Doug’s Christmas Story

<p>On this episode of the official holiday podcast for people who organize meetings with 3 different versions of themselves, all of whom are action heroes, we’re skating on thin ice back to 1993 for a very educational trip to Bluffington to rewatch “Doug’s Christmas Story.”</p><p>Admittedly not a very festive episode late in the first official Nicktoon’s run on Nickelodeon, at one point I forgot this was a Christmas episode I was watching for my podcast.</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode:</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), bitter ousted politician with a microphone and a self-help line.</li><li><strong>Greg Stevens</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/pop_arena">@pop_arena</a>), weaponized dessert maker and creator of YouTube’s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/poparena">Pop Arena</a>, home to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI-57gAo-Uo&list=PL63ushetAZ-xoXYf46MkIywbmLq_3qXRw">Nick Knacks</a>, a show-by-show history of Nickelodeon; plus reviews of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av1jVkcqXq0&list=PL0EA16A3C32DCC79E">Animorphs</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl06LljMAKU&list=PL63ushetAZ-xK5nsI_oLtWEjI2nKgO6L_">Goosebumps</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEyi2aqGxck&list=PL63ushetAZ-yy2gTezVivL4_cIDU1KKwn">Doctor Who</a> books.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents:</h4><ol><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_h2VHtFNa4">Disney’s Doug</a> was OK, y’all.</li><li>“Doug” creator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jinkins">Jim Jinkins</a> worked on Nickelodeon’s first show, “Pinwheel.”</li><li>Early versions of Doug appeared on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IStrJaL1waE">bumper for USA Network</a> and a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F2Vm7rOQW0">PSA for Florida Grapefruit Juice</a>. (Bonus: The grapefruit juice one features Lorenzo Music, the voice of Garfield.)</li><li>The ol’ <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DangerThinIce">Danger: Thin Ic