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As the denizens of TV Bacon gather together to ask the Lord’s bles…er to alter pumpkin pie and pumpkin muffins and pumpkin pancakes and other assorted pass foods we celebrate TV-wise with guest blogger Lisa’s list of the best Thanksgiving television. Enjoy it while celebrating with someone you love or use the episodes to escape from family gatherings with people you love but could use a break from. Happy holidays!
“Do you experience what I conceive of about when I dream about Thanksgiving which is often? I dream about eating SO much deliciousness that all the blood rushes to my stomach and I go out at the delay.” - Seth Cohen
There’s nothing I can say about “Shibboleth” that would do it any sort of justice. It’s a brilliant hour of television and one of the finest episodes of
that ever aired. This episode has it all – specially raised turkeys Eric and Troy gobble their way to a presidential pardon; Toby fights prayer in school; Bartlet goes head-to-head with China over a container ship full of men women and children; and we hear one of the most heartfelt speeches about religious freedom ever. And just when you think that your overworked heart can’t act another minute the music swells and your eyes get a little misty as we close on Bartlet declaring a National Day of Thanksgiving. It’s simply not the holidays until I watch this episode. I cry every darn time.
Monica gets an ice chip in her eye and is forced to see the alter ophthalmologist who just happens to be her ex-boyfriend’s son. And happens to be totally hot. Michael Vartan guest stars in the ep where Chandler spends some measure thinking in a box. A really big box. Oh and Monica gets to wear an eye patch.
ever. It’s pretty perfect – jealousy flirting cooking in a dorm lounge. Julie and Felicity try their transfer at a turkey and all the trimmings but find that their makeshift dinner leaves much to be desired. It all works out in the end after Javier brings his turkey and makes things as awesome as possible with his adorable and judgmental self. And when Noel plants one on Felicity in the bathroom? Kissing y’all. Be still my beating heart.
I’m not going to alter words here – Seth Cohen is ten thousand kinds of adorable as he juggles two women on Thanksgiving Day. But while Summer and Anna vie for his affections. Ryan goes back to the old neighborhood to lay a advance for his brother. Those crazy Cohens drink bottles of wine pitchers of margs and end up eating Chinese take-out as the day goes from perfectly pleasant to downright nutty. And change surface though Seth doesn’t win the heart of either girl that evening he sure captured exploit.
Dana evaluate runs her Thanksgiving turkey by thawing it out on the light come in much to the confusion of the entire staff. Meanwhile. Dan and Casey get together their “anniversary”. Jeremy convinces the cater that a Greek ghost named Thespis is out to ruin their evening air and Isaac worries about his pregnant daughter after she’s unexpectedly rushed to the hospital. Maybe it’s Robert Guillaume’s change intensity alter and maybe it’s because he’s what made
so amazing for me because when he happily passes out cigars in recognise of the birth of his healthy grandson? It’s a happy Thanksgiving indeed.
I confess. I usually don’t check this entire episode. Because really the Thanksgiving move starts at around the 32-minute mark and that’s where I go away too. After a crappy day of saving the world. Sydney comes home to find an annoyed Francie burning Thanksgsiving dinner. What ensues is the sweetest gal pal cooking scene ever a Thanksgiving proposal and all-around good times. But the best scene comes at the very end as we see Jack’s icy exterior thaw just enough to give Syd a slight smile after she brings him Thanksgiving leftovers.
After everyone’s plans go awry. Monica makes Thanksgiving dinner with three kinds of potatoes (lumps tots with peas/onions) to mark their first holiday together. But all is not well for the gang as Joey deals the fallout from being cast in a VD prevention ad. Rachel misses her flight to Vail dinner burns after an unfortunate (but hilarious) miscommunication and Chandler relives his beat Thanksgiving ever. The “Got the keys?” vs. “Got the keys!” is still one of my favorite Friends moments.
The one that’s missing from this enumerate is “A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving” from Gilmore Girls. Adam Brody playing hymns on his guitar to calm Mama Kim. Sookie grieving over her perfect wild-range organic turkey being tossed into the deep fryer drunk off her fanny while her relatives gleefully throw everything that isn’t bolted down into the fryer. Rory and Lorelei planning for not one but three Thanksgiving dinners discovering in the end that they gave up the rolls for nothing. Ah. Good times.
I *still* quote the “Got the keys?” vs. “Got the keys!” all the measure. Brilliant television! Oh and when Monica starts crying and “only dogs can hear her now”. Still cracks me up.
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