The Glo Friends Save Christmas

<p>It’s Glo! We learn how to selectively melt only certain ice we’re radiating near with Hasbro’s hive of bioluminescent bugs in 1985’s “The Glo Friends Save Christmas,” starring Carroll O’Connor as Santa and Sally Struthers as Blanche, the Wicked Witch of the North Pole, who exists and is jealous of Santa’s publicity. Take notes, Great Pumpkin… or, perhaps, don’t.</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), the moose that ate Garfield.</li><li><strong>Erin Evans</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mserinmevans">@mserinmevans</a>), the North Pole’s resident <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH65MPnKojk">G.L.O.W.</a> friend.</li><li><strong>Joey O.</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ImGonnaDJ24">@ImGonnaDJ24</a>), her talking accessory from <a href="http://ynotradio.net">Y-Not Radio</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Words_W_Nerds">Words With Nerds</a>.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents</h4><ol><li>Like many Christmas specials, this is a pilot for an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glo_Friends">eventual series</a> that aired alongside the original “My Little Pony” animated series.</li><li>A helpful <a href="http://www.80stoysale.com/glofriends.html">guide to identifying every Glo Friend</a>.</li><li>Nancy Cartwright was the voice of Baby Glo Worm in the series, but in this pilot, it’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_O'Brien">Laurie O’Brien</a> doing her Baby Piggy voice.</li><li><a href="https://www.opendrive.com/player/116695324_ABaIS">Joey interviews Pat Fraley</a>, the voice of Glo Worm here, on his portrayal of Krang.</li><li>Glo Worm’s purple outfit here, as opposed to the original toy’s green outfit, was apparently a “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glo_Friends#Glo_Friends">source of controversy</a>,” according to Wikipedia.</li><li>Can all antlered mammals fly if you go far enough north?</li><li>Blanche’s spell to cast the unnamed Moose <i>(Lorenzo Mus