Animaniacs: A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners

<p>🎄 After spending 3 months locked in a water tower, the Advent Calendar House has escaped in time for Christmas Podcast Day, a fake holiday originally made up for a hashtag back when social media was slightly less stupid.  </p><p>It’s not Scrooge Sunday, but the theme for this year’s Christmas Podcast Day is “A Christmas Carol,” so I’m playing a long, but also cheating a little by covering both segments of a 1993 Christmas episode of “Animaniacs.”  </p><p>You can follow <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChristmasPodcastDay?f=live">#ChristmasPodcastDay</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ChristmasPodcastDay">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/christmaspodcastday/">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChristmasPodcastDay?f=live">that other one</a>. And probably <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/christmaspodcastday">TikTok</a>, but I’m not on that.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Erin Evans (<a href="https://twitter.com/mserinmevans">@mserinevans</a>).  </p><p>Joey O. (<a href="https://www.ynotradio.net/">Y-Not Radio</a>, <a href="https://www.ynotradio.net/pages.php?page=words-with-nerds">Words With Nerds</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/imgonnadj24">@imgonnadj24</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. <a href="https://retrozap.com/animanicast/">The Animanicast</a>.  </p><p>2. <a href="https://animaniacs.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_49:_Very_Special_Opening/A_Christmas_Plotz/Little_Drummer_Warners">Animaniacs Wiki entry for this episode</a>.  </p><p>3. Sherri Stoner (Slappy Squirrel) was the <a href="https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/how-sherri-stoner-became-the-little-mermaid/">live action reference model for Disney Princesses Ariel and Belle</a>.  </p><p>4. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OM6cexCZm8">A Christmas Plotz: The Hip-Hop Musical</a>.  </p><p>5. <a href="https://www.rocksugarband.com/">Rock Sugar</a>, Jess Harnell’s (Wakko) band.  </p><p>6. Jess Harnell sang the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?