Day 3: Turn back the clock till it goes kerplunk kerplooey for a look at Rankin/Bass’s 1974 retelling of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas from the perspective of the mouse and his know-it-all nerdy son.

On this episode

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), the Advent Calendar House’s eccentric mayor.
• Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24), from Y-Not Radio and Words with Nerds.

Topics and tangents

• The worst thing we’ve broken that ruined multiple peoples’ day.
• We prepared for this episode by listening to Green Day’s Kerplunk!
• South Park covered the song Even a Miracle Needs a Hand in the year 2000.
• Albert reminds us of a young Julia Stiles in an Apple Jacks cereal commercial from the 1990s.
• We somehow get onto tangents that include Dusty Rhodes’s “Hard Times” promo.

The Advent Calendar House is on the web at adventcalendar.house, on Twitter @adventcalhouse, and part of the Christmas Podcast Network.