(Editor's note: I wanted to apologize that this installment of the podcast took a few days more to release. The backup of work following a holiday week sometimes builds on itself like a Black Friday shopping line. But the wait is over. Listen on and enjoy the episode!) 

How does a Halloween spook convert to Christmas spiritualism, especially when he's the friendliest ghost you know?  Becky, Jake, and their stalwart companion Sammy the cat certainly ain't afraid of no ghost, but that is a question they must deal with on today's special holiday episode: Casper's Haunted Christmas. This isn't a run-of-the-mill animated cartoon or a comic book experience, because Casper the Friendly Ghost and his crew have gone full CG for this video movie. At the start, we find the ghost with the most kindness at a generic movie drive-in a little too late to stop his uncles, the Ghostly Trio, from scaring off the theater's clientele. But things take a turn for the worse when the Slimer twins—Officer Slimer and Big McLarge Huge Slimer—show up and tell Casper he has to scare at least one person by Christmas Day or else he and all the specters in his family will face eternal torment in a netherworld of nihilism. But, even with the help of his uncles who disguise his cousin Spooky as a duplicate Casper clone, they  fail time and again to fulfill their overseer's best wishes. It's Christmas Eve, judgement day's coming, and no amount of pop-culture references can save the ghostly five from the worst punishment a slimer spook can grant, even for one who doses on protein shakes, gym candy, and always skips leg days because he's not  fully manifested below the beltline. A happy holiday season to one and all and a happy new year!

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