Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving special is on tonight. It can’t hold up to the Halloween and Christmas specials. But it made me wonder, has there ever been a good Thanksgiving special?
Hope you don’t mind a movie suggestion. I cannot think of a single Thanksgiving special! Anyway, “Home for the Holidays,” with Holly Hunter, is our MUST see for this time of year. It’s rich, brilliant, true, poignant and painful. Enjoy!
There is only one Thanksgiving movie: Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
While the Christmas special is more well known, The Simpsons had a Thanksgiving special. It’s on the 2nd season. Really sentimental and heart-felt actually.
They’re episodes, not specials, but
WKRP: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
The Bob Newhart Show: Moo Goo Goo Goo.
I was gonna say that there is always at least one thanksgiving weekend matchup worth watching, and that was back in october.
Then I remembered, oh ya! U.S.ian thanksgiving…
Hope it’s a good one!
They’re hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Oh, the humanity!
I think Peices of April is the best Thanksgiving movies out there. Not a special, but I’m suprised I haven’t seen networks playing it every Thanksgiving.
There was a Thanksgiving ep of “The Beverly Hillbillies” which ended with a group shot of just about all of the casts of “Bevery Hillbillies,” “Green Acres,” and “Petticoat Junction” seated around the table.
Oh, yeah! That was surprisingly good. We just watched it for the first time last year and I got a real kick out of it!
I like What’s Cooking?
+1 for Pieces of April. It has chick flick written all over it, but so what, it’s a smartly written, well-acted chick flick leavened with enough cynicism you almost don’t notice how sweet it is until it’s too late. And Katie Holmes is cute.
South Park - Helen Keller! The Musical - Season 4, ep 61
The kids put on a play for the school’s Thanksgiving Extravaganza.
Gobbles!
Chuck has had a good Thanksgiving episode these last two years.
If we’re talking about Thanksgiving episodes and not just specials, I’ve always been partial to The Bob Newhart Show’s version, where Emily goes to visit her family so the guys have to fend for themselves, and they wind up drunkenly ordering Chinese take-out.
“You know you’re at a bad party when Elliot Carlin is the happiest guy in the room.”
The West Wing had a couple of good Thanksgiving shows too, one where President Bartlett called the Butterball hotline and another one when when CJ said that the best looking turkey would be pardoned and the other one eaten and Bartett saod. 'If the Oscars were like that, I’d watch."
Well, I was asking about specials, but threads have a life of their own and can take many directions…
Besides, it seems pretty clear that there just aren’t that many good specials.