"As god is my witness, I thought turkey's could fly!"

[Tripper11]

Hands down..has to be posted...best line ever...one of the all time best scenes too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2ifyi8-lxo

[motely36]

1. I spit out my soda when I saw your subject

I love this episode. Like you said...one of the best evah

Thanks for brightening my morning!

:hi:

[CRK7376]

2. I first saw and heard this

on the '70s TV show WKRP in Cincinatti.....it was funny then, still is today....

[sarge43]

3. That whole episode was a comic masterpiece

It should be required in every creative writing class - this is how you bring the funny.

[redqueen]

4. :)

Classic stuff.

[texas1928]

5. "Thank you Les. The Pinedale shopping center has just been bombed with live turkeys"

:rofl:

[sarge43]

6. "Film at eleven."

:spray:

[old mark]

7. I saw this when it was new, and it's still one of the best things ever

on TV.

The entire series produced some great shows. Find cast, fine writers.

Why has no one stolen ideas from this series? There has been nothing as consistantly funny since this was new. (Married With Children came close at times.)

mark

[sarge43]

8. Not only great comedy, but some very thoughtful episodes, too.

The rumors about Les being gay and his family's background

Venus being an Nam deserter and the way that was resolved

Carlson standing up to the censor

Johnny almost being corrupted by fame

And the characters grew. They weren't one dimensional stereotypes.

[old mark]

11. Really fine writing . Not much has come close before or since. nt

[conscious evolution]

13. The first few years of Taxi

are the only thing even close,IMO.
And maybe the Muppet Show.
But that's it.

[WolverineDG]

9. I saw that when it first ran

my dad laughed so hard, we thought he was going to have a stroke. Since he could usually "see" the jokes coming, he rarely laughed at a sit-com. The only other thing I ever saw him laugh at was Carol Burnett's "Gone with the Wind" sketch.

dg

[TommyO]

10. Don't you mean "Went With the Wind"?

Both the WKRP Turkey Drop episode and Carol Burnett's Went With the Wind are comedy classics.

[WolverineDG]

12. Yup, that's the one

"I saw it hanging in a window & couldn't resist." :spray: :rofl:

dg

[TommyO]

17. I so want this on DVD!

[pokerfan]

14. Les' Hindenburgesque commentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iafzqOCaxA4

[nickgutierrez]

15. Keith Olbermann used that line the other night...

...to describe Sarah Palin's reaction to the Great Turkey Massacre going on behind her during the now (in)famous interview.

[underpants]

16. Les Nessman was just a riot in that

and the banner reads...W......K......R.....P

they are hitting the ground like bags of wet cement

They seem to be mounting a counteract!!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

25. It was Richard Sanders, the guy who played Les,

who made that bit the classic it became. Add Howard Hesseman's line, "Thank you, Les. We have just learned that the Pinedale Mall is being BOMBED with LIVE TURKEYS" that set up Gordon Jump's immortal punch line. Now that was comedy writing and an object lesson in how to set up a great joke.

[NewJeffCT]

26. I like the one where he refers to his two heroes

Edward R. Murrow and George S. Patton - two polar opposites politically.

[quiet.american]

18. Thanks for the memories! nt

[elshiva]

19. Actually wild turkeys can fly a little bit.

[nytemare]

21. Yeah, I just saw a video of one flying yesterday.

So this thread has confused me. I suppose if they grow up in captivity, they don't know they can fly, or their wings are clipped.

[elshiva]

22. My family actually saw a wild Turkey fly.

It just flew from the ground to a tree banch, but it still flew. Domesticated turkeys have the wings clipped, so they won't jump the fence.

[pokerfan]

23. I think even a Wild Turkey would have trouble

if it was tossed out of a chopper at 2K feet.

[sarge43]

24. Wild turkeys can fly fairly well, if not long distances.

They roost in trees at night. They do need to run a ways to get lift.

Domestic turkeys are too heavy and their wings too underdeveloped for flight.

Turkey trivia: A flock of turkeys is properly called a rafter of turkeys. A male is a tom, female, hen, under one year old, a poult.

[Lincolngirl]

20. One of the best TV episodes ever!!!

I think of it every Thanksgiving!!!

Soon the Palin interview at the "Turkey Farm" will be in the same class!

Thanks for the laugh! And happy Thanksgiving!!