’Tis the Season to be Smurfy

<p>🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we witnessed goodness make the badness go away in “<a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/smurfs-christmas-special">The Smurfs’ Christmas Special</a>.”  </p><p>This time, we’re taking a one giant puppy open sleigh ride back to 1987 to help the Smurfs save Christmas for a poor human toymaker and his gravely ill wife, while Brainy and Hefty get lost in medieval Crime Alley.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Lindy Kempe (<a href="https://twitter.com/ieatvideogames">@ieatvideogames</a>).  </p><p>Donnie Storms (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/bronwensghost">Bronwen’s Ghost</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/boxcar45">@boxcar45</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. Watch “’Tis the Season to be Smurfy” on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwdyYBcbNmI">Smurfs’ official YouTube channel</a>, or an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq6a_60_vCc">upscaled version including the opening credits</a>.  </p><p>2. “<a href="https://youtu.be/23vkSUBn1OE?t=59">Look at the adjective…</a>”  </p><p>3. The crazy backstories of the Smurfs’ <a href="https://smurfs.fandom.com/wiki/Puppy_(character)">Puppy</a> and <a href="https://smurfs.fandom.com/wiki/Sassette_Smurfling">Sassette_Smurfling</a>.  </p><p>4. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqlwPl6j3XQ">The Great Cookie Thief</a>.  </p><p>5. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cROY4m4Ftiw&t=67s">New and improved Joker products</a>!  </p><p>5. Painter Smurf paints like “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XvXsuSJ-1A">Duck Amuck</a>.”  </p><p>****  </p><h2>📼 Commercial Break:  </h2><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E166wfxy21Y">Smurf-Berry Crunch Cereal</a>, 1983.  </p><p><a href="https://badprincessmovies.com">Bad Princess Movies</a>, a catalogue of terrible movies about princesses and princesses-to-be.  </p><p>****  </p><p>“’Tis the Season to be Smurfy” © 1987 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.  </p><p>Theme song by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/bronwensghost">Bronw