Day 20: Disney’s Fab Five — and Daisy, who for some reason isn’t as important as the dog — enter the third dimension in the 2004 direct-to-DVD special, Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas.

On this episode

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), an oblivious North Pole workshop supervisor who can’t tell the difference between an elf and a duck.
• Drew Crowley (@pizzanautgo) of The Hourchive.
• John Dedeke (@johndedeke), also of The Hourchive, and Long Weekend.

Topics and tangents

• If you haven’t been to a Disney theme park in the last year or two, Mickey has a different face now.
• The hippo and crocodile from Fantasia have names, because of course they have names.
• Chuck McCann, the voice of Santa, was the Dreamfinder, so here’s the original Journey into Imagination.
• A quick lesson on how time zones work.
• Putting someone’s name on Santa’s list makes it as absolute as the Goblet of Fire.
• One of parenting’s greatest benefits: Embarrassing your kids when they bring home love interests.
• Making snow angels in popcorn on the roof is now on my bucket list.
• The Grumpy Dog who keeps showing up only to get beverages spilled on him is the Stan Lee of the Mickey Mouse universe, which I only mention because we recorded this the day after Stan died.
• Between the Goofys and the Plutos of this universe, there are talking reindeer who can own pets.
• Shout-out to Hidden Mickeys podcast.
• Tired: Putting out carrots for Santa’s reindeer. Wired: “Finding” reindeer poop in the yard.

Previous episodes of this podcast mentioned

• S2E9: Christmas at Walt Disney World (1978)
• S2E19: Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas

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