Can't be Thanksgiving without the classic WKRP "Turkey's Away"!

[trumad]

[randys1]

1. I bought the dvd's recently released, in the interviews (recent interviews)

it is clear that Gary Sandy is a racist prick.

I wish I didnt know that, makes it harder to watch, but I watch anyway cuz it is a great series.

[Snobblevitch]

6. I borrowed the DVDs from the library.

I found the show to be unwatchable because they were severly edited to remove the music because the licensing was cost prohibitive.

[FLPanhandle]

2. As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly

We used to watch that episode every thanksgiving

[gregcrawford]

8. Wild turkeys can fly...

... we've got thousands of 'em around here. Domestic turkeys get their wings clipped.

I only went turkey hunting once. I learned that when you sit in the woods trying to look like a bush and sound like a bird, you're just beggin' to get your ass shot off!

[FLPanhandle]

9. That is true.

We have wild turkeys around here too.

The thing with farm turkeys is that they are breed to have some much weight and breat meat, I don't think they can naturally fly now even without wing clipping.

[hollysmom]

13. some one should have told that the the wild turkeys in my Oak Tree, I was invaded for 6 weeks

A few years go, could not leave the house without being chased. But them thar suckers could fly!

[etherealtruth]

3. You are right, Can't be Thanksgiving without the classic WKRP "Turkey's Away"!

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. We do now have the Turkey Poem to join the lineup of classics:

As posted by AlbertCat in the lounge
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018817930

LIFE AS A TURKEY

When I was a young turkey,new to the coop,
My big brother Mike took me out on the stoop;

Then he sat me down, and he spoke real slow,
And he told me there was something that I had to know.

His look and his tone I will always remember,
When he told me of the horrors of ... Black November;

"Come about August, now listen to me,
Each day you'll get six meals instead of just three."

"And soon you'll be thick, where once you were thin,
And you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin;

And then one morning, when you're warm in your bed,
In will burst the farmer's wife, and hack off your head."

"Then she'll pluck out your feathers so you're bald 'n pink,
And scoop out all your insides and leave ya lyin' in the sink;

And then comes the worst part," he said not bluffing,
She'll spread your cheeks and pack your rear with stuffing!"

Well, the rest of his words were too grim to repeat,
I sat on the stoop like a winged piece of meat;

I decided on the spot that to avoid being cooked,
I'd have to lay low and remain overlooked.

I began a new diet of nuts and granola,
High-roughage salads,juice and diet cola;

And as they ate pastries, chocolates and crepes,
I stayed in my room doing exercise tapes.

I maintained my weight of two pounds and a half,
And tried not to notice when the bigger birds laughed;

But 'twas I who was laughing, under my breath,
As they chomped and they chewed, ever closer to death.

And sure enough when Black November rolled around,
I was the last turkey leftin the entire compound!

So now I'm a pet in the farmer's wife's lap,
I haven't a worry, so I eat and I nap.

She held me today, while sewing and humming,
And smiled at me and said

"Christmas is coming ..."

[etherealtruth]

15. :-), Happy Thanksgiving!

[underpants]

4. Classic TV moment

[Electric Monk]

5. I don't take dictation. I don't get coffee. Will there be anything else?

Classic.

[Omaha Steve]

7. Thanks for posting

K&R!

OS

[Roland99]

10. Or some Thanksgiving Day Massacree :)

[sarge43]

11. "A lot of turkeys don't make it through Thankgiving."

"They're hitting the ground like bags of wet cement."

[paleotn]

12. Damn I still love that. Much Thanks!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. That episode was based on a real event, says Wikipedia.

The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI (AM) in Atlanta. Many of the characters and even some of the stories (including season 1 episode 7, "Turkeys Away&quot are based on people and events at WQXI

[Dr. Strange]

17. Never gets old!