TaleSpin - Jolly Molly Christmas

🎄 It’s 1990, and a little girl’s Christmas wish is about to get shot out of the sky. 

🎙 Joey O. join us for the podcast’s first voyage into the Disney Afternoon as Baloo the cargo pilot bear attempts to save his boss’s daughter’s belief in Santa. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

Joey’s Christmas TV lineup that he wrote on a piece of paper around 1991 and found again 30 years later. 

The TaleSpin/Quantum Leap joke. 

Disney’s “The Jungle Book,” the animated one, is somehow Germany’s biggest box office draw ever. 

“Tales of the Gold Monkey,” a single-season TV show that inspired “TaleSpin.” 

“What a Dummy,” an even shorter single-season TV show featuring Janna Michaels (Molly) and a living ventriloquist’s dummy. 

Joey’s Interview with Pat Fraley (Wildcat), again!   

Today’s TV Trope: String-on-Finger Reminder. 

Cape Suzette and Louie’s Place on the Disney Wiki. 

Flunkey, the Einstein-haired monkey from “The Jungle Book” whose “TaleSpin” counterpart appears to be Santa Louie’s “elf,” Waldo. 

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📼 Commercials: 

McDonald’s TaleSpin Happy Meal Toys (1990) 

Snow in Southtown. 

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“TaleSpin” and “Jolly Molly Christmas” © 1990 The Walt Disney Company. 

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. 
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