TBP Thanksgiving tradition. One of the funniest sitcom scenes ever.
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Classic. We’re showing our age.🤣
Let’s not just show it — leg’s flaunt it — the future generations most likely won’t have anything to brag about …
Generations up through ours built this Nation — starting with the original landings by the Pilgrims or whoever … up through the American Revolution … and during and after everything since then …
They can’t take that away from US …
And a very Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family … on this best and most meaningful holiday of the year.
WKRP was the most underrated shows of the 70s, and perhaps all time.
I still scratch my head in disbelief over what the network idiots who cancelled it were thinking… hopefully they got the same thing not long after the shows cancellation.
Bob Newhart’s show about the hotel in Vermont was good, too … and the final episode was a classic …
MASH’s final episode, too, was excellent …
Bob waking up with Emily…..Epic!
Here:
Never forgotten here in Cincy!
Because of WKR
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WKRP was more realistic than people will ever know.
Actually turkeys can fly. Maybe not long or far but they definitely fly.
But yeah, the WKRP episode was funny.
“Actually turkeys can fly”
NOT the domesticated ones.
Ours sure did. Ours were free ranged and they roosted on the fence rails every night. Caged and barned turkeys don’t fly. And, we had both the whites and heritage birds, both fly.
It’s only when you over-feed them that they can’t take off. Wild turkeys are capable of near vertical takeoff. Damned impressive to witness.
It’ll scare the bejeezus out of you if you’re just walking along, minding your own business, and a half dozen wild turkeys in line formation cut right across you at eye level doing about 40 mph.
Don’t ask me how I know.
Domesticated DO NOT ‘Fly’, regardless of their feeding regimen. Glide down very short distances, ‘flutter Hop’ on to a fence, Your example.
Nothing personal, just fact. Put the same video here 2x, no idea why it’s gone. Immaterial. REAL turkeys can fly comparatively long distances, gain altitude if so inclined. Ask any bow hunter how startling it can be to have a entire flock ‘crash-land’ in a tree that You are in early deer season.
If flappin yer wings to gain altitude ain’t flyin’ then let’s see you flap your arms and jump on the roof of your house from the ground.
Flyin’s like racin’. It don’t matter if you finish first by an inch or a mile.
“If flappin yer wings to gain altitude ain’t flyin’ then let’s see you flap your arms and jump on the roof of your house from the ground.”
To wit:
‘REAL turkeys can fly comparatively long distances, gain altitude if so inclined. ‘
But by all means, please continue. ALWAYS lookin’ for a good laugh.
Even frozen turkeys can fly, but the glide ratio sucks.
Horrible ballistic coefficient though.
more like https://www.britannica.com/science/terminal-velocity
Not sure how they would do just dropped from a helicopter per WKRP tho…
If you kick up a wild turkey, not only can they fly, but at a pretty amazing speed for such a large bird.
I was hunting one day and one flew right over me…big ole Tom. It was crazy seeing it with the size of it, but that thing was trucking.
What’s creepy is when they glide soundlessly over your head (from behind…always from behind) on the way to a landing, spot you and hit the gas again. That’ll test your anal integrity!
One of the top 5 funniest moments in television history. That episode is over 40 years old, and I’m still laughing.
https://www.cbr.com/tv-legends-was-wkrps-famous-turkey-drop-based-in-reality/
Believe it or not
Happy Bird Day all!
Oh,and in less then 24 hours we will have some classic “”Black Friday” vids to enjoy!
Chimpfest Friday.
Les (Richard Sanders) made several Guest Star appearances the SiriusXM Radio Classics Channel’s “The Adventures of Harry Nile” (Seattle PI) back in the ’90s. Unmistakable voice.
Funniest was when Dawn Wells & Russell Johnson appeared in one episode. So, The Professor was tapping Mary Anne on the island.
OK,in keeping with tradition and all this is my view of bird day a few years back,really not sure what fuel I was on when wrote it but will try and find that mix again!
I will write up a new take for upcoming holidays till,a blast from the past!
OK,time for a reality slap folks.
Sure a few family gatherings are Norman Rockwell types,everyone happy and grateful to be together,but for the majority,these gatherings are just another burden to bare/get thru.You believe most Thanksgiving meals Rockwell painting type events you also believe biden won the presidency!
So here is the reality(sensitive viewers might want to skip this post!).
It is your turn to host Thanksgiving and your family and inlaws have arrived.Your wife and your mother in law are already giving each other hateful glances(your wife married you to get away from her family/face it!),Uncle Charlie is already drunk in the living room screaming at the TV and throwing beer cans at it due to what he believes are bad calls in regards to game on the TV/your brother in laws little bastard kids are tearing up the house throwing pre meal snacks at each other/your dad has purposefully stepped on your cats tail as he is “allergic ” to cats and wants the cat to go into hiding.
You sit in the kitchen really trying to cook up a good meal and wonder WTF!At this point your wife and mother in law are screaming at each other and all you want at this point is for the day to end and actually for once have a decent share of leftovers,what’s a man to do?!
Well,give this a try.As you are bring food out to the table getting ready to eat(your dad and Uncle Charlie(his brother)are getting into a fight out in the yard over football game calls)and folks are finally getting ready to actually sit down casually bring up transgender surgery,you will be ignored at first but be persistent,bring up subjects like if a man gets transgender surgery do they save his penis in say a fridge for the next woman who decides she is really a man/what kind of hormone shots does one get ect.,there is a lot going on here on this subject so again,be persistent!
At this point your dad and Uncle Charlie have finally stopped fighting and come into the room,as they catch parts of the conversation Uncle Charlie denies transgender surgery is even a thing and this is were it gets good!
You earlier uploaded a transgender surgery from male to female off of u tube to your laptop and you bring said laptop to the table and start playing the video.As the show moves forward transitioning said person from male to female with removal of penis and the creation of a vagina in it’s place things get a bit unsettled!
Your mother in law starts screaming at your wife asking what kind of maniac did she marry/your brother in laws little kids are crying in terror at what they are seeing(suddenly you appreciate having them around!),Uncle Charlie vomits on the floor due what he is seeing,the cat(remember him from earlier?)is rooting thru Uncle Charlies bile for food scraps from afore mentioned appetizers thinking this is the best feed he has had in awhile!
Oh,and your dad,he is just shaking his head and is grinning as he grabs his jacket and heads out the door and you realize even though he does not like your cat he gets it and tis why you love him!You are grateful that your mom has passed a few years earlier and did not have to deal with this insanity of family!
Needless to say the rest of the guests leave and it is just you/the wife(remember,she just married you to get away)and a happy cat scarfing away.
You smile at the amount of nice food you have and smile even more as you realize dad and Uncle Charlie left two cases of beer in the fridge,thus you take a seat at the table and dig in!
Happy Thanksgiving all!
What saddens and disgusts me is all the open stores and working employees on this once revered national holy day.
Shame, shame, shame on all the company and corporate owners.
Ditto on Sundays.
I would love to see a remake of this episode except with a slight change: “As God is my witness I thought politicians could fly”.
Hmmm….,WKRP in Chile?!
Pinochet 2.0?
That could — SHOULD — be broadcast live all across the United States … and don’t drop them all in one town — spread the ‘wealth’ … as John Houseman used to say, ‘They’ve earned it.’
Freaking epic!
Coming come after Thanksgiving dinner…
In my Radio broadcast career, I worked for a guy who actually worked at the station when this happened. Lots of stupid MFers in the Radio biz.
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks–for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation–for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed–for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted–for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions– to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually–to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed–to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord–To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us–and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Go: Washington
Washington issued a proclamation on October 3, 1789, designating Thursday, November 26 as a national day of thanks. In his proclamation, Washington declared that the necessity for such a day sprung from the Almighty’s care of Americans prior to the Revolution, assistance to them in achieving independence, and help in establishing the constitutional government.