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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 61: How “Rudolph” wound up on Freeform

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🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill discuss what surprised them about this year’s Annie Award nominations. They also look back at the complicated history of the holiday specials produced by Rankin-Bass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

0:07.0

I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I recording this on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019.

0:15.0

Lots of animation news is broken, Drew, since you and I recorded our last podcast,

0:22.0

first and foremost, the nominations yeah and then frozen

0:26.3

to you know which was number one at the box office again this past weekend

0:30.8

by the way, speaking of frozen things, at least back here in the northeast, we're dealing

0:41.0

with a snowstorm that started on Sunday night and is still continuing

0:46.2

How many inches we're talking about Jim? Well I'm looking at at my front deck which right now appears to have like 15 and storm isn't

0:55.8

due to end till sometime this afternoon and you know so it's you know suddenly I'm

1:02.2

not quite as enthusiastic as I once was, you know, frozen two, because now it's real.

1:06.6

Now I got to go ahead and shovel it.

1:08.6

But speaking of Sunday night, did you catch the Simpsons this past Sunday night?

1:13.6

I did. I did. I actually watched it after you had brought it up when we were talking yesterday.

1:18.0

So, yeah, it was really interesting.

1:20.3

For those of you didn't catch the show this was a a Flanders specific show in fact what was the title where Todd Todd why hast thou forsaken me and

1:30.2

it was about Ned Flanders on Todd having a crisis in faith, but

1:35.2

Well, did you notice the intro was the Flanderses and then right underneath it said now owned by Disney?

1:42.0

Well, you know, I mean, I have to wait.

1:44.0

I love that because for what I've been hearing,

1:48.0

the folks at Gracie Films have basically been told,

1:52.0

look, if you want to make fun of Disney

1:55.3

make fun of Disney feel free to lean into this this supposedly comes down from

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