Doug’s Christmas Story

🎄 Doug uses weaponized cupcakes to break Porkchop out of doggie death row.  🎙 Gregiffer Stevens from the Pop Arena and Nick Knacks joins us as we skate on thin ice back to 1993 for a very educational trip to Bluffington that I forgot was a Christmas episode while I was watching it.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Disney’s “Doug” was fine, y’all.  “Doug” creator Jim Jinkins worked on Nickelodeon’s first show, “Pinwheel.”  Early versions of Doug in a bumper for USA Network and a PSA for Florida Grapefruit Juice narrated by Lorenzo Music.  Today’s TV Trope: Danger: Thin Ice.  Alice Playten (Beebe) in “Really Rosie” as Alligator.  Constance Shulman (Patti) in “Weekend at Bernie’s II.”  Every car in Bluffington looks like Homer Simpson designed it.  Greg Lee from “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” voices the now-former mayor White, and boy, am I glad we recorded this after election week.  “The Phred on Your Head Show.”  Mr. Dink’s last name is apparently an acronym for “Double Income, No Kids.”  Don’t wrap pets in boxes!  What is Pork Chop?  The topper on the Funnies’ Christmas tree is Mr. Dink’s face.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Nicktoons Pizza Hut Kids’ Pizza Pack Commercial, (1991)  SequelQuest.  TGI Podcast.  ****  “Doug” and “Doug’s Christmas Story” © 1993 Jumbo Pictures, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s5 #1990s #nickelodeon