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Show Notes
🦃 We’re talking turkey as we dig up and dig in to a 1983 Thanksgiving special from puppeteer Paul Fusco, the creator of ALF.
🎙️ Chad Young, Tommy Coombs, and Jayme Kilsby join us the follow a turkey’s dream of stardom that ends with dogs and cats living together.
📺 You can watch “A Thanksgiving Tale” on Youtube, with curated retro Thanksgiving commercials.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
Imagicom Productions’ Holiday Specials Collection.
Fred Travalena as the Joker in the 1989 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
A November 16, 1983 TV listing in an archived New York Magazine.
Paul Fusco’s “Space Cats.”
David Lander in “Funland.”
Mental Floss’s Oral History of ALF.
Today’s TV Trope: Invited as Dinner.
The “You Bet Your Life” Duck.
The art of making puppets fight: Throw them into the air from behind a fence.
We compare the Thanksgiving play in this special to the one in Addams Family Values.
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📼 Commercials:
Butterball Turkey Commercial (1985)
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“A Thanksgiving Tale” © 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc.
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