A Special Sesame Street Christmas

<p>It’s 1978, and celebrities pretending to be ghosts are gaslighting Oscar the Grouch into participating in Christmas. Also, Michael Jackson shows up. This Scrooge Sunday, witness the <i>other</i> Sesame Street Christmas special from 1978, featuring 3 whole, entire Muppets.  </p><p>Full show notes with links at <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-special-sesame-street-christmas">https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-special-sesame-street-christmas</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>• Alan Johnson (<a href="https://twitter.com/AlanJ">@AlanJ</a>) from <a href="https://soundcloud.com/two-bad-neighbors">Two Bad Neighbors in the 31st Century</a>, now a Futurama Podcast.  </p><p>• Donnie Storms (<a href="https://twitter.com/boxcar45">@boxcar45</a>) from <a href="https://soundcloud.com/bronwensghost">Bronwen’s Ghost</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>• <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/christmas-eve-on-sesame-street">Our episode on <i>Christmas Eve on Sesame Street</i></a>.  </p><p>• I thought <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020108041447/https:/toughpigs.com/journalbluexmas.htm">Tough Pigs made up this special in 2001</a> to be funny, but nope, it’s real.  </p><p>• <i>Sesame Street</i> lost an <a href="https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1979/outstanding-childrens-program">Emmy</a> to <i>Sesame Street</i>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/A_Special_Sesame_Street_Christmas">Muppet Wiki on <i>A Special Sesame Street Christmas</i></a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Elmo%27s_Delicious_Christmas"><i>Elmo’s Delicious Christmas</i></a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Anne_Murray_Sings_for_the_Sesame_Street_Generation"><i>Anne Murray Sings for the Sesame Street Generation</i></a>, an American re-release of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_Hippo_in_My_Tub"><i>There’s a Hippo in My Tub</i></a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3111697-street-gang"><i>Street