For all your Thanksgiving needs

[scarlettina]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Because we are a post-TV generation, our traditions are, perhaps, different than our parents', but that makes them no less precious. We must enjoy the full range of holiday cheer. To this end, I offer an incomplete but entertaining collection of Thanksgiving entertainments--my favorites, anyway:

WKRP in Cincinnati: "Turkeys Away!" The complete episode from Hulu. "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" With, among others, the astonishingly hot Gary Sandy and the unspeakably cool Howard Hesseman. (As a post-script, a friend pointed me at this oral history of the origin not only of the episode but of the show. Wonderful stuff.)

Friends: The One with All the Thanksgivings: This is but a clip from a flashback episode of the show, in which Monica's trying to cheer up Chandler. It may be one of the weirdest stunts I've ever seen in situation comedy--I can't help admiring Courtney Cox for being game enough to do this thing--but it never fails to entertain. The quality of the video isn't great, but it's still worth watching for the fez and the dancing turkey wings.

Alice's Restaurant, 40 years and counting. I know that kradical prefers the original version, but I dig the one at my first link because Arlo makes some great side comments--just a couple--about it being, well, 40 years from when the incident occurs. Time passes for us all, but this song remains a classic.

Happy Turkey Day!

Comments

Just ask anybody

[the-same-andrew.livejournal.com]

Generally, if I ask someone, "Hey, do you remember "WKRP in Cincinnati?" they reply with, "As God is my witness..."

Thanks for those links!