🎄 The Advent Calendar House gets overrun by earworms strong enough to burrow into wood. 

🎙️ Michael DiGiovanni and Michael May drop in to help carve into a 1980 Rankin/Bass special starring that beloved Christmas icon… Pinocchio. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

Two songs, “Dancin’” and “The Very Best Friend I Ever Had,” were cut from and later restored to TV broadcasts. 

“Starstuff,” a Philadelphia market, Saturday morning kids’ sci-fi TV series starring Todd Porter, the voice of Pinocchio. 

The most disappointing gifts we’ve ever received, including what Santa gave me after I allegedly misspelled “Alpha Critters.” 

How does Pinocchio’s nose detect lies, and does it grant him a mulligan here? 

The strange flash-forward to the rest of Pinocchio’s better-known adventures, even though Rankin/Bass already made a Pinocchio TV series, its first ever stop-motion animation project. 

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“Pinocchio’s Christmas” ©1980 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. 

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