G.I. Joe: Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town

<p>S-s-season’s greetings-s-s! You better watch out, because today we’re kindly rewinding back to a 1985 Christmas episode of “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero,” entitled “Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town!”</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), rambunctious Navy SEAL looking for a meaningful relationship with a large slab of frozen meat.</li><li><strong>Joey O.</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ImGonnaDJ24">@ImGonnaDJ24</a>), 50-foot-tall wise cracking parrot from <a href="http://ynotradio.net">Y-Not Radio</a> and <a href="http://www.ynotradio.net/nerds">Words With Nerds</a>.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents</h4><ol><li>We don’t even get 4 minutes into this without talking about the <a href="https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/85/ussflagg/">U.S.S. Flagg</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwbc575sjoU">Crossfire</a> comes up for no reason.</li><li>A brief history of the G.I. Joe toy line, from “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe:_America%27s_Movable_Fighting_Man">America’s Movable Fighting Man</a>” to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe_Adventure_Team">Adventure Team</a>, to “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe:_A_Real_American_Hero">A Real American Hero</a>.”</li><li>“<a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80161497">The Toys That Made Us</a>” on Netflix.</li><li>The “opening monologue that explains the show” has nothing on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HgWCp79nzI">Voltron’s</a>.</li><li>Neil Ross (Shipwreck, Dusty, and Buzzer in this episode) has an audio camero in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHDGVoheNVg">I Can’t Watch This</a>.”</li><li>Joey’s interviews with <a href="https://www.opendrive.com/player/116695324_ABaIS">Pat Fraley</a> (Wild Weasel), <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/ynotradio/words-with-nerds-gregg-berger-retrocon-2018-interview/">Gregg Berger</a> (Firefly), <a href="http://ynotradio.ne