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🎁🎄🎅 📺 🔫 Happy Thursday “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” listeners! Today I talk about a show that I remember watching when it was first on. A show that I thought was terribly underrated and starring a man who I’ve loved since the first time he made fun of OJ….You guess it Frank St…wait – I mean, Norm MacDonald. Show Title:   Norm Episode Title:   “Norm vs. Christmas” Original Air Date:   December 1...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 👶 Happy Wednesday, classic television lovers! Today “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” FINALLY goes back to one of the original sitcoms of all time to talk about a very rare episode of television that isn’t that easy to find! But I found it. And to be honest it was the 2nd Christmas sitcom episode I watched today – both starring the same woman. I’ll explain, but you have to listen… Show Title:...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 ⛪ Hallelujah, it's Tuesday my brethren and…sistren? (apparently that's real word) Today " Sitcom All Ye Faithful " is going to church with one of the most recognizable, influential and memorable sitcom actors of all time – the great Sherman Hemsley! Can I get an AMEN!? Show Title:   Amen Episode Title:   "Your Christmas Show of Shows" Original Air Date:   Decembe...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 🚗 Happy Monday, Holidudes and Holidudettes! “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” rolls on with a show I definitely watched a lot of – but if I watched this specific episode 20 years ago, I have no memory of it. And that’s a good thing because this might have been my favorite episode of television yet this month! Show Title:   My Name is Earl Episode Title:   “White Lie Christmas” Original Air Dat...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 👗 It’s Sunday, TV nerds! As another week of December comes to an end, so does another week of “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful !” Today’s episode first aired exactly ten years after yesterday’s episode – and it is yet again another eleventh episode of a season! Both today and yesterday’s shows are about people in love. The only difference, today’s show was actually a success. Show Title:   Mad...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 🚐 Happy Saturday Lovers! Today on “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” I am shot out of a cannon the entire episode! I think I may have overdid it on coffee and I had the house to myself so I could be as loud as I wanted without bugging anyone. Today we have another eleventh episode and another spin-off. But most importantly, I get to spend one last Christmas with a member of the Cunningham famil...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 🍹 Happy Friday Dunder-Mifflinites! It’s that time of year again where “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” revisits Scranton, PA with one of Geek Mentality’s most frequent guests,  my buddy Chris . You may know Chris from all his times here or as one of the hosts of our “ Fine Movies. Fine Spirits .” show. Once again, we go back to see how that little paper company is doing around the holidays… S...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 🍺 It’s Thursday situation comedy enthusiast! And that means another episode of “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ,” another 11th episode from a season of a show, and another play on someone stealing Christmas. And the cool thing about today’s episode – an 11th from its 2nd season – is that it actually aired on December 11th. Yup, today’s episode aired exactly 19 years ago today. Imagine if I sai...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 😡 It’s Wednesday, Christmas lovers – and you know what that means! It means, um…oh it means another day of “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful !” Today I got back to 1991 to discuss a show – that I remembered being funnier than what I watched today. Show Title:   Dear John Episode Title:   “‘Twas the Fight Before Christmas” Original Air Date:   December 27, 1991 Season:  4 Episode:  11

🎁🎄🎅 📺 🩺 Happy Tuesday to all you people who celebrate....Tuesdays ! Today, " Sitcom All Ye Faithful "" rolls on with a show that I never watched before – but after today, I really think that needs to change. Show Title:   The Mindy Project Episode Title:   "Christmas Party Sex Trap" Original Air Date:   December 3, 2013 Season:  1 Episode:  11

🎁🎄🎅 📺 🎺 Week two of “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” kicks-off just like week one did – by going back to the 1950s. This time to a show I actually watched as a kid. For real! Show Title:   Dennis the Menace Episode Title:   “The Christmas Story” Original Air Date:   December 20, 1959 Season:  1 Episode:  11

🎁🎄🎅 📺 🏫 Happy Sunday Christmas-lovers! Today “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” goes back to school and goes all the way back to the year 2024 to talk about TWO episodes of a show for the price of one! Not exactly a “two-part” episode of television, but they compliment each other and they did air on the same night so…Hey, I make the rules! Show Title:   Abbott Elementary Episode Title:   "Winter...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 📷 It’s the first Saturday of “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” my friends, and today I stayed in the 20th Century – but only by a couple years as I went back to 1998 to watch a show I every so often I think, should I have watche that show when it was first on? Should I go back and watch it now that I can stream it on Hulu? Well, you’re going to have to listen to find out the answer to that que...

🎁🎄🎅 📺 🎉 🥳 Happy Friday Televisionaries! We’ve reached the end of the work week, well not really, since " Sitcom All Ye Faithful " goes seven days a week until Christmas day. Today, I watch a show from the 70s that I am not familiar with at all except that I know it stars the legendary Cloris Leachman and is a spin-off of the legendary  Mary Tyler Moore Show . Hey, it’s my second spin...

🎁🎄🎅📺 🏛️ It’s day four of “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ,” my Holidarians, and today we are heading back to the 1980s. I definitely watched this show early on, so there’s a good chance I watched this when it first came on – but I have zero memory of it and zero memory of a big Oscar winning star that came out of this show. And no, before you go look it up, Sinbad did not win an Oscar. I watched this...

🎁🎄🎅📺 🐷 On the third day of “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ,” my true love gave to me, a classic episode of TV…Yes today, we go back to the 60s to a comedy classic as I watched an episode of Green Acres for the first time since I was probably in junior high. It was on Nick and Nite – I’m not that old. You can  watch this episode of “Green Acres” for free right now on YouTube . Show Title:   Green Ac...

🎁🎄🎅📺 ✈️ Welcome back, Christmateers! It’s day two of “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” and today I moved up about 40 years to the 1990s to revisit a show that I was not a regular viewer of – but I probably should have been. What makes this choice even more interesting is this is the third episode of television that’s been featured on Sitcom All Ye Faithful from the night this aired back in 1995. Back...

🎁🎄🎅📺 🚬 Happy Holidays, television fans! It’s here! It’s here! Year Five of “ Sitcom All Ye Faithful ” is finally here! For our first episode of this season, I went back 72 years ago to watch an episode of “Make Room For Daddy” before it turned into the “Danny Thomas Show.” If you like a 10 minute song/dance/joke club routine in the middle of your television episodes, than boy oh boy do I have...

Surprise! Golden Jawgust is not over yet! Well, okay it is - But JAWSTEMBER is here! Today! And only for today (imagine if I just kept going and started over?) Today I wanted to - well I wanted to sing a September song, that's mostly what I wanted to do. But I thought it would be fun to talk about some extra Jaws related stuff. Some silly. Some trying to be serious. Some trying to be fun. None...

We did it! We made it! The final day of Golden Jawgust ! Today, not only did I celebrate the final moments of JAWS - but I also celebrated the ENTIRE movie as I went to see at our nearby AMC theater on their IMAX Screen! Not only that – but I spoke to my  good friend Jason  who also went to see it down in FL – but his experience was very different – and I was jealous of all of it! As this project...

What a great day today was! Not only did I spend the afternoon/evening up in Maine with my wife - but I also got to record a few things for the today's penultimate episode of Golden Jawgust ! And on top of that, I get to share an amazing Cameo video I got from listener - and contributor to the show - Mike B. And of course I cover the next 4 minutes of JAWS - where Quint meets his demise, The O...

Can you believe that after today there are only two episodes of Golden Jawgust left? But before I swim off into the horizon, today I am lucky enough to not only have one - but TWO returning guests as my buddies Eric and Chris join the show and meet for the first time! Today is spent almost entirely underwater with Hooper and his anti-anti-shark cage. That is not a typo.

Today on Golden Jawgust , we honor the late great Robert Shaw, who we lost on this day forty-seven years ago. I also talk about how there's finally a JAWS perfume . About time! In today's segment, the Orca is dead in the water and the three men realize that their only option is Hooper's cage. He was up for suggestions, but there weren't any. Here is a copy of Robert Shaw's Obit...

It's the final Prince Spaghetti Day of Golden Jawgust ! Today we spend some time with some barrels, talk about a few more toys , and read a more great comments (which is why we talked about those toys!) Oh, and the shark is now chasing the Orca!

Happy Tuesday Golden Jawgust ! We've been flying this podcast all month long and while we're not ready to land just yet, I feel like we're starting to make our final approach. After today there are only five more episodes left! Can you believe it!? In today's segment - we see a shark, a couple barrels, there's some shooting - some smiling - and we get another quotable line from...