The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Alan Brady Show Presents

<p>It’s 1963, and we’re watching a show about a show within a show putting on a show for Christmas. Don’t ask us to make sense of it. We can’t stop tripping over our own home furniture.  </p><p>Full show notes with links at <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/dick-van-dyke-show-christmas">https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/dick-van-dyke-show-christmas</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guest:  </h2><p>• Tim Babb from the <a href="https://cantwaitforchristmaspod.com">Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/timbabbcomedian">@TimBabbComedian</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/christmaspod">@ChristmasPod</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>• Dick Van Dyke as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fcTne5Jbo">Tubby the Tuba</a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.metv.com/lists/8-great-little-details-you-never-noticed-in-the-dick-van-dyke-show-christmas-episode">8 great little details you never noticed in <i>The Dick Van Dyke Show</i> Christmas episode</a> (MeTV).  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/best-dick-van-dyke-show-episodes.html">Every Episode of <i>The Dick Van Dyke Show</i>, Ranked</a> (Vulture).  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRQENE4f5c">92-year-old Dick Van Dyke dancing to <i>Step in Time</i></a>.  </p><p>• Dick Van Dyke in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL3AijekRYw"><i>Mary Poppins Returns</i></a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body"><i>John Brown’s Body</i></a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg58d8opQKA">Key & Peele’s Negrotown sketch</a> and the trope of interrupting someone’s song.  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zC9sSnjSAk"><i>The Dick Van Dyke Show</i> cast reunites on <i>Comic Relief</i></a>, 1992.  </p><p>• The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DickVanDykeShowBook/posts/1308468639177533">Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book’s history of <i>I Am a Fine Musician</i></a>.  </p><p>• The theme song’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/w