of love and angering her Honeymooner of a husband.
📺 You can watch “A DuckTales Valentine” on Disney+.
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(00:00) – Intro
(02:26) – Our Histories with DuckTales
(08:34) – The Magical World of Disney Intro
(10:32) – Act 1
(31:45) – Retro Commercial Break
(35:29) – Act 2
(54:42) – Final Thoughts
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
The accompanying shorts: “Mickey’s Delayed Date,” “Mr. Duck Steps Out,” and “Canine Casanova.”
This special’s intro featuring Michael Eisner and original commercials.
Michael’s Disney varsity jacket is on eBay.
Terry McGovern (Launchpad) in a “Back to the Future” deleted scene.
Terry McGovern on voicing Stormtroopers and accidentally inventing the word “Wookiee.”
Get the Phillies Feeling (circa 1988)
Today’s TV Trope: Cupid’s Arrow.
“Stop the presses!” from “The Great Muppet Caper.”
Peter dives into a money bin on “Family Guy.”
Revenge of the Turducken Hunger Games.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: “The Lost Queen of Atlantis.”
“Donald Duck: Instant Millionaire.”
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📼 Commercials:
Isuzu Trooper Commercial starring Joe Isuzu (1990)
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“DuckTales” and “A DuckTales Valentine” © 1990 The Walt Disney Company.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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