The Simpsons - ’Tis the Fifteenth Season

🎄 “This just in: Santa Claus is dead… or he might as well be, because there’s an even fatter man who’s holding families at nice-point!”

’Tis the Advent Calendar House’s 15th season, so this December’s dozen begins with a similarly titled episode of “The Simpsons” from 2003.

🎙️ Shane Keating from ToughPigs.com, Erin Evans, and Joey O. join the mission to stop being selfish and start being good.

📺 As of this recording, “’Tis the Fifteenth Season” (Season 15, Episode 7) is available on Disney+.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

This episode premiered the day after Saddam Hussein was caught.

Marge’s couch gag anime costume: Jun the Swan from “Gatchaman.”

“How Low Can DVD Players Go?” (New York Times, 2003)

Kathy from Personnel.

The Joe DiMaggio rookie card is real.

Today’s TV Trope: Art Shift — “Christmas with the California Prunes” and “The Year Santa Got Lost,” animated by the Chiodo Bros.

Animaniacs’ 50 State Capitals.

Of course I looked up the astrolabe’s coordinates.

Convoy, and the cover by Sifl & Olly.

Operation: The Simpsons Edition.

The first on-screen appearance of Nelson’s mom.

The end of “Treehouse of Horror IV.”

Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed Television — and America — Forever, by Alan Siegel.

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📼 Commercials:

Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1991)

Butterfinger - The Power Cut (1993)

A Bomb for Christmas 2: Past, Present, and Future on the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast.

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