Day #3 of the 30 Day Television Challenge..

[shadowkat]

This is Day #3 of the 30 Day Television Challenge

The prompt is A favorite holiday oriented television episode (can be any holiday) - which should make it easier.

Mine's easy - every year, Liz Marks, who used to be on LJ, but has long since gone, would post this episode for Thanksgiving. It is by far my favorite episode of this classic comedy series - which always made me laugh.
A classic in absurdist situational dark humor...also a great use of dialogue, and not showing the actual event.

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Comments

[atpo_onm]

Your link is showing a Moonstruck trailer? Accidental wrong paste?

[cjlasky7]

Whoops!

Corrected below.

[petzipellepingo]

The obvious choice would be "Pangs" but I'm going for Cheers Thanksgiving episode >

[shadowkat]

LOL! Good one. The Thanksgiving television episodes are always hilarious. (Yep, Pangs is the tempting choice.)

[atpo_onm]

Love the WKRP selection, one of my faves also.

I don't care if it's the most obvious choice in the TV holiday special universe, I loved it from when I saw it's very first showing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T17AG0mdpg

Heh... then you had the network brass who were befuddled by the idea of a jazz score for a Christmas special. I mean, that could never work, right?

"It's really not such a bad little tree-- it just needed some love."

Yes, we do.

[shadowkat]

I'm trying to decide if a holiday special counts as a holiday themed television episode.
I guess so...but I think you cheated. ;-)

[atpo_onm]

Maybe, but... my dictionary provides the following definitional examples for "episode":

1. A brief unit of action in a dramatic or literary work

2. The part of an ancient Greek tragedy between two choric songs

3. A developed situation that is integral to but separable from a continuous narrative

4. Incident

5. A digressive subdivision in a musical composition

syn: See OCCURRENCE

~ahem~ My case doth resteth.

;-)

[shadowkat]

Noted. Apparently I'm going to have be a bit more descriptive and clearer in future prompts.

[cjlasky7]

Great call. The crowning moment for the Mighty KRP. The "crash of the Hindenberg" broadcast by Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) is one of the funniest monologues in sitcom history.

My choice was just as easy: the sitcom episode that invented a holiday:

https://youtu.be/HX55AzGku5Y

[shadowkat]

Actually there was another television series that invented a holiday - The OC, but I can't remember the holiday.

I'd forgotten that episode of Seinfeild.

[cjlasky7]

Christmukkah!

I didn't watch the OC, and even I knew that!

I almost picked the episode of 30 Rock where the writers invented an entire holiday celebration around leap year, including an elfin mascot called Leap Day William.

(They even included clips from a fake "Leap Day" movie, starring Jim Carrey and Andie MacDowell, where Carrey turns into Leap Day William--gills included.)

https://youtu.be/MebXpWd__5w

[shadowkat]

I have enough troubles remembering the actual holidays let alone made up ones by insans television writers. ;-)

[Haven't seen the 30 Rock Episode or the Jim Carrey comedy.]

[wendelah1]

Halloween: Community 2.6, "Epidemiology." All of the Halloween episodes are great. This is my favorite. It's both hilarious and scary--and full of character-revealing moments.

"Epidemiology"

[wendelah1]

I have never watched this series. I wonder if it's on DVD? The first couple of seasons aired during a time in my life when I didn't own a TV set. (I was working and in school and didn't have much time for anything but studying.)

[shadowkat]

It may be - it's old enough. OR on TV Land. I wouldn't be surprised if you could find it at the library.

I've not watched in years. It aired in the 1980s. Early 80s.