1987 Christmas Specials on CBS!

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Purple Stuff Podcast

Comedy

5 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Happy holidays, everyone! Join us on a merry trip through the back-to-back broadcasts on A Charlie Brown Christmas and How The Grinch Stole Christmas, from 1987 on CBS!We're talking about the specials, and of course, the great old commercials! If you'd like to watch all of the ads that aired during the cartoons, we uploaded 'em over here: https://youtu.be/-ZN71wpvmV8Thanks for supporting the show in 2024!

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0:00.0	It's time for America's favorite holiday tradition.
0:16.0	I've killed it.
0:17.0	Good grief.
0:18.0	It's the Peanuts Gang's Christmas Spectacular.
0:20.0	The Emmy Award winning a
0:21.5	Charlie Brown Christmas. Then, that mean old Grinch is back as he plots to pinch Santa's big day
0:27.4	on the Dr. Seuss Classic how the Grinch stole Christmas. Two holiday favorites Friday on CBS.
0:33.3	We have a festive feature presentation here on the Purple Stuff podcast, Matt.
0:39.2	I'm very excited.
0:40.6	We're going to be discussing an epic back-to-back broadcast of two of the most iconic holiday specials of all time.
0:49.3	A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas from December 11th, 1987.
0:56.8	Friday night, 1987, we were both there watching, absolutely guaranteed.
1:02.9	What I was realizing while I was researching is that 1987, honestly, might be the biggest year
1:08.5	of our lifetimes as far as Christmas specials went.
1:11.7	Because stuff like Muppet Family Christmas, a Garfield Christmas all debuted that year.
1:16.1	But of course, this broadcast, if you have Charlie Brown in there, that's the A-night.
1:21.7	And of course, in the beginning of this special, you see the CBS special presentation come through on the TV. And you knew when that
1:31.8	was on, it meant business. Listen, when we were kids, when you would see that classic spinning
1:42.6	CBS special presentation intro, you would literally
1:45.8	have butterflies in your stomach.
1:48.1	And the crazy drum sounds in the background.
1:51.2	Oh, man.
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