🎄🐭 It’s the one with the mouse. Turn back the clock till it goes kerplunk — or kerplooey — to make some time for Rankin/Bass’s 1974 retelling of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas from the perspective of the mouse and his know-it-all nerdy son. 

🎙️ Joey O. is in the Advent Calendar House to do what’s necessary, ’cause even a miracle needs a hand. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

The worst thing we’ve broken that ruined multiple peoples’ day. 

We prepared for this episode by listening to Green Day’s “Kerplunk!” 

South Park’s cover of “Even a Miracle Needs a Hand.” 

A young Julia Stiles in a 1990s Apple Jacks cereal commercial. 

Dusty Rhodes’s “Hard Times” promo. 

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“’Twas the Night Before Christmas” © 1974 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. 

Find us at adventcalendar.house. 

#s2 #1970s #rankinbass