🎄 We’re skating on thin ice back to 1993 for a very educational trip to Bluffington in an episode of Doug that I forgot was a Christmas episode I was watching for the podcast.  

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🎙 On This Episode:  

Greg Stevens (Pop Arena, Nick Knacks, @pop_arena).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. Disney’s Doug was fine, y’all.  

2. Doug creator Jim Jinkins worked on Nickelodeon’s first show, Pinwheel.  

3. Early versions of Doug in a bumper for USA Network and a PSA for Florida Grapefruit Juice narrated by Lorenzo Music.  

4. Today’s TV Trope: Danger: Thin Ice.  

5. Alice Playten (Beebe) in Maurice Sendak’s Really Rosie as Alligator.  

6.Constance Shulman (Patti) in Weekend at Bernie’s II.  

7. Every car in Bluffington looks like Homer Simpson designed it.  

8. Greg Lee from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? voices the now-former mayor White, and boy, am I glad we recorded this after election week.  

9. The Phred on Your Head Show.  

10. Mr. Dink’s last name is apparently an acronym for “Double Income, No Kids.”  

11. Don’t wrap pets in boxes!  

12. What is Pork Chop?  

13. The topper on the Funnies’ Christmas tree is Mr. Dink’s face.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

Nicktoons Pizza Hut Kids’ Pizza Pack Commercial, 1991. 

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:  

SequelQuest.  
TGI Podcast.  

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