The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise

<p>Hop, hop, hop with us back to 1981 for our first trip to Bear Country, which it turns out was built on top of the Easter Bunny’s industrial nightmare factory.  </p><p>Find full show notes and links at <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/berenstain-bears-easter-surprise">https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/berenstain-bears-easter-surprise</a>  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 On This Episode:  </h2><p>• <strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), a giant vat of chocolate shaped like an enormous baby chick.  </p><p>• <strong>Alan Johnson</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/AlanJ">@AlanJ</a>), about to hook up his candy conveyor belt to an old car and knock us all off the Skype call, from <a href="https://soundcloud.com/two-bad-neighbors">Two Bad Neighbors – A Simpsons Podcast</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/talespintriviayyc/">Talespin Trivia</a>.  </p><p>• <strong>Emily Rowley</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mlerowley">@mlerowley</a>), TV’s sassiest Easter Bunny.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>• <a href="https://youtu.be/p_J4E8n4F0U"><i>The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise</i></a> on the official YouTube channel.  </p><p>• Yes, we all collectively mispronounced “Berenstain.”  </p><p>• <a href="https://imdb.to/3gnuuJD">The VHS cover</a>, for reference.  </p><p>• <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Berenstain_Bears_The_Very_First_East.html?id=pv6ADwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description"><i>The Berenstain Bears: The Very First Easter</i></a>, being the story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus, who is also a bear.  </p><p>• <a href="https://berenstainbears.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/inside-the-bear-family-tree-house/">Inside the Berenstain Bears’ Tree House</a>.  </p><p>• The <a href="https://www.thespruce.com/great-trees-of-the-world-1709081">widest tree in the world</a>, for comparison.  </p><p>• Things this special has in common with Steel Magnolias: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425571/">Knowl J