The Soulmates in The Gift of Light
Show Notes
🎄 It’s 1991, and Santa Claus is fighting with a talking dog over a park bench.
By some Christmas miracle, this obscure special was rediscovered over 30 years later. For years, people on the Internet tried to identify it on a TV in the background of an old family photo, until finally, thanks to the power of positivity, it was identified as “The Soulmates in The Gift of Light.”
🎙️ Michael DiGiovanni and Jeff Somogyi join us as we meet the intergalactic Soulmates in what seems like a pilot that never got off the ground.
📺 You can watch “The Soulmates in The Gift of Light” for free on YouTube, courtesy of the special’s creator, Gabrielle St. George.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
The original Tumblr post: “Can You Figure Out Who This Is?” by Sophie Campbell (2016)
Will Sloan’s tweet of the screenshot, September 2022.
CBC News: Canadian cartoon mystery finally solved after 6 years, thanks to the internet (2022)
“The Littles,” for comparison.
Today’s TV Trope: Mind-Control Eyes.
Soulmates Productions, Inc. defaulted in 2007.
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📼 Commercials:
Canadian Tire: Scrooge / Nintendo Action Set Commercial (1991)
Pop Tarts Commercial starring Dan and Dave (1990)
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“The Soulmates in The Gift of Light” © 1991 Soulmates Productions, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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