Advent Calendar House

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🎄 A podcast salute to all holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones by @makewistful.com. Mind the icy patch. 🎧 https://adventcalendar.house

Santa Claus flying in his sleigh with two young elves in “The Story of Santa Claus.”
Loni Anderson and Gordon Jump in a Christmas Carol themed episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati.”
On “Home Improvement,” 4 choir boys, including Mark Taylor, in robes spelling out “LEON” at a Christmas Eve church service. Oops, they’re lined up backwards. It should be “NOEL.”
Advent Calendar House, Season 16 on the label of a VHS tape cover plastered with stickers for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving in July.
On “Mash,” Colonel Potter in a Santa suit peeks through a doorway at a joyful Christmas Day party. He knows a man is dying in the operating tent. It’s alt text. I’m not putting the asterisks in the name of the show in alt text.
Taz and his among friends at Christmas.
In “Saved by the Bell: The College Years,” Zack watches in disgust as Screech tries to thaw a frozen Thanksgiving turkey with a hairdryer.
Battle scene in “Santa vs. the Snowman 3D,” featuring elves fighting snowmen, and walking igloo tanks reminiscent of the AT-ST walkers from Star Wars.
Scene from the “Nimrods” trailer showing suburban houses decorated with Christmas lights.
Me and Gerry (@radchristmas.bsky.social) at the Masters of the Universe movie.
Elmo, the Count, and a friendly Muppet ghost laugh at a funny, scary joke in the Sesame Street Halloween special, “Elmo Says BOO!” Also, a skeleton is there. Looks like a fun party. Well, thanks for reading the alt text!
Scene from “The Teddy Bears’ Christmas,” a 1992 animated special: A living teddy bear in a hat and scarf climbs to a store shelf, shocked to find it full of multiple teddy bears in identical sailor suit tops.
Suitcases with stickers including “Scrooge & Marley” on high shelves in the Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets gift shop.
Yogi Bear in an Easter bunny costume greeting a cardinal in “Yogi the Easter Bear.”
Jon’s mother in “A Garfield Christmas Special.”
In the Disney cartoon “Recess,” Mikey listens to some words of wisdom from an old man about believing in Christmas magic. He’s voiced be James Earl Jones. May the fourth be with you.
The cast of “The Dukes” Saturday morning cartoon, based on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” gathered around a Christmas goose.
On “DuckTales,” Uncle Scrooge dismisses Valentine’s cards from Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby, basically calling out the holiday as corporate nonsense. Yeah, the billionaire who swims in his gold said that.
At the end of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a handwritten note in a Christmas card reads: “Remember no man is a failure who has friends.”
In “Frosty Returns,” Frosty the Snowman and a young girl look horrified. Context: They’re watching people spray an aerosol can on snow to make it instantly evaporate.
Yogi Bear dressed in a pink Easter Bunny onesie while Boo-Boo looks uncomfortable in “Yogi the Easter Bear.”
Me in the queue for Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway at Disneyland, next to a scene from “Pluto’s Christmas Tree” in a matching Hawaiian shirt featuring Chip with his head stuck in a glass ornament, and Dale disguised as a mini Santa Claus wax candle.
James Van Der Beek in “Dawson’s Creek” decorating a Christmas tree.
Sally from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” looks sadly at a wilted flower while snow falls.
Evil snowmen with pointy teeth from the Doctor Who Christmas special “The Snowmen.”
“Takin’ A Break” written on a pixelated scene of a beach at sunset with simple graphic waves crashing on the shoreline and the shadow of a seagull flying across the sky. It’s a screen saver from a Strong Bad Email cartoon on Homestar Runner.
Jabba the Hutt laughs, “Ho ho ho!” Repeatedly in “Return of the Jedi.”
Panel 1: A stick figure standing alone makes a statement a distance away from a group of people chatting together in a small circle. Panel 2: One person from the group gives the complaining stick figure a cartoonishly large thumbs up. Panel 3: The person from the group goes back to chatting with their buds in the circle.
Advent Calendar House logo styled like neon lights with the number 200 replacing the center windows.
Xena: Warrior Princess, Gabrielle, and — ahem — Senticles, a familiar-looking toymaker with a red suit and white beard, aim toy bows and suction cup arrows at a group of guards attempting to arrest them for celebrating the Winter Solstice.
Clip from the Advent Calendar House podcast episode “Q*bert - Thanksgiving for the Memories,” revealing whose idea it was to discuss. Spoilers follow… … … … It was Jayme.
It’s Buzzsaw Louie, thetoy lumberjack with a real, working Buzzsaw attached to his hand, in a VeggieTales Christmas special.
Andy Williams in a 1985 Christmas special with the child stars from NBC sitcoms “The Cosby Show,” “Gimme a Break,” “Punky Brewster,” and “Silver Spoons.”
Diane Ladd in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Holly Larocque and the puppet cast of “Under the Umbrella Tree” with guest Harvey Atkin as Mr. Goldberg, a store owner and former magician, in a Hanukkah special.
Scene from the 1938 movie “A Christmas Carol,” with June Lockhart as Belinda Cratchit; her real-life father and mother, Gene and Kathleen Lockhart as Bob and Mrs. Cratchit; and Terry Kilburn as Tiny Tim.
Dr. Pimple Popper puts on a latex glove on a title card for the episode “12 Pops of Christmas.”
Jason Alexander as the Ghost of Jacob Marley with Kelsey Grammer as Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” TV movie from 2004.
Anthony, Mike, and Matt at Disney Springs.
On a Christmas episode of “Perfect Strangers,” cousins Larry and Balki test the warmth of their fireplace by slowly and synchronously wiggling their butts in front of it.
Cartoon Cabbage Patch Kids decorating a Christmas tree and playing with new toys.
Goofy as “Dr. Goofenstein,” Donald Duck as his hunchbacked assistant, “Duckgor,” and Mickey Mouse’s tiny, grinning head on a large Frankenstein monster’s body.
Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation” screams, “Hallelujah, holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?”
Sonic the Hedgehog snowboarding.
A greedy boy holding a butterfly net on the snow-covered roof of his house in a suburban neighborhood, grinning mischievously as he waits for Santa Claus.
The Simpsons’ living room TV shows The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come pointing to a headstone that reads “Homer Simpson, Unloved by All.”
Swoop, the Philadelphia Eagles mascot, in a Buddy the Elf costume.
Scene from “Psych” featuring James Roday Rodriguez and Skyler Gisondo as the adult and young Shawn Spencer. They’re wearing matching shirts and making the same stunned face.
Blank videocassette cover labeled: “Season 15, Advent Calendar House, December 2025,” but December is crossed out and “November” is written above it. There’s a sticker with Santa Claus that reads, “Be Kind, Rewind,” and another sticker of an Advent Calendar House with the number 200 replacing the center windows.
Ozzy Osbourne in a Gremlins-themed Christmas sweater.
Replica of the actual Advent calendar house from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Michael Madsen in the movie “Christmas Thieves.” He’s wearing a festive Christmas elf costume.
Videocassette in a cover labeled “Advent Calendar House: Season 14, July 2025,” and covered in stickers themed for Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving.
A young Jason Bateman in a turkey costume with his arm around Beau Bridges in a 1986 Disney Sunday Movie, “The Thanksgiving Promise.”
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, dressed as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Scrooge, run from a menacing hooded Ghost of Christmas Never.
Taz gazes up in awe at a tall Christmas tree in an episode of “Taz-Mania.”
Santabear, a small polar bear in an elf’s hat, helps load wrapped presents into Santa Claus’s bag, inside of which he spots a pair of glowing eyes. Keep reading or listening for the reveal… . . . . . . . It’s his own reflection in a box wrapped in extremely shiny paper.
In a Halloween episode of “Roseanne,” Darlene is dressed as Melanie from the Hitchcock film “The Birds” being attacked by a flock of birds, while D.J. Is dressed as Hannibal Lecter in his straight jacket and mask as seen in “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Loretta Swit in “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.”
The Simpsons, with Grandpa on piano, sing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in the show’s first episode.