Pat on the Back
There are plenty of beloved TV comedies have great Thanksgiving episodes. But the most quintessential, hysterical Thanksgiving episode of a sitcom remains “Turkeys Away,” the WKRP in Cincinnati masterpiece of bird-dropping pandemonium that first aired in 1978. It remains a touchstone. That’s partly because the jokes still hold up and partly because it ends with a perfectly quotable mic drop of a last line, spoken by radio station manager Arthur Carlson: “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
