# Is there a list of Simpsons Thanksgiving episodes
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**Created:** [September 25, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-simpsons-thanksgiving-episodes/766868 "2016-09-25T20:07:56Z")
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-simpsons-thanksgiving-episodes/766868/1 "2016-09-25T20:07:56Z")
I can find lists of episodes that revolve around Halloween or Christmas. But I don’t know if there are lists that say ‘all these episodes are Simpson’s Halloween episodes’.
Other than Bart vs Thanksgiving in season 2, did they do annual or at least occasional Thanksgiving episodes?
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-simpsons-thanksgiving-episodes/766868/2 "2016-09-25T20:28:53Z")
Offhand, I can only recall “Homer vs. Dignity” (Burns hires Homer as a “prank monkey”). It ends with a “Pranksgiving Day Parade”.
For some reason, this episode seems to be near-universally hated, but I thought it had its moments.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-simpsons-thanksgiving-episodes/766868/3 "2016-09-26T12:43:06Z")
One of my favorite Thanksgiving Day references is the parade shown on TV with a “Rusty The Clown” balloon. Rusty Nails was a clown/TV host in Portland, Groening’s home town.
Looking it up on the Simpsons Wiki shows it is the cited _Homer vs. Dignity_ episode.
Searching the Wiki doesn’t give much. E.g., a Tom the Turkey/Thanksgiving Day reference in [Treehouse of Horror XIX](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XIX). In _Funeral for a Fiend_ there’s an Itchy & Scratchy [cartoon](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Spherical_on_34th_Street) with parade balloons. In [Kill\_Gil: Vols. 1 & 2](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Kill_Gil:_Vols._1_%26_2) there’s a reference to the day after Thanksgiving. In _'Tis the Fifteenth Season_, Krusty gives Thanksgiving [wishes](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/'Tis_the_Fifteenth_Season/Quotes) to the station.
And I had to slog thru a lot of comic and what not listings just to find those.
So, I’d say the two episodes mentioned so far are pretty much it as far as really being about Thanksgiving.
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-simpsons-thanksgiving-episodes/766868/4 "2016-09-26T20:00:39Z")
There’s also another ends that ends with a Thanksgiving dinner, but, thanks to Lisa, it’s a meatless turkey.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-simpsons-thanksgiving-episodes/766868/5 "2016-09-26T20:34:26Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> There’s also another ends that ends with a Thanksgiving dinner, but, thanks to Lisa, it’s a meatless turkey.
Ah, that would be [Homer the Moe](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Homer_the_Moe).
Another one is the start of [Holidays of Future Passed](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Holidays_of_Future_Passed). Set in the future, Marge announces that Thanksgiving is over and Christmas has started.
This taps out the list from the _other_ Simpsons [Wiki](https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Thanksgiving).