🎄It’s 1986, and Santa looks different after arriving late to the mall due to a flat reindeer.
Unfold that TV Guide you crafted into an angel centerpiece and join us for a semi-festive Christmas episode of “Mama’s Family” that will have you believing in either Santa or ghosts at the end of it.
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🎙 Guest:
Joe Fulton (Christmas Aficionado)
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. “Santa Mama” on the Internet Archive.
2. A Mama’s Family reunion on “Vicki!”
3. Vicki Lawrence sings “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.”
4. Mama’s house was also seen in “Halloween.”
5. Ken Berry (Vinton) as Peter-No-Tail.
6. The cheapest Christmas gifts we got for childhood crushes.
7. The fragility of one-of-a-kind ornaments.
8. “You Are My Sunshine” on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
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📼 Commercial Break:
Snuggle Fabric Softener Free Christmas Ornament (1986)
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“Mama’s Family” and “Santa Mama” © 1986 Joe Hamilton Productions, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
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