Michael and Rob welcome Sue London and Michael DiGiovanni to come help build a cinematic multiverse out of our favorite Christmas specials. We've assigned each other a couple of specials each to crossover, then once we've revealed our mashups, we work together to create an Avengers-style feature combining all eight of the original ideas. It's nice, it's occasionally naughty, but most of all it's fun. Merry Christmas!

In the first part of a sort of crossover with the Advent Calendar House podcast, Mike Westfall joins Michael and Rob to talk about an unusual version of A Christmas Carol. From CBS's 1954 anthology variety show, Shower of Stars, it features Fredric March as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Marley, and bunch of questionable songs.

And be sure to tune in next Sunday to ACH for Part Two in which Michael and Rob will join Mike to discuss another musical Christmas Carol, 2004's A Christmas Carol: The Musical starring Kelsey Grammer, Jason Alexander, Jane Krakowski, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jesse L Martin, and Geraldine Chaplin.

Michael and Rob invite Jody Collins and Jacob Bean-Watson over to put up the Christmas decorations and talk about the Ernst Lubitsch classic, The Shop Around the Corner. The movie stars Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan. And it was of course the inspiration for You've Got Mail. We talk about all of those people and the other characters, as well as the remakes and just how much of a Christmas movie it even is.

Michael and Jess talk about lots of horror stuff including A Ghost Story for Christmas, Lost Boys, Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics, and Dan Brereton's Nocturnals.

Our Sherlock Holmes panel reconvenes as Pax, Jacob, Michael, and Rob talk about the Spielberg-produced '80s favorite (and self-admittedly non-canonical), Young Sherlock Holmes.

Michael, Pax, and Rob talk about lots of stuff including Silver Age Wonder Girl, Man-Wolf, Hell House by Richard Matheson, three Shirley Jackson novels, podcast apps, and Predator: Badlands.

To celebrate the 400th episode of After Lunch (give or take), Michael welcomes back the original Nerd Lunch crew - CT, Jeeg, and Pax - to wrap up some unfinished business from the Nerd Lunch days. In June 2019, Jeeg led the gang, including Michael in the Fourth Chair, in an Overs/Unders exercise to predict what might happen in the proposed Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum. Of course, we never got that movie. Or... we didn't until Deadpool & Wolverine came out last year. It's finally time to tally up the scores and see who is the Best Channing Tatum Gambit Movie Predictor of All Time. And stay tuned to the end for a rerun of the original episode in which we made our predictions.

Michael, Rob, and Pax continue their occasional look at pulp and superhero serials with The Adventures of Smilin' Jack. It's one of Michael's favorites, but will Rob and Pax feel the same way? Starring Tom Brown, Keye Luke, and Rose Hobart.