🎄 It’s 1988, the monsters under my bed are real, and they’re stealing Christmas. Â
Follow us under the covers through a wormhole to the home of ’80s kids’ bedding sensation the Pillow People in a Christmas special so obscure, it’s not even listed on IMDb. But it’s real, and it’s ironically nightmarish. Â
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🎙 Guest: Â
Ethan (The Hungry Reader, A Special Presentation or ALF Will Not Be Seen Tonight, Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head) Â
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đź’¬ Topics & Tangents: Â
1. Watch “Pillow People Save Christmas” on YouTube. Â
2. Pillow People on the toy collectors’ website Ghost of the Doll. Â
2. Toot Sweet Toys, or what’s left of it. Â
3. TV listing in New York magazine, November 1988. Â
4. Victor DiMattia (Billy) on filming “The Sandlot.” Â
5. Window Rattler as seen on “Full House.” Â
6. The Who Cares Bears. Â
7. Today’s TV Trope: Introdump, example: the worst Rob Liefeld drawing. Â
8. Cheryl Chase (Sweet Dreams) mentions working with Cree Summer (Rock-a-Bye Baby) on this special in a 2004 interview about the “Rugrats” spinoff “All Grown Up.” Â
9. The Far Side: “…He’s taking it with him!” Â
10. Nightmara looks like a cross between Mother Brain in “Captain N: The Game Master” and Madam Hecuba from the 1974 anime adaptation of “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Â
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đź“Ľ Commercial Break: Â
Pillow People: Pillow Valley Commercial (1988)Â Â
Holidays After Dark, exploring the strange, unusual, and dark sides of the holidays. Â
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“Pillow People Save Christmas” © 1988 TMS Entertainment, Inc. Â
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
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