Care Bears Nutcracker Suite

<p>It’s 1988, and we’re staring intensely at the totally nuts series finale of <i>The Care Bears Family</i>, the Care Bears’ last TV appearance for 16 years.  </p><p>Full show notes with links at <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/care-bears-nutcracker-suite">https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/care-bears-nutcracker-suite</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>• <strong>Lindy Kempe</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ieatvideogames">@ieatvideogames</a>).  </p><p>• <strong>Karen Flieger</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/karenflieger8">@karenflieger8</a>) from <a href="https://theretronetwork.com/author/karenflieger/">The Retro Network</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>• The <a href="https://superimpulse.com/worlds-smallest/care-bears-3/">World’s Smallest Tenderheart Bear</a>.  </p><p>• Karen’s awesome <a href="https://imgur.com/9bBWQX9">Nutcracker socks</a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://twitter.com/AbbyHagyard">Abby Hagyard on Twitter</a> (Ms. Walker, and also Mom on <i>You Can’t Do That on Television</i>).  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7UMvcAJ3CQ"><i>The Wild Puffalumps</i></a>.  </p><p>• Billie Mae Richards, the voice of Rudolph, as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44-Ufd2oiKE">Tenderheart Bear in <i>The Care Bears Movie</i></a>.  </p><p>• That time a <a href="https://medium.com/@miketoole/it-has-been-twenty-years-since-fabio-killed-a-goose-with-his-face-on-a-roller-coaster-a87d51285890">goose flew into Fabio’s face on a roller coaster</a>.  </p><p>• Today’s TV Tropes: <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdentityAmnesia">Identity Amnesia</a>, <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilChancellor">Evil Chancellor</a>, <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RailCarSeparation">Rail-Car Separation</a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sad_Story_of_Henry"><i>The Sad Story of Henry</i></a> from <i>Thomas the Tank Engine</i>.  </p><p>• The train runs on soda, like the time mach