10 Best Thanksgiving Episodes In Sitcoms Ranked

10 Best Thanksgiving Episodes In Sitcoms, Ranked

Sitcoms love to produce their fair share of holiday episodes, and episodes celebrating Thanksgiving just so happen to be some of the best of them.

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Holiday episodes are often the most memorable and most beloved of many popular sitcoms, but one of the more overlooked of the holidays is Thanksgiving. While many people remember their favorite Christmas or Halloween episodes across the sitcom canon, Thanksgiving episodes are often left out of the conversation, even though they often lead to some of the most uproarious conflicts.

Thanksgiving is a time for coming together with family and giving thanks for all that the year has brought. But in the world of sitcoms, Thanksgiving celebrations often result in chaos, characters getting into over the top arguments, and in some cases, real live turkeys upstaging the episode’s casts. We take a look back at the ten best sitcom tributes to the holiday.

10 Brooklyn Nine-Nine: “Mr. Santiago”

Though it may be the most recently aired sitcom episode on this list, Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s fourth season episode “Mr. Santiago” nevertheless stands out as one of the greatest of them all. The episode includes a tense first meeting between Jake and his future father in law, Jimmy Smits’ formidable Mr. Santiago. But that storyline is almost irrelevant, compared to the hilarity that takes up much of the episode.

One subplot finds Jason Mantzoukas’ over the top Adrian Pimento recruiting Captain Holt into gambling on the National Dog Show. The other main plot of the episode finds the gang scrambling to know what to do when their expected Thanksgiving turkey is, in fact, a live and incredibly volatile one.

9 Friends: “The One With The Football”

More than any other sitcom in television history, the NBC series Friends has become renowned for its many, many Thanksgiving episodes. Though it was difficult to whittle down the list to just a few top contenders, we managed to do just that, starting with the truly hilarious third season episode, “The One with the Football.”

The gang’s Thanksgiving starts off normally enough until a brief conversation about football derails the whole day’s plans. Soon, the infamous rivalry between siblings Monica and Ross resurfaces and leads to an impulsive, incredibly competitive game of football, with teams being drawn and a fierce, never-ending competition for the famed Geller Cup.

8 The Cosby Show: “Cliff’s Wet Adventure”

Though the early seasons of The Cosby Show are much better than the later ones, there’s no denying that the sixth season Thanksgiving episode “Cliff’s Wet Adventure” stands out as one of the most hilarious episodes in the entire series. The secondary plot of the episode features some complex relationship navigating when Denise unexpectedly invites new husband Martin’s former wife to join the family for the holiday.

But the majority of the episode’s storyline, and much of its laughter, comes from Cliff’s repeated attempts to complete Clair’s last-minute holiday shopping list. Each and every time, Cliff forgets something, forcing him to go back out again and again in the pouring run, culminating with a trip in which the bottom falls out of Cliff’s soaked paper bag.

7 Everybody Loves Raymond: “The Bird”

During its nine-season run, the hit CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond had many Thanksgiving episodes. But one of its most memorable of them all just so happened to also be one of its last. The eighth season episode “The Bird” finds the Barone and McDougall clans coming together to celebrate Thanksgiving at the McDougall home in Connecticut.

The already fractious relationship between the in-laws is only worsened when a bird flies directly into the home, and Pat puts the bird out of its misery by killing it. The tension reaches its hilarious climax through a particularly tense reenactment of the first Thanksgiving, with the Barones as Native Americans and McDougalls as pilgrims.

6 Full House: “The Miracle of Thanksgiving”

Though Full House had plenty of holiday-themed episodes during its eight-season run, it only produced one Thanksgiving episode – but it’s an episode well worth remembering for equal parts heart and humor. The first season episode “The Miracle of Thanksgiving” finds the now expanded Tanner family coming together to celebrate their first Thanksgiving after the loss of Pam.

DJ and Stephanie volunteer to make the turkey and the pie respectively, but the turkey is frozen solid, and then later burned, and Stephanie drops the pie on the floor. Despite the chaos of the day, the family bonds through their experience of cooking and baking together, and realize that they can still celebrate holidays in their own way together.

5 How I Met Your Mother: “Slapsgiving”

The second most recently aired entry on this list is, in fact, the part of a series of related Thanksgiving (and non-Thanksgiving) episodes. How I Met Your Mother’s third season episode “Slapsgiving” picks up on where the second season episode “Slap Bet” left off, with Marshall readying to give Barney his third deserved slap.

Most of the episode focuses on the fact that Ted and Robin don’t know how to think of one another anymore after their breakup, and the awkwardness that comes with redefining their relationship. But the real hilarity of the episode comes in the back and forth tension between Marshall and Barney, and Marshall getting his third slap in with mere seconds to spare before Thanksgiving ends.

4 Friends: “The One with the Rumor”

Among Friends’ many Thanksgiving episodes, the clear winner is without question the unforgettable “The One With The Rumor,” if only for the sheer hilarity that is Brad Pitt’s guest-starring role. Pitt appears as Will Colbert, an old friend of Ross’s and Monica’s from their high school days who was once overweight and a target of bullying from the popular Rachel.

Now slimmer and conventionally attractive, Will becomes the object of Rachel’s interest, leading to the hilarious reveal that Will and Ross had founded a pitifully small “I Hate Rachel” club during their high school years.

3 Everybody Loves Raymond: “No Fat”

Everybody Loves Raymond’s Thanksgiving episodes are something of sitcom legend, as we’ve already discussed, but none of them is more iconic than the third-season episode “No Fat.” Fearing rising cholesterol scores, Marie decides to go against her traditional lavish Thanksgiving feast, instead going all-in on her commitment to healthy eating – including a now-infamous tofurkey.

Understandably, this leads to chaos among the Barone clan, who all but rely upon Marie’s sumptuous feasts. Raymond even tries and fails to order a true Thanksgiving feast in secret, leading to a hilarious final act that finds the Barone clan coming together in the middle of the night to feast on leftovers.

2 The Bob Newhart Show: “Over the River and Through the Woods”

The Bob Newhart Show is one of the oldest series featured on this list, but to this day, its Thanksgiving episode, “Over the River and Through the Woods,” remains a truly timeless classic. The premise of the episode is simple: Bob doesn’t want to spend the holiday with his in-laws, and so clings to any excuse at hand to avoid doing so.

What results is Bob spending the holiday alone, until he’s joined by a patient and neighbors, and all of them wind up getting absolutely drunk while watching Football. Though it sounds simple, the episode is a true feat in terms of corny humor and puns, including Bob’s struggles to order Chinese food over the phone.

1 WKRP in Cincinnati: “Turkeys Away”

Yet another classic sitcom comes in at the top of this list, with the memorable and truly bizarre “Turkeys Away” episode of WKRP in Cincinnati standing out as the most hilarious and memorable Thanksgiving episode of all sitcom history. Mr. Carlson decides to come up with a secret publicity stunt to raise awareness of the WKRP station and celebrate Thanksgiving all at once.

Of course, his stunt is entirely poorly conceived and soon leads to absolute chaos. Before a live audience, Mr. Carlson has live turkeys dropped from a helicopter promoting the station, leading to, as reporter Les Nessman comments, turkeys “hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement.” And as a flummoxed Mr. Carlson now memorably concludes, “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

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