Day 24: The Season 2 finale brings Advent to a close with the first Christmas special I ever remember watching, 1978’s “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.”
On This Episode
- Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike, sometimes-food enthusiast with a taste for rotary phones.
- Erin Evans (@mserinmevans), tiny figure skater dancing to the slowest, clumsiest rendition of Feliz Navidad.
- Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24), obsessive vampire with the world’s greatest ice-skating cape, from Y-Not Radio and Words with Nerds).
Topics and Tangents
- My taped copy of this is interrupted in the middle by a WHYY telethon with Philadelphia TV legend Ed Cunningham.
- The Count’s amazing ice-skating cape.
- The wibbly-wobbly physics of Oscar’s trash can.
- Olivia married the Predator.
- The subway ride reveals an actual clue into how to get to Sesame Street.
- A cameo by the seldom remembered Mr. Macintosh, usually a fruit vendor, here selling Christmas trees.
- If you want to go read about Northern Calloway (David) and his off-screen troubles and tragic death, go right ahead.
- The adorable 2-year-old girl too little for her own vocabulary trying to explain that Santa pushes a magic button to go down chimneys is now in her 40s.
- That time Big Bird got lost in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and got everyone locked inside overnight in “Don’t Eat the Pictures.”
- An oral history of Mr. Snuffleupagus’s revelation as not imaginary.
- Oscar holds a broom like it’s Not His Broom.
- Ernie’s pajamas look like the background of the “Trololo” video.
- Joey makes my Christmas by assuring me I didn’t imagine “The Candy Apple News Company.”
Previous Episodes of This Podcast Mentioned
- Season 1, Episode 2: A Muppet Family Christmas
- Season 2, Episode 8: John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together
- Season 2, Episode 15: Saved by the Bell: Home for Christmas
- Season 2, Episode 16: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas
- Season 2, Episode 21: Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special
After This Episode
Bonus: Listen to my guest appearance on the Two Bad Neighbors podcast discussing my favorite Christmas-adjacent episode of The Simpsons, “Marge Be Not Proud.”
Then go relax or take a nap or something. Hope you enjoy your Christmas!
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