Dinosaurs: Refrigerator Day

<p>Get your frying pan ready and join us on a journey to what feels like 60 million years ago back to 1991 to observe the most wonderful time of the year for the Jim Henson Company’s <i>Dinosaurs</i>, which by some Fridge Day miracle is the Advent Calendar House’s first TGIF episode.  </p><p>Full show notes with links at: <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/dinosaurs-refrigerator-day">https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/dinosaurs-refrigerator-day</a>  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 On This Episode:  </h2><p>• <strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), unidentified furry creature about to become breakfast.  </p><p>• <strong>Lindy Kempe</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ieatvideogames">@ieatvideogames</a>), the hot toddy serving middle manager of my dreams.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>• The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJsjGeEbjRo"><i>Dinosaurs</i> parody on <i>The Simpsons</i></a>.  </p><p>• We go from talking about the Økėÿ Døkęÿ Køøkïñ segment of <a href="https://disneyplusoriginals.disney.com/show/muppets-now"><i>Muppets Now</i></a> to Netflix’s <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80179138"><i>Nailed It!</i></a>  </p><p>• Sally Struthers (Charlene) for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj23I8hgj28">International Correspondence School</a>.  </p><p>• A brief history of the Christmas bonus, or “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_salary">thirteenth salary</a>.”  </p><p>• Sam McMurray in the very short-lived <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNwuiu0QV0s"><i>A League of Their Own</i> TV sitcom</a>, and my own pitch for a TV adaptation on <a href="http://nerdlunch.net/podcast/2020/04/fourth-chair-army-invasion-19-turning-movies-into-tv-shows-3/">Nerd Lunch’s Fourth Chair Army Invasion</a>.  </p><p>• Pons Maar (Roy’s body actor) as the original voice of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfnYutLvWYs">The Noid</a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Unisaurs">Unisaurs</a>