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🎄 Happy birthday! The Advent Calendar House kicks off a countdown to Christmas in July by setting the table for Rankin/Bass’s eventual epic crossover, starting with “Frosty’s Winter Wonderland,” the “Weird Science” of Christmas specials. 🎙️ Brandon Medley belly-whops in to salute this snowy sequel from 1976 starring a strange, tall goblin claiming to be Andy Griffith. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: A brief guide to finding obsure things on Disney+, like “ Melody Time ,” starring Dennis Day, (Parson Brown) as Johnny Appleseed. Barbara Jo Ewing voiced one of the kids in her only known credit, but somehow IMDb knows her height . We do the math to figure out how far the wind carried a newspaper from Frosty’s hometown to the North Pole. Frosty beat “The Santa Clause 2” to the “gotta get a wife” plot point by more than 20 years. Frosty’s “specifications” for his ideal woman are the same as Sir Mix-a-Lot’s. At what point do snow people become self-aware? Jack Frost’s “winter that almost didn’t end” foreshadowed the real-life Blizzard of 1977 . **** 📼 Commercials: Freezy Freakies (1984) Christmas Clatter . **** “Frosty’s Winter Wonderland” © 1976 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. Find us at adventcalendar.house . #s4 #1970s #rankinbass #frosty
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