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

[petzipellepingo]

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

[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.

[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

[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.)