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Christmas Past

Roundtable: Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls, with Chris and Kris Sisley and Mike Patton

Christmas Past

Brian Earl

History, Society & Culture, Holidays, Kids & Family, Christmas

4.9791 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Christmas in Quarantine: Day 16: Today, we're heading back to the 80s, when all you needed for a cartoon Christmas special was a bestselling toy and a flimsy storyline. Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls tells the story of a group of Wacky Wall Walkers who come to earth from a distant planet to discover the true meaning of Christmas. I'm joined by Chris and Kris from Christmas Time in the City and Mike from Snow in Southtown for this very 80s episode. Links from this episode Deck the Halls...

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another installment of Christmas in quarantine.

0:10.3

It's Christmas Past's impromptu mini-series of indeterminate length.

0:14.7

Join me for daily episodes until things start looking better on the COVID-19 crisis.

0:19.9

And speaking of which, I do hope that you're

0:22.0

staying safe and healthy, that you're practicing all of the common sense guidelines and that you're

0:26.8

treating the situation with the seriousness it deserves and taking your advice only from trained

0:32.1

medical professionals. Now, during our time at home, a lot of us are watching more TV and movies.

0:38.5

And for those of us with the Christmas spirit, it's only a matter of time before we start

0:42.3

digging through YouTube and seeing what nostalgic treasures are there for the taking.

0:47.5

Anyone who grew up in the 80s will be familiar with a toy known as the Wacky Wall Walkers.

0:52.5

They were kind of a fad toy that you'd often find in toy stores or sometimes even as prizes

0:57.0

in cereal boxes.

0:58.0

They were sticky, and when you threw them against the wall, they would appear to crawl down.

1:03.0

Well, in the 80s, it was also true that anything that was marginally popular would also have its own line of merchandise,

1:09.0

maybe its own breakfast cereal, and, sooner

1:11.7

or later, a Saturday morning cartoon or a cartoon special.

1:16.5

That happens to be the case with the Wacky Wall Walkers, believe it or not.

1:20.5

They had their own Christmas special known as Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls, telling

1:26.3

the story of some aliens who fall to Earth

1:28.5

and need to find the real meaning of Christmas.

1:32.2

It's a Christmas special as only the 80s could produce, and I needed a little bit of help

1:37.0

on tangling things, so I invited my friends Chris with a C and Chris with a K from the Christmas

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