The Smurfs’ Christmas Special

<p>It’s Christmas Eve, and we’re walking through a ring of fire back to the Year of Our Lord 1982 to dance along with “The Smurfs’ Christmas Special.”</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode:</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), my dear mother’s recipe for making life miserable.</li><li><strong>Thom Crowe</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/thomcrowe">@thomcrowe</a>), a very wise man with a beard who won’t outright say he’s not Santa, from <a href="https://tisthepodcast.com">Tis the Podcast</a>.</li><li><strong>Gerry Davila</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/RadChristmas">@ RadChristmas</a>), who would have made a heck of a Christmas pudding if only he hadn’t eaten the last walnut, from <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/840331">Totally Rad Christmas</a>.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents:</h4><ol><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYXVPVvcFY">Watch “The Smurfs Christmas Special” on the official Smurfs YouTube channel</a>.</li><li>The great debate over VHS recordings with vs. without commercials.</li><li>We want to try <a href="https://www.chickendynasty.com/the-smurfs-christmas-special/">Greedy Smurf’s giant cauldron of pink Christmas pudding</a>.</li><li>My son thinks <a href="https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:HWAoC_King_Rhoam_Artwork.png">the king of Hyrule</a> is Santa.</li><li>I am just now learning about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_salad">Watergate salad</a>.</li><li>The Smurfs in theme parks, including <a href="https://alchetron.com/Hanna%E2%80%93Barbera-Land">Hanna-Barbera Land in Texas and Kings Dominion in Virginia</a>.</li><li>Danny Goldman (Brainy Smurf) played a similarly know-it-all-ish student in “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1seWmy53FZk">Young Frankenstein</a>.”</li><li>Paul Winchell (Gargamel) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060127002824/http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/winchell.html">designed and patented an artificial heart</a>.</li><li>Papa Smurf Jedi-mind-tricks a pack of wol