Claymation Comedy of Horrors

<p>Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we flew a sleigh made out of a dumpster into space with the California Raisins in “<a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/claymation">Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration</a>.”  </p><p>🎃 This time, we’re reanimating a creepier creation of his from 1991 — a Halloween special that premiered in May for some reason — starring the scheming Wilshire Pig on a quest to uncover the secret lab of Dr. Frankenswine.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Sammy Hain (<a href="https://twitter.com/sammyhain">@SammyHain</a>).  </p><p>Chad Young (<a href="https://www.horrormoviebbq.com/">The Horror Movie BBQ</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/horrormoviebbq">@horrormoviebbq</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252993/mediaindex/">IMDb’s photo gallery from this special</a>.  </p><p>2. “<a href="https://tubitv.com/movies/531296/the-adventures-of-mark-twain">The Adventures of Mark Twain</a>.”  </p><p>3. Todd Tolces’ <a href="https://imagingvoice.com/">website</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@steamboat426/videos">YouTube résumé</a>.  </p><p>4. Michele Mariana (Wilshire) on “Sesame Street” as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp51HP0eisc">Cecile, the singing ball of clay</a>.  </p><p>5. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljnODNorncw">Herb</a> from Burger King.  </p><p>6. Will Vinton wanted to build a theme park called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdQvUPD_q2g">Claymation Station</a> with Wilshire Pig as its Mickey Mouse.  </p><p>7. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJM9mAtlp6U&t=117s">Raphael</a> opened the floodgates for characters made for children saying curse words.  </p><p>8. Sheldon the Snail bears a passing resemblance to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfnYutLvWYs">The Noid</a>.  </p><p>9. A closer examination of the bathroom graffiti.  </p><p>10. Today’s TV Trope: <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RemovableShell">Removable Shell</a>.