🎄 It’s 1963, and we’re watching a show about a show within a show putting on a show for Christmas. Don’t ask us to make sense of it. We can’t stop tripping over our own home furniture. 

🎙️ Tim Babb from the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast joins us to watch a show within a show put on a Christmas show, then sing the theme from the show it’s within. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

Dick Van Dyke as Tubby the Tuba. 

8 great little details you never noticed in The Dick Van Dyke Show Christmas episode (MeTV) 

Every Episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Ranked (Vulture) 

92-year-old Dick Van Dyke dancing to Step in Time. 

Dick Van Dyke in “Mary Poppins Returns.” 

“John Brown’s Body.” 

Key & Peele’s “Negrotown” sketch and the trope of interrupting someone’s song. 

“The Dick Van Dyke Show” cast reunites on “Comic Relief” (1992) 

Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book’s history of “I Am a Fine Musician.” 

The theme song’s secret lyrics. 

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📼 Commercial: 

Learn Not to Burn: Holiday Fire Safety PSA (1977) 

Also mentioned, this Fire Safety PSA with Dick Van Dyke pretending to be a door. 

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“The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Alan Brady Show Presents” © 1963 Calvada Productions. 

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. 
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