A Cosmic Christmas

<p>By special request, this episode of the official podcast of teaching aliens about Christmas takes you on a domesticated goose chase back to 1977 through the first fully animated feature by Canadian studio Nelvana.  </p><p>Full show notes with links at: <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-cosmic-christmas">https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-cosmic-christmas</a>  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 On This Episode:  </h2><p>• <strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), excitable mayor shouting at everyone else to remain calm.  </p><p>• <strong>Jeff Fox</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/chrspecials">@chrspecials</a>), the Internet’s foremost expert on this special, from <a href="http://namethatchristmasspecial.com/">Name That Christmas  Special</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>• Jeff’s collection of <a href="http://namethatchristmasspecial.com/tag/a-cosmic-christmas/"><i>A Cosmic Christmas</i> music and scanned promotional items</a>.  </p><p>• Joanna Wilson’s <a href="http://www.christmastvhistory.com/">Christmas TV History</a>.  </p><p>• This special got George Lucas’s attention and led to Nelvana producing the animated segment of the <i>Star Wars Holiday Special</i>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14984958-the-nelvana-story"><i>The Nelvana Story: Thirty Animated Years</i></a>.  </p><p>• Today’s TV Trope: <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBallOfViolence">Big Ball of Violence</a>.  </p><p>• Jellybean looks like the red-eyed <a href="https://pacman.fandom.com/wiki/File:Pacman_sideart_us.jpg">Pac-Man on the side of the arcade cabinet</a>.  </p><p>• Duncan Regehr (Amalthor) as Dracula in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_Squad"><i>The Monster Squad</i></a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907201/">Marian Waldman</a>, Mrs. Mac from <i>Black Christmas</i>, also has a quick line or two.  </p><p>• The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_thunder_(sou