Kid…We don’t like your kind.
Sentence #1 explains sentence #2.
The only thing I remember about the song is the line, “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.”
(Excepting Alice.)
My parents played a lot of Arlo Guthrie when I was growing up, including Alice’s Restaurant. Despite that, we never associated it with Thanksgiving. The association for us was with getting into trouble and landing on the Group W bench.
Ya gotta sing loud if you wanna end war and stuff.
I’ve heard the song, I’ve seen the videos. Is it worth trying to find a copy of the movie?
I had one before my ex-wife tore the labels off a lot of VHS tapes. 
This thread prompted me to do a bit of research about the song and Arlo Guthrie. (OK, I went to Wikipedia ;)) I was surprised to learn that Guthrie is now a registered Republican and a Ron Paul supporter.
Maybe, it is not a great movie but I think it is fairly fun to watch and a great time piece. The music is good at least.
He is a Libertarian but still a Green. He still does stuff for Hudson River Clearwater, (Pete Seegar’s Environmental group) and I had the strong impression he likes Ron Paul especially for his anti-war stance. I can’t find the full endorsement he gave though in 2008. Just a few quotes from it.
No, it isn’t.
I agree. The movie is a lot less fun than the song.
As a great fan of Arlo and that song, I cannot but agree.
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If you’re looking at the movie just as an adaption of the song then it disappoints
I still thought it was good otherwise though
Well, I’m working in the ER today, so I’m the one that’s inspecting, injecting every single part of ‘em and I ain’t leavin’ no part untouched.
As Far As I’m Concerned, it’s a lousy movie, but if you want to be an Arlo Guthrie Fan Club member, you must be subjected to it as part of the initiation.
Yes! Yes it is a tradition, and thank you for reminding me!
Dah, dum, dum… 
¡Chingada madre—I almost forget! Just getting ready to eat. I’ll listen to it while I’m serving myself. This is the first Turkey Day since mom’s passing, and I buried her with her Arlo Guthrie autograph from a show at the MGM Grand. She was the one who started the tradition in our family.
I’ve heard the song once.
Never felt much call to hear it a second time.
Okay, my Alice’s Restaurant stories.
I wasn’t much into listening to radio. I first heard this song in spring of 1969, at my High School Senior Talent Show, where one student performed it. (When I eventually heard the actual song, which I think was at least a year later, I realized he had performed it very well.)
A few years later, off at college, I learned that he (the student who performed it) is gay. Remember, this was at a time when this was something you didn’t want to have widely known.
Question for thought: Do you suppose that gay student must have found it upsetting or offensive to sing “And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them”?
Okay, now fast-forward 43-some years, to November 2012. In a thread about belly-rubbing Mexicans, I posted this little parody, including this line at Post #29:
. . . only to be modded by Colibri at Post 31:
How our sensitivities have evolved! And who’da ever thunk that there might be anybody who hasn’t heard Alice’s Restaurant?