It’s that time of year, when holiday specials are on TV every night of the week – obviously it’s the perfect time to talk about them! We discuss the best and worst from the classics to the current, with perhaps a few unexpected mentions along the way. But before that, we have our usual assortment of geek news, including a bit of a digression on Howard the Duck and an update on Miss Dawn’s experiment with Hallmark Christmas movies. Listen now!
What we’re up to – book shopping, beer drinking, holiday prep, meeting Krampus
Oddmall: Chrishanukwanzmadan is December 8-9 in Canton, Ohio
News – early screenings for Bumblebee and Aquaman, Spongebob creator and Howard the Duck movie writer deaths, Daredevil cancellation, Black Panther gets top film honor from NBR, Roald Dahl stories on Netflix, Cowboy Bebop live action series, Blade Runner anime series, Preacher gets a season 4, Love is Love still raising funds for LGBTQ groups, Scotch for Scotty
Holiday Specials – we talk about the classic Rankin Bass stop motion and animated specials (and some of the problems with what they depict), Peanuts and the Grinch, then get into more recent fare from Disney, SNL and more
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