Alvin and the Chipmunks: Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll

<p>🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, our hearts and golden harmonicas went out to “<a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-chipmunk-christmas">A Chipmunk Christmas</a>.”  </p><p>This time, it’s Scrooge Sunday, and our Christmas in July reunion tour arrives in Hollywood — or at least a nearby cartoon suburb where Alvin turns his greed up to 11 and blames it on his lonely old neighbor who doesn’t know how to plant a garden. So get set to have some fun in this Dickens of an episode of “Alvin and the Chipmunks.”  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Tom Coombs (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/popdaddytom">The Pop Daddy</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/thepopdaddy">@thepopdaddy</a>).  </p><p>Sean Sotka (<a href="https://christmaspodcasts.com/series/christmas-podcasts-podcast/">The Christmas Podcasts Podcast</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/xander0527">@xander0527</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. “<a href="https://archive.org/details/1983-alvin-and-the-chipmunks-complete/Alvin+%26+The+Chipmunks+(1983)+Complete/Season+7+Complete/S7E13+Merry+Christmas%2C+Mr.+Carroll.avi">Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll</a>” on the Internet Archive.  </p><p>2. <a href="https://alvin.fandom.com/wiki/Merry_Christmas,_Mr._Carroll">“Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll” on Munkapedia</a>.  </p><p>3. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWd5D8wUc88">Pee-wee Herman’s breakfast machine</a>.  </p><p>4. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0QWHFbCCM0">Paperboy</a>, the video game.  </p><p>5. “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0-vGW6p3zk">Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue</a>.”  </p><p>6. Dads with trash bags on Christmas morning.  </p><p>7. “<a href="https://archive.org/details/3.AChipmunkReunion1985">A Chipmunk Reunion</a>.”  </p><p>8. A Seville family portrait featuring <a href="https://imgur.com/a/hWv7r5k">Dave’s abnormally large head</a>.  </p><p>9. <a href="https://www.wdwmagic.com/events/the-worlds-most-magical-celebration/gallery/28jun2021-five-decades-of-magic-at-walt-disney-world-res