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Cover art for Saved by the Bell: The College Years - A Thanksgiving Story: Zack watches Screech try to thaw a frozen turkey with a hairdryer

Advent Calendar House: Saved by the Bell: The College Years – A Thanksgiving Story

🦃 This Thanksgiving in July, I’ve put out some extra table settings for some old friends. Previously, on the Advent Calendar House, we watched Zack Morris be trash but still manage to find a girl

Cover art for WKRP in Cincinnati - Bah, Humbug: Art Carlson and the Ghost of Christmas Past, who looks an awful lot like Loni Anderson

Advent Calendar House: WKRP in Cincinnati – Bah, Humbug

Mike Westfall

🎄 It’s another Scrooge Sunday, which means we’re about to be haunted by a series of spirits as we ride the airwaves back to 1980 for a version of “A Christmas Carol” set in the

Covert art for M*A*S*H - Death Takes a Holiday: Colonel Potter in a Santa suit looking concerned

Advent Calendar House: MAS*H – Death Takes a Holiday

Mike Westfall

⚠️ Warning: Our wartime yuletide takes a grimmer turn in this episode, which includes the death of a man hit by a sniper. But since it’s Christmas, we’re all going to do the best we can to

Cover art for Santa vs. the Snowman - Santa and an angry snowman size up each other

Advent Calendar House: Santa vs. the Snowman

Mike Westfall

🎄 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.

Cover art for Elmo Says BOO! - A Muppet ghost startles Elmo in The Count’s castle

Advent Calendar House: Elmo Says BOO!

Mike Westfall

🎃 It’s Halloween in July, and it’s time to spookalize! 🎙️ Becca Petunia joins us as we creep back to 1997 for a howling good time at the spookiest address on Sesame Street, as Elmo pays a

Cover art for The Teddy Bears’ Christmas - Two teddy bears, Benjamin and Wally, under a Christmas tree

Advent Calendar House: The Teddy Bears’ Christmas

Mike Westfall

It’s Christmas time for teddy bears in a 1992 special called “The Teddy Bears’ Christmas,” a prequel to “The Secret World of Benjamin Bear.” Many comparisons to “The Christmas Toy” ensue.

Cover art for Recess - Mikey in a Santa costume with an old man who’s secretly the real Santa

Advent Calendar House: Recess – Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave

Mike Westfall

It’s that time of year again: Time to deal with smarty-pants 4th-graders who think they know how Santa works in a Christmas episode of Disney’s “Recess.”

Cover art for Yogi the Easter Bear: Yogi Bear in an Easter Bunny costume, surprising Boo Boo

Advent Calendar House: Yogi the Easter Bear

Mike Westfall

This Easter in July, we’ve hopped back to 1994 on a rather stressful and dangerous trip through Jellystone Park with “Yogi the Easter Bear.”

Cover art for The Dukes - Dickens of a Christmas: Boss Hogg and the Ghost of Christmas Future

Advent Calendar House: The Dukes – A Dickens of a Christmas

Mike Westfall

🎄 Well, them podcast boys have run into another Scrooge Sunday, and this time, the ghosts from “A Christmas Carol” are haunting Boss Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard’s Saturday morning cartoon counterpart. 🎙️ Michael DiGiovanni and

Cover art for Frosty Returns: Frosty the Snowman and Holly singing in the snow

Advent Calendar House: Frosty Returns

Mike Westfall

🎄 Somehow Frosty returned. 🎙️ The Advent Calendar House is back open for Christmas in July as Donnie Storms and new guest Collin Murr from Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Podcast drop in seeking shelter from “Frosty Returns,” which despite the title,