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🦃 We’re talking turkey as we dig up and dig in to a 1983 Thanksgiving special from puppeteer Paul Fusco, the creator of ALF. 🎙️ Chad Young , Tommy Coombs , and Jayme Kilsby join us the follow a turkey’s dream of stardom that ends with dogs and cats living together. 📺 You can watch “A Thanksgiving Tale” on Youtube , with curated retro Thanksgiving commercials. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: Imagicom Productions’ Holiday Specials Collection . Fred Travalena as the Joker in the 1989 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. A November 16, 1983 TV listing in an archived New York Magazine . Paul Fusco’s “ Space Cats .” David Lander in “ Funland .” Mental Floss’s Oral History of ALF . Today’s TV Trope: Invited as Dinner . The “ You Bet Your Life ” Duck. The art of making puppets fight: Throw them into the air from behind a fence. We compare the Thanksgiving play in this special to the one in Addams Family Values . **** 📼 Commercials: Butterball Turkey Commercial (1985) Christmas Time in the City . **** “A Thanksgiving Tale” © 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc. Find us at adventcalendar.house . #s6 #1980s #thanksgiving #puppets
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