🎄 “This just in: Santa Claus is dead… or he might as well be, because there’s an even fatter man who’s holding families at nice-point!” 

’Tis the Advent Calendar House’s 15th season, so this December’s dozen begins with a similarly titled episode of “The Simpsons” from 2003. 

Shane Keating from ToughPigs.com, Erin Evans, and Joey O. join the mission to stop being selfish and start being good. 

📺 As of this recording, “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” (Season 15, Episode 7) is available on Disney+. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

This episode premiered the day after Saddam Hussein was caught. 

Marge’s couch gag anime costume: Jun the Swan from “Gatchaman.” 

“How Low Can DVD Players Go?” (New York Times, 2003) 

Kathy from Personnel. 

The Joe DiMaggio rookie card is real. 

Today’s TV Trope: Art Shift — “Christmas with the California Prunes” and “The Year Santa Got Lost,” animated by the Chiodo Bros. 

Animaniacs’ 50 State Capitals. 

Of course I looked up the astrolabe’s coordinates. 

Convoy, and the cover by Sifl & Olly. 

Operation: The Simpsons Edition. 

The first on-screen appearance of Nelson’s mom. 

The end of “Treehouse of Horror IV.” 

Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed Television — and America — Forever, by Alan Siegel. 

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📼 Commercials: 

Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1991) 

Butterfinger - The Power Cut (1993) 

A Bomb for Christmas 2: Past, Present, and Future on the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast. 

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“The Simpsons” and “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. 

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. 
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house. 
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