Christmas in Tattertown

<p>On a very wound-up and thrown out into a pile of junk in another dimension episode of the Advent Calendar House, we set our sentient clocks back to 1988 for “Christmas in Tattertown,” the holiday brain-child Ralph Bakshi and the first-ever animated TV show made exclusively for Nickelodeon.</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), discarded child’s plaything.</li><li><strong>Chad Young</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/horrormoviebbq">@horrormoviebbq</a>), smooth-talking saxophone who finally put on those sunglasses that make him see the world around him for what it truly is, from the <a href="http://www.horrormoviebbq.com/">Horror Movie BBQ</a>.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents</h4><ol><li><a href="https://www.bakshistudio.com/tattertown">“Christmas in Tattertown” info and sketches from Bakshi Productions</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQUiWEBr7Jk">“Christmas in Tattertown” review on Nick Knacks</a>, a show-by-show retrospective on Nickelodeon.</li><li>Muffet initially appears to be the victim, much like the other guy, actually named Guy, in Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham.”</li><li>Cameo appearances by early Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks characters <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_the_Lucky_Rabbit">Oswald the Lucky Rabbit</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_the_Frog">Flip the Frog</a>, and later <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/vBqVSD5">Popeye</a>.</li><li>A discussion about the TV trope of Debbie coming from the “<a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UpTheRealRabbitHole">real world</a>.”</li><li>A shout-out to the dearly departed Hollywood Video for staying open on Christmas Day for idiots like me who forgot to ask for required accessories like the Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak.</li><li>I officially make the <a href="https://www.seriouseats.com/2010/11/holiday-wawa-the-turkey-gobbler.html">Wawa Holiday Gobbler hoagie</a> a new Christma