Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special

<p><strong>Day 21:</strong> We celebrate the 30th anniversary of the “Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special” the only way we know how: With lots of screaming, lots of fruitcake, and lots more screaming.</p> <h4>On this episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), a completely ignored, dog-shaped chaise lounge no one ever sits on or talks about.</li> <li><strong>Erin Evans</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mserinmevans">@mserinmevans</a>), a talking iPad on wheels whose idea of a family reunion involves a small sacrifice of personal space.</li> <li><strong>Lindy Kempe</strong> (<a href="(https://twitter.com/ieatvideogames)">@ieatvideogames</a>), an anxious flying dinosaur from a place that existed long, long ago.</li> <li><strong>Joey O.</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/imgonnadj24">@ImGonnaDJ24</a>), an artificially intelligent pile of home appliances made even more useful when instigating loud chaos with a single word, from <a href="http://ynotradio.net/">Y-Not Radio</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Words_W_Nerds">Words with Nerds</a>.</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>Topics and Tangents</h4> <ol> <li>Magic Johnson recorded his segment hours before playing in — and winning — a Lakers game. We don’t know the precise date, but one win was against the SuperSonics, <em>possibly</em> (but probably not) on Ice Cube’s “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Was_a_Good_Day#Date_of_the_%22Good_Day%22">Good Day</a>.”</li> <li>One commercial break includes a bizarre <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucuLrWHGqc">Pringles commercial starring a young Brad Pitt</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80031800/">Pee-wee’s Big Holiday</a> on Netflix.</li> <li>When did fruitcake become a punchline? <a href="http://christmaspast.media/episode-27-fruitcake/">Christmas Past</a> has something of an answer. Or is fruitcake is a byproduct of the <a href="https://www.progressiveboink.com/classic/2014/10/13/6972949/joys-of-jello">