The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incontrovertible number 172 december [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► to enter 13 welcome back everybody to [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► the incomparable i'm your host Jason [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► snow and this week we're going to be [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► talking about holiday TV for the last [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► couple years we've had an episode where [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► we've conducted films into what we've [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► called the uncomfortable holiday TV [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► fault it's sort of a conceptual vault [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► where we place things we like I guess [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► although the by the sound of it also [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► could be someplace we lock away things [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► we don't like and never want to see [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► again anyway although with that was the [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► holiday movie volt we did actually [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► induct some TV in there and last year's [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► movie selections we start to realize [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► there aren't that many great holiday [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► movie so this year we're going to induct [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► some TV shows and put them in the vault [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► which is no longer the holiday movie [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► fault is now the holiday movie and TV [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► and who knows what other things we might [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► stick in that vault later when we run [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► out of things to talk about anyway so [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► we're conducting some holiday a TV that [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► we like in our our little fault it's [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► it's it's red with green door our little [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► vault as about has a bow on da yeah cute [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► so join me to induct things into the [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► vault are three fine gentleman David [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► lower hello welcome hello [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► I think tonight is a perfect definition [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► of the old saying shows before hohos [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► wow thank you thank you [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► I'm here all week impressed heavily by [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► that joke is Steve life by steve i'm [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► usually impressed i and i'm pleased as [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► punch to be here to stink up the holiday [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► vault once again right here you keep it [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► real wit you are the booby trap at the [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► frontier the false front of the vault [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► that that people don't look beyond what [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► you pick for the true value that's in [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► the back and think that's right that's [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► right and incidentally was this was not [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► the holiday movie vault [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► initially i would like to point out as I [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► was accused of cheating during that [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► first season when when I selected a [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► Charlie Brown Christmas but in fact your [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► email clearly [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► stated the TV shows were eligible so [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► yeah so it shifted a little movie of all [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► things a bit of retconning there you can [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► see your colony on it well now it's [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► proven that it is not just a movie volt [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► because the tvs stuff is in there it's [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► really officially now so why I write I [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► give in it just just like I gave up on [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► John siracusa picking on solo from the [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► Christmas special Star Wars Christmas [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► special somebody pick that going to try [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► to explain that one to me it is my goal [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► in life to try to make you give up [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► yeah basin it's the holiday special and [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► here for thanksgiving not Christmas [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► well this is the holiday vault though [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► not the Christmas fault so who knows [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► what might happen it was for life day [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► didn't somebody pick a groundhog day [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► last year it's a holiday dude yes yes [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► indeed and that was Monty Ashley you [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► were there hi Monty welcome hello [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► happy Holidays Happy Holidays whatever [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► all happy life day to all our wiki [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► listeners I think we should all mmm [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► alright so the way this is gonna work is [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► because at this point every episode we [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► do is just a draft that's it pretty soon [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► I'm just gonna change the name of the [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► podcast to draft world just everyone [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► every week another draft or we draft [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► next we don't know rapping rapping table [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► draft [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► yes I'll do that so but you know this is [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► we're gonna go around and each of us [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► will choose something and hopefully will [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► not overlap on pics that's why the draft [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► format works so well but of course if [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► somebody pick something that you love [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► feel free to talk about it because they [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► don't get to like steal away all of the [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► precious love for that thing we can [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► should share the love it's the holidays [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► were sharing the love just try to stop [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► us we're gonna get started with Monty [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► well I'm not starting with a Christmas [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► episode because my favorite holiday [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► episode of a television show is my [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► favorite episode of any television show [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► the series is WKRP and sound that no [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► yeah it across that one off right and I [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► didn't even put it on just in case very [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► early in their run their seventh episode [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► they did turkeys away on the theme of [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► thanksgiving and it is a great great [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► episode incredibly funny and watching it [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► now which I did a couple of days ago [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► what you're really struck with her I was [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► anyway is that the stars of the show [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► where loni anderson and howard hesseman [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► as jennifer and dr. johnny fever but [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► they do very little in this episode all [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► the heavy lifting is done by richard [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► sanders as Les Nessman the key moments [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► of the show when the turkeys are dropped [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► from a helicopter and plummet to the [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► ground like sacks of wet cement is [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► Turkey's do I assume so you only see [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► through les Nessman eyes as he's [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► describing them to you over the humanity [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► and it works so well and it all builds 2 [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► i'm gonna say one of the best punch [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► lines in television history sitcoms [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► rarely have the guts to just build to a [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► final line that a character says and [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► then you end the show but they did back [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► in the seventies and in fact the end [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► credits have already started running [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► when Gordon jump as Arthur Carlson comes [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► out and says as God is my witness I [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► fucking to Turkey's can fly it is one of [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► the best sitcom I don't know if it's my [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► favorite WKRP but it probably is i love [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► the episode with a where's the bomb [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► threat at the remote transmitter and the [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► flaps are gonna come with johnny fever [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► but but it is this episode is so great [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► and that last line is so perfect and yet [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► what I always forget when I watch it is [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► the the right before it what happens [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► which is less appears finally and it is [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► as if they were organized its today's [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► describes the turkey counter-attacks [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► matters have to the helicopter is later [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► she gets short shrift that is brilliant [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► and so like a hallucinatory and it's [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► because it's great [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► wow well Monty you win all right [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► measurement back it up [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► yeah that's the definitive take that [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► holiday vault that's right of Alton's [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► all the vault grew three sizes that day [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► will make up for the rest of my [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► ridiculous pic step [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► alright David it's your turn alright one [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► of my favorite holiday episode of [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► anything is from homicide life on the [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► street and [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► investors could it is it really is it's [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► called all through the night is from the [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► third season was the third season and it [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► starts off with a a sidewalk Santa Claus [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► getting brutally murdered so you know [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► Oh real that's real obsolete and Richard [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► Belzer and Ned Beatty are the ones who [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► catch that homicide so they find out [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► that this person apparently this man [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► apparently has a son so they they go to [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► tell the Sun and when they when they get [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► to the the guys apartment they find out [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► the kids all by himself he's about 10 [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► years old and Ned Beatty says we can't [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► we can't just do this you know we can't [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► just tell him this is this is wrong this [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► is Christmas Eve you just you stay here [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► with the kids i'm going to go out and [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► look into this [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► so he leaves Richard Belzer with the [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► smartass little ten-year-old and he goes [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► off and investigates the case and [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► meanwhile the kid is like why are you [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► what's going on and.and Belzer this is [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► the last thing he wants to do on a good [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► night little on Christmas Eve and I mean [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► there are other stories that go in and [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► out of the episode with the other [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► characters but mainly the focus is on [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► this this story and of course but you [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► know it just keeps getting darker and [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► darker because you think they're gonna [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► have to come to a point where they have [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► to tell this kid his father's not coming [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► home and of course you know Belzer is [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► getting more and more uncomfortable and [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► just you know the longer this goes is a [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► where the hell is Ned Beatty and finally [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► at the end of the episode I mean it's [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► almost too good to believe Ned Beatty [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► comes in with the guys father and it [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► turns out that the other that the [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► murdered sidewalk Santa had stolen his [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► wallet and that's how they identified [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► the guy was from the skull while ago [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► heartwarming haha so it's a Christmas [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► miracle somebody else's father's day [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► yeah that's right kids 11 he just wanted [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► money to buy his kid a little bicycle [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► and the kids sold all of his bicycle [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► gear by his father know that [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► and the best part is now the doubt the [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► dad has his wallet back [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► that's right once it gets out evidence [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► yeah it was just a wonderful you know [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► just a dark humored twisted bizarre [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► christmas story the winds up having a [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► happy ending [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► I didn't think you were going to go [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► there let's see we've had dead turkeys [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► we've had a dead Santa yeah this is a [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► dark but I take it back this bolt is not [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► read with a green door this is a black [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► black volt as black as your hearts [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► that's great because black christmas [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► can't kill anything that's already does [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► exactly right all right Steve while so [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► if with something [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► yeah I don't know about the wedding part [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► of that well when you pick something i'm [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► going to say wow yeah well your mouth [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► may open slightly [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► wow I actually almost didn't join in [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► this year's holiday vault because i feel [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► i perfected in the last two years yeah [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► no not really actually although i've [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► seen a lot of holiday TV frankly when I [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► sat down and rack my brain to try to [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► come up with one to induct I couldn't [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► really think of any that stood out other [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► than the WKRP Thanksgiving episode which [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► I knew would already be taken by [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► somebody else by the time I got to pick [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► so and of course i already used a [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► Charlie Brown Christmas two years ago [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► when when we learned that i'm actually [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► the only person including yourself who [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► read your emails [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► oh yeah I thought about pulling out the [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► star wars holiday special because that [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► actually has become thoroughly enjoyable [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► with the addition of the rifftrax but [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► I've already talked that up on more than [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► one occasion and and frankly I'm getting [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► sick of hearing about it uh so I you [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► know I almost opted out completely and [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► then I thought about it a bit and I [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► realized oh wait there is one Christmas [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► TV show i could mention that has some [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► sentimental value to me at least [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► explicitly to me although apparently not [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► to anybody else on the planet [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► they're probably been I don't know [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► probably more televised adaptations of [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► Dickens Christmas Carol than any other [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► story by a wide margin i would guess [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► they're probably hungry [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► if not thousands probably hundreds this [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► this pick is definitely one of them in [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► 1979 just one year after the [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► aforementioned star wars holiday special [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► there were at least two TV movies based [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► on the Christmas Carol one of those was [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► an American Christmas Carol that's the [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► one with henry winkler playing an [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► American depression-era Scrooge it was [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► received fairly well and in fact it's [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► it's currently available for purchase on [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► DVD [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► the other has been almost completely [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► forgotten and is not available anywhere [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► amazingly not even on YouTube where you [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► can usually find everything that was [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► televised and horrible but not in this [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► case [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► Jason I know I know you like to play TV [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► executive i have let me run a pitch by [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► all right lay it on me [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► alright I don't a lot of time go ahead [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► here comes I here's the idea we take [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► Dickens Christmas Carol I love it [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► already [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► keep your car it's it's good right I [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► haven't read it but I've seen many [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► adaptations of my love it keep going for [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► cocaine [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► well this this adaptation is musical and [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► and all the major characters will be [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► played by big-name country music stars [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► from the late nineteen seventies it's [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► really thick interesting that was pretty [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► much the pitch that said that's pretty [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► much what about it i bought that not I'm [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► I is it the late seventies now I guess [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► it is yes but I say yes fantastic [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► then what about history let's do you and [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► somebody NBC apparently to my amazement [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► both greenlit my pick for this year's [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► holiday vault it is called skinflint [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► colon a country christmas carol it [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► features hoyt axton as Cyrus Flint who [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► is our country 5 version of Scrooge it [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► has stuttering mel tillis as country Bob [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► Cratchit Lynn Anderson is his wife has [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► appearances by larry gatlin and Barbara [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► Mandrell and Tom T hall and the statler [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► brothers it has famous character actors [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► like Martha Raye and dave madden better [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► known as Reuben Kincaid and oh yes in [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► the role of TJ the country music version [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► of tiny tim is a perky seven-year-old [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► wat by the name of Steven lots of [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► nepotism [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► that's right an odd casting move i think [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► to fill the semi major role with [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► somebody who can either act nor saying [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► but that's traditional for tiny Taylor [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► is from the chi Frank we got to figure [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► these TV people know what they're doing [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► that kid is going places that's right [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► sure is yeah i was produced and directed [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► by the great mark Daniels who also [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► directed episodes of believe it or not i [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► love lucy Gunsmoke Hogan's Heroes kungfu [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► Alice the man from Atlantis and perhaps [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► most importantly 15 episodes of Star [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► Trek the original series including the [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► mantrap space seed and spots yeah your [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► interview I'd like to quote now from [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► IMDb I think you should which so holiday [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► reading which says Steve lots is an [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► actor known for skin flayed the country [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► christmas carol 1979 see full buy em [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► right you know if they put commercials [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► in there would probably say Skeletor but [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► that's that's not something IMDb covers [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► just yet [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► Wow yep and believe it or not but a [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► skinflint colon a country christmas [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► carol was even nominated for an emmy for [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► outstanding individual achievement dash [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► special class for the technical director [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► and camera operators it did not in fact [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► a good camera operating voice was [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► castigated with special amounts of class [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► we gotta come up with something nice to [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► say so have you have you not ever seen [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► it or since it was on [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► ah you know what I further for the [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► reasons of the existence of this show [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► that was what my parents bought the [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► gigantic VCR that we used to tape it and [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► I do in fact have it on videotape [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► I'm probably the only person to have it [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► on videotape my understanding is it [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► showed up on country music television [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► maybe once about 15 years ago but since [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► then it's effectively been buried [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► I and given its sterling credentials you [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► might wonder why that is [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► and the answer is it's it's it's fairly [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► terrible [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► I i remember watching it at the time you [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► do are you kidding me again no I'm [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► serious it made enough of an impression [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► on you that you recall well as a big fan [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► of that one gallon the kid who plays [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► tiny tim is great i'll guarantee that [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► good [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► he had a big impression on me no I i [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► still remember the full-page ad in TV [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► Guide oh yes there was a really creepy [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► black and white image of some sort of [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► artist's rendering of me in that yeah [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► sure that his terrify remember the [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► creepy quite accident but yeah of course [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► there would be a creepy tiny tim to ya [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► down in the corner I look like I'm about [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► to cry it's wonderful but ya know I i [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► watched because my grandparents we lived [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► with my grandparents at the time and my [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► grandfather loved country music soul of [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► that country music you know the old [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► energy and so is like Marty Robbins and [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► pop goes the country and he hot and so [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► yeah country version of christmas carol [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► fired that's a no-brainer [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► yeah I get that thing on the team right [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► now and then get you off immediately [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► hey what's going on i play with mr. [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► triples ok [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► wow that's um it's amazing to me that [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► you actually remember that because I I [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► you may be the first that has said that [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► sense I think 1978 itself [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► wow yeah yeah I mean it's not the worst [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► thing ever it's certainly not it doesn't [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► rise to the level of awful dumb that [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► that the star wars holiday special did [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► but the dialogue is it's pretty cheesy i [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► mean the songs are pleasant enough but [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► it's not the kind of stuff you find [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► yourself singing in the shower [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► afterwards [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► ah obviously almost nobody in the lead [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► roles other than hide accident done any [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► acting and and code has hit show [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► actually I think they might have hired [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► me to make the other actors look [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► somewhat competent by comparison and [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► it's filmed on that same stock that they [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► use for soap operas so even as the [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► opening credits roll is blatantly [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► obvious that this is a really cheaply [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► made TV movie but it was a pretty cool [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► experience for me I my parents listen to [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► mostly country music and I knew most of [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► these guys were and almost all of them [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► turned out to be really super nice [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► down-to-earth people who you know they [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► they were just all good folk good [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► country full good except for the people [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► you're now going to list and describe [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► they're not [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► well I would never do such a thing let [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► Boyd accident rest in peace [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► actually there's only only one person [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► with whom i had a minor running and as a [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► seven-year-old so you know I'm not gonna [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► I'm not gonna go into great detail but [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► suffice it to say that some people who [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► may or may not played my mom were [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► somewhat primadonna ask which is kind of [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► a pity because I always really liked [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► your music but what are you gonna do so [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► what we're saying is call right email [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► country music TV and demand that they [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► order a blu-ray remastered HD ready to [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► go rerun version of skinflint to play [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► yes this with the massive the massive [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► audience muscle of incomparable behind [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► this thing and ensure that my shame can [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► be broadcast to millions of people want [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► to get or Steve you should just you know [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► post that stuff on youtube I you know [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► I've given that some thought and I have [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► absolutely no idea who I would actually [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► request the rights to do so 20 don't [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► request the rights youtube youtube [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► copyright doesn't count on youtube don't [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► you know that I I'm just yeah I've heard [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► something along those lines I just fear [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► that i would spend some some effort to [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► to convert it to a digital format only [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► to have it wiped for existence almost [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► immediately but at some point it may it [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► may actually have to happen but yeah in [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► some ways it's a pity that it's never [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► resurfaced because it does feature one [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► of my proudest kidda moments which is [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► that in the final scene where the whole [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► group is eating Christmas dinner at [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► Flint's nephews house and everyone was [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► told to ad-lib dinner conversation we [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► all will have some sort of food item in [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► front of us so that we could actually [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► eat during moments when we were not [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► supposed to talk and my item was this [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► little bowl of fruit cocktail and during [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► one of the many many many takes of that [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► scene because remember these were not [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► actors and i was working with myself [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► least of all I noticed something odd [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► floating in my bowl of fruit cocktail [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► so I exclaimed in my squeaky [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► high-pitched seven-year-old voice hey I [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► think there's a booger in my fruit [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► cocktail [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► guess which take they used wow you can [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► hear it it's already clear if you know [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► what to listen for you can hear [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► hey I think there's a booger in my free [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► culture which raised the the rating of [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► this TV movie at least up to PG well [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► that's the clip you're gonna have to [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► post on YouTube it'll get there someday [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► but for now you'll just have to imagine [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► its wonders you have been listening to [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► inside the actors studio with Stephen [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► lutz and believe me I'm not blending [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► when I bring this anything I should be [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► hiding this so skinflint a country [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► christmas carol inflated the colon a [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► country christmas carol in the vault do [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► not omit the colon clink clink it's in [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► the vault now thank God it's in the [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► vault [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► yeah so now we're can never hurt anybody [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► alright I am going to go next and i want [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► to ask you fellows where were you in [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► 1989 you know where we were [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► Steve Monty you were at the university [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► of california at san diego know you [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► UCSD and pretty sure so here's the thing [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► in 1989 there was a an animated [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► christmas special that aired on fox [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► this happened because although it was [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► just an episode of a new TV series that [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► the fledgling fox TV network had ordered [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► they they decided not to error it in the [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► fall or the episodes weren't ready in [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► the fall and yet one of the episodes was [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► a Christmas episode so they had to pull [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► it ahead and broadcast it at Christmas [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► time even though the series itself [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► wouldn't premier until early of 1990 [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► this ancient history is only relevant [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► because this is the first episode of a [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► TV show that is still on the air today [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► it's the simpsons roasting on an open [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► fire episode of the simpsons the first [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► two air it's why their dog is called [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► Santa's Little Helper [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► and although it's not in fact it as a [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► first season simpsons episode it's quite [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► primitive in many ways and it is sort of [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► in the middle of a transitional form [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► between the two very weird and strange [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► tracey ullman version of The Simpsons [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► and the more refined [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► on model version of The Simpsons that [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► emerged after a couple years there's a [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► lot i remember watching it was on [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► there's a lot to accredit it's a lot of [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► fun and a lot of the aspects of the [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► simpsons are already there [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► Homer learns a lesson they adopt the [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► they adopt their dog and you know it [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► started something that continues with [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► you know whatever 500 episodes later and [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► I think that makes it particularly [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► notable to I do not appear in it in any [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► way by the way I'm not and I was just a [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► college student as well as you know show [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► is still on you and that one of the [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► things i like about the simpsons [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► roasting on an open fire and this [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► actually was the only other one that I [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► considered 44 mention because the only [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► one I can remember is that if it has [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► that same kind of feel that all the [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► first season simpsons does where it's [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► really almost more of a it's almost more [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► standard city family so I'm absolutely [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► but not not really in you know in [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► conventional ways and but it but it [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► always it still has some sort of a [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► sentimental feel to it which you i think [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► from second season on it was it was rare [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► to have that sort of you know Homer [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► isn't a complete a-hole and all times he [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► is occasionally a loving father and [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► that's always kind of liked that aspect [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► too early simpsons yeah into the show [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► has gone through many different forms [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► syndrome it since then you know it here [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► Homer you know he's obviously a complete [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► screw-up but he's trying to do the right [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► thing and you know he just he isn't [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► capable of it [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► well it has it has a sweetness to it [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► that I think the show has always had [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► that it's tried to mix that it isn't [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► completely a cynical with its characters [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► they did they do try to come back to [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► some sort of center of those characters [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► by the end of an episode even as wacky [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► as some other episodes of will sometimes [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► get so yeah I'm throw it in the vault [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► there goes it's in there looks good in [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► their flying hey i'm ok i miss the ball [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► let me try again [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► good now it's in their time for a break [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► between rounds to talk about our first [TS]

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00:26:58 ◼   ► ok Monty you you stole the best one what [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► are you going to do for a follow-up I [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► well I had a list prepared but Steve's [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► entry reminded me of egg rain experience [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► I had were automatically have any sweet [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► Jesus [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► so it's 1979 Steve you are an HBO [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► executive ok i am too [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► I I tell you does it have boohbah know [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► then it's not on that I want to do an [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► adaptation of the christmas carol does [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► it have boobs [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► no but here what it does have ok [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► WC Fields Ebenezer Scrooge Paul Lynde is [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► Bob Kraft you got a little Johnny Carson [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► richard nixon Humphrey Bogart Groucho [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► Marx colombo edith bunker Jack Benny [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► Inspector Clouseau they're all in this [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► and you only have to pay one guy really [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► is i'm talking about rich Little's [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► christmas carol had performance [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► yep which I remember vividly he would [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► have to run out the door and then run in [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► another door just really putting on [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► another wig or something [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► it's everything you are imagining what I [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► say rich little christmas carol it with [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► him doing Paulie and as Bob Cratchit wow [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► I'm having flashbacks well as we speak [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► but it's just him standing there in [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► various wigs and then running backstage [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► periodically know it's it's edited [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► together with you know he's in costumes [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► and yeah he's in costume but like he'll [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► jump back and forth to do the different [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► parts tools write WC Fields as Ebenezer [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► Scrooge yelling and then [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► jump to another part of the stage and [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► turn around he's Pauly D's Bob Cratchit [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► talking back and then Richard Nixon as [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► Jacob Marley appears as the ghost they [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► don't they don't use some sort of [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► terrible split screen effect where he's [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► standing next to himself doing all this [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► he's actually jumping back and forth [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► yeah as i remember there were no special [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► effects except the magic of his voice [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► which if you ever watch some rich little [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► on youtube is really really unimpressive [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► well also yes impressions not really [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► made to be watched [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► he's a boring looking guy but it didn't [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► do the voices as well as you remember [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► yeah yeah by the way the tiny tim in [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► this production was him doing Truman [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► Capote classic so there's my late [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► seventies christmas carol adaptation for [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► the vault [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► thanks Monty so it turns out there are [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► no good TV shows about holidays I i have [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► some decent ones but i did too but I [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► threw it out so I can wash this 18k [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► Steve had it cued up for a second round [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► pick [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► well well done Monty well then that'll [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► that'll provide some again some good [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► security at the front of the fault [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► um David what do you have well um let's [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► see [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► intern remember which year it would be [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► 1990s you're gonna say 1979 nineteen [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► ninety years CBS executive someone comes [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► to you and says hey I want to set a show [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► in the middle of nowhere with nobody [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► you've ever heard of and it's about a [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► guy who wants to leave that place as [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► soon as he can [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► can we should in eastern Washington [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► possibly and he's not a contestar [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► network with all these great ideas a [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► terrible terrible network we all work [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► for different hypothetical networks will [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► never get together on this [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► that's true anyway that would be [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► northern exposure about a doctor from [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► New York City who to repay his [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► medical-school bills winds up in this [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► little town in Alaska [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► and it was on for two summers of i think [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► eight episodes each and you know barely [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► getting any ratings but they finally [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► said I let's bring it back it's you know [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► people like it so in their first full [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► series their first full season they did [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► they finally got to do a Christmas [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► episode called soul mates and it's [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► spelled soul is in Korea because the one [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► character Maurice Minnifield former [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► astronaut and town mogul is lamenting [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► the fact that he's alone he's like you [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► know this is a horrible holiday you have [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► you ever noticed that suicide rates go [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► up at Christmastime you know it's [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► horrible because it's just everyone [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► makes you feel bad for being alone and [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► you know what I like being alone [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► D'Arnot and all of a sudden this family [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► from korea shows up and it turns out to [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► be the woman he had an affair with and [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► her son and the grandson who is the only [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► one who speaks English so he's the [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► interpreter for them and Maurice is [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► horribly uncomfortable with all of this [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► and at the same time the town is getting [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► ready for their their celebration of the [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► the holiday but it's the Raven festival [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► and so everything is all Ravens and [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► darkness and Chris in the morning is [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► reading at Ground po on the radio and [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► you know and finally Shelly the waitress [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► at the bar where everybody hangs out [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► who's kind of an innocent she's still a [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► young girl and she's she's here because [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► she fell in love with the owner of the [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► bar and moved in with him and then [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► married him [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► and she says you know this guy i miss [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► Christmas this isn't Christmas it's very [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► nice i like Ravens and all that and it's [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► not even that i miss Church i just i [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► miss the songs i miss Christmas you know [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► this just isn't an old-fashioned Charlie [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► Brown Christmas you know and so they [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► managed to balance the celebration of [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► the Christmas and a more traditional [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► holiday for her with the Raven festival [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► in the Native Americans in Alaska and [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► it's it's open so just the lovely [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► balance of all these stories and you go [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► well there's more than one festival [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► going on huh [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► and that's one of the things I loved [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► about that season of northern exposure [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► it kind of went way downhill the next [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► season but that third that the first two [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► seasons and then that first full season [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► are just beautiful i love that show I [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► always we i watch that show was on I'll [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► I i discovered that because it was it [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► was what was a to summer short runs [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► yeah yeah two summers in a row of like [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► eight episodes yep that's why I [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► discovered it at that point and then yes [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► that was a that was a fun show fun [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► quirky our it be rare your rare [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► hour-long comedy basically dramedy thing [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► when I moved to Seattle I made a point [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► of stopping off in rosslyn which was [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► where they shot all the exteriors for [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► that you remember [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► Roslin's cafe yeah right that's actually [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► the rosslyn cafe the TV show just drew [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► an apostrophe s on it that made up a [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► story about somebody named roslyn [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► founding it and i miss that show it was [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► a good show [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► yeah everyone good 1i haven't thought [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► about that game time so thank you [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► thumbs up the so further coming through [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► it is TV shows that i wrote spec scripts [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► for so how many of those that do we have [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► exactly David well let's see there's all [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► the next generation ones [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► yeah let's not go there Steve what do [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► you have next [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► I not skinflint yeah you know i'm at a [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► loss i literally don't have anything [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► except that [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► so skinflint round two skinflint colon [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► country christmas carol uh our previous [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► holiday vault episodes we we talked for [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► kind of a long time on each of these and [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► we each only got 11 item and no I [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► actually I actually came up with ok why [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► but i'm not really prepared to say [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► anything much about it other than that [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► it's awesome [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► ok and and you know I could talk about [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► Charlie Brown Christmas again but that [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► would be that would be already in the [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► vault is already in the world it it is [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► the definitive holiday TV special it is [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► it there by myself [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► ah so instead i will bring up the great [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► dr. Seuss's how the grinch stole [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► christmas the 1966 animated television [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► special animated by chuck jones there's [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► really no getting around the fact that [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► Chuck Jones animated this where it's [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► above cartoon with but if with Thomas's [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► characters inserted those mid-sixties [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► truck Jones eyebrows on everyone [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► that's right it is of course the [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► retelling of the the children's book by [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► dr. Seuss we're the grinch forces his [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► dog Max to take him into Whoville and [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► steal away all of the Christmas presents [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► and the trees and all exclusively [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► because he just hates the who's and [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► can't stand all of their Christmas and I [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► know how he feels like you know what I [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► do too especially when they bust out [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► that yahoo door a song you have lived [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► next to noisy neighbors who sing all the [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► time it is annoying [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► yeah and that's a particularly cloying [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► song I i feel i unlike the excellent [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► you're a mean one mr. Grinch performed [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► by general Ravenscroft where r is [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► crafted a magnificent [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► ah so yeah good music quality animation [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► a good story kind of a sweet the meaning [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► of Christmas isn't really consumerism [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► ending i think it was a requirement for [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► all 1960s TV specials [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► yes brought to you by tied that's right [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► in fact if it was the Charlie Brown [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► Christmas actually sponsored by kokor [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► something i believe it was [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► something like that yeah you're a [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► hypocrite Charlie Brown haha anyway even [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► my sponsors gone commercial hard but [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► yeah it's the grinch it's a classic is [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► what I very few holiday well Christmas [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► TV shows that is considered a classic [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► that I think legitimately deserves it [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► unlike some I could mention rankin/bass [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► yeah which may or may not be mentioned [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► here later but yeah the grinch gotta [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► love the grinch yep gotta love the fact [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► that everybody knows the Grinch and I [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► don't really have to say much about it [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► you're right i love that especially yes [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► alright here's my selection reminded of [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► this over Thanksgiving when they live [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► streamed the turkey day marathon for [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► Mystery Science Theater 3000 I haven't [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► watched you know much mystery science [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► theater 3000 someone went off the air [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► even though i loved it so and it [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► actually the livestream ended with a [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► reprieve of a patrick swayze Christmas [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► so I have to have a big mama de santa [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► claus conquers the martians episode of [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► mystery science theater 3000 it is funny [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► it's got that great Patrick Swayze [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► christmas song in it and it's a great i [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► mean it's a great set of riffs to it's a [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► great Christmassy mst3k so I i love it [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► and it's a it's a winner so I pick it it [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► has Pia Zadora as a little little girl [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► as a small child of pia zadora yeah and [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► featuring drop oh it's so right for [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► riffing they did a whole new set of [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► risks for rifftrax and cinematic titanic [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► did it to have a novelization of santa [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► claus conquers the martians that was [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► written decades later it's very strange [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► and i don't like it exists [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► was it post MST yeah must be I look like [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► exist it would not exist but we're not [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► for MSD it's printed in green ink and [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► came with a DVD of the movie case you [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► wanted to I don't know watch it while [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► you read it so you can experience it [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► through two ways at once why I was felt [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► bad when i watched because the the [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► the actor who played drop oh I had seen [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► him on Broadway [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► he was the guy who sort of came in when [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► mr. Hooper passed away on sesame street [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► so he took over the store was like oh I [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► have all this association with him and [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► oh dear god what did you didn't back it [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► was like but you gotta get a paycheck [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► when you're when you're young [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► they couldn't have been babe giving out [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► big paychecks on this movie new now it's [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► a spectacularly bad movie originally [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► buddy ebsen was supposed to be in that [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► purpose he was allergic to the green [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► paint the hooray for Santi Claus aw yeah [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► kick check it out maybe they're making [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► their you spell it sa NT acla us right [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► but it's pronounced throat Warbler [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► mangrove know it's pronounced Santy [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► Claus apparently ok far sandy close [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► yeah pretty dreadful but a great riff [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► raff great episode misstated a few [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► Christmas based episodes if it is as I [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► recall [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► well yes there was also the one cause [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► Santa Claus or satellites the devil yeah [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► i could say the versatile scratcher one [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► more gypsy gives Mike a sweater that [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► says join key on it started with sewing [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► it under the other no Jo ik yeah yeah [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► man what a great not actually the turkey [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► day streaming has made me want to go [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► back and watch more episodes again and [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► although i do have I think I think we [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► all may be admitted that I that we have [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► some VHS copies of likes literally [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► sticking tape on the turkey day marathon [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► press record walk away let the tape Phil [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► I definitely have those somewhere but I [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► don't even III and I have a VCR [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► somewhere I don't know where fortunately [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► amazon has episodes streaming so yeah [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► they have a lot [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► yeah netflix still has a couple yeah but [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► they're gone away [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► yeah there's a bunch on youtube of I [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► don't know [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► yeah if they're supposed to be there but [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► the right there like it said in the [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► credits keep circulating the tubes or [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► something like that [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► yeah well that that's why we [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► we kept watching after after they [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► finished the streaming the other day so [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► then we watched the day the earth rose [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► which is just on you after seeing the [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► ads for it all day by the 25th [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► anniversary set to get this hard to find [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► impossible to watch you know it's only [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► here we want to 10 minutes later sorry [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► yeah and then we just been watching all [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► weekend alright another round in the [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► books [TS]

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00:43:48 ◼   ► time for the lightning round of [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► introductions the lightning round monte [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► give us another one [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► ah 30 rock season six leap day [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► essentially the premise here is that Liz [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► Lemon has been out of town every four [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► years so she never learned that [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► everybody else celebrate sleep day as a [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► full holiday yes and the best thing [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► about this episode is that you see clips [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► of a fictional movie called leap Dave [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► Williams which absolutely perfectly [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► stars Jim Carrey and andie macdowell [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► yeah and you see clips of jim carrey [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► turning into leap Dave William because [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► he has the same name and that movie is [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► everything that would exist if leap day [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► were an actual holiday instead of just a [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► quirk of the gregorian calendar that is [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► a great episode that is one of my very [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► favorite 30 rock episodes in fact [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► because it's so absurd and yet it goes [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► with that premise to the fullest extent [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► possible and at the very end you [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► actually see leap day William as he [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► gives heartfelt advice to someone [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► Tracy probably and then looks at the [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► camera and opens his pointy teeth and [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► lunges for the because the william is [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► the is the Santa Claus of lipa yes he [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► has gills and he gives out candy in [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► exchange for children's tears and he's [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► played by John column from northern [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► exposure [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► oh yes good point which was really weird [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► with it he played Marley in skinflint [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► mentally but what if it was actually Tom [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► T hall the great storyteller that's with [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► a great storyteller is all this time [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► turns out did you not out [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► turns out I didn't the great storyteller [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► go figure [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► he's good all right David what do you [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► have I've got the one twilight zone that [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► I watch every year at this time a night [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► of the meat I'll cross that one off my [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► list [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► good where r Kearney as an alcoholic [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► department store Santa whose is there [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► any other hide well seriously he's [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► killing time in a bar of course and he [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► comes across this sack in the alley [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► between the bar in the department store [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► and he read me I forget how exactly he [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► discovers that it's full of gifts and he [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► starts handing out gifts to all the [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► children that come in come up to him and [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► of course a policeman assumes that he [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► has stolen all of this from the [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► department store any calls in the the [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► former boss from the department store [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► and it turns out that anyone else who [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► reaches into this sack full of gifts [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► pulls out a tin can [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► there's nothing but tin cans only Art [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► Carney can pull out gifts and it's [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► always a gift doesn't like a cat emerged [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► from it at some point I can't well but [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► GI john fiedler who's who's the the the [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► boss from the department stores mr. [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► Peterson from bob newhart and piglet [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► from winnie the pooh and red jack from [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► Star Trek he reaches it and he's like [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► let me see this thing pulls out a cat [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► ass backwards and freaks out and the cat [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► didn't look too happy either [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► and you know finally he says yeah well I [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► you know fine if you can pull out [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► anything i want i want this specially [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► aged bottle of brandy and sure enough [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► people that a bottle of brandy and there [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► he goes and it's always the one gift [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► that each person wants most in the world [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► and at the very end and he's thinking [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► okay this is just weird and I'm drunk [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► you know I don't know what's going on [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► and it turns out that the one gift that [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► he always wanted was to be Santa Claus [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► and the bag you gave him that gift and [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► he flies away on a sleigh and it's it's [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► heartwarming in a way that the twilight [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► zone didn't always succeed and they [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► tried frequently but yeah they had a lot [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► really work out as well as it does in [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► this episode [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► yeah we made by the 1985 twilight zone [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► series with Richard Mulligan as [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► as Corwin the aircard apart and of [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► course the store owner William Atherton [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► you know I don't love me some Richard [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► Mulligan but at the same time I just I'm [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► not seeing it [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► I'm not seeing him as a substitute for [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► hard cardi it did not work but William [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► Atherton as the as the store owner that [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► is solid but he was yeah it is solid and [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► everything yes that episode was directed [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► by Martha Coolidge who directed real [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► genius directed william atherton in real [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► genius it all the time [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► genius doesn't it yeah alright night of [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► the meat that's a great one rod set is a [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► great one [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► I wish I'd thought of it yeah no see [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► you're supposed to say damn that was on [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► my list i was gonna give that one now I [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► don't know what I'm going to choose but [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► it's your turn so what do you have for [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► us you know it the relief that has that [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► just the great weight has been lifted [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► from my soul just talking about [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► skinflint colon a country girl [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► it's like everything just kind of rolls [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► off my back right now in fact I didn't [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► pick anything else you know that I [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► didn't prepare anything else besides [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► that I just don't even care [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► it's all good man you're putting a [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► really impressive about ever into [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► plugging this thing that nobody else [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► anyway of NRC it's true [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► that's the best part nobody can ever see [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► it I could I could make up i could say [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► there's like dragons in it or something [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► somewhere on the internet somebody's [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► like team did you hear about that that [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► country music holiday special where [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► there's dragons it's pretty sweet [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► yeah I tell my telescope his stutter the [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► dissolution of skinflint alright if I [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► must pick something [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► mmm December 1985 a month that will live [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► in infamy of the month the remake of [TS]

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00:49:46 ◼   ► well during that month something even [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► better aired on television not featuring [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► william atherton but featuring a far [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► more wonderful a character by the name [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► of Skeletor I'm speaking of course of [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► he-man and Shera colon a Christmas [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► special [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► Steve let's likes Colin's I gotta be [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► honest I've never actually seen this [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► good it didn't see it in 1985 I did not [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► see it when it was released on DVD and [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► to the state still have not watched [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► he-man and Shera a Christmas special [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► I really i never really got into the [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► cartoon as it happens but I love me some [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► Skeletor why is that Steve and I have a [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► feeling he makes an appearance [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► oh yes he does according to wikipedia he [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► does one can only hope he wears a santa [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► hat at some point over his purple he [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► sets off the entire plot i think really [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► imagine that [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► yeah it's always making trouble Skeletor [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► yeah I think Orko probably features [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► prominently to which is a bit sad but [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► you know Skeletor he can overcome [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► yeah Orko Skeletor can do it all he can [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► do Christmas specials is a [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► song-and-dance man really sees he's the [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► best [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► yeah and so I hereby pick a show that i [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► have never seen and probably will never [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► see he-man and Shera colon a christmas [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► special the vault [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► you know i recommend it because i [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► haven't seen it that's two colons you [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► put the Volt yeah it's true [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► uh I'm going to put well how can i [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► follow that choice we with practically [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► anything practically anything alright so [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► I every year since 2005 the BBC has done [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► a doctor who christmas special [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► they range from being well most of them [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► are only tangentially related to [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► Christmas like they'll say hey it's [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► Christmas [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► look over there an alien and then the [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► Christmas sort of falls away and it's [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► not important anymore because it's very [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► hard to come up with science fictional [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► premises that also legitimately involved [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► Christmas [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► well here i am on the Victorian set [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► again it must be Christmas must be [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► Christmas [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► oh and look there's Dickens yeah so so [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► here so here is the one that where I [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► think they nailed the Christmas the the [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► Christmas episode it was I am I think [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► Steven Moffat first christmas episode [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► it's called a christmas carol of course [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► and it uses the time-travel mechanics of [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► Doctor Who to cause the ghost of [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► christmas past present and future [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► to be manifestations involving time [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► travel around this very angry man played [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► by Michael Gambon in who does a great [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► job [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► who is he a very grumpy Scrooge like [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► fellow and uh and he is standing in the [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► way of the of of the doctor saving his [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► friends and the doctor has a moment [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► races [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► hey I know how i can solve this a [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► christmas carol i can do that and so [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► then so it's all-out me open i'm gonna [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► do this I'm going to use my time machine [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► to show you yourself in the past and the [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► present the future and so it's a very [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► fun jumping around between the different [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► timelines and the and the very best part [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► is when he brings a he brings the old [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► man's younger self and they come into [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► the and they come into contact with each [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► other and the old man says I know what [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► you're doing you're bringing me my you [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► know this is the ghost of christmas past [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► and you know you think I'm gonna change [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► my ways but it won't work and the doctor [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► says no I'm showing you to him so he'll [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► be horrified with what he becomes and [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► change his ways and many takes them back [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► to the timesheet great very great stuff [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► and so all the way I enjoy the doctor [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► Christmas specials for what they are [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► this one extra Christmassy extra good [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► and there's even a couple of funny star [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► trek jokes that are that are made in [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► passing complete with lens flares [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► actually so it's actually pretty pretty [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► funny so at goodwin is this the episode [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► with the cgi flying sharks it is yes it [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► is the right there are sharks and other [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► fish that that swim in the air and and [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► and they end up i think that the episode [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► ends with a flying shark hitched to a [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► carriage flying through the sky [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► mhm this was pre sharknado right just so [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► i know yet who pre sharknado wow these [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► are space sharks though the flying [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► station ok one expects them to fly [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► through the air [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► remember what the world was like before [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► sharknado that is all got visuals I [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► can't believe we didn't put your [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► Tomatoes sharknado should be in the [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► holiday ball even though it isn't [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► holiday-related and [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► hey I can't believe we missed it well [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► maybe sharknado 2 will be holiday-themed [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► maybe have to find out [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► yes flying sharks you're right Monty it [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► also in addition to time-travel it had [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► flying sharks and Anna subplot involving [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► a singer whose casts a character and she [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► has to sing to save the world in the end [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► and that wasn't as good but the stuff [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► with a michael gambon is really great [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► and there's a flying shark [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► so what more do you want michael gambon [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► flying sharks check check ya dun dun set [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► star trek jokes [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► yep oh wow thats just frosting at this [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► point it is before we get to the final [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► round one extra thing not a sponsor [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► instead it's a giveaway yes it's the [TS]

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00:55:23 ◼   ► the deal go to five-by-five TV / contact [TS]

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00:55:37 ◼   ► here is what you'll win you will have [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► the option of getting uncomfortable [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► Zeppelin t-shirt in size large or [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► extra-large those are your only options [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► and along with that you will get the [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► warner archive classic TV christmas [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► collection [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► this concludes Christmas episodes of [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► such shows as dr. Kildare Alice chips [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► eight is enough [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► I believe that's a two-part episode [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► welcome back kotter and much more [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► so if you're a fan of good or bad [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► holiday TV and Zeppelin t-shirts and you [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► want to enter go to five-by-five a TV / [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► contact choose the incomparable send us [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► a message saying you want to enter the [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► contest and we will pick one random [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► person enter by December twentieth to be [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► considered [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► alright so that that we've we've [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► conducted an interesting array of things [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► in this vault this bulging of vault that [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► has now many many many different parts i [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► wanted to ask before we went if anybody [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► had any extras i know Steve doesn't i [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► cannot text know that you want to [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► mention that didn't make it in your in [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► euless but you'd like to give a [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► shout-out to this would be the time i do [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► in my haste to rush the rich little [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► Christmas [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► royal onto my you're getting that now I [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► unfortunately had to bump the episode of [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► The Muppet Show with Vincent Price like [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► Halloween show [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► yep yeah that's a good 1i I was thinking [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► four episodes of The West Wing and yeah [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► I've shift tonight or I i have shovel it [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► down my Thanksgiving one of the two [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► Yanks giving up assets of west wing is [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► it that you have one I was thinking of [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► the the dragnet christmas episode that [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► they they loved it so many so much they [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► did it like twice on the radio that it [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► like two or three times in the TV show [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► you where it's the the the local church [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► calls up Joe Friday and says are the [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► baby Jesus from our nativity is missing [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► and they they go all over the place [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► looking for thing and it turns out that [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► the little boy took the baby Jesus in [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► his red wagon to take him around the [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► town and show him around because he must [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► have really boring life just sitting [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► there in the church and it's you know [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► it's a heartwarming thing was like my [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► father's favorite Christmas thing when [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► he was a child so you know because they [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► kept showing it every year and there's [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► things there's an episode of nothing [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► sacred which is in pog in like skinflint [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► in the hospital done w anywhere yeah [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► which is a ah those other people [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► probably actually sad about that one [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► yeah well you know actually I don't know [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► if it's still there but the entire [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► series showed up on YouTube speaking of [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► copyright issues i managed to suck them [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► all down [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► I don't know if they're still there but [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► i got them before they vanished because [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► you know but it is a lovely episodes it [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► was a show set in the Catholic Church [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► and the priest on Christmas Eve opens up [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► the church is a sanctuary for this [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► family of refugees and he gets in [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► horrible trouble and gets arrested and [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► it sort of all the chaos that goes [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► horribly wrong by the priests doing the [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► right thing and so that was a lovely [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► episode [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► yeah I actually quite like Mickey's [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► Christmas Carol from 1983 mm oh yeah [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► which-which it was one of the records [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► that I had that I used to go to sleep [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► listening to and you know that that [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► tends to make one sentimental about [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► things [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► no but it's also [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► very entertaining telling of christmas [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► carol yeah it has some good shorts that [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► lead into it including a terrific one [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► where Donald and kiwi Dewey and Louie [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► you're having a snowball fight that I [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► think has some great gags in it that I [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► really enjoy speaking of of Christmas [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► carols and and one man versions of [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► Christmas carols the pet patrick stewart [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► who is no rich little shits [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► I would have made for an interesting [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► next generation episode [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► you haven't lived until you've heard [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► Patrick Stewart's ronald reagan [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► impression though man who [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► Oh uncanny now hehe did this is a stage [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► production for a couple years and then [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► they did an audiobook version of it and [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► it's it's patrick Star just doing the [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► entire text of a christmas carol it's [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► fantastic and then they DNT signed them [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► to do a movie version of it and I [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► thought that'd be great [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► thought that'd be great [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► and they just did a traditional movie [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► and it's you know it's fine [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► he's good but it's boring but if you can [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► find the audio version it's fantastic [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► and Patrick Stewart doing every role in [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► its I've never liked the original [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► Christmas Carol that's the first one I [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► ever like i'll mention to I i looked up [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► according to the internet the trouble [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► with tribbles was aired a couple days [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► after Christmas it was considered the [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► holiday gift to the TV viewing public by [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► the producers of Star Trek okay why not [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► and i wanted to mention the year without [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► a santa clause which is the rankin/bass [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► animated special featuring the heat [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► miser and me [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► mais old miser and I bring it up because [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► I remembered that years after I watched [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► it I could remember the song like [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► decades after before there was an [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► internet and before that became a retro [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► thing and they started to show it again [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► it's stuck in my mind now I watched [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► again and it's not very good so I'm glad [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► I didn't have to put it in the vault but [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► boy was it memorable [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► it was really memorable man he's mr. [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► heat blister he's mr. son he's mr. green [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► christmas we wouldn't want anything bad [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► in the precious holiday ball so we [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► wouldn't want something bad in the [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► holiday ball and that would be terrible [TS]

01:01:15 ◼   ► I you know I gotta I gotta give a [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► shout-out to the SNL episode that had [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► they're actually quite a few SNL episode [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► that could've mentioned there have been [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► some good some good Christmas events in [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► some of those SE te to one that i wanted [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► to mention was the the bit where they [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► see how the ending of it's a wonderful [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► life played out post the actual ending [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► of it's a wonderful life in which all [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► the people who are gathered at George [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► Bailey's house then go down to the bank [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► and beat the snot out of mr. Potter tip [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► him out of his wheelchair and start [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► kicking away it's it's a great bits well [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► done it's all in black and white 2 [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► i think phil hartman ends up being mr. [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► Potter in that then and Dana curvy is [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► jimmy stewart and that he does very good [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► Jimmy Stewart in that and [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► yeah it's it's very entertaining you [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► mentioned phil hartman management at [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► Newsradio had a really good christmas [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► episode that's all that was going to [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► bring news radio because I feel like [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► WKRP that's one of the shows that was a [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► brilliant and it's not as as a father as [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► remembered as it should be and I did do [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► a great christmas episode [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► alright that brings us to the end the [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► Holly bolt is full surely there can be [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► no more room in the holiday but surely [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► not there can't be anything we could [TS]

01:02:33 ◼   ► possibly inducted into the holiday ball [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► next year it's out of room well it's [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► certainly not a filmed entertainment if [TS]

01:02:39 ◼   ► we have to put other things in the vault [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► building to be smaller and fit in the [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► little like crevices of the corner of [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► the fault [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► yeah alright well that wraps this up and [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► I want to thank my guests for taking the [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► time to spend it especially Steve who [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► really put a lot of fun that's all [TS]

01:02:56 ◼   ► you're so welcome Jason happy merry [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► christmas happy hanukkah and guess a [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► happy life day and a happy life day two [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► you might be actually thanks for being [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► on i repent all my ways [TS]

01:03:08 ◼   ► good finally all of them you only run on [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► down to the market and get your turkey [TS]

01:03:15 ◼   ► yeah the one has because you sure i'm [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► just gonna throw it away in front of you [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► haha and David Lord thanks for being [TS]

01:03:22 ◼   ► sure I'm gonna go do a duet with David [TS]

01:03:25 ◼   ► Bowie now very nicely sure you don't [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► want to it's dead sing songs from [TS]

01:03:30 ◼   ► skinflint yeah [TS]

01:03:32 ◼   ► David Bowie yeah you're pretty sure yeah [TS]

01:03:35 ◼   ► okay David Bowie wills will punch you in [TS]

01:03:37 ◼   ► the threader if you do [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► yeah as well you should don't do that [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► alright so that's it Happy Holidays to [TS]

01:03:43 ◼   ► everybody out there from all of us here [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► at the incomparable and we'll see you [TS]

01:03:47 ◼   ► next time [TS]

01:03:51 ◼   ► god bless us [TS]