Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration

<p><strong>Day 7:</strong> The California Raisins miss their bus, make a sleigh out of garbage and fly it into space in <strong>Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration</strong>, the greatest holiday special out of all holiday specials hosted by clay dinosaurs.</p> <h4>On This Episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike" title="Follow Mike on Twitter">@fallwestmike</a>), a singing goose carrying a basket of Easter Eggs on Christmas Eve for no reason.</li> <li><strong>Erin Evans</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mserinmevans" title="Follow Erin on Twitter">@mserinmevans</a>), who fortunately knows more about dinosaurs than Mike does.</li> <li><strong>Joey O.</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ImGonnaDJ24" title="Follow Joey on Twitter">@ImGonnaDJ24</a>), from <a href="http://ynotradio.net/">Y-Not Radio</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Words_W_Nerds">Words with Nerds</a>.</li> <li><strong>Emily Rowley</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mlerowley" title="Follow Emily on Twitter">@mlerowley</a>), a sentient church bell coexisting with other, nonliving church bells.</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>Topics and Tangents</h4> <p><strong>WARNING:</strong> This episode inexplicably contains a major spoiler for the 2014 movie <em>How to Train Your Dragon 2</em>.</p> <ol> <li>RIP Will Vinton (1947–2018), the creator of (capital-C) Claymation who may or may not have inspired <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/30-rock-cocreator-tells-the-story-behind-leap-day-william">Leap Day William</a>.</li> <li>Vinton also worked special effects on the Epcot attraction <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlSO52dFNE" title="YouTube: Video Power (Season 2) Stupidity">Captain EO</a> starring Michael Jackson.</li> <li><a href="http://www.johnnycounterfit.com/">Johnny Counterfit</a>, the voice of Rex (and not at all <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9LJqNA6H0">Johnny Arcade</a>), wrote a <a href="http://www.johnnycounterfit.com/book-written-by-jo