Hulu.com’s Thanksgiving Episodes — something fun for you to have on if you don’t like football
I really love Hulu.com. Justin and I are actually “Hulu Plus” members, which allows us to see more shows than are available for free (and it’s just $8 or so a month, which is astronomically less than paying for cable and/or a DVR setup). It’s completely rewired the concept of tee-vee to me…since there are always shows on Hulu for me to watch if I’m in the kitchen cooking or just relaxing on breaks from work.
Hulu also does fun things like collect episodes of shows with holiday themes…like recent shows that featured Thanksgiving episodes.
They even have the classic “WKRP in Cincinnati” Thanksgiving show with the infamous “turkey drop”.
If you don’t care much for football or whatever else is on today and you need some background noise or other distraction today you might want to give Hulu’s Thanksgiving lineup a look. I think everything on this channel for the holiday is free and open to nonsubscribers.
I especially recommend the Thanksgiving episodes of: ”New Girl”, “Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23″, “The Middle”, “Raising Hope”, and “Happy Endings”.
That right there is over 3 hours’ of fun sitcoms with Thanksgiving plot lines that you probably have never watched before…and none of them are on NBC (which is great, because I’d no doubt lose my appetite for turkey if I watched anything broadcast by the Peacock).
Check out Hulu’s Thanksgiving lineup!
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Thanks for the WKRP clip. That’s the best laugh I’ve had in two weeks.
Kevin! This may be trite, but I sure do thank you for this column. It just made my day. If only I were as upbeat as you!
Many happy returns.
S.
Now that dinner’s over and the dishes are done, a little Hulu should hit the spot since I no longer have cable tee-vee.
Thanks for the rec, and hope you’ve had a blessed day!
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Our family tradition is to watch “Pieces of April.” A fab indie film with Patricia Clarkson and John Gallager, Jr. and probably the best performance by Katie Holmes you will ever see (wish she’d stayed on that trajectory but her life and career took a strange turn after this).
I usually do a marathon of my favorite Thanksgiving themed episodes of various shows every Thanksgiving. This year, I wasn’t able to because 1) I was doing a lot of the cooking and didn’t have the free time and 2) we ate so bloody late I passed out at 10:30 (with family leaving at 10:00) watching reruns of The Big Bang Theory.
I did love the Thanksgiving episode of “Don’t Trust the B” on Wednesday night. That is such a clever, fun show. I fear it’ll get canceled much like the last clever, fun ABC comedy I loved (Better Off Ted).
Anyway, I always watch the Thanksgiving episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Pangs), Saved by the Bell: The College Years (nostalgia, I grew up with that show, lol), some of the Friends episodes (I prefer the later seasons), and a recent addition is the Smallville episode Ambush (it was their 2nd Thanksgiving episode in 10 seasons, but the far superior one).
I’ll probably partake in my usual Thanksgiving marathoning tonight or tomorrow. Nostalgia tinged TV, Apple Pie with a bacon pecan streussal topping (that I’m getting a day late, but oh well, better than never), my beagle, and my comfy bed. Bliss.
My DISH coworker came over yesterday to visit and told me about how funny this episode of WKRP in Cincinnati was. He pulled it up on DISH Online’s website and we watched it while we choked on our beer because it was so hilarious! I swear we will make this episode a Thanksgiving tradition from now on and I was so glad that it was so convenient to pull up for free on DISH Online. I swear, that website has everything on it when I want to watch something, from movies to TV shows to documentaries.
Ienjoy watching the old All in the Family and Maude episodes on Antena TV. Both shows are often highlight the hypocricy and out of touch attitude of leftist usch as “Meat Head” and Maude. With All in the Family it is easy to sympathize with Archy who Meat Head is spongin off of while he attends college. As for Maude, her over the top “Leftism” is exposed as a kind of guilt for being white and wealthy, which is just plain silly.
I am sure in this day and age I could find attacks on Republicans in this show, as I have w/Mary Tyler Moore and Golden Girls, it shows how the left put their propaganda into their shows to turn Americans against the opposition Party and also shows how long it will take to turn the tide away from that perception. I love that episode also but the whole changing of America from slights in shows from Hazel (she pushed unions) until today where we see attacks against the “old white male) GOP is at once shocking and yet today a given that it will happen. The leftists have been at the throat of the America since the 40s and it will be a long road back to normalcy.
I love that WKRP episode, I especially liked the bit where Les Nesmond sees the turkey’s hitting the ground and says “oh the humanity..”, just like the radio announcer when the Hindenburg burned up.
WKRP was one of the best comedies ever, I wish there were more episodes of it.