🎄 Today’s adventure finds us caught in the middle of a battle for the North Pole in multiple dimensions.
🎙️ Sammy Hain and Jeff Loftin join the march back to 1997 to witness the Christmas clash of Santa vs. the Snowman, a TV special from creator Steve Oedekerk and director John A. Davis, who’d later team up to write and direct “Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.”
📺 You can find “Santa vs. the Snowman” on YouTube, both an original 1997 broadcast with commercials, and its 2002 update for IMAX 3D.
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(00:00) – Intro
(02:16) – Guest and Special Histories
(07:31) – 3D Opening
(12:58) – Act 1
(26:19) – Retro Commercial Break
(28:51) – Act 2
(52:19) – Act 3
(1:00:50) – Final Thoughts
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
Don LaFontaine in “Five Guys in a Limo” (1997)
Don LaFontaine’s final TV voiceover role on “Phineas and Ferb.”
Ben Stein’s “Confessions for the Holidays” (2005) taken way out of context.
Hershey’s Chocolate Tour: Holiday Edition.
Today’s TV Trope: Animated Outtakes, and an example from “A Bug’s Life.”
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📼 Commercials:
Bell Atlantic: Wild Things Are Happening (1997)
Old Navy: A Very Magic Holiday Special (1997)
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“Santa vs. the Snowman” © 1997, 2002 Steaming Monkey, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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