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Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 01/09/2026

Welcome to the ’ber months. Get your tapes ready.

Digital image of a retro videocassette cover labeled:

Advent Calendar House,
Holiday Specials Podcast,
Season 17.
November 1 – December 24, 2026.

The cover resembles an old blank VHS tape from CVS, and it’s on a backdrop of darkened TV static.

Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 25/07/2026

Yeah, yeah, Christmas in July. Great. Fun. But 17 years ago I married by best friend on this whole stinkin’ planet. This is my favorite photo of us.

Wedding day photo of my bride, smiling radiantly as a passing breeze tosses her veil into my face, causing me to make a goofy smile with my eyes shut. It’s perfect.

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Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 30/06/2026

recordin’ tonight. new season tomorrow.

Santa Claus flying in his sleigh with two young elves in “The Story of Santa Claus.”

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Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 24/06/2026

A new season of the Advent Calendar House starts next week for Christmas in July. And Valentine’s Day in July, Easter in July, Halloween in July, and Thanksgiving in July. Now you can search the holiday special archives by season, tag, or decade at adventcalendar.house

Advent Calendar House, Season 16 on the label of a VHS tape cover plastered with stickers for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving in July.

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Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 21/05/2026

Some Muppet Christmas Carol stickers hiding in the Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster gift shop.

Suitcases with stickers including “Scrooge & Marley” on high shelves in the Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets gift shop.

Suitcases with stickers including “Fozziewig and Mom Ltd.” on high shelves in the Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets gift shop.

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Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 04/05/2026

recordin’ tonight. May the fourth be something something.

In the Disney cartoon “Recess,” Mikey listens to some words of wisdom from an old man about believing in Christmas magic.

He’s voiced be James Earl Jones. May the fourth be with you.

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Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 13/04/2026

What a joy it was just to talk to @williambwest.bsky.social. I hope his family gets at least the tiniest bit of comfort seeing how loved and respected he was to us bunch of old nerds on the internet.

At the end of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a handwritten note in a Christmas card reads: “Remember no man is a failure who has friends.”

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Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 23/12/2025

That’s not all he stole from Santa.

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Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 03/12/2025

“wOnDeRfuL ChRiStMaStiMe iS bAd”

Panel 1: A stick figure standing alone makes a statement a distance away from a group of people chatting together in a small circle.

Panel 2: One person from the group gives the complaining stick figure a cartoonishly large thumbs up.

Panel 3: The person from the group goes back to chatting with their buds in the circle.

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Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 27/10/2025

Most folks my age probably remember June Lockhart, who died this week at age 100, from Lassie reruns. Her film debut was in 1938’s “A Christmas Carol” as Belinda Cratchit. Her real-life parents, Gene and Kathleen, played Bob and Mrs. Cratchit. Gene was later the judge in “Miracle on 34th Street.”

Scene from the 1938 movie “A Christmas Carol,” with June Lockhart as Belinda Cratchit; her real-life father and mother, Gene and Kathleen Lockhart as Bob and Mrs. Cratchit; and Terry Kilburn as Tiny Tim.

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