🎄 Now it’s time for a Muppety holiday fix, so let’s turn the clock back to 1996, to a show I’m excited to reintroduce: it’s “The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss.”
The Advent Calendar House welcomes 2 of Muppet Wiki’s finest, Tony Whitaker and Shane Keating, to join our Jingle Day pageant.
You can watch “Mrs. Zabarelli’s Holiday Baton” on the Jim Henson’s Family Hub YouTube channel.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
Where in the who-heck is the Grinch?
“The noozle at the end of the hoose,” (surprisingly not a Dr. Seuss reference).
Michael K. Frith on Muppet Wiki.
The Muppets on “Family Feud” (2001).
Kathy Mullen (Morton) interview with ToughPigs.com (2013).
These aren’t Whatnots; they’re Whozits.
“Sesame English,” an English as a second language “Sesame Street” series.
“Good grief! The comedian’s a bear!”
Defunctland Podcast: Working in a Wubbulous World with Stephanie D’Abruzzo and Craig Shemin.
There’s a rolling drum gag, so here’s the “Emmet Otter” outtake reel again.
“You’re the poet laureate of…”
Shane and the ToughPigs staff visit the “Sesame Street” set.
Shane’s supercut of Gordon from “Sesame Street” saying, “Oh, hi!”
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📼 Commercials:
Hallmark’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” Collection (1998)
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“The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss” and “Mrs. Zabarelli’s Holiday Baton” © 1996 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
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