Dinosaurs - Refrigerator Day

🦖 It’s the most wonderful time of 60 million years ago, so come in and buy paint. 

🎙️ Lindy Kempe joins us with frying pan ready to celebrate Refrigerator Day with the Jim Henson Company’s “Dinosaurs,” which is somehow the Advent Calendar House’s first TGIF episode. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

“The Simpsons” parodies “Dinosaurs.” 

We go from talking about the “Økėÿ Døkęÿ Køøkïñ” segment of “Muppets Now” to Netflix’s “Nailed It!” 

Sally Struthers (Charlene) for International Correspondence School. 

A brief history of the Christmas bonus, or “thirteenth salary.” 

Sam McMurray in the very short-lived “A League of Their Own” sitcom, and my own pitch for a TV adaptation on Nerd Lunch’s Fourth Chair Army Invasion. 

Pons Maar (Roy’s body actor) as the original voice of The Noid. 

Unisaurs: The Dinosaurs equivalent to the Anything Muppet. 

The biggest gifts we ended up returning. 

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📼 Commercials: 

Talking Baby Dinosaur and Dinosaurs Figures (1991) 

TGI Podcast. 

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“Dinosaurs” and “Refrigerator Day” © 1991 The Walt Disney Company. 

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