Day 16: Pa would’ve loved this podcast about the 1977 Jim Henson special, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.

On this episode

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), a stoat who looks like a bear, dresses like a pinball wizard, and sounds like he ate Cookie Monster.
• Emily Rowley (@mlerowley), a snake who can play bass guitar despite no one around her thinking that’s amazing.

Topics and tangents

• Muppet Wiki has the lowdown of all 5 cuts of this.
• The official outtake reel.
• The drum roll outtake reel.
• Of Muppets and Men: The Making of The Muppet Show.
• The Christmas Price Index of gifts given in The 12 Days of Christmas.
• The “ass sliding” scene from RAD.
• Jerry Nelson and Louise Gold sing When the River Meets the Seaat Jim Henson’s memorial, 1990.

Previous episodes of this podcast mentioned

• S1E2: A Muppet Family Christmas
• S2E8: John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together

After this episode

• Listen to the Can’t Wait for Christmas podcast episode all about Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas!

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