🎄 Tune in as we mysteriously float back to 1983 for an unseasonably warm Christmas adventure through Mexico with our cool grandma and a talking Rubik’s Cube with more powers than Superman. 

🎙️ Gerry Davila from Totally Rad Christmas join us for a puzzling revisit to “Rubik, the Amazing Cube,” a Saturday morning cartoon that lasted an even shorter amount of time than the fad it tried to cash in on. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

The History of Rubik’s Cube. 

The theme song by pre-Ricky Martin Menudo. 

Ángela Moya, the voice of the kids’ mother, played a small but grim part in “Gleaming the Cube.” 

An ode to the family station wagon. 

An archived, early-Internet Rubik fan site. 

Las Posadas. 

Date a TV show by adding a CB radio. 

Rubik ending up in an eagle’s nest reminded me of “The Polar Express.” 

Reynoldo’s speed cubing skills compared to the real-life Rubik’s Cube world records in 1983 and today. 

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📼 Commercials: 

Cap’n O.G. Readmore (1985) 

Cap’n Crunch Cereal: Crunch vs. Taste (1985) 

An Alpha Bits Cereal commercial that’s clearly still trying to ride the Pac-Man wave, but I’m not complaining (1985) 

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“Rubik, the Amazing Cube” and “Rubik’s First Christmas” © 1983 Ruby-Spears Enterprises, Inc. 

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