Ever wonder what a St. Patrick's Day special would look like if it suddenly became a Christmas show?

The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold is easily the worst stop-motion Rankin/Bass Christmas special, twenty-four minutes of nonsense with practically no redeeming qualities. Ian does not recommend this show at all, but we at Estradiol Illusions are nothing if not Rankin/Bass completionists.

Watch this garbage at your own risk! We tried to do it justice on the pod. We're sorry that any of this exists.

Our Christmas coverage begins! Ian revisits the 1964 special Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer for an episode that's more stylistically in line with our Rankin/Bass episodes than the first one we did in 2020.

Ian still has a lot of complex feelings about this special, namely it's Axis of Awful (Santa, Donner, and Coach Comet). It's definitely problematic, but there's a reason people love this one so much.

Be sure to check out all of EI's Rankin/Bass holiday episodes.

EI's original Rudolph episode: https://ianthomasmalone.podbean.com/e/rudolph-a-transgender-perspective/

Ian's original Rudolph article: https://ianthomasmalone.com/2017/12/a-transgender-perspective-on-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/

We are back, not only with our first episode of the year, but in our beloved Rankin/Bass cinematic universe. ITM covers the bizarre Halloween film Mad Monster Party?which features plenty of classic monsters, an horror icon Boris Karloff himself.

Did Mad Monster Party? succeed where Universal's Dark Universe fails? Maybe not.

Does this film have plenty of non-sequiturs that make no sense and cheap, borderline offensive humor? Of course.

ITM also addresses the pod's long hiatus and is very excited for the return of Christmas programming in a few weeks.