🕎 It’s 1988, and we’re getting lit at Bubbe’s Boarding House for Hanukkah.

🎙 April Ryley joins us for a spin with a bunch of puppets you’ll never hear from again. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

A Simpsons animator designed the puppets for this weird, wonderful ’80s Hanukkah special (Splinter, 2014) 

“Caps for Sale” 

Anton and his Easter Island head. 

April’s very non-kosher latke recipe. 

Mayim Bialik explains the letters on the dreidel and other Hanukkah facts. 

Calvin getting trolled by his dad in “Calvin and Hobbes.” 

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📼 Commercials: 

1970s/’80s PBS Logo ID. 

1985 Teddy Ruxpin “Frankenstein” Commercial, preserved by Dinosaur Dracula. Teddy Ruxpin voice actor Phil Baron co-wrote this special. 

Cool Kids Club. 

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“Chanuka at Bubbe’s” © 1988 Pan-Imago, Inc. 

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. 
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