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.  

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Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24).  

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

2. We prepared for this episode by listening to Green Day’s Kerplunk!  

3. South Park covered the song Even a Miracle Needs a Hand.  

4. Albert reminds us of a young Julia Stiles in a 1990s Apple Jacks cereal commercial.  

5. Dusty Rhodes’s “Hard Times” promo.  

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

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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
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