Muppet Magazine #17 Winter 1987 (w/ Mike and Tim)

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We talk in the market seven, we're nice to be seven.
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It was 1987.
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Three men and a baby was the highest-grossing film.
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Michael Jackson released bad, and the Muppet Baby starred in a version of Twist the Night Before Christmas.
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I'm your host, Jerry D, with another episode of Totally Rad Christmas, the podcast that talks all things Christmas in the 80s, toys, movies, specials, music, and fads.
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If it was gnarly during Christmas in the 80s, we got it covered.
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Now, joining me are two Totally Rad Christmas All-Stars and Ratty winners.
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My first guest, you'll know from the Advent Calendar house, it's Mike Westfall.
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Mike, how's it going?
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It's time to type some columns and lay them out just right.
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It's time to read them up, it's in their magazine tonight.
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Thank you, good night.
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That was brilliant.
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I mean, I don't know how you follow that.
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I'm sorry, Tim.
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But my next guest you've heard on Can't Wait for Christmas, it's Tim Bam.
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Tim, what's happening?
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We're gonna talk about this uh BAM magazine today.
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Yay!
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Beautiful.
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That works too.
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Oh man.
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Guys, it's so good to see you again.
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Um it's been a while, and I know a lot of that is just because of my recording schedule and just what I've been able to not record this year.
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So there's that.
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But it's definitely great to see you guys.
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How you been?
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Like, what have you been up to?
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All's well.
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I am getting kind of a later start than I usually do on recording, but I'm still in a good spot.
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So I am busy chasing cats off my lawn and cleaning up their poop.
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Oh fun.
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Oh no, it's not.
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I'm sorry I made it seem that way.
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It is not.
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At first I was like, is that a euphemism for something?
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That I don't I don't know what that means.
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No, I don't think I wish.
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Yeah.
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No, that definitely, yeah, no, no, thank you.
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That's a hard, a hard no thank you.
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Well, it's good to have you back.
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Now, tonight we're here to talk about Muppet magazine.
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Before we get into that, just like Carol Kane did to Bill Murray and Scrooge, I want you to hit me with the toaster.
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So I'm gonna ask you a few questions, and I want you to hit me with the first answer you think of, okay?
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You don't have to think too hard about it.
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So let's say you're making Die Hard with Muppets.
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Who would you cast as Sergeant Al Powell?
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That's Reginald.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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No, I yep.
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I'm going for some reason I'm going Fozzie.
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I don't he's too wacky, but like I feel like he could do the put upon cop, but then he comes through at the end.
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I feel like Fozz see, I have I have no, you know what?
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I was gonna say Fozzie's more of an Argyle, but no, Gonz is Argyle.
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Oh, for sure.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Fozzie might be right for that.
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Like, I was thinking Sam at one point, but he's not that serious.
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No, he's gotta be the guy that Powell reports to.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, good.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I'm I'm good, I'm good with Fozzie.
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Even Sweetems, I think Sweetems would be alright too.
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You know what?
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We don't give Sweetems in.
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Oh, Scooter! Scooter could also work!
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Scooter could work, yeah.
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Who would be Ellis?
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I mean, would it be Crazy Harry?
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No.
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I don't know.
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That's a good question.
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I don't know, but I gotta see this now.
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Like, this is a movie that needs to be made.
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Okay, well that's good.
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That's good.
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What would you title a Hallmark Christmas movie starring Kermit and Piggy?
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I have that album from like 2006 or something, a red and green Christmas on the brand.
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Or no, wait, it's a green and red Christmas, excuse me.
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Green and red, yeah.
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That's that's the easy answer.
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For some reason, all I was thinking of was, and it's a terrible, like I didn't think I didn't I thought of it innocently, and then afterwards I was like, oh no, that's bad, uh, was pork the halls.
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Nope.
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Nope, can't use it.
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Definitely not.
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Well then.
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I was thinking of something like the swamp and swan a swamp and swine Christmas.
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But I works.
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I don't know.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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It's it's clunky.
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It's too clunky for a Hallmark title.
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Yeah.
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I gotcha.
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They sand down those edges to a smooth sheen.
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They sure do.
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If it was any more formula, we'd feed it to a newborn.
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Okay, wrong under the mistletoe.
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That's right.
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All right, and finally, besides Waldorf, what other Muppet could play Santa?
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Swedems could be Santa.
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I was just gonna say.
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Oh, that would be great.
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Oh, but since you said Swedem.
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Swedish chef would be a hilarious Santa.
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I'd watch the pick out of that.
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I mean, I don't know how they would make him come down the chimney.
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Like, I don't know how the visual effects team would make that happen just because he's such a complex Muppet.
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But I'm dancing and be shabblitzing and over yum go.
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I don't know, but uh again, I'm into it.
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I'm all in on this.
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Well, that's just a way for our listeners to get to know you guys a little bit better.
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So thank you for that.
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So tonight we're here to talk about Muppet magazine, specifically number 17, the winter 1987 issue.
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What do you guys remember about like remind us again about your history with the Muppets in general, and then what do you remember about Muppet magazine?
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And why don't we start with you, Mike?
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I somehow totally missed Muppet Magazine in its heyday.
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I had Sesame Street magazine, I subscribed to that, or my mom subscribed to that, for I want to say the entire first half of the 80s.
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Like I'm looking at Muppet Wiki at Back Issues of Sesame Street Magazine, and I see covers I absolutely recognize that apparently came out before I knew how to read.
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So I guess maybe some older cousins handed their back issues down to me or something, or maybe they were at the library, but I don't think I even knew about Muppet Magazine until I was an adult.
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I'm very glad it's well preserved, though.
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Yeah.
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I mean, obviously I was a big Muppet guy, but I'd never heard I'd never even heard of Muppet Magazine until this.
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I was a subscriber to Lucasfilm magazine around this time, I think.
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Um and Mad magazine and Cracked Magazine.
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Yep.
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Cracked and mad, yeah, for sure.
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Alfred E Newman.
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No, I'm actually kind of right there with with both of you.
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I missed this completely in the 80s.
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This is something I didn't I heard rumors that there was a Muppet magazine like back in college, and I was like, whatever, man.
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Come on.
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Muppets, come on.
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Well, egg on my face.
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There is a Muppet magazine.
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In fact, it's right here.
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Oh, you have a copy! Snippety Snap.
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Wow.
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That's in good condition.
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It is, yeah.
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And uh it wasn't too bad, actually.
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I found it on eBay and I was like, well, I gotta get it so we can like actually look through it.
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Some of the the words, you know, because uh Muppet Wiki has this whole thing preserved, but some of the words were hard to read, so I was like, oh, okay.
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Yeah, the skin is a little bit of a.
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Oh, I thought I was just old.
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We are, but I don't know what Jonathan is saying.
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I don't know.
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There's there's some dog puns in there, and that's about it.
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Yeah, yep.
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So Muppet magazine is a quarterly magazine, it ran from 82 to 89.
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I kind of went through the history already when I covered this back in like season three, I think.
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But I really only talked about one particular segment here.
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I want to talk the whole magazine.
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In particular, we'll focus on Twist the Night Before Christmas, of course, but but we'll get into the whole thing.
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So, yeah, this this issue is it's weird, but I love it.
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It's wild, it makes no sense, but it's pretty great, I gotta say.
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So the cover is probably one of the most 80s things I've ever seen.
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It's Pee Wee Herman with Kermit and and like that felt stocking that like everybody had or everybody had, yeah.
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I mean, they still sell them.
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Oh, yeah, tiny little thing.
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I cannot believe I didn't know about this magazine.
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Just this cover combines three of my favorite things Kermit the Frog in a Santa suit next to Pee-Wee Herman.
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Oh yeah, I was big into the Pee-wee Herman Playhouse back there.
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Right.
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I I had a tin foil ball and a rubber band ball in real life.
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So despite working on them for years, it never got anywhere as big as the ones in the show.
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Oh no.
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No, no, no, no.
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I mean, you know, but like every time we had to do like one of those um one of those connect the dots, like at school, we always summed this up.
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Oh, yeah.
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You know, I mean, yeah, it's like like you have to.
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Oh yeah.
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No, yeah, same.
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I and I I had no idea that Pee-wee was even with the Muppets on, you know, something like this.
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But so it starts us off, it says Pee-wee and Kermit, Playhouse Pals, Brighton Beach Star, Jonathan Silverman, which I I mean, even as an adult, I don't know what Brighton Beach is, but okay.
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No idea.
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And then and then the teen stars of Kate and Alley, and in the corner, you can see right here this the bottom left, uh the bottom right corner, it says a Muppet Baby's Christmas.
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So that's the big draw.
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That's like the the most Christmasy thing of the whole thing.
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Yeah, you're right.
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Especially at this time, Muppet Babies were awesome, right?
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I mean, I I watched it all the time.
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Oh, yeah.
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This was this was probably the height of Muppet Babies popularity.
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Yep, yeah.
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I mean, because like there was what, Indiana Jones and Star Wars and like all sorts of stuff mixed in.
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Sure, super cool.
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Yeah.
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So we open it up and we get a two-page spread of this ad for pound puppies.
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And it's this little boy just uh laying around with two cages behind him and just a bunch of pound puppies all over.
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Yeah, that was that was my brother.
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Uh my brother like had a lot of pound puppies, and he would pile them on his bed.
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And I remember one night while a babysitter was watching us while my parents were out, and I wake up and she's calling his name frantically, and I look down on her bed, and he's I know he's under that pile of stuff.
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I'm just like, he's asleep.
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She runs him and she's like, You mean he's under all of that pile of stuff?
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Like, yeah, he always sleeps.
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Oh my goodness, thank you, Mike.
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I just that's a that's a core memory I have.
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Disaster averted.
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Yeah, yes.
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Oh man.
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I mean, yeah, that's almost like a like a Halloween episode right there, but yeah.
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So you turn the page and it's a full page ad for An American Tale, which was one of my favorites back in '87.
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I loved that movie.
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And it's got little Fival, you know, there on the bridge, you know, coming down the ramp.
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Oh, yeah, like the poster.
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Right, exactly.
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It says Meet Fivel in his search to find his family, he discovered America.
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There you go.
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Sounds like he should have just talked with Sam Eagle, he would have been fine.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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So uh next page, of course, is just the um table of contents, a list of major stories.
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And as we turn the page, now this is the one I really want to get into.
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It's the editorial here.
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So this is another really punny kind of uh dad jokey kind of editorial, and I'm here for it.
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You know, I gotta say, just hit all the right notes for me.
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Um so tis a season to be hopping.
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Herman just introduces everything.
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He kind of just runs down the list of what's going to happen in the magazine, talks about Pee-wee Herman, and then we get like these song lyrics that he just changes to make frog puns.
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Yeah.
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It's just this whole thing is frog puns he has inserted into your favorite Christmas carols, such as May your days be merry and keen, and May all your holidays be green.
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Like Yule Tide Carols being sung through the swamp and frogs dressed up like you get it.
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It goes on like that.
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I mean, that's how I learned them, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I want to point out here, so the the actual editor of Muppin' Magazine, Kermit is the frog in chief.
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Right.
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He gets his own credit and everything.
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The actual editor of Muppin' Magazine at the time was Jim Lewis.
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He is a longtime ghost writer for Kermit the Frog and other Muppets.
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Also wrote the original story for what would become the Christmas special Frosty Returns, which I did an episode about back in July, and I'll probably never watch it again.
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But reading that editorial, I'm like, okay, I see how you get from there to Frosty Returns.
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I mean, I'm like past you know on Frosty Returns.
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I saw once, I'm good, it's not can't be.
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Yeah, no, yeah, you're you're you're solid.
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As as much as they try to make it canon, it's they're just it's they can't.
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Sorry.
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Um they don't try that hard.
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That's the problem.
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Well, uh, they package it that way.
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Like, yeah, that's it.
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That's that's the only place where they're trying to.
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Oh, yeah, this is related.
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Oh, and dashing through the swamp in a one-toed open sleigh.
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Oh, man, that's great.
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So we get the tang here, and then we get the Muppet Mailbag, which is just you know, kids writing into well, I don't know how how many actually were from kids and how many were just made up, but kids writing into Kermit, who then um beaker or Muppet or whichever uh whichever Muppet they want at the time, and then they get responses there, but uh yeah, pretty good.
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So we get to the first big section here.
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It's the Muppet Roundups, and this is uh done by Electric Mayhem.
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We get Floyd's record rap, and I actually kind of like this one because they do talk about like Christmas music in it.
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So I don't know if you guys got to to read it.
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Yeah, yeah, this was an interesting way to talk about what's new in pop culture.
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They write a music column as Floyd Pepper.
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Yep, with the hottest winter warmth.
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Go ahead, sorry.
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That's it.
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Oh, I it made me wonder like who's getting their music news from Muppet magazine?
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Somebody.
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Wait, wait, Cindy Lauper's got a new album out?
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Hold everything.
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Yeah, yeah.
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He's talking about Bobby Brown's first solo album.
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Daryl Hall has a solo album, but Floyd reports she has not split from Oats.
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Thank goodness Floyd's on the beat.
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I think in '87 he had officially split from Oats.
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He has now.
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This is winter '87.
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It's like December 1986.
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And then the winter of 87.
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That's what's going on here.
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And you know how magazines would always come out a little early.
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So this is probably coming out November 86.
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I got you.
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So it's the opposite of comic books.
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Because comic books, it would be labeled December, but it wouldn't come out till like March.
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Oh wow.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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No, yeah.
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Magazines in my experience are always like they come out a little earlier than what the date says.
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Well, I love it.
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He says, From aha to ho ho ho, there's a ton of Merry Christmas tunes turning in my head.
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Catch a ride with a sleigh full of hip holiday hits on the rockin' little Christmas LP, which now I gotta go track that down.
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That's uh sounds like an episode.
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Oh yeah.
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Yep.
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Uh, and get lots of laugh-filled fun as Christmas comedy classics brings you the silliest novelty tunes.
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So curious to see which ones are on there.
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And then there's uh George Strait's album, Merry Christmas Straight to You, Christmas Again from the Oak Ridge Boys, and then they they go through some other things.
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Till Tuesday, Timbuk 3.
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Like oh wow.
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That's it, right?
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What else?
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What else?
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I wasn't even aware, that's who sang it.
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Right.
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Exactly.
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Yeah, it's like a duet uh from Texas, and then I think they ended up splitting uh but that's all I know about them.
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Like, like that's literally the all I know about them.
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They're still getting those checks, though.
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That's right.
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So uh that whole thing was by Floyd.
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As you turn the page, we get a coming to traction, so it's all about movies, and this is done by Janice.
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Yeah, they have Janice on the movie beat.
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She's apparently writing from Hawaii to beat those below zero blues.
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So let's get started.
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So I said, look, buddy, I don't take my clothes off for anyone.
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My good friend Janice.
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I was gonna say, you met her, didn't you?
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I met Janice and Floyd.
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And Floyd, wow.
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Yeah, oh.
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That's cool.
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It was the best.
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That's amazing.
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But she talks about Star Trek 4, The Voyage Home, which is one of the better Star Trek movies.
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You know, yeah, well, that one's notable because 1987 is the year Kirk Thatcher started working with the Muppets.
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He was an associate producer on this, he was the punk rocker on the bus.
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A year after this, he'd start working as an associate producer for the Jim Henson hour.
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So that this is the first thing Janice mentions.
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So I gotcha.
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It's not just a coincidence.
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Yeah.
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Maybe he enjoyed the shout-out him up in magazine.
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He's like, I'm gonna track them down.
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He's like, maybe that's it.
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Mom, I made it, Mom.
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But it is funny because then we get the Michael J.
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Fox movie Um Light of Day, which I've never seen, but I know like Joan Jett comes out in it.
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That's like all I know.
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I remember it because I was a huge Michael J.
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Fox fan at the time, but I didn't actually see it.
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I was like, this seems too adult for me.
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Doesn't seem like there's werewolves or of time travel.
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I'm out.
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Those are the two things, right?
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That's the other one.
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Uh they do talk about Jonathan uh Silverman's Brighton Beach memoirs, which is great because later on we're actually gonna interview him.
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So good thing they mentioned it.
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And Matthew Broderick has Project X.
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Do you guys remember Project X?
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I do not.
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Like I swear I remember ads for it, but I don't remember it.
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Like, I don't know what happened.
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I don't know how to do it.
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I know I've seen it, but like all I remember is something about monkeys, right?
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Like chimpanzees.
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That's all I remember.
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Oh yeah.
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So it's uh I think they like do experiments on them and he has to like save them.
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Save the monkeys?
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Yeah.
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Alright.
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I cannot remember.
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It's like like reverse planet of the apes or something.
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I don't know, but uh we get to Hooser's Lady and the Tramp, The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
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So I remember that.
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They that was like a like a Saturday morning or or Sunday afternoon like special on whatever channel it was on.
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Yeah, it was an ABC weekend special.
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That's it.
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And it's a Beverly Cleary book um, right?
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Yes.
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I never read the book.
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I had forgotten Hoosiers came out this late in the 80s.
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Like I I assume I uh in my head, Hoosier's like a 70s thing.
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Yeah, it has a 70s feel, doesn't it?
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah, you gotta pass the ball four times or whatever it is.
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Um, and then they mentioned some other movies that I've like never heard of, and I thought, okay, that's fine.
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So but like have a wiki wacky waikiki winter.
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Yeah, uh she doesn't mention it by name, but Janice talks about our totally green frog and chief Kermit hosting an awesome new holiday story on ABC in December.
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Again, magazines were published early, so they are talking about the Christmas toy.
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Wow, that's awesome.
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Yeah.
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Well, we also get the next page a Kool-Aid ad, and the dude, I don't know if it's him, but it sure looks like the the son, the older son from um The Great Outdoors.
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I don't know if you can see.
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Oh my goodness, you're right.
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And I only realized that because I just watched it the other day.
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Okay.
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With my daughter.
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So I was like, wait a minute, I just saw this dude.
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I know this guy.
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But but he is wearing some 80s tastic Oh man, it's like pink and purple sweater.
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Untouched.
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Yeah, with a little bit of teal in there.
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Yeah, the yeah.
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It has a bit of a Cosby sweater vibe to it.
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A little bit.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Would you like some Kool-Aid?
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No, no, sir.
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No.
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No.
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No.
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Get back.
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Um, so we have but he's wearing like two different collared shirts underneath that sweater.
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Like this dude must have been so hot in taking these pictures here.
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Chris Young?
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Is that is that him?
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Is that who this is?
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I'm looking at the great outdoors cast.
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I think it's Chris Young.
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It looks like him.
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It could be.
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Uh it don't know if it actually says here, but it sure looks like him.
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Yeah.
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Well, it's he says his name is Michael.
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Well, I mean, it's an at.
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Right, right.
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But anyway.
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I tell you what, though, I'd totally rock that outfit nowadays.
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Oh, a hundred percent.
00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.200
If I had that available, I'd totally buy that.
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If you wear that to a Halloween party, how many people are gonna guess what you're dressed as?
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The 80s.
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That's what I'm dressed as.
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Just bring the magazine with you.
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Have it under your arm.
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What's your costume?
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Here you go, page six.
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An ad you've never seen.
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That's right.
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What do you mean you don't recognize it?
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Come on.
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I'm Michael!
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Who are you supposed to be?
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Well, Michael, obviously.
00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.279
So the next page we get Ralph on books.
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He's uh and it starts off, I'm dreaming of a warm Christmas, just like the ones I'd like to know.
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And he says he's just trying to keep warm by singing because it's 35 degrees below zero.
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Oh my goodness.
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And the cool thing about this page is they have some Christmas books as well that were just being released.
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So there's one called We Wish You a Merry Christmas, um, which pictures by Tracy Campbell, Tracy Campbell Pearson, excuse me.
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It's a funny heartwarming, love that word.
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And I I can actually see Rolf saying that.
00:23:57.839 --> 00:23:58.720
Oh, I love that word.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, nice.
00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:02.319
What a great word.
00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.000
Uh funny heartwarming book.
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Uh and um then he talks about uh the story of the nutcracker ballet, which is by Deborah Hutzig.
00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:16.079
Uh Noelle of the Nutcracker by Pamela Jane.
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Like, I don't know any of these, but he does talk about the brave little toaster.
00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:22.079
Yeah, he's talking about the book.
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Uh the movie comes out this coming year in '87.
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So the book came out in 1980, so that must be why they're hyping it here.
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Synergy.
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Read the book before you see the movie.
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I mean, they always say do it the other way around, right?
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Because otherwise you'll be disappointed.
00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:42.960
But you'll be lost if you don't read the book first.
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You'd be like, wait, what who is this vacuum cleaner character?
00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.359
Uh, The Franken Bagel Monster, which I totally want to read.
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Um, and then there's a bunch of other books.
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I gotta say, I don't really remember any of these books.
00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:10.720
But I kind of want to read a few of them, and I think my son or my my youngest would really like my seven-year-old would probably like the one um Scoop After Scoop.
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It's all about ice cream.
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So I could say you're wondering to read that.
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Uh and then we get a Lisa Frank ad.
00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:19.359
Oh yeah.
00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:21.359
Talk about 80s.
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Like this, the 80s threw up all over this page right here.
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And it's just Lisa Frank sweaters and sweatshirts.
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Oversized sweatshirts, sorry.
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Of course.
00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:33.599
Yeah.
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You gotta be oversized.
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Yeah, gotta pop that shoulder.
00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:39.359
That's right.
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I mean, these ladies are airborne.
00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:45.119
That's that's how oversized these are.
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Could use it as parachutes.
00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:55.599
Um, so the child was 1995 and a junior was 24.95.
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Then you fill it out, or you can even order by phone.
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Didn't have that internet yet.
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No.
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You can't imagine shopping by phone.
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Ugh.
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Sounds horrible.
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I must have.
00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.559
Oh, yeah, comic relief every year.
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:20.960
Oh, I just said I feel like like we all probably did at some point, but Well, I know for comic relief, every time, you know, the Billy Crystal Rogue.
00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:22.000
Yeah, telephone.
00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:24.240
I bought those shirts every year.
00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:24.799
Okay.
00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:26.240
Yeah, that counts.
00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:27.200
Yeah, I agree.
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:28.480
I agree that counts.
00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:33.359
Uh, but the next is our cover, our cover story here.
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Yeah.
00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:39.920
And it's uh at the playhouse with Pee-Wee Herman by Kermit, as told to Fred Newman.
00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.400
Yeah, that Fred Newman.
00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:45.279
As in the former host of the Middle Mouse.
00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:46.960
Yes.
00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:48.079
Yeah.
00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:52.559
So but he was apparently a regular contributor to Muppet magazine.
00:26:55.039 --> 00:27:05.119
Yeah, well, and 1987 would be the year Fred starred in this unsold pilot for Jim Henson's Mu uh Puppet Man.
00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:07.359
Are you familiar with Puppet Man?
00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:08.480
I am not.
00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:17.119
He tried to sell this sitcom about a puppeteer and a kid's show, but it was behind the scenes, and the joke was the puppets had minds of their own.
00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:20.799
Uh Richard Flood actually played a character on the show.
00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:21.519
Wow.
00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:23.839
So there are pictures of them.
00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:26.400
Yeah, yeah, it would have been, but nobody picked it up.
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.720
I feel like that's something they could sell today, probably not with Fred Newman anymore.
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:32.640
Probably not with Fred Newman, yeah.
00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:34.799
I mean, maybe he could be like an exec or something.
00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:37.279
Put him into as a sl as a nod, put him in the show.
00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:41.039
Like Ryan Gosley, let's get this made.
00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:44.640
Oh my goodness, that would be good, actually.
00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:47.279
It's like a prestige drama on Disney Plus.
00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:53.039
Let's get this done.
00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:55.440
You're just printing money at that point.
00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:59.200
Um, but it's at the playhouse with Pee Bee uh Pee-Wee, excuse me.
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:08.880
And Kermit literally just interviews Pee-wee in his playhouse, but they they get interrupted a couple of times, so uh Bunsen calls them.
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:10.480
Yeah, that was weird.
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:13.920
And so they have a they have a Christmas party.
00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:19.279
Like he's calling them from a Christmas party, which also makes me wonder why wasn't Kermit at the Christmas party?
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:22.720
But he's got this interview to do, he's got a magazine to put out.
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:25.119
He's working.
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:26.799
Yeah, he sure is.
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We wouldn't do this over the phone.
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:32.880
Like, why why did Kermit have to come all the way down here?
00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:34.559
I mean, I I imagine Kermit probably.
00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:36.079
You get a chance to go to the playhouse.
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:38.240
Sure, yeah, to tour the playhouse.
00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:39.359
He's touring the playhouse.
00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:39.920
That's the code.
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.240
He wants to see that room made of fruitcake.
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:43.839
Yeah, that's right.
00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:45.759
Well, that's not there yet.
00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:46.559
That's true.
00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:47.119
That's the one.
00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:48.640
This is before that.
00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:52.079
Uh he just has a blueprint.
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:52.720
That's all.
00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:54.160
Yeah, just blueprints.
00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:55.839
I have a plan.
00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:02.640
You ever see uh you ever see Pee-Wee on Sesame Street reciting the alphabet?
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:03.599
No.
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:08.160
I mean, we have that's the whole that's the whole thing.
00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:18.559
It's just Pee-wee Herman standing in his living room at the playhouse going, hey, big C and a little CGI letters appear and bounce off the screen, and that's it.
00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:22.319
I mean, if you got Pee-Wee Herman, you gotta use it.
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:22.960
Yeah, sure.
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:28.799
I mean, they would get celebrities reciting the ABCs on Session Street all the time, like James Roll Jones, episode one.
00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:33.119
No, the Pee-wee off the bat.
00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:34.799
Why is it called the Pee-We Off?
00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.119
The great thing about Sesame Street, you don't have to break your back writing for every sketch.
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:43.839
Like sometimes you can just be like, hey, how about the alphabet?
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:44.400
Boom.
00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:52.799
Yeah, and get a celebrity to do it, like the one I remember besides Pee-Wee is the I remember Fonzi and Richie from Happy Days doing it.
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:53.519
Oh wow.
00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:53.920
Yeah.
00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:55.119
Oh yeah.
00:30:55.440 --> 00:31:00.160
I just remember Kermit as a little girl singing it, and she kept saying Cookie Monster instead of the letter Lower.
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:01.119
So that's that's the question.
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:02.400
That's like my favorite.
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:03.119
Yeah.
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:04.880
Yeah, that's like my favorite.
00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:06.559
James Earl Jones, though.
00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:07.920
Like, that's awesome.
00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:12.880
Well, that was episode one, so that was like 1969, so we still got the shaved head.
00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:19.359
That reminds me of uh did you ever see that David Letterman top 10 words that sound great when James Earl Jones says them?
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:24.480
My favorite one of that was when he just says guppy.
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:25.680
Guppy.
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:30.960
His deep booming voice, just guppy.
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:35.279
It's like, that does sound great when James Earl Jones says.
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:36.000
Oh, yeah.
00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:38.480
He was up for everything.
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:39.279
Yeah.
00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:41.359
Yeah, he's a good dude, man.
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:43.359
Uh, or he was, excuse me.
00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:52.000
Um, but you know, Kerman and Pee-Wee they talk about um how Pee Wee thinks kids are just more fun than adults and you know, stuff like that.
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:55.839
And uh he can't wear his footy pajamas anymore, he's too big.
00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:01.920
Oh man, but yeah, it's just it's a fun little interview, I gotta say.
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:05.440
I I don't know how they came up with these.
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:08.079
So, like, did Fred actually write it?
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:09.200
Fred Newman?
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:20.720
Or I mean, yeah, I don't know if he only wrote Kermit's parts or if he also like if he actually called up Pee-Wee and had the interview and they worked it together.
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:26.799
I'm not sure where how much Pee-wee was involved with this.
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:28.240
I I'm not really sure.
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.039
But yeah, Fred wrote the Kermit parts.
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:32.079
Oh, so go ahead.
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:32.400
Sorry.
00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:35.279
Yeah, Fred definitely wrote the Kermit parts here, I think.
00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:36.559
Yeah, I think you're right.
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:42.880
Well, the pull quote from the whole thing is you know, in a way, the whole thing I'm trying to do is encourage weirdness.
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:47.359
Yeah.
00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:49.440
Like, it's okay.
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:51.599
It's okay to just do you.
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:55.759
You know, you do you, and like I wish I had read this when I was a kid.
00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:57.759
I feel like it would have helped me out a bit.
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:00.640
In fairness, I didn't need anybody to encourage my weirdness.
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:02.640
My weirdness blossomed.
00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:07.759
Oh, yeah, I mean, my weirdness blossomed, but I could have used the self-esteem about it.
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:10.559
Uh yeah.
00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:12.160
Yeah, that hits over.
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:24.480
I I focused in on this photo they have of Pee-Wee and the Playhouse Gang because I recognized I knew three of the four people in the Playhouse Gang in this photo.
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:34.640
Oh, I don't know the girl with the pigtails facing away from the camera, because I can't see her face, but the old man, speaking of Letterman, uh, is uh Dusty, right?
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:35.440
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:40.079
He's uh Calvary DeForest, who is on Letterman all the time as Larry Bud Melman.
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:40.880
Oh yes.
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.039
And then the boy next to him is Sean Weiss.
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.119
He was Goldberg on the Mighty Ducks.
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:48.079
What?
00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:49.920
Yeah, okay, but wait.
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:55.519
This redhead with the striped shirt is tiny baby Natasha Leone.
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:56.640
What?
00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:57.759
Yes.
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:03.119
Natasha Leone was in Pee-Wee play in Pee-Wee's Playhouse gang.
00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:04.160
Wow.
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:08.000
Wow, she was Opal, maybe?
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:12.880
Yeah, I think I I'm I'm not sure whether she was Opal or the other one.
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:19.119
So it says uh yeah, there's Rusty, Cher, Elvis, Opal, and then of course Conki's over there.
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:21.440
Yeah, she she might have been opal.
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:24.400
I mean uh Elvis is is Goldberg.
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:26.400
Yeah, yeah.
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:28.639
And I think I think the other one was Cher.
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:30.800
I think she's I think she's probably Opal.
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:32.800
Yeah, I didn't I didn't see that.
00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:34.239
So wild, man.
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:36.480
Like that explains, yeah, I get it.
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:37.599
Oh yeah.
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:45.119
Uh the next segment is On the Run with Kate and Alley's Allison Smith and Ari Myers.
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:49.280
And this is an interview by Miss Piggy as told to Betsy Laredo.
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:55.360
This is just an interesting way that they write this.
00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:02.000
They write it as if Miss Piggy runs into these two while jogging in Central Park.
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:02.639
Yep.
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:04.960
It's like a just a chance meeting.
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.719
And I did not watch a second of Kate and Allie.
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:10.880
I just remember seeing commercials for it all the time.
00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:12.320
I don't know these kids.
00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:17.119
I my mom watched Kate and Allie, and so I watched some of it.
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:18.800
I still don't know these kids.
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:22.000
And apparently they're central to the premise of the show.
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:22.960
Right, right.
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.119
It's like two single parents, two single moms, right?
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:25.840
Like move in together.
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:29.920
And so, yeah, it's like a um or the brother.
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.639
But I do the same thing.
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:34.800
I remember my mom watching it, so I watched it.
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:37.840
I know there's like a couple of Christmas episodes.
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:39.280
One of them was on YouTube.
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:40.639
I don't know if it's still there.
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.519
Um so I might get to it this year.
00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:44.079
We'll see.
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:44.559
I don't know.
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:50.639
But um I love how Miss Piggy the whole time is doing her usual just inserting French words in there.
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:51.679
Oh, yeah.
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:53.119
All of the MOS.
00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:55.920
All the mois, yeah, lots of mois.
00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:57.679
Uh quail's small world.
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:03.119
It is, it does come across as harder to read than hear.
00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:06.800
Like, oh, it's gonna get worse later.
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:11.199
Because I'm like, wait, am I having a stroke or is that not a word?
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:12.159
Oh no, it's French.
00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:13.440
Okay, it's randomly French.
00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:15.840
No, this is this is transcribed.
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:20.880
Yeah, wait, wait till the very last segment we talk about.
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:22.320
That's gonna be great.
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:30.400
Um, but they just talk about their love for New York, and one of them lives in uh New Jersey, and you know, just the kind of typical, typical interview things.
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:35.280
You gotta love like the very bold, bright colors that they're wearing.
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:35.920
Like that.
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:40.639
Oh yeah, they're wearing like they're wearing the 80s windbreakers.
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:42.960
Yeah, it's great.
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.840
And you know they didn't do it specially for the Muppets, that was just the eight.
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:48.320
That was just Oh no, that's what they came.
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:52.079
Yeah, they're like just come camera ready, and they both came like that.
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:52.719
Yep.
00:36:53.280 --> 00:37:01.599
I also love that like Piggy supposedly runs into them while jogging, but then it turned out she only jogged from the limousine to that bench that they were all that they're all sitting at.
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:04.079
I'm like, that's right, is how I jog as well.
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:06.559
Yeah, how she won that marathon.
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:12.480
I do love I love 80s uh Piggy's hair, like the really curly Oh the perm?
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.760
Oh yeah, yeah, like the super perm, the frizz.
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:23.920
It's just and she's got like this uh I don't even know what to call it, lavender uh tracksuit.
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:24.320
I don't know.
00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:26.000
It looks valour, yeah.
00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:27.119
Oh yeah.
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:32.400
But this next one I totally want to like pull out and hang.
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:39.760
It's uh Oh yeah, the centerfold is like this very 80s Christmas tree that they're decorating.
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:42.400
Yeah, it's holy cow, I didn't even catch that.
00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:44.000
It was supposed to be a Christmas tree.
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:48.320
That's how non-traditional it is for the rest of the thing.
00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:50.480
Yeah, it's like a like a plastic.
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:52.320
And it's pink.
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:53.760
It's bright pink and yellow.
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:54.480
Yeah.
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:55.440
And orange.
00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:56.159
There's orange in there.
00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:57.280
Or maybe they could be.
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:03.599
Uh the background is all leopard print.
00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:05.199
Oh, the le the background, yeah.
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:05.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:09.599
It's not the the actual trees is like it's like that plastic.
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.880
Uh gosh, what are they what is that called?
00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:14.320
Uh, like magnetiles.
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.320
I don't know if you guys, if your kids played with magnetiles.
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:16.719
Oh, yeah.
00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:17.280
Oh, yeah.
00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:18.079
Uh-huh.
00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:22.800
Yeah, that kind of like plastic you and uh the star on top.
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:26.159
I I mean I don't even know what that is, but it's cool.
00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:26.800
I like it.
00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:31.840
It just looks like a like someone made a photo collage of madness for this for the star on top.
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:33.360
Basically, yeah.
00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:47.199
Yeah, the the ornaments are all like paper ornaments, and so they're like holding them, but it just there's this weird juxtaposition of like their outfits, which also have like crazy like Kermits, Kermits, tux.
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:48.639
I want this tux.
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:50.719
Oh my goodness, yeah.
00:38:50.960 --> 00:39:00.400
It's like one lapel is like like le yellow with leopard print, the other lapel is like a baby blue with I don't know what kind of designs on it.
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:01.440
It's just it's weird.
00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:04.400
I kind of want it, it's just great.
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:11.599
If I saw this in a movie where someone was trying to recreate the 80s now and they did this, I'd be like, You're trying too hard.
00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:13.119
It wasn't really like that.
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:16.320
Yeah, it's a lot.
00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:20.559
Oh man.
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:33.920
So you turn the page, it's uh FHE video cassettes, and oh yeah, just come in these like little boxes, um, the twin packs that you can get for Christmas, and they have some great ones Thundercats, Transformers, Care Bears, G.I.
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:39.679
Joe, uh, Pound Puppies, uh, mixed with something called Star Fairies, which I don't remember.
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:40.960
No idea.
00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:43.440
Yeah, but there's some pretty good ones in there.
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:48.400
Now, the next page is our big the big climax to this issue here.
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:51.119
It is 'twas the night before Christmas.
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:52.960
Muppet babies presenting.
00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:58.079
So and I love how they gotta just Muppa Babyfy it all.
00:39:58.239 --> 00:39:58.559
Oh, yeah.
00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:02.239
And you can I also like how you can tell who's stocking is who, I think.
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:05.280
Yes.
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:08.079
Like that one's clearly animal.
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:14.480
Yeah, so animals is like fuzzy, like his fur, and it's orange and pink striped.
00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:15.280
Right.
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:16.559
Oh, it's perfect.
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:21.199
Uh, you can obviously tell piggies because there's a bajillion of them, and they're all embroidered with a pea.
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:22.559
They all have peas on them.
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.920
Yeah, they're all like her little stockings, her little white stockings.
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:26.639
Right.
00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:29.119
This was written by Louise Gickow.
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:30.880
Gicko, I don't know how you say that.
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:33.840
Geico, uh, illustrated by Bruce McNally.
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:40.559
But 'twas the night before Christmas and all through the fig, not a creature was stirring, not even a pig.
00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:50.000
And I love how the Muppet Babies, so it has it in like the scroll, and instead of text boxes, it's like scrolls, and then it's got the actual printing on it.
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:55.440
And then there's the Muppet Baby drawings, and they have like their word bubbles, and they all have commentary.
00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:55.920
Right.
00:40:56.079 --> 00:41:00.800
And Kermit says, I know, I know, but I couldn't think of another word to rhyme with pig.
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.639
So just use your imagination, okay?
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:03.280
It's fine.
00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:04.239
He's a baby.
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:04.960
It's okay.
00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:06.639
That's true, that's right.
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:13.199
The stockings were hung with a great deal of fuss, seven for piggy and one each for us.
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:18.880
Our nanny had tucked us all snug in our beds, and visions of sugar plums danced in our heads.
00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:20.079
Okay, so that's pretty much.
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:25.760
And then you have the panel showing Fozzie dreaming of visions of sugar plums dancing in his head.
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:30.079
And they're giant anthropomorphic plums in ballet tutus.
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.440
But what makes it weirder is like they actually have like a real ballerina's legs, right?
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:40.000
It's not like cartoon legs that are just like sticks.
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:41.599
It's got like shape to it.
00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:43.039
It just looks weird.
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.920
And the look on their face, like they are taking it seriously.
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:50.079
Like this, like this, they are dance, like they are dancing like nobody's watching.
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:56.239
And Piggy says, What's a sugar plum anyway?
00:41:56.400 --> 00:42:01.840
And Fozzie says, I know it's a giant plum with a really sweet personality that loves to dance.
00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:06.400
Fozzie! Sorry.
00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:12.960
So you turn the page, says, uh, so we're on page 24 now.
00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:27.440
Went out on the lawn, there arose such a clatter, I hopped from my bed to see what was the matter, and there on the lawn, being chased by some cats with a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rats, with a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be Saint Nick.
00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:30.239
And in this comic, the part of St.
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:37.119
Nicholas driving a tiny reindeer will be played by Waldorf in a Santa suit and beard.
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:39.760
Pulled by eight tiny rats.
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:42.480
While they're being chased by cats through the snow.
00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:44.000
Oh, yeah, no, it's hanging off them.
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:47.039
The beard's totally hanging down below his chin.
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:47.440
Yeah.
00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:49.599
He's not even trying here.
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:52.079
He's not even like trying to go down the chimney.
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:53.920
He comes in through the window.
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:56.480
Well, look at his boots.
00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:59.119
Christina White doesn't want to get soot all over them.
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:00.159
Oh, that's it, yeah.
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:00.960
That's true.
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:01.599
That's true.
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:02.719
He's like the nurse.
00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:06.000
You're supposed to be eight tiny reindeer.
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:11.679
Is this the first time he has interacted with the Muppet babies?
00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:12.480
I don't remember.
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:13.119
I don't remember.
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:15.519
Staller and Waldorf show up.
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.480
Um, I don't remember when in the show's canon.
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.760
But yeah, Staller and Waldorf show up at least once.
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:26.079
But they're not as babies, they're full-grown adults.
00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:27.679
No, they are full-grown adults.
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.320
Like they they watch them at some point and then they're gonna be able to never baby.
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:31.280
Well, they're they're old, you know.
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:32.159
No, no, no, no, no.
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:33.760
Yeah, they're still old here.
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:35.760
That's right, that's right.
00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:40.960
But uh, I love how you know he's bemoaning that they're that they're not reindeer, they're rats.
00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:47.519
And one of the rats who I imagine just with the a Rizzo type voice is just like, hey, they're all out auditioning for the movie.
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:50.960
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer meets the abominable snowman, you know.
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:54.400
That's just the special.
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.519
That's what happens.
00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.039
Describe a pla describe a movie badly.
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Perfect.
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That's great.
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:22.719
Uh then up on the roof I heard 32 paws, and the babies all burst into heavy applause as I drew in my head and was turning around down the chimney.
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:23.360
Nope.
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:23.760
St.
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Nicholas came with the bound.
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He's coming in through the window, but okay.
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:31.679
Brian says the nursery doesn't have a chimney, and baby Kerman asked, Can't you use your imagination?
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Can't you?
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:34.719
Oh.
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:40.639
So so they imagine a chimney, but they imagine the fireplace still lit.
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And blazing.
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:44.559
Not even like a little fire, but blazing!
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:45.360
Oh yeah.
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:46.559
It must be really cold.
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And then Waldorf screams, Somebody imagine a fire extinguisher!
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:52.480
Hey, Stranger Danger.
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:55.039
Sure, yeah, well, that too.
00:44:56.079 --> 00:44:57.039
Oh man.
00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:05.360
Um, so a bundle of toys he had flung on his back, and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack, some joke books for Fozzie, for Hardy Har Hars.
00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:06.320
Oh, that's terrible.
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:14.320
For Gonzo a rocket to take him to Mars, for Rolf a new keyboard to play for us all, for Skeeter some jacks, and a new basketball.
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:16.480
And then it shows him playing with their toys.
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:17.440
Yeah.
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.480
I love this terrible joke from Fozzie here.
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He's like, listen to this, guys.
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:23.760
What goes up but never comes down.
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Your age.
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Get it?
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:26.320
Waka waka.
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See?
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:31.599
Waldorf only has himself to blame.
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:33.199
He started it.
00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:35.679
He said all those years later.
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Sitting in that theater complaining.
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It was you!
00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:44.159
Holy smoke! Oh man.
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:49.599
Uh, lots of computer games Scooter could play, and for me a new tricycle, hip hip hooray.
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:54.719
Crayons for animal in red, green, and blue for Piggy some mittens, then Saint Nick was through.
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.760
And I love he just has this like done look on his face on the next page.
00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:03.039
And Piggy's kind of indignant here.
00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:03.679
Mittens?
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That's all you brought me?
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:05.199
Mittens?
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.920
And he says Michael Scott got in the oven mitt.
00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:11.599
Exactly.
00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:14.719
But he says, like, I'm carrying toys for 50 million children.
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:16.800
There just wasn't enough room for everything else.
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:17.519
Right.
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:19.519
So two shake.
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:25.679
Uh giving a nod, then uh and then a small yelp, he rose up the chimney again with some help.
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:28.239
And it's because Piggy hi-as him.
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.320
Karate kicks him up the roof.
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He sprang to his sleigh to his team and gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the down of a thistle, but I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:44.400
And I love the rats are just like, uh, what's the down of a thistle?
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:45.039
I don't know.
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:53.280
We read this story every year, and I don't think enough people, children, adults, doesn't matter, ask that question.
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:53.920
Yes.
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Yep.
00:46:55.360 --> 00:47:00.159
This is a 200-year-old poem, and this is the first time I'm thinking, what is the down of a thistle?
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:09.039
And here it's like, you know, a thistle plant, a little purple flower on top, and the down is the white stuff, like on a dandelion that wind blows off and carries the seeds.
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:11.280
Yep, and it just floats away, and that's kind of a few.
00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:13.280
That's how rainbow fly and rats.
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:17.199
He has no time.
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:18.800
I love it.
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:24.960
I'm sure there's like some sort of physics joke to make there, but it's been a long day.
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:26.159
I had a training all day.
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:29.440
Well, speaking of physics.
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:31.840
Sorry, we get ask Dr.
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:32.960
Honeydew.
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:35.679
Yeah, it's great.
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:37.280
They just this is my favorite one.
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:37.920
Dear Dr.
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:39.599
Honeydew, I hate fruitcake.
00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:41.599
Why do adults think it's such a big deal?
00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:47.360
Yeah, I want to thank Jennifer Michaels of Lincoln, Nebraska for asking the real questions.
00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:49.360
This is the hard-hitting question.
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:51.039
And I love his answer too.
00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:52.239
Oh yeah.
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:59.280
Uh at last count, there were only 14 people in America who actually enjoyed fruitcake.
00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:03.519
In fact, there are only about 200 fruitcakes left in existence.
00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:06.239
That's such a Muppet joke.
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:09.679
They just uh these fruitcakes are given away as gifts.
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:11.280
I love that.
00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:13.280
I accept that as official canon.
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:14.480
I think it's true.
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:16.960
I think it's exactly true.
00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:17.360
Yeah.
00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:21.199
They just keep it all year until they can give it away to the next person.
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:25.840
Well, and he says, if you are so lucky as to receive a fruitcake as a gift, hold on to it.
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.079
In about 50 years, it'll be a collection.
00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:29.679
It'll be a collector's item.
00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:33.440
Well, we're up to 40 years now since this came out.
00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:35.599
Only one more decade to go.
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:36.480
Oh man.
00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:38.880
I gotta say, instructions.
00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:42.079
They've got a moldy fruitcake and they're ready to cash in.
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.679
I'll get Grokbot to scour eBay for one.
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:46.000
Oh, yeah.
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:47.199
See if I can find one.
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:50.320
Um let's see here it is.
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:50.880
Dear Dr.
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:52.960
Honeydew, how can I make a volcano?
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:59.119
And you kind of go to your backyard, find a spot not used, dig a hole to the center of the earth.
00:48:59.440 --> 00:48:59.840
Yeah.
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:00.639
Psycho.
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:06.400
When you see when you see lava and hear rumbling, uh like that's scream and run.
00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:07.199
It's great.
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:12.079
Uh we also get the 12 seconds of Christmas.
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:14.000
And this is a whole song you can sing.
00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:18.000
I won't, but it's of course sung in a matter of the 12 days of Christmas.
00:49:18.239 --> 00:49:20.000
It's uh let's see, I'll start.
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:26.400
The 12 seconds of Christmas, Beaker said to me uh to you know, me, me, me, me, me, me.
00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:28.880
Um let's light some Christmas candles.
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:29.920
11.
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I'll grab the red ones.
00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:32.000
Wow, watch it sparkle.
00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:32.960
Gee, it smells funny.
00:49:33.039 --> 00:49:34.320
Uh-oh, it's a fuse.
00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:36.159
Look, it says explosives.
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:37.519
Yikes were in trouble.
00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:39.679
It's dynamite, it's dynamite.
00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:43.760
Throw it out the window, no scream and run.
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:44.880
Duck hit the floor.
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:45.920
Kaboom.
00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:47.599
Perfect.
00:49:48.559 --> 00:49:49.679
It's perfect.
00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:52.960
I just I wouldn't change anything.
00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:57.599
And now I want Bunsen and Beaker to record this, release it.
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.960
Like, I swear, there's so many like good ideas in here.
00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:02.000
Yeah.
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:08.480
So then we get Jonathan Silverman in Barking Beach Memoirs, and Ralph as uh as told to Jim Lewis, Ralph interviews him.
00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:10.719
Barking Beach about Smacky.
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:16.320
I mean, again, Brighton Beach memoirs, I don't know what it is.
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:31.920
Apparently, it's like a whole thing, because he played the same character in like movie or a play, a movie, and then he's going back to Broadway to do it again as a uh when he's older, so he's still kinda young here.
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:34.239
This is a couple years before we can have burning.
00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:37.199
Right, right, because I was 89, I think.
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:38.000
Yeah.
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:40.880
So he looks great.
00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:43.440
Uh, you get a Muppet poster.
00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:45.199
Yep.
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:46.239
Silverhawks.
00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:48.079
Oh man, Silverhawks was awesome.
00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:50.719
Do you guys have any Silverhawks?
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:51.679
No.
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:53.440
No, no, I didn't.
00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:54.320
Gotcha.
00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:56.480
We had a couple.
00:50:57.039 --> 00:50:58.719
Dino writers are great too.
00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:04.800
Uh, and then we get, because you know, you gotta be a little educational in something like uh a Muppet magazine.
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:09.599
So then we get Mondo Muppet, which is all about stuff that can fly.
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:10.480
Yeah.
00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:14.320
And there's like a quiz, it's like a multiple choice quiz.
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:16.960
You guys took the quiz?
00:51:18.079 --> 00:51:19.840
I did not, I only took one question.
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:20.320
I took it.
00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:20.960
Did you take the quiz?
00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:22.239
I took the quiz.
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:25.679
There were 16 questions, I got 12 correct.
00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:32.719
Uh, this is one where this is another part where I was like, I'm trying to read it, I swear, but my eyes are losing this battle.
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:33.920
Yeah, it's a lot.
00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:35.679
Like, it it's scanned weird.
00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:36.239
I don't know.
00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:37.440
It is, yeah.
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:43.119
And I don't know how much of that is the actual scan, and how much of that is just um like that.
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:47.519
Just the page being warped, and yeah, maybe somebody spilled water on it or something.
00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:58.480
But it's things like uh in 1982, a sheep farmer in Wagga Wagga, Australia exclaimed Bah humbug when he discovered what in his corral.
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:09.760
And then it lists like 747 forced to make an emergency landing, a downed helicopter, a balloon that had flown 10,000 miles from New York, a renegade sheep who was attempting to fly.
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:12.880
Well, the answer was C.
00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:15.599
Balloon from the balloon.
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:16.559
Yeah.
00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:17.679
And they're all like that.
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:19.599
They're just uh there's a couple of funny ones.
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:25.119
Um the one that I when I turned the page and actually looked at was uh let's see, which is the one I read.
00:52:26.239 --> 00:52:28.400
Oh, the Greek mythology one, number 15.
00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:28.800
Okay.
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:30.239
About Icarus.
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:37.440
So I I just remember there was a question about an Arctic tern, and I'm like, I know what sound an Arctic turn makes.
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:40.159
Backstreet boys, backstreet boys.
00:52:41.599 --> 00:52:43.199
Yeah, my book is a little relevant for you.
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:46.559
What kind of bird always says the name of our next man?
00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:48.320
Oh, I guess.
00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:43.360
Yeah, I'm glad you understood.
00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:47.519
I was afraid I'd have to explain that, so thank you.
00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:52.000
So I I've been watching these reaction videos.
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:54.000
They just pop up on my feed randomly.
00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:58.079
And one of them was it was like Colin Mockery's best lines.
00:53:59.119 --> 00:54:00.079
That's up there.
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:05.440
It's like they're talking about birds, you know, some something is like uh, I don't know, a turn?
00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:14.800
Yeah, so it was uh yeah, what what what bird makes the sound of their next band because they were doing that thing where they're trying to sell like a music collection record?
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:15.440
Yeah, great.
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:21.039
So Ryan was trying to get him to say an owl and a two.
00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:30.320
But uh and Colin's like, I don't know, a a turn, an arctic turn, and what sound do you think an arctic turn makes?
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:33.360
And Colin goes, battery boys.
00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:38.800
And everyone loses it.
00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:40.880
It's great.
00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:44.000
That is a good show.
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:46.480
Yeah, it's on Tubi now.
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:48.880
So I just found it on Tubi the other day.
00:54:49.119 --> 00:55:00.159
Then we get like uh an arts and crafts thing about making uh like spacecrafts with uh uh just different papers, different materials, or like an uh egg carton, things like that.
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:04.000
Yeah, like a paper airplane, but it's made out of a foam egg carton?
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:05.280
That's cool.
00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:08.960
I mean, sounds like it would actually hold up, so who knows?
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:09.440
Yeah.
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:11.760
A couple sweet jokes at the bottom of that page.
00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:16.239
What did the parachuters say when the barbecue was beneath when he saw barbecue was beneath him?
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:25.840
Cook out below! Uh they have a little insert here, like a sidebar that they called rarely sighted muppets.
00:55:26.079 --> 00:55:30.639
And it's not known rarely seen Muppets, like I don't know, droop or whatever.
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:36.639
Instead, it's a column for people who have seen rare Muppets in the wild, like they treat it like Bigfoot.
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:38.000
It's very silly.
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:42.800
What if Bigfoot was a Muppet?
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:44.480
What if it what if it was just Sweetems?
00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:47.440
I mean, yeah, that's yeah, it was Swedems the whole time.
00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:52.639
Oh man, rarely sighted Muppet.
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:57.440
Oh, wait, well, speaking of jokes, what did the skeptical duck say to the Wright brothers?
00:55:57.760 --> 00:55:58.400
What?
00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:01.840
What goes up must wear down.
00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:08.079
Ah took a second.
00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:18.320
Uh then we get Gonzo's uh weirder than me, Flights of Fancy, where he it just talks about like weird flight designs.
00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:29.360
Yeah, he's nerding out about early flying machines, and it's a collection of drawings and photos of like weird-looking flying contraption designs that predate the modern airplane.
00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:30.000
It's neat.
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:33.519
Because when you think Christmas, you think early flight.
00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:34.320
Yeah.
00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:38.400
I need to make things that fly, I need to hear about old things that flew.
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:43.519
You'd think they would segue into talking about Santa's sleigh here, but nope.
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:44.079
Right.
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:45.039
Sounds perfect.
00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:49.519
It's like no one thought this was actually gonna be a winter uh issue.
00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:52.079
They're just like, uh, put that in.
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:53.039
Okay.
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:53.599
Yeah.
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:54.800
Hey, do you still have that?
00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:58.880
You still have that uh that article you wrote on weird flying machines?
00:56:59.199 --> 00:56:59.760
Yeah, yeah, right.
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:02.000
We're a pain short for Muppet magazine this week.
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:04.480
Uh I don't have anything Christmas related.
00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:05.519
Whatever, just get me.
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:06.159
Fine.
00:57:08.639 --> 00:57:11.039
Uh yeah, then we get uh kids' videos.
00:57:11.199 --> 00:57:16.719
There's uh Fraggles, the Cosby kids, you know, Fat Albert, uh Danger Mouse.
00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:17.679
Danger Mouse.
00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:19.679
I loved Danger Mouse.
00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:22.079
I wish there was a Christmas episode of Danger Mouse.
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:33.920
I looked and there's nothing I used to say, oh Crikey and O Ek and Roger just out in the world to people who had no idea what they're like, what's wrong with you?
00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:38.159
No, I went I went with Penfold's Outcrums! That's a good one too.
00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:47.440
The one I always remember was uh the robot that uh his name was Grovel, but every time his master talked with called him by name, the robot would start to grovel.
00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:48.800
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Master.
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:50.480
Oh my gosh, I love that.
00:57:50.639 --> 00:58:01.440
And then there was the German scientist who would always say no and then Penfold, but he would say it in German, so Penfold would pull out a calculator and calculate, but he'd be like, nine, nine, nine! That's three nines or twenty or twenty-seven.
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:02.960
Great.
00:58:03.119 --> 00:58:10.079
And then he I can't remember how I can't remember how like yeah, because it got to four, so it must have been six.
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:14.800
Nah, I can't remember, but it was like uh uh six nines or fifty-four.
00:58:14.960 --> 00:58:18.159
I am not caring how many are for, I am against.
00:58:21.199 --> 00:58:24.320
I'm like, that was a hat on a hat, but you you you landed it.
00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:25.440
But it worked, yeah.
00:58:25.599 --> 00:58:26.239
Yeah.
00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:35.360
Well, before we get another Silverhawks um ad, we actually get Miss Piggy's advice column.
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:39.039
Now, this is where you might have thought you had a stroke for real.
00:58:39.360 --> 00:58:44.159
This is so silly because Miss Piggy is writing this.
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:51.920
She has a cold because she was out shoveling snow while Kermit had to finish putting the issue together.
00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:55.039
And she's writing how she sounds.
00:58:55.199 --> 00:59:02.719
You know how you get a cold, you're all stuffy, and so you say a comic strip would write out, I have a cold in my dose.
00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:05.360
She's writing this whole thing like that.
00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:07.920
The whole column is written like that.
00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:11.360
So she was just using the voice-to-speech function.
00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:12.639
I guess so.
00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:17.679
Like, yeah, someone's transcribing this and just like, okay, none of this makes sense, but sure.
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:41.760
Yeah, and then it devolves into Kermit writing in to Piggy's advice column saying she's making far too much of this cold, and then Piggy's writing to Fozzie to tell Kermit she's not talking to him, and then Scooter and Janice get involved, and then there's a sticky note at the bottom from Kermit saying the staff just chipped in to send Piggy to Tahiti for two weeks to get rid of her.
00:59:41.840 --> 00:59:43.920
I mean her cold, get rid of her cold.
00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:51.280
Now, I don't mean to point out plot flaws in this magazine, but I thought Janice was already in Hawaii.
00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:52.079
Hey yeah.
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:53.280
Well, she's writing in.
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I don't know.
00:59:54.239 --> 01:00:01.679
And then when Rolf is interviewing Jonathan Silverman, he is now okay with the cold, but he was complaining about it in his earlier column.
01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:06.239
But now Jonathan Silverman is not happy with the cold when he's in when he's when Rolf's gonna be a little bit more.
01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:08.639
Oh yeah, the photo of him looks like he's shivering.
01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:13.039
And Rolf's like Rolf writes something like, I'm not cold.
01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:14.000
Are you penguins cold?
01:00:14.079 --> 01:00:16.320
And the penguins go, nah, this is beachweather.
01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:23.199
And then the back cover is an ad for crest toothpaste.
01:00:23.519 --> 01:00:24.480
Oh yeah.
01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:25.280
Yeah.
01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:28.079
So great crest checkup.
01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:29.360
Hooray, hooray.
01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:31.760
There's a real neat way to get great crest checkups.
01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:34.880
Do they have like a team of superheroes around this time?
01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:36.079
I think you're right.
01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:43.679
Oh man, oh, was this around the time when Crest had that like whole big long name game music video?
01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:45.360
Do you know what I'm talking about?
01:00:46.159 --> 01:00:47.679
I do, but I don't I don't know what to do.
01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:59.440
It was on I want to say it was on Nickelodeon, and it was it was Crest toothpaste, and it was just this substitute teacher starts doing the name game, you know, like Joe Joey, Boboy, Banana Fanna.
01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:03.360
It's a music video for that that's like six or seven minutes long.
01:01:03.519 --> 01:01:05.920
It's a fever dream and a half.
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:12.159
Somebody find that this is the weirdest thing I've ever watched in my life.
01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:14.719
I know it on tagging at the end of the episode.
01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:15.519
Yeah.
01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:17.280
If I can find it.
01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:26.079
I have to point out that in this crest ad, the the there's three kids like in a like floating like hot air balloon, but it's a but it's crest.
01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:27.039
Sure, yeah.
01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:28.320
Oh no, it's two kids.
01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:30.880
Okay, that makes it even worse, because I thought it was only two of the three.
01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:32.000
They're awards.
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:34.000
They're holding plaques.
01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:35.039
Yeah.
01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:38.960
If there's one thing toothpaste shouldn't advertise, it's plaque.
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:46.800
That's the opposite of what I want in Crest.
01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:47.360
Oh man.
01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:51.679
Using Crest will give you plaque.
01:01:52.000 --> 01:02:02.639
They have like the moon in the sky, and the moon has like an old 1900, like it it looks like the the trim to the moon uh old style movie.
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:03.920
And it has arms.
01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:07.840
The moon has arms with little gloves like Mickey Mouse.
01:02:08.239 --> 01:02:09.920
And it's reaching for the balloon.
01:02:10.239 --> 01:02:11.360
Oh, it's so weird.
01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:17.039
Yeah, it looks like one of the like it would be on one of those postcards that uh Craig would post from Weird Christmas.
01:02:18.159 --> 01:02:18.800
Oh, yeah.
01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:19.440
Yes.
01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:21.119
It totally looks like that.
01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:29.760
But yeah, there it's about the crest pump, which was uh, if you remember, it was like that that cylinder, uh-huh, and then it actually had like a little pump on it and it would squeeze out.
01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:30.079
Yep.
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:33.920
And I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen back in the day.
01:02:34.559 --> 01:02:35.199
I definitely had one.
01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:37.599
I was like, you mean I don't have to unscrew a cap?
01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:40.079
I can just pump it, sold.
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:41.440
Shut up and tell me.
01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:46.079
I wish they still made that because my kids can't put the stupid cap back on.
01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:48.719
I know the feeling.
01:02:48.960 --> 01:02:51.199
Oh, I hate the flip-up caps that they have now.
01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:54.159
Like they you don't unscrew it, you just pop it open and pop it back closed.
01:02:54.480 --> 01:02:57.599
But then, like, all the toothpaste just gets caught now, you can never close it again.
01:02:58.320 --> 01:03:04.000
Yeah, it's just like a mess of, and when it's theirs, it's just like a solid blue mass.
01:03:04.400 --> 01:03:06.239
And another thing I don't like.
01:03:08.559 --> 01:03:10.320
Stupid toothpaste.
01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:12.880
I ain't for it, I get it.
01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:16.559
Oh man.
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:19.519
So, yeah, that's the magazine.
01:03:19.599 --> 01:03:21.599
I mean, it's uh it was fun.
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:24.800
It was cordy, but like totally enjoyable.
01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:26.639
Oh, this was delightful.
01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:30.320
I'm sad I missed this when it was in its heyday.
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:31.599
Oh, for sure.
01:03:31.679 --> 01:03:33.599
I would have like stolen all these jokes.
01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:34.880
Oh yeah.
01:03:35.039 --> 01:03:35.599
Yup.
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:37.199
Yeah.
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:40.639
I'm definitely stealing cookout below the next time I'm asked for a joke.
01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:41.440
Beautiful.
01:03:41.679 --> 01:03:44.880
It's gonna be part of your stand-up routine, for sure.
01:03:46.719 --> 01:03:49.119
Now the audience participation time.
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Oh no.
01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:59.039
What did the no um what would you guys say is your uh happiest like moment of this magazine?
01:03:59.920 --> 01:04:04.159
Just being able to read this and find it all, it's on Muppet Wiki.
01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:07.920
Being able to flip through it is a real gift by itself.
01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:12.960
Uh, it looks like Muppet Wiki co-founder Scott Hansen is the one who added these scans.
01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:14.000
So thank you, Scott.
01:04:14.239 --> 01:04:14.719
Wow.
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:15.519
Wow.
01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:16.639
Um that makes sense.
01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:17.599
Let's check this out.
01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:20.800
I I enjoyed all the Christmas Kermit puns.
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:26.239
I feel like I'm going to flesh more than one of those out to a full song on the podcast at some point.
01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:29.920
Well, if you need some harmony, just let me know.
01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:32.559
I'll just I'm roping you in.
01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:43.840
I think we have I think we have our Christmas Day uh Christmas Podcast Network uh tag for the year.
01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:47.519
Oh man, that's great.
01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:51.360
Um yeah, I mean I gotta the whole thing, you're right, it was totally fun.
01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:58.719
It for me, it's definitely just the uh the twice the night before Christmas was just it was just so so much fun to read.
01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:00.639
It was quite enjoyable.
01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:01.280
It really was.
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:16.239
Um but now we come to my favorite part of the uh magazine here, which is kind of hard, but it's where we do our Gag Me with the Spoo, where we do our best impression of our least favorite moment here.
01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:19.840
So as a guest, I'll let you go first, just kind of set up the scene for us.
01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:23.119
Whoever wants to go first is fine.
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:29.840
Well, speaking of uh Kermit's opening editorial and all his reworked Christmas carols about being a frog.
01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:30.960
Kermit's a frog.
01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:32.079
I don't know if you knew this.
01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:35.360
He's a frog, so he sings these.
01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:43.599
We talk about it in dashing through the swamp in a one-toed open sleigh for the march we go, laughing all the way.
01:05:43.679 --> 01:05:44.960
I'm not laughing, Kermit.
01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:54.320
Uh, I'll take mine from the beginning of the Kermit Pee-Wee interview.
01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:55.280
Okay.
01:05:56.239 --> 01:05:58.480
Hey Pee-Wee! Thanks for inviting me.
01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:00.639
Wow, what a neat place! You've got here?
01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:01.679
Who's your decorator?
01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:04.559
Oh! I just sort of happened.
01:06:07.280 --> 01:06:09.199
I used to be able to do such a better pee-wee.
01:06:09.360 --> 01:06:10.320
I fell down.
01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:16.559
Oh no! I share it with all the boys and girls who watch my TV show.
01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:17.679
I don't know what it fred.
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:18.800
Just hang out here, you know.
01:06:19.039 --> 01:06:19.360
That works.
01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:19.840
That works.
01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:20.639
You still gain it.
01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:22.960
I thought it was gonna be so good.
01:06:23.039 --> 01:06:25.119
I was like, oh, I'm gonna be on the Raddies this year.
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:26.639
I can't wait for them to play that clip.
01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:28.800
Garbage! Garbage.
01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:32.079
There's still time.
01:06:33.119 --> 01:06:34.400
You gotta invite me back again.
01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:35.599
I'll work on something else.
01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:35.920
Yeah.
01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:38.159
You never know what the audience votes for.
01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:40.400
You know, that that could be a winner right there.
01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:50.559
So I went with my what I thought was the worst was at the end of the um twice the night before Christmas, and the rat's asking, What's the down of a thistle?
01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:52.159
And the other guy just goes, I don't know.
01:06:52.960 --> 01:06:54.559
I was like, what a no pun?
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:56.000
Like no clever comeback.
01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:58.400
I'm just like, let's now, I'm done drawing this.
01:06:58.800 --> 01:07:00.960
He's like, Man, I ran out of ideas.
01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:05.440
We tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas.
01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:07.760
But you know, G.I.
01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:09.599
Joe taught us that knowing is half the battle.
01:07:09.679 --> 01:07:11.199
What do you guys think the other half is?
01:07:12.639 --> 01:07:18.320
Sending your holiday greetings to Muppet Magazine, 300 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10017.
01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:23.119
You'll then receive a postcard from Kermit himself reading, Hi Ho, it was great to hear from you.
01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:27.440
The whole gang sends a big hello signed K the F, Frog in Chief.
01:07:27.760 --> 01:07:28.559
K the F.
01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:30.559
That's what it says on the postcard.
01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:33.039
Muppet Wiki has a picture of the postcard.
01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:34.000
I know, I know.
01:07:34.079 --> 01:07:37.840
That's just I feel like that's that address.
01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:39.280
That's a somebody's rapper name, right?
01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:40.239
That's a rapper name.
01:07:40.559 --> 01:07:41.440
K the F.
01:07:42.079 --> 01:07:48.559
That address is currently where Price Waterhouse Cooper's LLP is, and those are the accountants who count the votes for the Oscars.
01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:50.159
Oh, well, okay.
01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:52.239
In New York?
01:07:52.719 --> 01:07:53.360
Apparently.
01:07:53.599 --> 01:07:55.679
Well, maybe that's just where their headquarters is.
01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:56.320
Okay.
01:07:57.440 --> 01:07:59.360
Also, Sephora is also there?
01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:00.239
Of course.
01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:01.599
It's a big building.
01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:02.400
Yeah.
01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:08.719
I'd say the other half of the battle is uh Christmas puns.
01:08:09.360 --> 01:08:11.440
Or frog Christmas puns, to be specific.
01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:12.960
Frong puns, yeah.
01:08:13.199 --> 01:08:13.599
Yeah.
01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:15.280
Well, those are both better than mine.
01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:18.720
I just thought uh no one's half to battle, the other half is subscriptions.
01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:20.479
Yup.
01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:21.600
That's it.
01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:24.319
Uh guys, it's been a lot of fun.
01:08:24.399 --> 01:08:29.039
But tell me about your shows and you know anything else you want to plug or you got coming up, and why don't we start with you, Tim?
01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:30.720
Uh well, let's see.
01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:38.159
The Can't Wait for Christmas podcast, where you can find us at can't waitforch.com, and uh from there you can find all our various socials.
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:49.119
Uh this year we are picking the ultimate Ebenezer Scrooge in Scrooge of Palooza, where you can vote every episode uh on who is who's the best Scrooge.
01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:53.199
And uh Michael Kane from the Muppet Christmas Carol is currently in the mix.
01:08:53.279 --> 01:08:55.520
He he passed his round and went on to the next one.
01:08:55.680 --> 01:09:03.119
Uh uh speaking of Muppets, if you tune in to our November episode, you might hear two familiar voices.
01:09:04.079 --> 01:09:06.319
I I say this as though we've already recorded it.
01:09:06.479 --> 01:09:08.560
This is all hoping everything goes well in the future.
01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:09.039
That's right.
01:09:09.119 --> 01:09:14.159
This is but yes, this is dropping like a week from Monday, so okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:15.840
So it's gonna happen.
01:09:16.239 --> 01:09:22.479
I'm gonna uh corral these guys back to talk about uh uh something that was mentioned earlier, the Christmas toy.
01:09:22.960 --> 01:09:23.680
Oh, so good.
01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:25.439
So good.
01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:26.399
One of my favorites.
01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:30.000
I remember well, I don't want to spoil it, I'll save it for for no.
01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:43.199
I was like the they've both already done excellent episodes about it on their own podcast, so listen to that first, and then the leftover when you come when you come to listen to my podcast, you'll at least already have some good episodes you've already heard.
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:44.960
Oh man, I gotta write some new material.
01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:49.199
So the Christmas the Christmas toy is turning 40 this year, so it's a big deal.
01:09:49.439 --> 01:09:49.920
Wow.
01:09:50.079 --> 01:09:53.199
Yeah, that's wow.
01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:56.640
That's Mike?
01:09:57.520 --> 01:10:02.720
Uh AdventCalendar.house is always where the Advent Calendar House is.
01:10:02.800 --> 01:10:09.680
Uh if you want more Muppet Joy in your life, I am now officially a staff member at toughpigs.com.
01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:10.159
Woo!
01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:12.079
That's amazing.
01:10:12.399 --> 01:10:13.600
We have fun over there.
01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:18.960
I have a podcast episode coming out uh because Tough Pigs is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
01:10:19.279 --> 01:10:20.159
So that's fun.
01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:22.479
Uh I am working on something for Christmas.
01:10:22.560 --> 01:10:23.760
It's gonna be great.
01:10:24.239 --> 01:10:24.720
Nice.
01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:26.000
That's gonna be awesome.
01:10:26.720 --> 01:10:27.359
Very cool.
01:10:27.520 --> 01:10:28.079
Definitely.
01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:30.000
I mean, you guys know, go check out those shows.
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:36.079
They're they're both amazing shows, way better than what anything I put out, but it's great always having them here.
01:10:36.319 --> 01:10:40.399
So it's uh you guys are two of my favorite uh guests.
01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:41.520
It's just it's always fun.
01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:45.279
So um on that note, I'll end it with thanks again.
01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:52.159
And for crazy goings on during the holidays, the Muppet Babies present their version of the classic poem Twist the Night Before Christmas.
01:10:52.319 --> 01:10:59.760
And all of us at Muppet Music Television get together to check us out on our social media pages, which you can find at Linktree.com slash Totally Rad Christmas.
01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:03.920
And if you're feeling like Waldorf playing Santa, leave us a review on iTunes.
01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:06.399
It helps us reach more people and spread some rad holiday cheer.
01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:11.680
Now don't forget to check out our merch shop on tpublic.com and our super dope website, totally radchmas.com.
01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:16.000
May your days be merry and keen, and may all your holidays be green.
01:11:16.399 --> 01:11:16.960
Later, dudes.
01:11:19.039 --> 01:11:19.600
Nice.
01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:30.800
Get ready for a toothpaste that tastes so great! Kids will rush to brush! New quest for kids with a flavor that's so different, some kids call it Delicious!
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Delicious!
01:11:37.520 --> 01:11:40.159
No matter what they call it, they'll rush to brush.
01:11:43.039 --> 01:11:46.479
And while they're enjoying the flavor, they'll be biting cabinets, too.