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He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special (w/ Mike, Jeff, and Chad)

Gerry Davila Season 7 Episode 378

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What’s up, dudes? Now that Masters of the Universe is out in theaters, we’re gonna have a watch-along party for the Filmation classic “He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special”. I’ve got Mike Westfall from Advent Calendar House, Jeff Loftin from Lost Christmas podcast,  and Chad Young from Horror Movie BBQ with me to provide commentary and enjoy the ride!

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SPEAKER_01

What's up, dudes? It's me, Jerry D, with another episode of Totally Rad Christmas, the podcast that talks all things Christmas in the 80s, toys, movies specials, music, and fads. If it was gnarly during Christmas in the 80s, we got it covered. Now, I've got a few of my friends here with me for a very special episode. I mean, Masters of the Universe is out in theaters, and so we're gonna have a watch-along party for the filmation classic, He-Man and She-Ra, a Christmas special. Now, as you all know, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was my all-time favorite 80s cartoon. The Castle Grayscole playset is still my favorite Christmas present I've ever gotten. I own so much He-Man and Masters of the Universe merch and products that it's ridiculous. Uh, I just, I mean, I loved it so much, right? Uh, and I'd been waiting 40 years to see a cartoon, uh, excuse me, a live-action version of He-Man that was as close to the toy line and filmation uh series as possible. And we finally got it, and I was super jazzed. And I had the pleasure of seeing it with two of my guests today. So, without further ado, joining me tonight are other He-Man fans. Uh, I was privileged to get to watch the movie with uh from Advent Calendar House, Mike Westfall, and from uh Lost Christmas Podcast Jeff Locton. And we're also joined by uh Masters of the Universe Super Fan uh from Horror Movie Barbecue. It's Chad Young. Guys, how's it going?

SPEAKER_04

Hey, hey, happy to be here.

SPEAKER_03

On after launch. Oh, wait, I'm sorry, wrong show.

SPEAKER_00

Close enough, man.

SPEAKER_03

Mike, thanks for inviting me to the Advent Calendar House.

SPEAKER_00

I'm just happy.

SPEAKER_03

Did we already do this? Yeah, I've got a list of people. Corey Chapman was gonna be next, so yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, this is this is Advent Calendar House Light.

SPEAKER_03

So uh don't worry, sure James.

SPEAKER_01

Beautiful. That's that's for we'll say that for totally rad after dark. Um but uh guys, it's great to see if uh I I haven't seen some of you guys in a while. Um, I I was privileged to get to meet both Mike and Jeff in person, even though we've known each other for years now, yeah. We're finally able to actually meet uh for real, so that was really cool. Um, but tell me about Masters of the Universe. What's your guys' history or experience with it? Like, what do you remember? Why don't we start with you, Chad?

SPEAKER_03

Um, I'm gonna just try and keep it as compacted as I can because this is just a subject that I could go on for hours saying Masters of the Universe has always been like my childhood hero. You know, or He-Man has always been my childhood hero, and Master of the Universe was a big just everything to me. It was it was Masters of the Universe and G.I. Joe as a kid, and um you know I I I I've never given up on He-Man. Like even when other kids weren't playing with it, I was still playing with my He-Man figures. If I found them at a thrift store, whatever. Actually, He-Man was the first thing I when I got an internet, I actually that was the first thing I remember googling, or not googling, but like Yahooing. And um, it led me to Adam Tyner's page, uh, which was Yippee, and then it then he then it turned into He-Man.org. So, like knowing that there were other He-Man fans out there was just amazing to me. And uh, you know, I I have a long history with He-Man, I won't get into it because I want to hear everybody else's, but he-Man's always been very, very special to me. He's bigger than Superman, he's bigger than Batman, he's bigger than every hero in the world, in the universe, and um, you know, uh I could just go on for hours. So this is this is really fun, really exciting to do with you guys.

SPEAKER_01

Right on, man. Jeff.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I mean, He-Man was my childhood favorite cartoon, also. Uh, I guess kind of co-favorite with uh with Bravestar. But um, I I think I I just I my Castle Gray Skull was my all-time favorite toy. Uh, I had so many He-Man figures, both first hand and secondhand. Like I I went to my Mima would go and get them for me at garage sales because that's you know, that's that's the way we roll.

SPEAKER_06

That's what they did, yeah. Same. That's how we got Snake Mountain.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly. That's exactly right. Yeah. Uh so I mean I've always loved it. My sister, um, I got her into into She-Ra a little bit, um, and so she appreciated that. Uh, we're not gonna talk about 2018, so we just there you go. Look at the castle Grace Gull. Uh Jerry's showing off at here.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, because of the screen.

SPEAKER_02

No, it's because it's mystic, Chad. It's because it's mystical.

SPEAKER_01

The powers of Grayscal. Yeah, sorry. It's holding up my castle graceful.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, so I just I just I love I love Masters of the Universe. Um, yeah, love it. Love it. Same with you. Waited 40 years for the movie that's in the theater now.

SPEAKER_01

So what about you, Mike?

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I don't remember my life before He-Man. I remember getting Battle Damage He-Man and Skeletor for Christmas when I was four years old. I I watched the cartoon as that that's one of my earliest cartoon memories, is watching He-Man, and then my mom did daycare out of her house, and one of the girls that she babysat was really in the She-Ra. Uh, and and frankly, so was I. It was it was an amazing show. I remember growing up with this Christmas special. I remember rediscovering it in the 90s when Cartoon Network started airing it.

SPEAKER_01

Right. So right on. So we're here to watch that this special, you know, this Christmas special here. Before we really, really dive into it. Quick thoughts about the He-Man movie. What did y'all think? Because were there some choices that they made that I wouldn't have made, definitely. But overall, like I it's just fun. It was just a really entertaining ride, I gotta say.

SPEAKER_04

It was so much fun. I had such a blast. I mean, it helped that you were there with me, Jerry. We had such a good time. Um we were talking about, yeah. Yeah, when a f we were. We spent the whole we spent the whole movie just like pointing and having like laughing it up. A friend of mine posted on Facebook how much he loved it, and I explained, like, this was a movie that was written and made for the six-year-olds we used to be.

SPEAKER_01

Right, right. Definitely. Yeah, because I loved it. Okay, go ahead, no, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02

No, no, I'm I'm I'm I I was just gonna say I love it. I thought it was great, it was not perfect, but it was it was great, it was super fun. Yeah, I I've I've liked both times I've seen it. It doesn't matter what else is going on. It's it's He-Man, it's got freaking awesome music, it's silly and funny, and has characters that I recognize. So I I thought it I thought it was great. Flawed, but great.

SPEAKER_01

So it's a good that uh that night that we saw it, Mike. I went home and downloaded that soundtrack, and I've been listening to it at night.

SPEAKER_04

It's like just such a good soundtrack.

SPEAKER_01

It was well.

SPEAKER_04

I remember when they started playing Princess of the Universe, we both like raised our hands up in triumph. Like, yeah! Like, whoa!

SPEAKER_00

So fun. Uh, what about you, Chad?

SPEAKER_03

Well, Pax, I loved it. I would uh honestly, I wouldn't I just you know what? I'll just if you don't mind me just plugging this. I just did a um Yeah, I saw a Pinkster episode with um Adam Pope. Adam Pope. Oh, yeah, yeah. I I I'll I'll just say if you if you're okay with me saying go for it, I think thoughts are on that. I wouldn't change anything about it. Um there were things that I had complaints about, but I mean the positives just outweighed any negatives that and even then I didn't really think any of them were negative, but yeah, I got emotional four times, and um, it was it was definitely worth waiting for. And I I I honestly this is gonna sound cheesy. I w I kind of wish I could go back and kind of do the last few weeks again just so I can kind of just see it again for the first time because oh, it was so much fun. What a and and what a great way of just kicking off summer. I cannot I just can't imagine a more fun, entertaining, exciting movie or summer blockbuster this year that wouldn't be any more fun than that.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm right there with you. So I remember uh when the Masters of the Universe came out in 87, you know, I was in the theaters, I remember being so disappointed because they had Gwildor instead of Orko. Watch your mouth. Uh well at the time, you know, like like I didn't know who this was. I was like, why does Orko like he's supposed to be floating? He's but and I didn't realize it was a different character, you know. And then they had like they had Blade, they had uh like Sarod, uh Karg, like all nice. Um like they had all these guys, it just like it didn't like feel like Masters of the Universe, and I really remember being so disappointed. I love uh don't get me wrong, since then I've come to love that movie. I love everything about it. I know it's not great, but I love it. Um but this was the movie that that I wanted to see as a seven-year-old, you know, or six years old.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I wouldn't say I was disappointed when I was seven or eight or whenever I I saw that. I didn't see it in the theater, I saw it on VHS. But I don't remember being disappointed, I remember being very confused. I'm like, what is all of this? But yeah, yeah. Well, I came back to it much later. I'm just like, all right, this is this is my kind of cheesy.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. It's very canon films, yeah. You see that exactly.

SPEAKER_03

I could not say a bad thing about that movie, even if I were lying. But I will say this. I get where people are coming from when they when they do sit there and tell me, yeah, it just wasn't Master of the Universe for me. I saw it when I was four. You can hear the whole story on the on on the game screen. Yeah, um, but I'll just check that out. It's it's one of those movies. There's not a lot of movies that I will sit here and watch and I'll be like, I need to see this as a four-year-old eyes. Like, this is the the one that I will afford myself that luxury for because there I I I can't say a bad thing about that movie. I love that movie with all my heart.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it was a good one. Um, I mean it is now, but back then I remember being so confused. Uh a lot of people because it's not quite like what we're about to watch now. This has its own the filmation is its own thing. And so without further ado, I think let's dive into this and we'll just kind of give some running commentary as we go and see where it takes us. So uh I'm gonna go ahead. Did I hit record? I think I did. So I'm gonna go ahead and count us down three, two, one. Here we go.

SPEAKER_07

Oh yes. I'll get that.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, it worked.

SPEAKER_03

I can't hear it that well.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03

Just a little there we go.

SPEAKER_01

So this was a I believe this was a USA airing, one of the USA airings in like the late 80s. I don't know, I don't think this is the original one.

SPEAKER_03

It could be. Because it entered on USA. Oh, did it? Did it?

SPEAKER_01

Okay. So it's possible. I don't know. I didn't really do any research. I just like want to find one with commercials.

SPEAKER_03

That's that's that's honestly the best way. Mike, you and I, and I want to say Brandon Medley did. Yes. Okay, an advent calendar many, many moons ago. Really fun time.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, this is different music than I remember. I remember them starting with different music that starts like happy birthday to you, and then they quickly change when they realize, oh, wait a minute, we don't have the right to happy birthday to you. That's right.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I I love how there's it's just a series of cameos, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So wait a minute. No, no, okay, that was glimmer. I was gonna say Frost, I got shown twice.

SPEAKER_02

Lost Man, rest in peace. Who's protecting Ethereum? Like they're all in Eternia.

SPEAKER_03

They're all on there.

SPEAKER_02

One of them's still there.

SPEAKER_04

Like Myrmista is still there hanging out. She can't wait for decent.

SPEAKER_02

She's like the C team.

SPEAKER_01

She's like the C Flutterina. I like how they're just painting the walls, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, fine. Yeah. Captain useless here. Oh, whatever.

SPEAKER_02

Look, he's just there for photos. That's it.

SPEAKER_03

He's there for the Instagram likes. Yes.

SPEAKER_01

I think he's there for glimmer.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's why there's a heart on his shirt.

SPEAKER_04

It's for the Instagram like.

SPEAKER_01

It's your boy Bo.

SPEAKER_04

Here's where Queen Marlene says, Oh, this reminds me of Christmas back home. And her husband of over 20 years is like, What's Christmas? You've never talked about it in our entire marriage.

SPEAKER_03

By the way, that that's a classic example of filmation reusing and recycling footage because that's the next shot that they opened up on.

SPEAKER_01

There's a bunch later on that uh Snow Beast was just a nice packer.

SPEAKER_03

No shit. Do you know how many times I've watched filmation just not just for myself, but like blogging and podcasting? And I have counted so many times where they use stock footage, and it's so absurd because look at all this magic they have on screen, but they're too cheap to kind of do new. It's like when Space goes coast to coast came on.

SPEAKER_01

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, they all did it. Disney did it, like every dance sequence in Disney movies is just a retrace of that Snow White. I do want to shout out, as we saw Man of the Arms walk away earlier, Idris Elba nailed that walk.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I agree. Yeah. The like the yoked-up kind of awkward shuffle walk.

SPEAKER_04

They were all on board with like making it a live action version of those cartoons. Well, especially at the end when the uh the laughter, they knew what they did.

SPEAKER_03

And yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, for sure.

SPEAKER_03

I literally screamed and laughed so hard at the belly laughs. No, and nobody else really got the reference in the theater, and I was I didn't care.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I think we had we had a theater full of people who knew what was going on.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, there was there was quite a bit. Uh oh. Question for you guys why did He-Man have to launch a rocket to watch Skeletor if they had a device that could instantly watch the freaking rocket anywhere it went?

unknown

The magic of the rocket. Hey, yeah!

SPEAKER_02

I don't know. Not that I'm poking holes here.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, Bob Forward, by the way. Yo, dog, I heard you like cameras in the sky.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, you know what? Maybe this is how we uh we wound up with Skynet. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's actually Eternian Tech.

SPEAKER_03

Forget James Cameron. It's all because of uh Lou Scheimer and House of Earl and How's Not Too Bad!

SPEAKER_01

Too bad. I wish Too Bad had been in it. I would have liked to have seen him. Goat Man was an odd choice because he's more of an obscure character that only like fans would know. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_02

Well, I think it was an easy one to do though.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_04

A whole lot easier than too bad.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, imagine that.

SPEAKER_03

Dion, I didn't know that she was just some obscure character that was like used in like a newspaper strip.

SPEAKER_06

Like yeah, yeah. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03

Was that her deal? Yeah, and I thought she was supposed to be cyclone when she did like the spinning spin? Yeah. I was like, oh, she's supposed to be cyclone something. But yeah, she just oh yeah. Oh Lou, you're just gonna just put it on a here we go. There we go. We're in. When I heard this music though, yes, goosebumps, man.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

I've got a feeling my brother may need some help.

SPEAKER_01

Oh gosh. It's not like, hey, let's just both transform. It's like, oh, I'm gonna go take care of this.

SPEAKER_04

No, they can't do it at the same time.

SPEAKER_03

They could. Ooh, maybe that would be like the mega powers where they like form a handshake. That would have been awesome. See, I'm here for Rat Lore. Rat Lore.

SPEAKER_01

Ew.

SPEAKER_03

I'm sorry, I fucking hate the snake.

SPEAKER_04

I had Rat Rattler was one of my favorite figures.

SPEAKER_03

Rattler I had. Tongue lash ore, I had.

SPEAKER_01

Tongue lash or yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's cool.

SPEAKER_01

Too bad was my favorite figure.

SPEAKER_02

I had Spike Or, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Too bad was cool because when you pulled pulled his arms back, he would like punch.

SPEAKER_03

I didn't realize as a kid that they were punching each other.

SPEAKER_01

Each other, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and and it's funny, they didn't explain the origin until they did the 2002 cartoon. And then they kind of just revealed, oh yeah, it was two henchmen that got on Skeletor's nerves, and he just merged them.

SPEAKER_01

That's brilliant.

SPEAKER_03

Like and oh my gosh, I think that's the greatest thing in the world. Here's He-Man with the jokes.

SPEAKER_04

These claws need a manicure.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, John Irwin. God bless you. Alan Oppenheimer did a good uh John Irwin in that Chippendales movie, by the way. Didn't see it. The the the one that just came out?

SPEAKER_01

I always laughed at the way He-Man tried to break these, the way he's like leaning back. I mean, just something about it looks so funny every time.

SPEAKER_03

Do you think like that that that if you're skeletor and like that's the moment He-Man just surrenders and you're like, really?

SPEAKER_01

That's it? That's all I had to do? That's all I had to do this whole time.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, here we go. Let's see. Yes! Double way. With the bouncing hair.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Right. The sky spotty.

SPEAKER_03

I think it's fair to say, and I think everybody's on board with this. She read the better theme song. Oh, she had the better. She's the better hero in this. Yeah. No, she had the better everything.

SPEAKER_02

Like well, she she wasn't a bum without the sword.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that's true. She was, yeah, force captain of Dora was pretty uh pretty hard to work.

SPEAKER_02

She was a boss lady. I mean, let's be honest. Like, she was she was force captain.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I didn't mind seeing her bum.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, she was basically man-at-arms with the power sword. I was like that.

SPEAKER_01

I love how every care like every voice actor does like five characters.

SPEAKER_03

What do you mean? Every voice actor. There's literally two. That's what he's saying.

SPEAKER_01

That's what I mean. Like everybody does.

SPEAKER_03

Ellen Lou and John, and then I think Linda Gary and Erica are doing the other, and Melanie Britt.

SPEAKER_01

And yeah, Melinda Gary.

SPEAKER_03

You have a talent pool of six people.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, wait, uh George George DeCenzo is Hordex.

SPEAKER_03

Wait, yeah, he was in something else I just looked up the other day, and I was like, George.

SPEAKER_01

I love how He-Man's riding that, and it's supposed to be uh like a vehicle that drives. I had that.

SPEAKER_03

I had that yeah, it I never understood the purpose, but I had it as a kid and I loved it. Uh-oh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yes! Oh commercial break for Kenner.

SPEAKER_03

Kenner sponsors this? I don't think that's supposed to happen. That doesn't seem right at all.

SPEAKER_01

Right? The little bit of a cognitive display.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, this is like 888. Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Yeah, so this has got to be later. No, that's later if you got Mark. Oh, wait, no, it's Mark McGuire in A's uniform, though. Okay, so it's like tracks. Yeah, oh, it's starting lineup.

SPEAKER_01

My dad collected these.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

He has tons. I think he still has some.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. I had a uh who was it? Mike Schmidt. Is he a Philly?

SPEAKER_01

He's gotta be a way to connect it to Christmas, right? Yeah. Yeah. Uh another Philly.

SPEAKER_04

Ron Hayes collects Santa Clauses. I think he's got a starting line of character. Hey, it's the land before time.

SPEAKER_01

Land before time.

SPEAKER_04

Is this the pizza hut? Is this the Pizza Hut? Yeah. Thank you, Mike. I had the Pizza Hut. Yes, it is!

SPEAKER_01

I had all of these, and they were so hard to move.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, yeah, no, they were impossible. I only had uh vinyl.

SPEAKER_05

Right.

SPEAKER_03

I didn't want any of these, but I wanted the Eureka's castle ones.

SPEAKER_04

I don't remember the Eureka's castle ones.

SPEAKER_02

99 cents each.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, man. Those would be like $6.99 now. I remember this commercial, but I don't remember what they are.

SPEAKER_01

They're cats that dress up like other animals.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, what are they called?

SPEAKER_01

They're nightmares. It's like per something, right? Like per. Like personas, right?

SPEAKER_02

Isn't that what that is? I mean, kinda, yeah. That's what it was. That is gonna give me nuts. Nightmares. Oh, the USA. No, you don't like that?

SPEAKER_04

Hello, what are you?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I like this.

SPEAKER_04

It's the USA Kids Club. I remember that handprint.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. The joy toy. Oh, there it is.

SPEAKER_03

Oh.

SPEAKER_02

Oh man.

SPEAKER_03

I want that cool. I want that hand print. Ooh, a roller racer. USA Kids Club.

SPEAKER_02

I want so many broken knuckles. Run over fingers. I love it. Things are so fun.

SPEAKER_03

7 a.m. to 10am. Yep.

SPEAKER_02

My kids will never get to experience the Saturday morning cartoon experience, and that just makes me special.

SPEAKER_01

I asked my kids, like, aren't you supposed to go watch cartoons or like what cartoons? I can't understand. Yeah, like on.

SPEAKER_03

What are we gonna go watch?

SPEAKER_01

Well, that's I mean, that's the thing. Now they're gonna be. Yeah, but that means you have choice. And it's you don't have choice. You don't have to like change channels between two shows that you like that are both on at the same time. That's right.

SPEAKER_02

You had like the B-team that you flip to, yeah, and then come back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Now my one daughter just watches the same two shows over and over again. She's this she's on her like 17th run of Gravity Falls. Which I mean, great show, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02

But there's other stuff. Yeah. There is other stuff, especially now.

SPEAKER_03

Now, what's funny is Mike being a nostalgia podcaster who watches kind of the same thing over and over.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_03

I ain't hating.

SPEAKER_04

No. Well, Orco's on Earth. There he is.

SPEAKER_02

Well, or some forbidden ice tundra planet.

SPEAKER_04

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_02

Because the entire planet's ice.

SPEAKER_04

You know, Earth. Just say it's Hoth, people.

SPEAKER_01

Hoth.

SPEAKER_02

It's Hoth.

SPEAKER_01

Wish it was Hoth. It's not Texas, that's for sure. That's the crossover we needed was He-Man Star Wars.

SPEAKER_04

He-Man Shera, a life day special.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I just bought that uh life day Chewbacca from Disney World. It was great.

SPEAKER_03

This is totally Rochester, by the way. I can confirm. I believe it. This is Rochester in like April.

unknown

Little children up and away.

SPEAKER_03

You know, we once got like a blizzard in April up there. I believe you. I I wait.

SPEAKER_01

What's a blizzard? Yeah. Yeah, what is that what is that? Is that a good one? Yeah, exactly. We don't know.

SPEAKER_04

I remember when I lived in Scranton, we would get snow in April. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_01

I like how Okor's magic seems to work better here on Earth than it does on Eternia.

SPEAKER_03

No one else thinks he no one knows who he is, and no one has zero faith in him yet. No, that's true. How does he know what snow is? It snows on Eternia.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, Eternia's a varied climate. Or in his home planet, he's a trollin', right? Oh, that's from Trollin.

SPEAKER_03

As we learned in the Horn of Evil episode.

SPEAKER_01

Miguel and Alicia, right?

SPEAKER_02

Alicia and like every good 80s kid, they follow a stranger to his vehicle.

unknown

Of course.

SPEAKER_04

Well, they got sent out to get their own Christmas tree from the forest and bring it back home.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you know, I mean, it was the 80s.

SPEAKER_03

How is Marlena the only one? Take the sharp axe, don't take the dull one.

SPEAKER_01

What was that?

SPEAKER_03

How's my why how is Marlena the only one like wearing something below her? Because she's a mom.

SPEAKER_07

Because she's a mom, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but Duncan's a fucking dead, and he's at well, okay.

SPEAKER_02

Well, Marlena could also have dresses and had to cover them, you know. Could be all tatted up and had to cover them up for force. Out of etiquette, attorney.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, for it.

SPEAKER_02

I like that story better. Um, that's what I'm gonna go with. Beautiful. Marlena's just completely inked up.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So this is where they explain to Orca what Christmas is.

SPEAKER_04

And we don't get to see any of it. They conveniently cut after a long time ago, right? And then they cut back in when he's wrapping up and talking about the wise men. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That way you keep it, you keep it you know, secular.

SPEAKER_03

But this is so keep it agnostic for this because like how many other I know, it doesn't make sense. But no, but like, how many other specials or like Christmas specials would do this where oh yeah, it's the story of Jesus and you know his birth and all that stuff. Like, it's just so crazy to me that all these years later that that's what they went with. And I I appreciate it. I I love it, but it's just like what is what a weird choice.

SPEAKER_01

It was it was a weird choice for sure.

SPEAKER_04

Their names are Miguel and Alicia, it tracks.

SPEAKER_02

That's right, they have Midnight Mass to go to. They've been like, oh, it's my name, but Spanish.

SPEAKER_01

That's right.

SPEAKER_05

And the three white men follow the stars.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, see? They're all about three Kings Day.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

unknown

But what about the thing?

SPEAKER_03

Orco just wants the the seven fishes.

SPEAKER_02

He just wants the face of the seven fishes. That's it.

SPEAKER_01

That's right.

SPEAKER_02

Or he's looking forward to uh what is it, All Fool's Day? They don't want me to call it. Uh it's the it's like the celebration of the the children that were sacrificed. It's the inversion. Yeah, it's a it's a hair thing. The holy innocent. Is that a Catholic thing?

SPEAKER_05

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

That's a feast of the Holy Innocence is on um is on uh the 28th of December.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, I didn't I that's new to me. So wow. Interesting.

SPEAKER_02

And here goes Man Shura's transformation is so awesome too. Isn't it? Look at that.

SPEAKER_03

Oh god, even yup.

SPEAKER_00

Cool.

SPEAKER_02

I know Tila was the warrior goddess, supposedly, but let's be real. It's Shura. Strong. It's not not even close.

SPEAKER_03

Do you guys ever think like when when Adam first saw Adora, he was like, hmm, alright.

SPEAKER_02

Night not a look and Leia situation.

SPEAKER_01

I hope so.

SPEAKER_03

It's like that joke about how like was Kid Missioner Gordon checking out Batgirl. No, no, no. Hey, look, he didn't know that that was his daughter.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And I know I'm not condoning it. I'm just saying that's a joke that's going on.

SPEAKER_01

Might have happened. It's it's possible.

SPEAKER_03

I'm sure if you call it an episode of Batman, you see him maybe checking out of Arn Craig. That's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe. We know Adam West got down.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, there's Mermista. There's Mermista holding down the fort.

SPEAKER_01

Look at her all the time. Oh, they need this is their race star tie-in. They need a carrium water crystal. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, why so let's let's dive into that for a second. Why would freaking man at arms build a machine on Eternia that didn't have its own power source that is on Eternia?

SPEAKER_01

Maybe he just had one left over, like lying around somewhere. It's a holiday.

SPEAKER_02

You want to put an extra job. He opened the junk drawer and there was a carrium crystal in there, and he's like perfectly. It's rich with minerals. There's lots of stuff he could have powered it by.

SPEAKER_03

Man, they gave Mermissa an ass in that shot, didn't they? Listen, sometimes these filmation um animals They knew what they were doing. They knew what they were doing. They did. Yes.

SPEAKER_04

Yes. Who is it? Erika Sheimer who once said it was the gayest place in town.

SPEAKER_01

Yep. That sounds about right.

SPEAKER_04

Yup. Absolutely. They did not mince hairs over there. Sends her to the lair of the beast monster. It's a beast and a beast.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

That's right.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Later on, we'll find an ice beast. Or excuse me, a snow beast. And so it's like this this script would be nothing without the word beast.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, well. I hate this version of the Friday Zone, by the way. I hate that Fright Zone! This is not the Friday Zone. Like, give me that Earl Norum, you know, oh yeah. Haunted tree. Not this like fucking Pittsburgh.

SPEAKER_01

If you read the comics, if you read like some of the UK comics from the time, it seems like that uh Frida Zone with the tree, the playset, was actually on Eternia. That was their mini base on Eternia. And then their full version was this one.

unknown

Ew!

SPEAKER_02

See, I like the I like the dystopian like fallen tech. Like you said, Pittsburgh. It's kind of like Steel Millennium. I like this version.

SPEAKER_01

I always love that sound effect. That's like one of those classic sound effects.

SPEAKER_04

This beast monster looks like Godzuki.

SPEAKER_03

Someone probably worked on that Godzuki. I think it's Denver the last dinosaur on the.

unknown

A little bit.

SPEAKER_03

A little bit.

SPEAKER_02

A little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

You know what always bothered me also as a kid? Is that that um Swiftwind uh figure they made? Because I did have some of the She-Ra figures. Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, She-Ra, but but that's it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I had no shame about it. I did not care. I wanted She-Ra and He-Man and all them to fight. I had My Little Pony.

SPEAKER_04

I had He-Man riding on a My Little Pony. Ooh!

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

That would have worked. But yeah, uh uh Swift Wind didn't really look like how he looked in the cartoon. That kind of bothered me.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, a lot of them didn't.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, wasn't it just like a plain white unicorn?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, Origins has been kind of fixing some of that with the cartoon collections.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. They haven't done uh Swiftwind though. I hope that would be awesome. Oh, these look cool. Here come the monstroids.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

These are the figures I want. Like I love the one that looks like Hordeck.

SPEAKER_01

These were these were uh GoBots redex.

SPEAKER_04

I like how Mattel is like sneakily trying to teach us that uh robots that transform into other things are bad.

SPEAKER_06

Are bad. They're bad guys.

SPEAKER_02

So like this version of GoBots reminds me of the no offense here, but the Dolph Lundgren version of He-Man. Like it's like it's it's there, but not, and it's kind of the same, but it's a different universe. So that's that's how I view this. Is like these are GoBots or Transformers, but not.

SPEAKER_03

You know what's funny? I I know people who preferred Go Bots, the the animated Go Bots over Transformers.

SPEAKER_01

I do a few of those people too. Yep.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, we've got the three chefs cinnamon toast crunch when it had a full bakery.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, I love it. Do you guys remember how they like kind of split Wendell off and they said like he went insane?

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I don't remember that.

SPEAKER_03

Wendell went insane because he loves cinnamon toast crunch or something like that. Like that's how they got rid of the other two. I uh he didn't kill them, but he everybody shut up.

SPEAKER_04

There's yummy fruity pebbles in my bowl. That's right. Oh, here comes you know wait, yumba dabba fruit. Yeah, it's early enough that it's the original. Yeah, it's the original voice. That's right. Okay. This is the only time I don't want to hear Jim Cummings.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, fair season to be sharing friends.

unknown

Happy holidays.

SPEAKER_01

This is one of those that I every Christmas season I start quoting the whole thing. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. And my kids just look at me like I'm insane.

SPEAKER_04

Now I think it's starting lineup football. Football.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, Joe Montana.

SPEAKER_00

They're pushing these hard Montana. Oh my god. Dan Marino. Dan Marino, yeah. Big fridge, Marcus Allen. They never made the fridge. They didn't figure no, no.

SPEAKER_03

Eric Dickerson. No, that's the one I have.

SPEAKER_01

That's they made a G.I. Joe of the fridge.

SPEAKER_04

No, that was I guess that's why he had a he must have had an exclusive deal. Yeah, but Kevin. Randall Cunningham's in there. Uh oh. Oh, Santa's 900 number.

SPEAKER_02

I'm Googling this right now.

SPEAKER_03

I have never called the 900 number.

SPEAKER_01

I never have either. I wanted to so bad.

SPEAKER_03

We tried uh Jerry on that uh supernatural. We did try, but it turned out it was like some like tech or something.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_03

As soon as they were like, oh I mean it could have been a lot worse.

SPEAKER_02

It probably could have. It probably could have been a lot worse. True. And it probably wasn't this cheap as cheap as that one is.

SPEAKER_00

Nope. What is Yes? Oh yes. Oh yes. Wow.

SPEAKER_07

He thinks Elvis is a popsicle.

SPEAKER_03

A popsicle. You know what? That's a good point. Good day. I don't remember through the room. I don't know at all. These have to have Christmas episodes.

SPEAKER_01

I was about to say there's gotta be some Christmas episodes here, and I think I know who's coming back for them, guys.

SPEAKER_04

And now we return to the monstroids.

SPEAKER_03

Or as I like to call this, uh an hour where She-Ra just kicks very high. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, uh there's an important lesson in here, or something. I love the battle song. It's like one voice.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, now they just leave. The evil robots evilly transform, and then they get then they gotta go.

SPEAKER_03

That's right. Our planet needs us. I have to go now. My planet needs me.

SPEAKER_02

Our little friends eman She's on Ethereum.

SPEAKER_03

And Horneg didn't always get the um get one over on She-Ra, so they they just kind of were just like, fuck it, we don't care.

SPEAKER_01

Some of these aren't great transformations, I gotta say.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I got news now. You gotta remember. Now I'm lying. That guy's just lying.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Yeah, that one's just Superman pose.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yep. This is the Simpsons episode where they do like the Hershey Chaco bots and they'll fly away.

SPEAKER_01

Was it the California of prunes?

SPEAKER_04

Yes. This is offensive to both Christians and prunes. That's right.

SPEAKER_02

Has anyone got like a running list of all the powers from the from the from the sword? What's that?

SPEAKER_03

I mean, no, no, no. I'm just very perverted.

SPEAKER_07

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04

That's okay.

SPEAKER_07

Um the crystal works. We'll need help from Orco.

SPEAKER_04

Hey everyone, it's Miadora. I got this crystal we need from my best friend Shera, who absolutely isn't me.

SPEAKER_01

No, that's right.

SPEAKER_04

But here's the thing. Uh oh God.

SPEAKER_01

Man in arms knows, though.

SPEAKER_03

Don't get nose, yeah.

unknown

What's that? I'm afraid.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, shut up. Orko doesn't know what it is. Oh no, not my problem. Keep telling me about Christmas though.

SPEAKER_05

Hey, hey, don't be scared, Alicia. I think I can't.

SPEAKER_02

I like that Alicia and Adam have the same haircut. That's that thing floating.

SPEAKER_03

Telling me not to be afraid is exactly what I I would be hallucinating so. Yeah. Hey guys, don't be afraid. Shut up.

SPEAKER_01

That's when you're like, Alicia, I think we've died.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but what did we put in those granola bars in those kudos bars? Yep, he gets it. Yeah, he does.

unknown

This is Alicia.

SPEAKER_07

And again, we're so glad you're safe. But what happened?

unknown

It's a long story.

SPEAKER_03

Turn around and start walking slow, Adora, and I'll tell you. Oh god, I gotta stop. It's a family. Here comes Horde Prime. I love him.

SPEAKER_01

Man, I always wanted to see what he looked like so bad.

SPEAKER_03

You know they made a figure of Horde Prime?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And it looks like Garley.

SPEAKER_06

Yes. They did, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

I'm not sure. Is it is it worse than the Dr. Claw figure? Uh, kind of.

SPEAKER_02

That's a great question, Mike.

SPEAKER_04

Um, that's my worst. Yeah, Dr. Claw. I would think they're about the same.

SPEAKER_07

Well, I can't believe it. Here we are!

SPEAKER_03

I guess we've The best part is he could have made up anything, and being on Eternia, they would have just been like, alright, I believe it. I mean, look at all the shit that we fucking have to bought up with.

SPEAKER_04

Here's where Queen Marlena decides, heck with your birthday, kids. Now this is a Christmas party.

SPEAKER_01

Christmas and your birthday. Yeah, ouch.

SPEAKER_02

She was just ready to hit the ignog. That's it.

SPEAKER_04

If you guys thought that the It's all technically a birthday party. That's true.

SPEAKER_02

That's right. You guys can share it with Jesus now. That's right.

SPEAKER_01

Group on birthday party.

SPEAKER_03

I just want the kid, I want the reaction shot to of the kids when they see like Snout Spout and like Mechanac, and just be like, what the fuck is this? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Elephant. I mean. Look, they already made friends with Orco. They're up for everything at this point. You're Skeletor and Hordak meeting Galactus from that one uh Rise of the Silver server.

SPEAKER_03

Was it Emperor when he was like a monkey head?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh god. It sounds like it's his brother, too.

SPEAKER_03

So Christmas spirit. I'm putting this on the screen. I don't know if you guys can see it. Let me just switch over.

SPEAKER_01

Horde prime. Yeah, that's the horde prime toy.

SPEAKER_02

It looks fucking it just looks weird, right? Is that not a re is that not like a reskin of Mumra?

SPEAKER_04

That no, you know what that looks like? That looks like that looks like Shredder on the coming out of their shells score.

SPEAKER_03

That's a terrible. I hate it so bad. Oh, it's atrocious.

SPEAKER_01

I love how they're standing exactly the same.

SPEAKER_03

I love it's like when they start fighting and hitting each other, it's like when Beebs and Butthead fight too. That's the best analogy for Hordack and Skeletor.

SPEAKER_01

I gotta schedule that too.

SPEAKER_03

Right. You've never done Beeves and Butt at Christmas?

SPEAKER_01

No, you signed up for it, but we just I haven't scheduled it yet. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_03

I forgot about it.

SPEAKER_04

Horde Prime sounds like Lou Scheimer is talking through the Snake Mountain microphone.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, he might be. Mike, I got news for you. Earth to Mike, but that's probably what it was.

SPEAKER_01

They did do a lot of things on the cheap, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, we already got this here. Might as well use it. Who's she?

SPEAKER_01

What's her name again? That's perfumer.

SPEAKER_04

Strawberry shortcake. Strawberry Shortcake. A little bit of Rainbow Bright, maybe.

unknown

We've got just the right setting.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, here comes.

SPEAKER_03

No! Oh! I hate this.

SPEAKER_02

They're all so high.

SPEAKER_03

Goodness makes the badness go away. I would rather have the Horn of Evil song. I loved Cal. I loved Loki too. Yeah. I pretty much liked any character. The only one that I never was too high on was the Robo Bearables.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, yeah, yeah. From the Nintendo.

SPEAKER_03

I liked Narf, but I hated the Robo Bearables. Also the Fugitoid. I did not like the Fugitoid and Ninja Turtles from the top. That was kind of the same thing.

SPEAKER_01

What's up with this the shape of this thing here? Oh, it's stellar.

SPEAKER_03

Let's go back to what Erica Scheimer said about filmation. Yeah. They didn't take Cal. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01

But also, why are they taking Orko?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. He was just there.

SPEAKER_01

Catro. They had to.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, uh These motherfuckers said we need to turn a character. We need to base a character on Earth again.

SPEAKER_01

But we don't want to get sued, so make her fight. Yeah, yeah, that's right. That's exactly right.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

unknown

They are not. First thing we have to do is find them.

SPEAKER_02

It was the 80s. They could, they could have got away with it.

SPEAKER_01

I want catcher singing Santa Baby's so bad.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my gosh. I want that for a different reason than you do. Gosh. Watching this is starting to make a lot of sense. Why am the way I am?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. I can say the same.

SPEAKER_02

Why does it have a propeller? It doesn't have a fuck.

SPEAKER_03

How big is that robot?

SPEAKER_02

Big. It depends on how big it needs to be for the scene, Chad.

SPEAKER_01

It can alter its mass.

SPEAKER_02

That's right.

unknown

These prisoners were being delivered to Horn Prime.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, mom and dad are fighting again.

unknown

You don't think I leave them here? I don't care.

SPEAKER_03

He said, fuck you, I don't care.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, that's a big gun pointed at him.

SPEAKER_04

I mean stupid, he's not that stupid. All the bad guys are fighting with themselves. I love Christmas special.

SPEAKER_02

I still don't know why why they're kidnapping the kids here.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah. Because the spirit of Christmas could destroy.

SPEAKER_04

Oh yeah, that's what Horde Prime was worried about. He he sensed he sensed goodness that can make the badness go away.

SPEAKER_02

That's exactly it. So is Horde Prime from the same place as like Pennywise? Is that what we're going with? So he's gotta get the s the kiddos. And like I don't know. I think that's what's happening. That's what's happening.

SPEAKER_04

That makes a whole lot of sense.

SPEAKER_01

Peekablue.

SPEAKER_04

Pika blue! They can't use their finder beam. No. So they they gotta use uh being a little bit more. Let's go back to Etheria. Let's waste time. So she was kind of like psychic, right?

SPEAKER_03

Or what is it?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, she can see them, she can see the kids uh captured by the monstroids.

SPEAKER_03

But she doesn't like project images.

SPEAKER_02

She's not like another.

SPEAKER_03

No, okay.

SPEAKER_02

She's got a very usefulness.

SPEAKER_03

No, but yeah, she's just she can just tell 'em, but doesn't like show 'em.

SPEAKER_04

Like even this jail cell looks like it's from the new movie. Yep. Oh gosh, I thought you're right.

unknown

Hello.

SPEAKER_04

Hello.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, it's the manchines. It's bomb man.

SPEAKER_00

This is worse.

SPEAKER_01

Bombman, all of it.

SPEAKER_04

He's got the same haircut.

SPEAKER_01

He totally does.

SPEAKER_04

All of these look like Mega Man characters. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_03

To be fair, Mike, you can see Mega Man in you see Mega Man in everything. You're not wrong. Mike, how excited are you for that Zelda movie? So excited.

SPEAKER_02

Oh yes. So the 100%.

SPEAKER_03

The first like image they set they posted, I said I texted Mike immediately, and oh gosh, I'm so excited for you guys. I seen it. I seen it. Because you guys know, like, I I'm not a big Zelda fan, but like I I know you guys have been waiting for this. So I was like, I I would probably check it out. I really would.

SPEAKER_01

Although that is still one of my favorite episodes.

SPEAKER_04

They remake in Ocarina of Time.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, I'm so excited about Ocarina of Time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Mike, are you gonna get a Cody Rhodes like Triforce tattoo?

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_02

The assertion he doesn't have a tramp stamp of it already, I think, is pretty bold.

SPEAKER_03

Well, he has a stupid next. Wait, Mike, you have a tramp stamp or Cody Rhodes? Which one are we talking about? It's a champion stamp. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, gosh. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_04

I always wondered why he never brought back the Triforce boots, and apparently Nintendo uh sent him a polite letter. What the fuck? Skipper. It's Skipper, it's Barbie's little sister. They tried to make Barbie's little sister a thing in the late 80s.

SPEAKER_02

Didn't they have like other characters?

SPEAKER_04

They had Skipper, they have Stacey. Barbie's got like four sisters.

SPEAKER_02

They still have uh the Chelsea too, I think. Yeah, the Chelsea line, I think, is the one that they have right now. My daughter's really into Barbie's.

SPEAKER_03

So this is a weird question. Is Barbie like the oldest sister? Yes. Yeah. Oh, okay. What is this?

SPEAKER_04

Is that was that big Pete? It looked like Pete. Oh, is this another Santa 900 number? This is a completely different commercial with a different number.

SPEAKER_02

They bought them all. They bought all those 900 numbers.

SPEAKER_03

This guy's beard's not even all the way on. Oh, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_02

He looks like um beef and cheese.

SPEAKER_04

Looks like Billy from Silent Night. Oh, wait. Oh, I thought this was gonna be a juicy fruit commercial. It's instant Quaker oatmeal snifferific.

SPEAKER_01

I don't remember snifferific commercial. Nope.

SPEAKER_02

I want to bring that back though.

SPEAKER_01

Oh that's I mean, you can do it. We got a podcast. Make it a thing. Oh, look at this.

SPEAKER_02

Terrific.

unknown

Terrific flavors.

SPEAKER_01

Oh gosh. Tell you what, my wife was making dinner and it was snifferific, man.

SPEAKER_02

Oh hell I love it. That's right.

SPEAKER_03

I love like winter commercials that aren't necessarily Christmas. So it's like skiing and snow and all that. So, like, what's that Hershey or that Nestle commercial? It comes with Barbie where it's like Nestle Alpine or something like that.

SPEAKER_04

It's like oh okay. I'm thinking of a York Peppermint Patty.

SPEAKER_03

Oh no, I love the York Peppermint Patty commercials too. Like, I want like commercials and like movies and sitcoms that take place in January and have snow and all that stuff. Oh uh a sitcom that goes like the kids go on like a ski trip or something. Oh yeah. Oh gosh, yes.

SPEAKER_04

Fresh Prince one where they all get robbed.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that was a great, great episode. Good yes.

SPEAKER_03

Step-by-step had one too, where they all get out in like Christmas or whatever. They like watch porn with Beavis and Budhead.

unknown

It's Amy.

SPEAKER_03

That's really what happened. Like Beavis and Buddy talk like a porn obtained with them, and it was stupid.

SPEAKER_04

I forgot they had fake Beavis and Budhead on the step-by-step.

SPEAKER_03

That's right. I didn't ask Tommy Coombs as soon as he as soon as you mention this Beavis and Buddha. He has a conniption. He hates them. Oh gosh. Oh, beautiful.

SPEAKER_02

So He-Man ties those very flexible arms into a uh small knot and it short circuits the entire makes short work of these monstroids. Okay, love it. I mean, this is what I'm talking about. I need like a comprehensive list of all the freaking powers.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I always forget that she can do other things of that sword. Like that's rad. I mean, so He-Man kind of got a big thing. Yeah, he doesn't. Sorry, He-Man, you're the most powerful one.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, but he can lift an entire monstroid and just tiger over there.

SPEAKER_03

But she gets like a few. She just gets to fly around. Yeah. Shit, yeah. She has a unicorn horse that flies around. She has a like, why am I lifting stuff when I can fly?

SPEAKER_00

She's working small.

SPEAKER_04

This man's scene looks like Captain N Mega Man.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he does.

SPEAKER_04

Mega wow. He's mega high.

SPEAKER_07

Look a bit uneasy. Oh no, they don't, he man. It's covered.

SPEAKER_01

It's the other man's.

SPEAKER_03

Oh gosh, there's more. Top man.

unknown

We'll send them up.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I hate these things so bad.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, because they're all the they're the leftovers from Mega Man. They didn't make it, right?

SPEAKER_03

Well, this came first! Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_02

That's what I'm saying. Is they they were trying out, they didn't make it.

SPEAKER_03

Can you imagine if Mattel had made these figures and it would have been? They should have.

SPEAKER_01

They kind of remind me of um of like the changeables from McDonald's.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, they kind of oh, you know, they write. I was gonna say Battle Beasts, but changeables are closer.

SPEAKER_02

Changeables is a good call.

SPEAKER_03

Man, I love Battle Beasts. These guys instead of those like meteorbs. Yeah. Meteorbs.

SPEAKER_04

Here comes it.

SPEAKER_02

Man, these kids are falling for all the wrong things in the 80s. Get in a stranger's car, you go where the puppy is. Come on, people. Like we're teaching the city.

SPEAKER_04

Now they get immediately kidnapped by Skeletor.

SPEAKER_02

By a man in a loincloth. You never go with the guy in the loincloth. Or a blue guy. Either one.

SPEAKER_01

Blue man group.

SPEAKER_03

That would be my idea of misery on Christmas. Being kidnapped by blue man group. Wow. That's when I would just start getting violent and angry.

SPEAKER_01

So he just took these kids. Good.

SPEAKER_03

I love Alan Oppenheimer.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I do too.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I was gonna say, like, that's not really gonna do anything, dude.

SPEAKER_04

It's gonna slow her down.

SPEAKER_02

It's a mild deterrent.

SPEAKER_03

It's a mild annoyance.

SPEAKER_02

That's right.

SPEAKER_03

I love that this turns out always turns into Spyverse Spy with the food.

SPEAKER_04

It really does, yeah. Horak shoots down Skeletor's ship with the kids.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. The kids are just trying to take it.

SPEAKER_04

They're all yeah, they're they're in like a in a race to deliver them to Horde Prime first. It's like wacky races here. Wacky races.

unknown

Skeletor. No, I'll have to turn back.

SPEAKER_03

Horak was always better than Skeletor, by the way. I stand by that. Oh yeah. A trillion times.

SPEAKER_02

Better in what sense?

SPEAKER_01

But I do like I do like how sassy Skeletor is, though, you know? Yeah. Skeletor's got the sass. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03

Better figures, better character, better villain. And he has the cooler playset, too. Oh, he's definitely more competent.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's fair.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I still say the fright zone is the best playset out of the game.

SPEAKER_04

The fright zone!

SPEAKER_03

The fright zone. So you guys will appreciate this. Eight about eight years ago, I was doing that Motu month for my vlog.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I went over at the time I was living in an apartment, and I went over to my friend's house because I wanted to use her backyard so I could take pictures of the fright zone because I couldn't my apartment. So she actually has photos of me in her backyard, like setting up shots. And she posted them to her Instagram and said, My brother is weird. Please help me. It's photos of me like taking photos of you know the fright zone. And I'm like, I have reason to do this.

SPEAKER_05

That's right.

SPEAKER_04

Where are they? Are they still on Ethereum here? Oh, who cares? I think so. They're back on Rochester. They now have to yeah, yeah, they have to walk on foot to hoard prime, who lives on a snowy mountain. Yeah, I'll go both ways.

SPEAKER_02

Well, they'd better get back for their Christmas tree because their parents won't don't have one. So they need to go cut it down.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

unknown

Well, there's no Christmas spirit here. Now get moving, you two, before hoarding.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

unknown

I'm sorry, Mister, but but we're so cold.

SPEAKER_04

They can't walk all that way in this cold, so Skeletor gives them jackets.

SPEAKER_01

I love how he does magic stuff resistance. It's like you could do stuff like that. Why didn't you use that power more often? And it's like freaking Patagonia, too. Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_02

These are fucking really nice jackets. I think he would have done like something from Eternia, like a fur or something. But no, it's like he goes to like he gets some earth stuff.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. He knows what's up. So why doesn't Skeletor make one for himself? Because he's not cold.

SPEAKER_04

He doesn't need one, I guess. Only they're cold. He's just like, what? This is fine. Fine, you won't move. Here is the warmest jackie you'll ever own. Oh, that's so nice! Nice! I am not nice!

SPEAKER_01

That's all I could think of when in the movie.

SPEAKER_04

Oh yeah. Yeah, you said that at one point. I think I did.

SPEAKER_03

Did he did wait? Skeletor said that in the movie? No, Jerry said they both.

SPEAKER_01

Like that's the whole time, that's all I could think of.

SPEAKER_04

Yep.

unknown

Me.

SPEAKER_01

Even Skeletor likes to likes pets.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, who can say no to that puppy?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, that's like the most adorable thing in the world. He's not gonna be he's gotta be like legal. He's not that mean.

SPEAKER_04

Oh yeah, no, this is the star of this whole special. As as Skeletor's heart slowly grows three sounds. Carries that robot puppy in his arms.

SPEAKER_03

Horak would have kicked it all the way back to Eternia.

SPEAKER_04

I see a smile.

SPEAKER_03

Uh oh. I said it already. I love Alan Opera.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I had this. This is the thing where you put the car I had that exact one where you put the car in the hot water and the cold water and it changes color.

SPEAKER_02

I've never seen this. Not in my lifetime that I can remember.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I remember this. My cousin had this.

SPEAKER_02

Wow, that's super cool.

SPEAKER_03

By the way, I uh this could be a young Dino Drag in this commercial, like during this.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, you never know. There's Pizza Head again.

SPEAKER_03

There we go. Oh my gosh! I'm starting to think like, are these actual commercials? Or the is this like programmed? Did someone like just like edit? No, this looks like an actual broadcast.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I think it's the broadcast.

SPEAKER_03

But here's my thing is other than the Santa thing, we haven't really seen any Christmas commercials. Well, they didn't always have a ton. Oh, you know what though? Oh they also they had national commercials, they didn't have like commercial. I loved Alphabets. Me too.

SPEAKER_02

Alphabets was my cereal.

SPEAKER_03

I liked kicks, but I didn't like Alphabets. Alphabets.

SPEAKER_02

I loved Alphabets. But only I would only put a tiny bit of milk because once they were soggy, they were nasty.

SPEAKER_04

See, no, I my favorite was the box that looked like a computer. But like it was like the old Apple II computer. It was great.

SPEAKER_02

One thing I love about 80s uh and modern cereal commercials is they have all this food on the table, but no one's touching anything. It's part of a complete part of a breakfast. Oh, I get it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

It's just toast and milk, and that's why a dozen eggs and dolls.

SPEAKER_01

But also, if we've got time or the appetite to eat all of that.

SPEAKER_04

No, no one's making any of that.

SPEAKER_02

Nobody.

SPEAKER_01

It's always a pop tart. We're making cereal, it's because like you gotta eat quick.

SPEAKER_02

Why does Barbie have a futon? Barbie, you're rich. Barbie needs a foot. You've got like nine dream homes.

SPEAKER_04

Pull-out couch.

SPEAKER_02

Right. Barbie, you don't have a pullout couch.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe she has a studio apart.

SPEAKER_04

What the fuck is this? Santa now has another 900 number calling Superman. This is the third 900 number starring Santa. No, uh, but the first Superman.

SPEAKER_01

This is the one I probably would have called.

SPEAKER_03

Santa and Superman. And a t-shirt. Oh my god. What? Oh, was this the 50th anniversary of Super? Yes, it was 88. Okay, so this makes sense.

SPEAKER_01

But they can't show his face, so now we know this is an 88 version.

SPEAKER_07

What is this?

SPEAKER_01

What? Father knows best.

SPEAKER_03

Guess who's calling this episode when one of you does us? Special movie. This has to be a TV movie. They wouldn't be.

SPEAKER_04

Oh yeah, it's USA. Father's No Father knows best for Christmas. Was this before or after the Brady Christmas?

SPEAKER_03

If this is 88, it's the same year.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, okay. So, okay. Then that would make sense.

SPEAKER_02

Interesting.

SPEAKER_04

Oh. This is the smoothest animation in this entire special, and it's Skeletal and the kids walking.

SPEAKER_03

It's the smoothest animation filmation ever did.

SPEAKER_01

I love how Skeletor movie is just a skull, but it emotes so much.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yeah, which is physically impossible. Well, for I guess for a human skull it is, but he's a dimensional demon. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Well, if it's a dog, I mean i i they like to like lick and chew bones, so like, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, here we go. Here the kids are telling them telling Skeletor about Christmas. Oh, I love this part.

unknown

I like fights.

SPEAKER_04

I like fights fights are fun! And when you open them, they explode, right?

SPEAKER_07

Nice!

SPEAKER_03

Can I tell you something? I have always hated nice skeletor. I I just Oh wow, that's a shot. That's why I like the no one likes nice skeletor.

SPEAKER_04

That's why this is so funny.

SPEAKER_03

And I I love this special with all my heart, but that's the part I hate the most.

SPEAKER_04

I don't have time for you.

SPEAKER_05

There's so many things about this special.

SPEAKER_04

Fuck out.

SPEAKER_00

Mr. Skeletor Skeletor.

SPEAKER_02

Oh look at that horrifying smile.

SPEAKER_04

I am not the kind, and I am not wonderful!

SPEAKER_07

And I'm delivering you to hot pride.

SPEAKER_03

Well, he must work out.

SPEAKER_01

He definitely doesn't skip leg day. No, he doesn't.

SPEAKER_03

None of these guys do. And the gas.

SPEAKER_02

They're allergic to pants, so that's helpful.

SPEAKER_03

If I had a body like that, you would never catch me in like anything longer than a pair of shorts either. So I'd go out and buy furry booty shorts too.

SPEAKER_02

Booty shorts. Well, I already have them. I just need to put them on. Booty shorts.

SPEAKER_01

Booty shorts. Mandela Braithwaite.

SPEAKER_03

Oh god. He is God. What a funny guy by the way. I know, I love it. He's someone one of you guys needs to get on.

SPEAKER_01

I I reached out to him. I haven't heard anything back, but ever since I saw that first booty shorts that he did, I was like, I gotta get this guy on.

SPEAKER_03

He's one of the most consistently funniest, funniest guys I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_04

There's everybody meeting up at the same place at the attorney assault flex.

SPEAKER_03

Oh gosh, it looks like a yoga class or like a spin class.

SPEAKER_01

Is this the equivalent of like the abandoned lot? It's like the empty lot up back. You know, everybody just meet there.

SPEAKER_02

This is where they missed out on the Mad Max crossover that could have happened, too. Oh, that could be.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, really? Oh, they're all. I hate multibot, so I I'm just listening to the bottom. But it's stupid. Like you already had Modulog. Modulog was I know, it was just Modulog was cool. We have too bad at home.

unknown

Come on.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, fair enough. You got me there, Mike. Okay, fair enough. I never had the uh the horde trooper figures. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I never did either either.

SPEAKER_03

I will when I was a kid, I only wanted like one of each trooper. Like I never needed like an army builder. Like I just wanted one. So I would have only like had one, probably.

SPEAKER_01

Origins just released that uh that new army builder set.

SPEAKER_02

Which one? I think I just used like that new army builder set.

SPEAKER_01

It's like an avion warrior, an aquatic in, like one of these race. Yeah, for origins.

SPEAKER_03

Oh I'm out on origins. I've been out on origins since I've gone Masterverse.

SPEAKER_01

Masterverse is nice.

SPEAKER_03

I uh I hope that they pick it up in 2027 because they said, Yeah, this year we're just gonna focus on the movies, yeah, and and chronicles or whatever it's called.

SPEAKER_04

It makes sense the puppies uh making skeletor's heart growth reach sizes. We don't talk about the dogs licking skeletor's face because dogs like bones. Yep. Oh, also, Mike.

SPEAKER_03

What? Dogs. Dogs.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know. I don't know what's come over me, but I must save the children. Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Oh gosh, you know what? You just put it in my head. Wouldn't it be great? Ed Grimley is Skeletor in the special. Oh man.

SPEAKER_04

Here's Horde Prime in his unconvincing angry voice. Skeletor, you're making me angry.

SPEAKER_05

I think Horde Prime is going to be angry with me. Oh you think?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I think that he's gonna be angry, don't you know? That's a horrible angry. Here it is. Ted, stop it.

unknown

Very angry.

SPEAKER_00

Very angry!

SPEAKER_01

Now I've got two stupid Christmas. Love it.

SPEAKER_03

Have you ever watched that episode of Tim and Eric? Where Tom Goes to the Mayor? No, I never have. You know what? All you need- you know what? Let's just keep the keep the mystery of it going.

SPEAKER_04

Because I love that this joke is Blast, blast, blast! Cuss in the children's show! I'll be back! Oh, Skeletor saved him, they're giving him a big old hug.

SPEAKER_07

He saved you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, hey, you guys are gonna thank us, right?

SPEAKER_07

I wish I knew why. I don't think I feel well.

SPEAKER_03

I don't think I feel well.

SPEAKER_07

It makes you feel like that.

SPEAKER_03

By the way, the words do not match the movements of his eyes. They never do.

SPEAKER_04

No.

SPEAKER_03

No, like you feel evil. At least with Skeletor, you can do that.

SPEAKER_02

Jeff had that shirt last night. I did. I had the I don't like to feel good. I like to feel evil too last night.

SPEAKER_04

Don't worry, Skeletor. Christmas only comes once a year. See, snow and internia.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Okay. Is She Rat?

SPEAKER_04

Ah, Snout spelled. Puts the star on the tree, but he's a good guy at sports. Man, everybody says we saw Luki.

SPEAKER_03

Pistol, Rambo. Seahawk!

SPEAKER_01

Seahawks there, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

That's Shea's man. So Bo better not get his hopes up.

SPEAKER_01

I thought Bo was uh into Glimmer.

SPEAKER_02

Too bad you can't stay for the Bo's into whatever he can get into. Yeah, I mean he hangs out with the princesses of power. Like, let's be honest.

SPEAKER_03

Like he's hey, he it's a buffet for him, let's be honest. He's like yeah, you can take that and show it the way you want it.

SPEAKER_01

He's just like putting it out there, see who's picking up the vibe.

SPEAKER_02

That's right.

SPEAKER_03

I'd be going for Fry. I love that bratty attitude she has. Oh god, yes.

SPEAKER_01

Well, Sweet B loves uh loves He-Man.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. There's that great episode where like Sweet B is like flirting with He-Man and Frost is like in the corner pouting. What a fucking asshole.

SPEAKER_01

I love how they give these kids like belts to help.

SPEAKER_04

And they get to keep Skeletors winter coats. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Man, they made out like bandits this Christmas. Right.

SPEAKER_02

That's true. Except they're gonna get spanked because they didn't bring him in the industry like they were supposed to.

SPEAKER_01

This this father looks just like my Uncle Frank.

SPEAKER_04

I believe it.

SPEAKER_02

I think he looks like everybody's Uncle Frank.

SPEAKER_01

Especially if you're his well, if you're Hispanic, it's Theo Frank, right?

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

This could be on Saturday. Alright, let's go to bed. Let's go to bed. Oh, they're flying. I love their faces.

SPEAKER_01

They just mugged to the camera.

unknown

Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas, young lady.

SPEAKER_04

Merry Christmas. I'm Adam. Yanks off his beard. Oh gosh. I like that his Santa Claus wig, his white wig, is just his normal hairstyle.

SPEAKER_03

God, Lou must have thrown us such a fit when they're like, no, we need a new animation for this one.

SPEAKER_02

Nope.

SPEAKER_03

It's a whole different body type.

SPEAKER_02

Get me some light out.

SPEAKER_03

I'll show you how we do this. Oh, what? What's Ceremonal Foods?

SPEAKER_07

This is not General Foods. And it's many fine products. Satisfying your family is what General Foods is about.

SPEAKER_04

Makes Gent Ceralods.

SPEAKER_03

I remember this. This isn't oh no, this isn't Andra. No.

SPEAKER_01

Just so you guys know, it is not honey. It is not Shazam. You know, it's not Sinbad, it's Shazam.

SPEAKER_00

Sinbad.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know who this is.

SPEAKER_02

It's the honeycomb genie, obviously. Honeycomb genie.

SPEAKER_01

You know.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, the honeycomb robot. Oh, I miss Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_02

Someone needs to make a genie of the honeycomb.

SPEAKER_01

Bring me a big a honeycomb.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, Lawrence Taylor, okay.

SPEAKER_01

Oh man. I think that needs a ratty right there. You're welcome. Greatest, like rattus pun. That's right.

SPEAKER_04

So real they seem alive.

unknown

You can collect all your favorite.

SPEAKER_03

So real they seem alive. And very tiny.

SPEAKER_02

And fragile.

SPEAKER_03

They all have the same face sculpts.

SPEAKER_00

What is this? Oh, Denny's?

SPEAKER_03

Corndog kind of does sound good, I'm not gonna lie. You know what? You know who does yeah, it's Denny's. I like that Dino. Only three days. Who's the Sabertooth tiger?

SPEAKER_00

I don't I never watched the city.

SPEAKER_01

That's the one from the credits. Yeah, where he puts them in and puts him out.

SPEAKER_04

Cat will stay out all the night.

SPEAKER_01

Are these hip?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, little rockers. I remember is this the one that would like play like 30 seconds, or was it?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it was like super short. Not worth it.

unknown

Pocket rockers.

SPEAKER_01

Pocket rockers.

SPEAKER_03

Pocket rockers. There they are.

SPEAKER_01

I love the denim on denim.

SPEAKER_03

I don't want to reveal any secrets, but that's exactly how Mike Westfall is dressed right now. You got me. He's pulling an orange casty. Oh. PSA time. He's not even looking into the camera. Oh no, he's talking orange.

SPEAKER_04

Today we learn people with skulls. Are always evil or whatever.

SPEAKER_01

Guaranteed to be evil. That was the best part. Oh, I loved it. My son lit up when he saw Orko on Spain. I screamed in the theater so loud.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, they did. Agreed. It was it was perfect. It was awesome.

SPEAKER_03

For five months, all I've heard is, well, we haven't seen Orco yet. Like, shut up. Like, and then when they I literally screamed so loud I couldn't even hear what Orco had said. Snow White Christmas special.

SPEAKER_07

No, I mean in the last thing they do is the Cosby kids teach Tiger about giving. Sure as hell won't Christmas special.

SPEAKER_01

The Fat Albert Christmas special? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

You know what's funny? I have somewhere, I have a broadcast of the Fat Albert Christmas special that aired in 2000. Yeah. On UPS or 2001. One of those. They just randomly record, they just randomly aired it. And I remember recording it, and I was like, this is weird. Why would they? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Just wanted to see if there's not one we'll be doing. There we go. All right. That was it.

SPEAKER_02

Excellent.

SPEAKER_01

Well, this was fun. So I'm gonna stop my sharing my screen here.

SPEAKER_03

Cinderella, nobody's full. Okay, Jerry.

SPEAKER_01

Oh man. This is uh I'm telling you, it's good stuff. That is so that was the special. Loved it. It's uh wacky and everything that um you know that we loved as kids. Uh, what do you guys want to plug? Um, like what do you got coming up? Why don't we start with you, Mike?

SPEAKER_04

I got a brand new season of the Advent Calendar House starting soon, and Jerry's gonna be there, and Jeff's gonna be there, and Chad's gonna be there. July 1st at AdventCalendar.house.

SPEAKER_01

Nice. Uh Jeff.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, got a new season coming up. Um, got another interview uh with uh with an author, a Christmas author, so stay tuned for that. Um more Santa's around the world, more Christmas monsters, uh lots of history and stuff coming up. Right on. Yeah, uh it's gonna be gonna be a fun season. Lost Christmas Podcast.com. You can find me there or wherever you listen to podcasts. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00

Right on. Chad? When is this dropping? Uh Monday. Oh god.

SPEAKER_03

Uh then nothing. I have I have uh coming at horror movie barbecue across Instagram, blue sky, Twitter, and a Facebook page and a blog that never gets updated. But check out Geekster, the Geekster episode you're check out the new Geekster episode over on the Retro Network.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, good stuff, man. Uh, I'm anxious to I I saw it and I was like, ah, that's one I would have loved to have been on.

SPEAKER_03

Uh oh, that would have been great. Yeah, you would have been great. We we need to get you on it.

SPEAKER_01

It would have been like a five-hour episode, man.

SPEAKER_03

I believe it. Well, if you if you want if you notice, it he edited a lot of when it came to me, like there are cuts, like I'll be talking. And I'm like, that's the way to do it.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I didn't watch it, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's why I don't bother with video, man.

SPEAKER_01

Video is hard. Video is hard, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

I don't like video, so I know.

SPEAKER_01

And everybody's like going. But this is great. This was fantastic.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, yeah, thank you for this.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, anytime you guys are always welcome back. Uh, but oh, let me, I'm supposed to pull up my notes here and close the show, huh? Um, so check us out on our social media pages, which you can find in linktree.com slash totally rad Christmas. And if you're feeling like Skeletor saving the children from horde prime, leave us a review on iTunes. It helps us reach more people and spread some rad holiday cheer. Now don't forget to check out our merch shop on tpublic.com and our super dope website, totally radchmas.com. Merry Christmas to all and to all a safe night. Anyone with the Toby?

SPEAKER_05

Toby