🕎 Tune in as we noisily snowmobile back to 1995 to try and figure out what everyone’s yelling about in Nickelodeon’s first Hanukkah special, created by Marc Weiner and his puppets who can’t stop screaming.  

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🎙 Guest:  

April Ryley (@Where2NextApril).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. We watched this videotaped original broadcast of The Weinerville Chanukah Special, complete with commercials.  

2. Weinerville.com is alive and well in 2020.  

3. Marc Weiner went on to be the voice of Swiper the Fox and the Map in Dora the Explorer.  

4. Marc Summers on his OCD being “blown out of freakin’ proportion,” and why he dropped his given last name.  

5. Sour cream vs. applesauce for latke dipping.  

6. Michael Gunst (Sinrek) may or may not be this puppeteer and mask maker.  

7. Brian O’Connor (Antidorkus) as Schemer in Shining Time Station.  

8. Thanks to Nickelodeon being under the MTV Networks umbrella, this special featured music by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Miami Sound Machine, and the B-52’s.  

9. The bulk of this special was filmed at the Summit Lodge in Killington, Vermont.  

10. Telephone booths still exist at Walt Disney World.  

11. Liver as a go-to food kids hate.  

12. Kevin “Diesel” Nash was likely still WWF Champion during taping, but lost it shortly before the special aired.  

13. The art of making your own menorah out of household items, recyclable objects, or fruit.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

Kmart Holiday Commercial starring Rosie O’Donnell and Penny Marshall, 1995.  

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:  

Holly Jolly X’masu.  

“The Weinerville Chanukah Special” © 1995 Nickelodeon.  

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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
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