A Thanksgiving Tale

from Advent Calendar House · host Mike Westfall

🦃 We’re talking turkey as we dig up and dig in to a 1983 Thanksgiving special from puppeteer Paul Fusco, the creator of ALF. 🎙️ Chad Young, Tommy Coombs, and Jayme Kilsby join us the follow a turkey’s dream of stardom that ends with dogs and cats living together. 📺 You can watch “A Thanksgiving Tale” on Youtube, with curated retro Thanksgiving commercials. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: Imagicom Productions’ Holiday Specials Collection. Fred Travalena as the Joker in the 1989 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. A November 16, 1983 TV listing in an archived New York Magazine. Paul Fusco’s “Space Cats.” David Lander in “Funland.” Mental Floss’s Oral History of ALF. Today’s TV Trope: Invited as Dinner. The “You Bet Your Life” Duck. The art of making puppets fight: Throw them into the air from behind a fence. We compare the Thanksgiving play in this special to the one in Addams Family Values. **** 📼 Commercials: Butterball Turkey Commercial (1985) Christmas Time in the City. **** “A Thanksgiving Tale” © 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc. Find us at adventcalendar.house. #s6 #1980s #thanksgiving #puppets

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