🎄 S-s-season’s greetings-s-s! You better watch out, because today we’re kindly rewinding back to a 1985 Christmas episode of “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero,”

🎙️ Joey O. parachutes in for “Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town,” featuring the incredible shrinking Cobra troops and a giant parrot. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

We don’t even get 4 minutes into this before bringing up the U.S.S. Flagg. 

Then we get caught up in the Crossfire. 

A brief history of the G.I. Joe toy line, from “America’s Movable Fighting Man” to the Adventure Team, to “A Real American Hero.” 

“The Toys That Made Us” on Netflix. 

The “opening monologue that explains the show” has nothing on Voltron’s. 

Neil Ross (Shipwreck, Dusty, and Buzzer in this episode) has an audio camero in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “I Can’t Watch This.” 

Joey’s interviews with Pat Fraley (Wild Weasel), Gregg Berger (Firefly), Michael Bell (Duke, Blowtorch, Major Bludd), and Rob Paulsen (Tripwire, his earliest known voice credit). 

“The Viper is Coming” is both our favorite G.I. Joe episode and my dad’s favorite dad joke. 

“King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons,” starring Chris Latta (Cobra Commander). 

We try and find Keystone City, which may or may not be somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania. 

The titular Cobra CLAW (Covert Light Aerial Weapon), an odd name for a Cobra vehicle, because snakes don’t have claws. 

Fenslerfilm’s G.I. Joe PSAs. 

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📼 Commercials: 

William “The Refrigerator” Perry G.I. Joe Action Figure (1987) 

Weird Christmas.

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“G.I. Joe” and “Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town” © 1985 Hasbro, Inc. 

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