the dick van dyke show

🎄 It’s 1963, and we’re watching a show about a show within a show putting on a show for Christmas. Don’t ask us to make sense of it. We can’t stop tripping over our own home furniture.  

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🎙 Guest:  

Tim Babb (Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast, @TimBabbComedian, @ChristmasPod).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. Dick Van Dyke as Tubby the Tuba.  

2. 8 great little details you never noticed in The Dick Van Dyke Show Christmas episode (MeTV).  

3. Every Episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Ranked (Vulture).  

4. 92-year-old Dick Van Dyke dancing to Step in Time.  

5. Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins Returns.  

6. John Brown’s Body.  

7. Key & Peele’s Negrotown sketch and the trope of interrupting someone’s song.  

8. The Dick Van Dyke Show cast reunites on Comic Relief, 1992.  

9. The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book’s history of I Am a Fine Musician.  

10. The theme song’s secret lyrics.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

Learn Not to Burn: Holiday Fire Safety PSA, 1977.  

Also mentioned, this Fire Safety PSA with Dick Van Dyke pretending to be a door.  

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“The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Alan Brady Show Presents” © 1963 Calvada Productions.  

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

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

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This episode Connor & Riley are joined by Clare Warrington to discuss the groundbreaking emotional drama: Ordinary People. Clare lends her knowledge of family and human therapy to break down the psychological themes of the film. They also examine how this film created the modern family drama and one of the first novels aimed toward teenagers.

WARNING: Major spoilers for Ordinary People

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Films mentioned in this episode:

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• Ordinary People (1980) | Dir. Robert Redford
• Ad Astra (2019) | Dir. James Gray
• Good Will Hunting (1997)| Dir. Gus Van Sant
• American Beauty (1999) | Dir. Sam Mendes
• The Dark Knight (2008) | Dir. Christopher Nolan
• MASH (1970) | Dir. Robert Altman
• Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969) | Dir. George Roy Hill
• The Sting (1973) | Dir. George Roy Hill
• The Natural (1984) | Dir. Barry Levinson
• Raging Bull (1980) | Dir. Martin Scorsese
• The Shining (1980) | Dir. Stanley Kubrick
• The Great Santini (1979) | Dir. Lewis John Carlino
• Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | Dir. Robert Benton
• Terms of Endearment  (1983) | Dir. James L. Brooks