Episode 150: Coffee Creeps 2

Posted on December 19, 2023 by Joseph

On this week’s podcast, we’re testing out some holiday coffees! Bradford brought us a selection of Nightmare Before Christmas-themed coffees from the good folks at Bones Coffee Company, and we’re going to brew a cup of each one right before your very ears.

So kick back and pour a cup of whatever ya got with Joe and Bradford as we shoot the breeze on this relaxing late-December morning. You’ve worked hard this month, you deserve it!

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Episode 149: The Holdovers

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Joseph

On this episode we discuss Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, a brand new Christmas film about the people left behind while everyone else is off on their own holiday adventures. And to help us break it all down, we welcome back Johnny-5, The Human Robot!

The Holdovers is all about folks dealing with the loneliness of the holiday season however they can: Drinking, watching game shows, wandering around at night, crashing Christmas parties. Y’know, general introvert behavior. But there’s so much more to it than that. It’s really something special.

We’ll dig into all that, plus the McRib being back, reminisce about our own holdover Christmases, and more! (Also, blanket spoiler warning here. We discuss it all, and recommend you see this one first. But you can do what you want. I’m not your dad.)

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Episode 148: The Killing Tree

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Joseph

This month we’re pushing back against the onslaught of Christmas Creep by extending spooky season in a block we’re calling SHRIEKSGIVING! On this episode we look at last year’s The Killing Tree, about a serial killer who gets reincarnated as a murderous Christmas tree. It is exactly as silly as you’d expect, but somehow, someway… we found this one kinda charming.

Also in this episode… Bradford unexpectedly manages to connect The Killing Tree to Xenoblade Chronicles, we accidentally wade into the quagmire of the villain being right but for the wrong reasons, and the guys reminisce about burritos we’ve eaten. Never a dull moment around here, folks!

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Episode 147: Scrooged

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Joseph

Greetings Creepazoids! It’s the day after Halloween, but that doesn’t mean the scares have to stop! This week we’re bringing you an episode all about the 1988 film Scrooged, starring Bill Murray as the scroogiest of TV executives and a whole host of Christmas spirits determined to show him the error of his ways.

November 1st also Christmas Podcast Day! Today our fellow Christmas podcasters are all covering a different adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, so head on over to social media and search for #ChristmasPodcastDay to join in on the fun!

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Episode 146: Over The Garden Wall

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Joseph

Season’s Greetings, spooky friends! October means it’s time once again for our favorite season here on Christmas Creeps: HOME FOR THE HORRORDAYS!

Joe’s fiancée Nikki joins us this week to help us break down the Cartoon Network miniseries Over The Garden Wall. It’s a show about two brothers lost in a creepy, antiquated netherworld called The Unknown, and has a very unique perspective on nostalgia, history, and the changing of the seasons.

It’s not really Christmasy, but it’s perfectly in our wheelhouse and ripe for discussion. And discuss it we do, because on this episode we go deep into the hidden meanings and history behind some of the stranger things in this cartoon. We want to ease you into things this season. You can have a little spooky. As a treat!

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Episode 145: Home Alone 4

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Joseph

Well friends, we did it. This week we cross Home Alone 4 off our list, a film we’ve honestly been dreading for quite some time. It took us nine years, but we finally watched every Home Alone film.

Home Alone 4 was meant to be a backdoor pilot for a Home Alone TV series, ultimately never picked up for a full season. And thank goodness, because this is far and away the worst thing the franchise has ever produced. With the wholly unrelated Home Alone 3 a distant memory, we return to the McCallister clan and an all-new adventure in which Wet/Sticky Bandit Marv once again tries to burgle a home occupied by young Kevin.

Hijinks—if you want to call them that—ensue. We’re sorry. Feel our pain.

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Episode 144: A Doggone Christmas

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Joseph

The summer heat is oppressive. The school year is about to begin. These are the Dog Days of Summer.

So of course we watched another talking dog movie! This episode Joe and Bradford experience A Doggone Christmas, a movie about a telepathic talking dog and the children he befriends as he escapes the government agents hellbent on sending him off for experiments, which isn’t at all similar to a Steven Spielberg movie about a friendly space alien…

Also along the way, Bradford winds up explaining more about train culture, Video Game Chat finds us discussing Pikmin 4, and somehow we wind up talking about Day of the Dolphin.

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Stocking Stuffer #31: Christmas Comes to Pac-Land

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Joseph

On this episode we’ve got Pac-Man Fever and it’s driving us crazy! Just two short years after the debut of the arcade hit Pac-Man, Hanna Barbera produced a Saturday morning cartoon all about the denizens of Pac-Land. And, naturally, a Christmas episode was soon to follow!

Joe and Bradford spend a good portion of this episode on video game chat, as you can imagine. But also we explain our original plans for this episode and why we had to scuttle them, as well as our nostalgia for defunct TV channels, and our own experiences with haunted hotels. And somewhere in all that we talk about how Pac-Man saves Santa!

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Episode 143: A Claymation Christmas Celebration (w/ Gerry D)

Posted on July 18, 2023 by Joseph

This one’s been a long time coming. On this episode we discuss a cult classic among holiday specials: Will Vinton’s 1987 Claymation Christmas Celebration! And to help us break it all down is special guest Gerry Davila, host of the Totally Rad Christmas podcast!

Claymation Christmas has a certain reputation in the pantheon of holiday specials. You either love it for its handcrafted stop-motion and off kilter sense of humor, or you hate it for its litany of dad jokes. (At least, that’s how my own parents think of it.) Either way, if you lived through the 80s, chances are Claymation Christmas has a special place in your heart. So grab a frosty beverage and let’s get a-wassailin’!

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Episode 142: Gundam Wing Endless Waltz

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Joseph

Ani-May strikes back for one last hurrah this week! Our pal Dr. Nick returns for this double-length episode to explain the myriad ins and outs of the Mobile Suit Gundam universe as we discuss the 1998 feature film Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz!

Earth is about to be invaded by one of its colonies on Christmas Eve, right after the planet decided to rid itself of its protecting force of giant mech suits. Our intrepid team must retrieve the suits before they crash into the sun, and hope they’re not to late to save Queen Relena and the planet (and Christmas!) before it can be conquered by pint-sized dictator Mariemaia.

If none of that made any sense to you, don’t worry! Nick brought charts and graphs (seen below) to explain everything—and I do mean EVERYTHING—you need to know. And if that’s not enough, well then there’s more than enough Gundam media out there to help you out. So strap yourselves in for one last blast of Ani-May madness!

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Nick’s Gundam Wing Character Chart
Nick’s Gundam Wing Mecha Chart

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