Best Thanksgiving TV Episode

Samantha's Thanksgiving to Remember (1967) - Sam and her family go back in time to the first Thanksgiving; Darren is put on trial as a witch

The Un-Underground Movie (1970) - The family makes a film about the first Thanksgiving; hilarity ensues

Over the River and Through the Woods (1975) - Emily's out of town, so Bob, Jerry, Howard and Elliot get drunk, then clumsily try to order Chinese food over the phone; "Moo goo goo goo?"

The First Thanksgiving (1978) - After the family eschews Thanksgiving dinner for football, Marion tells the story of the first Thanksgiving (with the family members playing the parts)

Turkeys Away (1978) - "Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like bags of wet cement!"

Thanksgiving Orphans (1986) - The gang heads to Carla's new place for a potluck meal which quickly deteriorates into an all-out food fight

No Nukes Is Good Nukes (1982) - Thanksgiving may be cancelled after Steven and Elyse get arrested at a No Nukes rally

Wild Turkey (1991) - Larry expects a Thanksgiving windfall when he buys 58 wild turkeys to resell; at the same time Jennifer's engagement ring disappears amongst the birds

The Miracle of Thanksgiving (1987) - The guys struggle to make a great meal for the girls on the first Thanksgiving since their mom died

The Mom and Pop Store (1994) - in a particularly convoluted episode, Jerry wonders if he's invited to a party, Kramer bankrupts a small business and George is bitten by Jon Voight

Bart vs. Thanksgiving (1990) - After trashing Lisa's centerpiece, Bart is sent to his room, runs away and has many adventures before realizing his life is pretty good and heads home to apologize to Lisa

Thanksgiving (1992) - Thanksgiving in Cicely means a Day of the Dead-style parade and Native Americans hitting happy whites with tomatoes because, in Elaine's words, "juice from tomatoes looks like blood but it doesn’t hurt"

Turkey Day (1996) - After a class assignment on class differences, Shawn and Cory learn about haves and have-nots first-hand, when the Matthewses head to the trailer park for dinner with Frankie's family

A Lilith Thanksgiving (1996) - Frasier and Lilith drive the headmaster of Frederick's potential school so crazy he promises to admit Frederick only if he never sees his parents ever again

No Fat (1998) - Marie cooks a healthy dinner including a tofu turkey; the family's reaction is priceless

Homo for the Holidays (1999) - The gang is shocked to find that Jack's mother has no idea he is gay; they encourage him to come out to her, but she has a little secret of her own

The Indians in the Lobby (2001) - On Thanksgiving Eve the president's voice is recognized by the lady on the Butterball help-line and CJ spends the day with a pair of Stockbridge-Munsee Indians who won't leave the lobby until they get some movement on an application they submitted 15 years ago

A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving (2002) - Rory and Lorelai try to attend four dinners, including a Korean Thanksgiving with the Kims and a deep-fried turkey at Jackson and Sookie's

Thanksgiving (2003) - Treating Hal and Dewey as his kitchen slaves, Reese cooks a Master Chef-style dinner, including a turkey cooked stuffed inside a monstrous monkfish; Malcolm gets drunk with friends and returns home just in time to puke into the finished monkfish

Thanksgiving (2004) - Bernie is unhappy about having Thanksgiving at the home of one of Vanessa's teachers, who is a vegetarian; meanwhile, Jordan manages to hook the man's young son on meat while also frightening Baby Girl with stories about "the kid's table"

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Honey (2002) - George invites over Lalo, a man he suspects may be his father, but is dumbfounded when he arrives with his partner, Charles

The Gang Squashes Their Beefs (2013) - The gang decides to throw a party with all the people they've wronged in the past, including Rickety Cricket, the Mcpoyle twins, Bill Ponderosa, Hwang and Gail the Snail

The Thanksgiving Decoupling (2013) - Sheldon and Bernadette's dad bond over football and beer, Raj has to cook dinner when Howard's mom is laid up with gout and Penny finds out that her "fake Vegas marriage" to Zack was real

Blair Waldorf Must Pie! (2007) - The Van der Woodsens crash the Humphreys' dinner and Blair has trouble dealing with her father's absence

Parents (2012) - When Jess's divorced mom and dad show up at the same time, she enlists Nick and Cece's help to "parent trap" them back together; meanwhile, a bored Winston convinces Schmidt and his marine cousin to commence in an all-out contest to decide which of them is manlier

Huangsgiving (2015) - After Jessica's mother finally agrees to let her host for the first time, the family bands together to attempt a perfect "Huangsgiving"