Tag: Holidays

“I Thought Turkeys Could Fly”

WKRP in Cincinnati featured one of the great Thanksgiving specials of all time, “Turkeys Away,” which was the seventh episode of the series. The episode begins as a typical Thanksgiving episode with the radio station planning a Thanksgiving promotion of distributing free turkeys.

At the end, though, everything goes so terribly wrong. It features hilarious reporting by Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) and leads up the classic line by radio station manager Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump), “With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

For more on the story behind the episode, check out The Classic TV History Blog. Happy Thanksgiving.

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    Happy Holidays

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    New Holiday Music From Sufjan Stevens: “Silver & Gold”

    Sufjan Stevens Christmas Amazon

    The prolific Sufjan Stevens has taken a break from making albums devoted to each of the fifty states to release a five-CD collection of original, covers, and classic holiday tunes. The set, entitled Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas Vols. 6-10 is a sequel to 2006’s Songs for Christmas, Vols. 1-5. So, if you have not been hearing enough holiday music to get you in the mood for the season, check out the three-hours on the collection of 52 songs.

    On his website, Stevens ponders “what is it about Christmas music that continues to agitate our aging heartstrings?” And he answers:

    “Christmas music does justice to a criminal world, marrying sacred and profane, bellowing obtuse prophecies of a Messiah in the very same blustery breath as a candy-coated TV-jingle advertising a string of lights and a slice of fruitcake. Gloria!

    “Who can save us from the infidels of Christmas commodity? Look no further, tired shopper, for your hero arrives as the diligent songwriter Sufjan Stevens: army of one, banjo in one hand, drum machine in the other, holed up in his room, surrounded by hymnals, oratorios, music charts, sacred harp books, photo-copied Readers Digest Christmas catalogs—all the weaponry of Yuletide incantations—singing his barbaric yawp above the snow-capped rooftops.”


    What is your favorite song on Sufjan Stevens’s new collection? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    When Is My Favorite Holiday Special or Film on TV?

    Get ready for all of your favorite holiday specials. USA Today recently listed the TV schedule for upcoming shows for the 2012 season, some of which are listed below:

    – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Dec. 3, 10:03 p.m. and Dec. 12, 9 p.m., ABC Family.

    – Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Dec. 4, 8 p.m., CBS.

    – Home Alone, Dec. 5, 7 p.m. and Dec. 10, 9 p.m., ABC Family.

    – Frosty the Snowman, Dec. 8, 8 p.m., CBS.

    – Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, Dec. 11, 8 p.m., ABC.

    – Elf, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m., CBS.

    – A Charlie Brown Christmas, Dec. 18, 9 p.m., ABC.

    – How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dec. 18 and Christmas Day, 8 p.m., ABC.

    – A Christmas Story marathon, Dec. 24 at 8 p.m., TBS.

    – It’s a Wonderful Life, Dec. 24, 8 p.m., NBC.

    How well do you know these films and holiday specials? Take our quiz on songs from holiday specials and our quiz on holiday films.

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    What is your favorite holiday special? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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