Re: Your favorite top five Thanksgiving specials
Ubiquitous
Too bad; More turkey for the rest of us!
record hunter
> Thanksgiving is Turkey Holocaust Day. I don't celebrate.
I'm having stuffing and lasagne. I think the Thanksgiving meal is a
big snore except for the stuffing.
Dawnie
wrote:
>Steve Newport wrote:
>> From: jerr...@verizon.net (SoHillsGuy) How on earth does one think of
>> Thanksgiving and *not* WKRP's turkey drop?
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>> Not funny in the least.
>Of course it's funny, and yes, one of the funniest bits of TV.
<puts WKRP's Thanksgiving episode on my To-Watch list>
My favorite turkey-related episode was THE WEST WING's "Shibboleth"
from season 2. Apart from how it's a great episode overall--Bartlet
gives Charlie his carving knife forged by Paul Revere--there are some
great lines:
CJ: They sent me two turkeys. The more photo-friendly of the two gets
a Presidential pardon and a full life at a children's zoo. The
runner-up gets eaten.
Bartlet: If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch.
* * *
Sam: Well over three and half centuries ago, strengthened by faith and
bound by a common desire for liberty, a small band of pilgrims sought
out a place in the New World where they could worship according to
their own beliefs - and solve crimes.
Toby: Sam...
Sam: It'd be good.
Toby: Read the thing.
Sam: By day they churn butter and worship according to their own
beliefs, and by night they solve crimes.
Toby: Read the thing.
Sam: Pilgrim detectives.
Toby: Do you see me laughing?
Sam: I think you're laughing on the inside.
Toby: OK.
Sam: With the big hats.
* * *
CJ: I need you to pardon a turkey.
Bartlet : I already pardoned a turkey... aren't I gonna get a
reputation for being soft on turkeys?
Bartlet : CJ, I have really no judicial jurisdiction over birds.
CJ: Yes, I know that, and you know that, but Morton Horn doesn't know
that.
Bartlet: He's in high school and he doesn't know I can't pardon his
turkey? CJ, if we don't and I mean completely overhaul public
education in this country...
Bartlet (addressing the turkey): By the power vested in me by the
Constitution of the United States, I hereby pardon you.
Morton: Okay!
Bartlet: No, it's not okay! Morton, I can't pardon a turkey. If you
think I can pardon a turkey, then you have got to go back to your
school and insist you be better prepared to go out in the world.
Donna: You can't pardon a turkey?
Bartlet: No. I tell you what I can do. I'm drafting this turkey into
military service.
* * *
chicagofan
> My favorite turkey-related episode was THE WEST WING's "Shibboleth"
> from season 2. Apart from how it's a great episode overall--Bartlet
> gives Charlie his carving knife forged by Paul Revere--there are some
> great lines:
>
> CJ: They sent me two turkeys. The more photo-friendly of the two gets
> a Presidential pardon and a full life at a children's zoo. The
> runner-up gets eaten.
> Bartlet: If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch.
>
>
This episode was on Bravo this morning. I've recorded it, but haven't
watched [again] yet.
I'm looking forward to it more than usual now. Thanks, Dawnie. :)
bj
Steve Newport
I'm having lasagne. I think the Thanksgiving meal is a big snore
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We had a veggie cutlet with the traditionals: cranberry sauce, mashed
potatoes, whole wheat biscuits, etc.
Ubiquitous
>Hey! The Buffy/Angel crossover Thanksgiving special, Pangs! That's a
>classic!
I _totally_ forgot about that ep!
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
Tony Calguire
tXJuSfozWnZ2...@giganews.com:
>
>>My elementary school used to bring us into the library before
>>Thanksgiving to watch it, in black and white, on an old reel-to-reel
>>video recorder. I've since seen it syndicated, but not for many years.
>>Wish I'd taped it.
>
> Reel-to-reel VCR? Are you sure?
>
>
Well, I did say video recorder... it wasn't actually a cassette. I'm
serious; this was the mid-to-late 70s, before the Betamax came out.
As I recall, that was the only piece of media we ever saw on that machine.
Everything else was 16 mm film or filmstrips. A few years later, in middle
school, we did some TV production with the black and white reel-to-reel
recorder and some cameras and switchers, but that was probably right before
they junked those things in favor of betacams and VCRs.
Steve Newport
White turkey lasagne
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is not vegetarian.