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There's something about spending the holidays with your favorite sitcoms just that feels like home.
Over the years, we've fallen in love with fictional clans— from blood-bonded broods to found families and everything in between. The bond these groups shared over the holidays helped give us perspective on what was going on around our own tables each year.
From heartwarming to hilarious, these are some of the shows that have been recognized by fans for having unforgettable Thanksgiving episodes.
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WKRP in Cincinatti
WKRP in Cincinattidelivered so many side-splitting moments in its run. The Thanksgiving episode, "Turkeys Away," is regarded as not only the show's funniest take on the holiday, but one of the funniest in sitcom history.
Interested in changing things up, the station hosts a holiday promotion that would catch listeners' attention. Les Nessman's on-air reporting from the scene goes from a chipper holiday piece to complete chaos as the helicopter flying overhead with the station's holiday message to the city begins dropping turkeys down on the crowd below, as the rest of the horrified gang listens from inside the station.
Friends
Friendsdelivered some unforgettable holiday episodes over the years, but Thanksgiving has always been where the cast thrived. While the gang's holiday football game was good and no one will ever forget Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) infamous savory-sweet trifle, many fans gravitate toward season five, episode eight, "The One with All the Thanksgivings."
Monica's earnest apology after dropping a knife on Chandler's foot leaves an image burned in viewers' minds — with the turkey head dance, which led Chandler to blurt out, "I love you," adding another sweet moment to the couple's arc.
Cheers
Cheersdelivered a Thanksgiving food fight for the ages, proving chosen family can be just as complicated as the one you're born into. The gang shows up for a potluck dinner in Carla's, only to discover the turkey has hours to go and football can't quite distract from Diane's pilgrim getup.
The food-fight scene ended up being one of the show's most beloved,
The Bob Newhart Show
The Bob Newhart Show's second Thanksgiving episode, ""Over the River and Through the Woods," provides one of the series' most hilarious moments. With Bob deciding to stay back from family celebrations to help a patient out, the day takes a turn when some more friends join in and they start imbibing.
Roseanne
Roseanne's Thanksgiving episodes come in just behind the show's Halloween episodes as an example of how holiday greatness unfolds on TV.
The first Thanksgiving episode, season two's "We Gather Together," exemplifies the different pains that come with a family Thanksgiving. From a nosey, judgy mom to a tired host up at dawn cooking to the guest who knows they'll be the butt of all the jokes, it brings family drama to a real and relatable place.
Mad About You
WhileMad About Youhas two great Thanksgiving episodes, the Buchmans' first time hosting Thanksgiving for their picky and particular family and friends easily takes the cake. After trying to navigate everyone's requests and suggestions while keeping it their own, they're finally ready to serve dinner, only to discover their dog, Murray, beat them to it, devouring half the turkey left on the counter.
The journey to getting a replacement turkey without tipping off their guests leads to pure insanity unfolding behind the scenes.
King of Queens
Season one's "Supermarket Story" proves thatThe King of Queenscaptures the everyday struggle. Anyone who has been in a supermarket just before Thanksgiving can identify with the chaos that meets Doug and Carrie in their mad dash to prepare for the big holiday.
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond's eight Thanksgiving episodes delivered the kind of family hijinks that truly made you feel at home. Arguably the best is season eight's "The Bird," which sees the Barrones take the show on the road as they all travel to Pennsylvania to celebrate Thanksgiving with Amy's parents.
The addition of the mild-mannered MacDougalls, who find themselves at odds with the Barrones when a bird flies into their house and they feel the best way to handle it is a mercy kill, which shocks the Long Islanders.
New Girl
It's every amateur cook's nightmare to discover their turkey is still frozen on Thanksgiving Day, but that's just what happens to Jess as she tries to offer up a traditional Thanksgiving dinner to impress her crush, Paul.
With help (or something like it) from Nick, Schmidt and Winston, the season one classic episode helps highlight each character's personality and still brings a great holiday story about embracing the friends that become family.
Gossip Girl
There was nothing quite like a Thanksgiving on the Upper East Side, where drama was as much a staple at the dinner table as mashed potatoes or pumpkin pie.
Thanksgiving episodes became a poignant point of every season of the show, but none were quite like the iconic Thanksgiving dinner scene from season three, episode 11, where Jason Derulo's "Whatcha Say" plays as one by one, the gang exposes each other's deepest, darkest secrets, leaving it all on the table.
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