Retronauts Episode 190: Holiday Special 2018 - Pokemon's "Holiday Hi-Jynx"

The reason for the Spain thing in the Sinter Klaus tradition is that the parts of the Low Countries were part of the Spanish Empire for about 150 years.

Jesse Onland

I prefer the Pokemon Season 3 soundtrack to the season 1.

I remember watching a Sasuke like eight years ago where a comedian's entire schtick was to dressed up as a Polynesian in Blackface. I was all WTF, and thankfully years on he's gone into obscurity.

The blackface issue is as yet unresolved here in Japan but I feel like the push against it is rising. A comedian who made it big imitating Obama quit using makeup because he heard it upset people, and a couple years ago an activist/writer living in Yokohama managed to create a stir when a blackface act was advertised on a Fuji TV special, so much so that the special was cancelled. On the other hand, director Takeshi Kitano remains a popular TV personality who has zero qualms about wearing blackface whenever he feels like it.

Diamond Feit

Really not in the realm of retro yet but the Pac-Man and Ghostly Adventures show had a Christmas special. It's been on Netflix 2015 and I my kids have watched it many, many times.

Fantastic episode

Austin Cummings

I seem to remember Bob saying a year or so ago that he was running out of holiday specials based on or related to video games. In order to stave off that harsh reality for another year, I will mention the existence of Elf Bowling: The Movie. Apparently it was pretty rancid, too. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_Bowling_the_Movie:_The_Great_North_Pole_Elf_Strike" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_Bowling_the_Movie:_The_Great_North_Pole_Elf_Strike</a>

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Bob Mackey

Will be saving this one for my Tuesday morning commute to parent's home as has become tradition over the past few years.

William Wend

It was a good episode, but I missed the many guests from years past. Just having Bob and Hank made it feel like one of their animation podcasts rather than a Retronauts. Having Ray or Chris on would have made it feel a little more special. Even Jeremy wasn't able to skype in to discuss it?

Chris

They do tell children in Japan that Santa will bring gifts to good kids, but I don't think it's as heavily enforced. About the number of reindeer: in Japan, Santa is commonly depicted with just one or two reindeer, and if there are two (or more), they often all have red noses. Santa's other reindeer aren't common knowledge, because "The Night Before Christmas" isn't a thing in Japan (I imagine it's hard to translate and make it rhyme nearly as well...) and while there is an official Japanese version of the song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," it doesn't include the intro naming all the reindeer, and it's simply called "The Red-Nosed Reindeer," no name mentioned. It just says "everyone laughed at him," not indicating that "everyone" refers to other reindeer. And since the red-nosed reindeer isn't named, I guess they decided Santa only uses reindeer with red noses, of which there are many.

nina matsumoto

I suppose a certain guest finally got done in by the wolves this year.

Brian Silvers