🎄 It’s time to catch a last-minute flight to the North Pole and do the monkey with me back to 2001 for a well-deserved punch in the face that’s a little bit rock ’n’ roll. 

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🎙 Guest:  

James Riley (@yourbuddyspooky).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. ’Twas the Night, a 1997 Johnny Bravo segment which this special accounts for in the show’s continuity… sort of.  

2. Larry & Steve, Seth MacFarlane’s proto-Family Guy short film before from before he worked as a Johnny Bravo staff writer.  

3. People on TV who wait till Christmas Eve to start decorating.  

4. This special first aired less than 3 months after 9/11, on Pearl Harbor Day, and opens with Johnny unnecessarily calling the fire department to tell them he’s “the bomb.”  

5. Homer Simpson’s sandwich, and the worst things we’ve found in our couches.  

6. The latest you can mail something to guarantee arrival before Christmas, according to the U.S. Postal Service’s Holiday Shipping Deadlines.  

7. The voice of the truck driver is Vanessa Marshall, who may or may not have provided the scream of Samus dying in the Metroid Prime games.  

8. Santa’s village looks like the Wicked Witch of the West’s castle and is cloaked like Wakanda.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

American Online Keyword eBay, 2001.  

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:  

Season’s Eatings,
The Retro Network.  

“A Johnny Bravo Christmas” ©2001 Cartoon Network.  

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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
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