maurice lamarche

🎄 After spending 3 months locked in a water tower, the Advent Calendar House has escaped in time for Christmas Podcast Day, a fake holiday originally made up for a hashtag back when social media was slightly less stupid.  

It’s not Scrooge Sunday, but the theme for this year’s Christmas Podcast Day is “A Christmas Carol,” so I’m playing a long, but also cheating a little by covering both segments of a 1993 Christmas episode of “Animaniacs.”  

You can follow #ChristmasPodcastDay on Facebook, Instagram, and that other one. And probably TikTok, but I’m not on that.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Erin Evans (@mserinevans).  

Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. The Animanicast.  

2. Animaniacs Wiki entry for this episode.  

3. Sherri Stoner (Slappy Squirrel) was the live action reference model for Disney Princesses Ariel and Belle.  

4. A Christmas Plotz: The Hip-Hop Musical.  

5. Rock Sugar, Jess Harnell’s (Wakko) band.  

6. Jess Harnell sang the Taz-Mania theme.  

7. Forest Lawn Memorial Park.  

8. Today’s TV Tropes: Sensational Staircase Sequence and Scooby Stack.  

9. Baby Jesus is in a thatched-roof cottage.  

10. Kathryn Page’s gag credits.  

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📼 Commercial Break:  

Animaniacs McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys, 1994.  

Snow in Southtown Christmas Podcast.  

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“Animaniacs,” “A Christmas Plotz,” and “Little Drummer Warners” © 1993 Warner Bros.  

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
“Christmas Podcast Day” song by Tim Babb from the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast. Parody of “Weasel Stomping Day” by “Weird Al” Yankovic.  

Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.

We once more dive into the pool that is Animaniacs to talk about season 2 of the reboot.

🎄 It’s another Scrooge Sunday in the Advent Calendar House as we’re swept through a rip in the space-time continuum back to 1986 for a Christmas Carol-themed episode of The Real Ghostbusters, who accidentally save Scrooge from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Tom Coombs (@ClassicTomedy, TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny).  

Chad “Ecto” Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, TPIF, @horrormoviebbq).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. Hey, grown-ups! Remember getting lost while driving when we didn’t all have maps of the entire planet in our pockets?  

2. Scrooge pays the Ghostbusters a mint-condition shilling from 1837, so we looked up its actual value.  

3. You can actually buy Christmas Carol View Master reels from the 1950s online.  

4. Rick and Morty talking about Bill Murray and Lorenzo Music comes up and goes… somewhere.  

5. Egon entering the ghost containment unit looks like the warp tunnel on Space Mountain.  

6. The other ghosts in the containment unit are callbacks to previous episodes, including Sandman, who bears a passing resemblance to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.  

7. Santa should not laugh like Megatron.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

The Real Ghostbusters Firehouse Playset, Tombstone Tackle, and X-Cop, 1986.  

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“The Real Ghostbusters” and “Xmas Marks the Spot” © 1986 Columbia Pictures Television.  

Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.  
Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.

Since the inception of the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast one topic has been a constant. Ghostbusters, the 1984 supernatural comedy, although initially intended to be a stand alone film went on to birth one of animation's most popular series and today the Rant Army get REAL with  a retrospective of The Real Ghostbusters. Outmatched by the forces of the spirit world, the Rant Army need a REAL Ghostbuster to join the battle so thankfully Egon Spengler himself, Maurice LaMarche answered the call to provide an awesome introduction. Also, rounding out our team for this episode, Jason Fitzsimmons from ghostbustersnews.com stops by to reveal his favorite episode of the series.

HOST: Brandon A. Lane
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@MauriceLamarche

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Tune in as we apply North Pole to Pinky and the Brain’s 1996 Christmas special, probably the closest the lab mouse duo ever got to actually taking over the world.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Joey Letson (The Animanicast, @Animanicast).  

Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. This special won the 1996 Primetime Emmy award for outstanding animated program.  

2. Joey O.’s interviews with Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche.  

3. The Animanicast’s interview with Maurice LaMarche.  

4. Powerhouse: Warner Bros.’ go-to “assembly line” music.  

5. io9 ranked this episode dead last among the Brain’s plans to take over the world.  

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“A Pinky and the Brain Christmas” © 1996 Warner Bros.  

You can visit the Advent Calendar House on the web at adventcalendar.house, on Twitter @adventcalhouse, and on the Christmas Podcast Network.

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.