🕎 Hanukkah is here, so here’s a 1995 special starring sock puppets hanging out with Mr. Miyagi, the dad from Growing Pains, and the mayor of Gotham City. 

🎙️ Sarah Shay returns to the Advent Calendar House to reintroduce me to “Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah,” which miraculously brings together Pat Morita, Alan Thicke, and Lloyd Bochner as both dinner guests and computer-generated, one-dimensional superheroes. 

There’s now a better copy of “Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah” on YouTube. The one we watched for this podcast was from some guy holding his iPad’s camera up to a TV. 

Check out Sarah’s albums: “You Have Queer Street Cred” and “The Shay & Shay Radio Hour.” 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

Shari Lewis’s amazing single-color red dreamcoat and stylin’ menorah. 

Alan Thicke on “Celebrity Family Feud.” 

“Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio,” an earlier Halloween special also featuring Alan Thicke. 

Charlie Horse’s prize-winning superhero, the stuff of someone’s very specific nightmares. 

They almost make it through a whole Hanukkah special without mentioning Christmas, but blow it at the end for no reason. 

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“Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah” © 1995 8 Candles Production, Inc. 

Find us at adventcalendar.house. 

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