Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Show Notes
🎄 Extend your ears as we revisit a lesser-known Rankin/Bass special from 1977 that unravels a new side quest to the Nativity story.
🎙️ Lindy Kempe and Brandon Medley droop in to salute “Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey,” the first of a Christmas donkey double feature.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
Roger Miller performing “Do Wacka Do” in 1966 with another guitarist, “Stubbs,” who’s wearing a Batman T-shirt.
Roger Miller’s “Whistle Stop” in Disney’s “Robin Hood” is secretly the Hamster Dance.
Tilly’s ascension back to heaven is strikingly similar to Poochie’s exit from “The Itchy and Scratchy Show.”
Mary has the Glow from “The Last Dragon.”
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“Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey” © 1977 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.
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