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Show Notes
🦖 It’s the most wonderful time of 60 million years ago, so come in and buy paint.
🎙️ Lindy Kempe joins us with frying pan ready to celebrate Refrigerator Day with the Jim Henson Company’s “Dinosaurs,” which is somehow the Advent Calendar House’s first TGIF episode.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
“The Simpsons” parodies “Dinosaurs.”
We go from talking about the “Økėÿ Døkęÿ Køøkïñ” segment of “Muppets Now” to Netflix’s “Nailed It!”
Sally Struthers (Charlene) for International Correspondence School.
A brief history of the Christmas bonus, or “thirteenth salary.”
Sam McMurray in the very short-lived “A League of Their Own” sitcom, and my own pitch for a TV adaptation on Nerd Lunch’s Fourth Chair Army Invasion.
Pons Maar (Roy’s body actor) as the original voice of The Noid.
Unisaurs: The Dinosaurs equivalent to the Anything Muppet.
The biggest gifts we ended up returning.
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📼 Commercials:
Talking Baby Dinosaur and Dinosaurs Figures (1991)
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“Dinosaurs” and “Refrigerator Day” © 1991 The Walt Disney Company.
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