The Turkey Drop, WKRP in Cincinnati

[BigmanPigman]

This is a Thanksgiving classic for me.

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1. AND based on a real event!

[BigmanPigman]

2. Really? That makes it even better somehow.

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4. Yes. The show's creator, Hugh Wilson worked as a salesman

for a time at WQXI Atlanta. ( Dr. Johnny Fever is based on QXI jock Skinny Bobby Harper.) The GM at the station when Wilson worked there later told him about a Thanksgiving promotion a station in Texas did while he was working there. They dropped the turkeys from the back of a flatbed truck, but the result was pretty much the same.

Wilson’s response when he heard the story? “You just won me an Emmy!”

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6. Great story!

I wonder how much thought went into that Thanksgiving promotion? (I feel sorry for the poor turkeys)

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3. There used to be an original version of this on the internet but it went away

This is OK but, since MTM never purchased the rights to the music outright, all that's available of this series now is a version with different music dubbed in with voice actors saying the lines spoken over the dubbed music. Still a classic funny bit, though.

[BigmanPigman]

5. My DVR recorded it on MeTV on Nov. 20th.

I am saving it to watch tomorrow.

[Montauk6]

7. "OH, THE HUMANITY..."

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. I saw that episode with my Dad...

... when it was first aired, and we both laughed so hard!

I was still in elementary school back then, and I can't recall another time when both of us were laughing so hysterically together.

The part when Les returned to the station, describing how the turkeys seemed to be organized in their attacks, was very funny too! (Not shown in the above clip.)

Edit: I looked it up, and it first aired on October 30, 1978. So I was in 4th grade, and probably eager for trick-or-treat the next night too.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I cherish those moments with my dad.

We loved the Sat PM lineup and Barney Miller, Taxi as well as the earlier MASH episodes. He laughed out loud to all of them. I miss him.

WKRP was popular when I was in High School and I remember the deaths at the Who Concert in Cincinnati very well.

I personally liked the WKRP episode when they played Pink Floyd's Animals album, "Is that dogs barking?".