Pinocchio’s Christmas

<p>The Advent Calendar House gets overrun by earworms strong enough to burrow into wood as we carve into the 1980 Rankin/Bass TV special, “Pinocchio’s Christmas.”</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), buxom and unusually lightning-susceptible feline.</li><li><strong>Michael DiGiovanni</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/theatomicgeeks">@theatomicgeeks</a>), from the <a href="https://theatomicgeekspodcast.libsyn.com">Atomic Geeks</a>, <a href="https://theatomicgeekspodcast.libsyn.com">Classic Film Jerks</a>, and <a href="http://popcultureretrofitpodcast.libsyn.com">Pop Culture Retrofit</a> podcasts.</li><li><strong>Michael May</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/michaelmaycomix">@michaelmaycomix</a>) of his <a href="http://www.michaelmay.online">Adventure Blog</a> and the <a href="http://sleighbellcinema.michaelmay.online">Sleigh Bell Cinema</a>, <a href="http://www.mysterymovienight.com">Mystery Movie Night</a>, and <a href="http://nerdlunch.net/podcast/fourth-chair-army-invasion">Nerd Lunch Fourth Chair Army Invasion</a> podcasts, among many others.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents</h4><ol><li>Two songs, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywqNdKEQyDg">Dancin’</a>” and “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO6vzAXrU-Y">The Very Best Friend I Ever Had</a>,” were cut from and later restored to TV broadcasts.</li><li>“<a href="http://meandyouandablognamedboo.blogspot.com/2010/03/candy-apple-news-company-and-star-stuff.html">Starstuff</a>,” a Philadelphia market, Saturday morning kids’ sci-fi TV series starring Todd Porter, the voice of Pinocchio.</li><li>The most disappointing gifts we’ve ever received, including what Santa gave me after I allegedly misspelled “<a href="http://www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk/alphacritters.php">Alpha Critters</a>.”</li><li>We question the less-than-clear laws that govern Pinocchio’s lie-detecting nose, which appear to grant him a mulligan here.</li><li>Those clas