Welcome to Fine-Tune Good Through Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to

animation news and commentary. I'm Drew's co-host entertainment writer Jim Hill and

he and I are recording this show on Sunday, December 8th, 2019.

And before we get started here, Drew, I have to ask what sort of cool stuff did you get to do in

LA this week.

I mean, me, I shoveled out the house three times in six days and I want to point out that

winter doesn't actually start till December 21st. So please tell me you got to do

cool things in spite of the rain.

You've had a lot of rain lately.

We have had a lot of rain, but it's actually a nice little diversion.

It's a nice excuse to stay inside, but I'm just trying to watch as many things as I can before the end of the year and we're going to get the Golden Globe nominations this week, so that should be interesting.

But yeah, just hanging out and enjoying the weather and enjoying calling you as you come back from shoveling snow and are just out of breath.

I'm old, what do you want from me? Okay. Well speaking of watching things just last night

Nickelodeon ran Spongebob the musical again I'm fascinated by the history of this show I mean it

it opened in Chicago back in in June of 2016 got great reviews and then didn't make it into New York for a year and a half because

they literally there were no theaters available or good musical theaters I should

stress here.

And so it finally opens in December of 2017 and gets great reviews, but then is basically forced to close in September of 2018 because the

building that the theater the palace theater in, it had the greatest house

if you're a show that appeals to tourists.

In fact, this was actually where Disney had

Beauty and the Beast for years

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