Retronauts Episode 346: Holiday Special 2020 - Earthworm Jim's "For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls"

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Happy holidays! As a special Christmas treat, we're giving you one of this month's Patreon-exclusive extra episodes! To hear two full-length bonus episodes like this every month, please visit the official Retronauts Patreon at patreon.com/retronauts.

It's the yuletide season, which means it's time to head to the Retronauts Holiday Cabin in Parts Unknown yet again for another look at a Christmas-related video game thing. And even thought this is our tenth (!) holiday special, we haven't hit the bottom of the barrel just yet! This time around, we'll be looking at the Christmas (and final) episode of Earthworm Jim, the short-lived Kids' WB cartoon that, 25 years later, stands as one of the better games-to-animation adaptations out there. So smear on some wolf repellant and get ready for the only holiday travel not prohibited by law as host Bob Mackey and guest Henry Gilbert discuss this cartoon relic of the mid-90s. Groovy!

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0:30.0	Oh hello there, welcome back to the RetroNots Cabin in parts unknown for yet another holiday
0:37.2	podcast special.
0:38.5	Once again I didn't hear you come in, which is odd because I've spent most of 2020 being
0:42.6	locked in a state of hyper vigilance about potential danger.
0:46.0	Anyhow, would you believe this is the 10th RetroNots holiday special today?
0:49.8	Yes over the past decade we've shared so many memories about Christmas related video game
0:53.8	things as society has gradually fallen apart around us.
0:57.4	And we were quarantining before it was cool and mandatory.
1:01.1	Thanks to the pandemic we've had to make a few alterations around here but I'm sure
1:04.6	you'll find the Christmas spirit infecting every corner of the holiday cabin.
1:08.4	There's a nice thick sheet of plexiglass for our guests to sit behind of course and
1:12.4	unfortunately I've had to board up the fireplace because old Satanic is a deadly biohazard
1:17.2	this year.
1:18.2	And that sound you're hearing?
1:19.2	It's HBO Max's virtual U-log.
1:21.9	Now that's one prestige chunk of wood that's burning in there.
1:30.2	Oh and of course my robot companion Steve is with me as well.
1:33.1	In this year he's been modified to emit a harmless antimicrobial gas to cleanse the
1:37.3	air of toxins and fill it with any number of trendy aromatherapy scents.
1:41.9	Well nothing says Christmas like a freshly opened pack of Magic the Gathering cards so let's
1:57.3	make it that.
1:58.3	I got my entire family Magic the Gathering cards this year.
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