Jason Plautz
Lunchtime Quiz: Turkey Day on the Tube
by Jason Plautz - November 25, 2008 - 11:30 AM

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It’s almost Thanksgiving, which means it’s time for TV shows to start rolling out their holiday specials, with a healthy dose of family values and nostalgic morals. Of these 11 descriptions of Thanksgiving episodes, can you identify the show they came from?

Take the quiz: Turkey Day on the Tube

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Comments (14)

  1. Finally got 100% on one!

    Have a happy, thankful Thanksgiving, everybody.

    posted by Betsy on 11-25-2008 at 11:54 am

  2. The picture you have associated with The Bob Newhart Show is actually a picture of Bob Newhart’s second show Newhart.

    posted by Melissa on 11-25-2008 at 11:55 am

  3. Loved this quiz but I have 1 correction. The episode of the “Bob Newhart Show” that is described is from the first show with Suzanne Pleshette. The picture is from the second series.

    posted by BoilerBob on 11-25-2008 at 11:55 am

  4. This would be the Best. TV Marathon. Ever.

    posted by Deb on 11-25-2008 at 12:17 pm

  5. #7: Wrong. It wasn’t a cardboard box; it was a wooden one.

    posted by loripop on 11-25-2008 at 12:24 pm

  6. Wow..I aced it! Does that mean I watch too much TV??

    posted by Brucey on 11-25-2008 at 12:42 pm

  7. I got 7/10. Somehow I swapped The Simpsons, South Park and … West Wing. How odd.

    posted by HeyBeckyJ on 11-25-2008 at 1:07 pm

  8. 9 out of 11. The Simpsons and Happy Days were the ones I got wrong.

    posted by MikeTrig on 11-25-2008 at 2:15 pm

  9. Wow – surprisingly I got a 9 out of 11. I guess I watch too much TV. The Bob Newhart Show and Cheers were my downfall.

    posted by Christopher on 11-25-2008 at 2:29 pm

  10. I got a perfect score!

    She says with mixture of pride and shame…

    posted by Diana on 11-25-2008 at 2:59 pm

  11. 9/11. Switched The Simpsons and Happy Days too. What threw me off was the imagination aspect; I thought for sure that meant the Simpsons.

    posted by Tricia on 11-25-2008 at 3:02 pm

  12. I got 9 out of 11. Same as MikeTrig I flip flopped Happy Days and The Simpsons.

    As soon as I saw the title of the quiz my first thought was “As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly.” Although the better scene in the show was Les describing the “horror” as the turkeys fell from the sky.

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

    posted by Bill on 11-25-2008 at 3:08 pm

  13. Me again – I just found that you can actually watch the Turkey episode of WKRP online at IMDB.com.

    recapcha – be purchasers – even the recaptcha is trying to bring us out of the economic funk

    posted by Bill on 11-25-2008 at 3:11 pm

  14. 9 our of 11 (I switched Seinfeld and Newhart.) Still – I think I watch too much TV!

    posted by Dawn on 11-25-2008 at 7:43 pm

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