Charlie Brown and Turkeys away!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, busheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.

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Sorry, but you have dial this time. Welcome to those seventies. Yeah, yeah,
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in podcast land, not to us listening to us talk.

(01:16):
We sound just fine. But apparently I apologize for the audio.
If it's not right again, it should it shouldn't be
as bad as that last episode that we recorded here. Yeah,
but we when we're listening back trying to get it
to back to normal, it sounds like I'm a little

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ways away. I don't know, so you guys, let us know.
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Speaker 3 (02:15):
Okay, so tried something so last week from some of
your from some of the comments we've gotten, I think
we think that some people know that it wasn't us
At fourteen on the we definitely Fulledchen Cassette sink. And

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then I think there are some other people that think,
so we didn't do the episode like to fool people.
We did the episode trying to sound like because of
all these new I was going to try to use
AI and I couldn't find an AI that would work

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and would work for an hour podcast. It's like they
all had time limits, so we ended up using my
mixer and it's got some uh effects, and so changing
the effects it kind of made a sound fourteen. Unfortunately,
it didn't like make us sound fourteen evenly through the

(03:20):
whole podcast kind of like came and went. Certain certain
parts of the podcast we sounded young, and then some
parts we sounded old. The point was, or the episode
was what would Todd and I have been saying to
each other on a Friday night in nineteen seventy seven,
And we just threw the voice younger voice in to

(03:42):
give you guys that, yeah, that effect that that was
the point wasn't just actually make you guys think. We
had to.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
Assess we weren't trying to full anything. We're trying to
fool anybody. We were just trying to give the effect.
But so so anyway, I mean, Gretchen fell for everything.
But there were a couple of things.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
The thing is about that episode is there's no notes
and no rehearsal. We literally just sat down and started
talking and everything that we talked about, probably ninety eight
percent of everything we said really happened or we really
talked about it back in nineteen seventy seven or somewhere.
You know, it wasn't all in seventy seven, but I

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thought it came off pretty as far as what we
said that, you know, it was kind of cool because
that's kind of the stuff we were talking about in
nineteen seventies. Yeah, like the Don't Mess with Mother Nature
that was actually from seventy seven. Yeah, and the tape
of us on the radio with Moogie Michaels. I think
that was seventy Yeah, I think that was later than

(04:46):
seventy seven, but it was late seventies. Yeah, so yeah,
So anyway, we weren't yeah, we weren't really trying. So
it's just good fun. If I find some ai that
I can use on an hour long podcast, we'll try
it again, and not to fool anybody, but just to
so the voice is sound younger. But then we'll just

(05:07):
pick another year and talk about I don't know. Everybody
says that they liked the podcast episodes where we talk
about our real memories of the seventies, and so to me,
that was that was everything we talked about, was like
real memories from nineteen seventy seven. Yes, Curtis was always
mean to his sister het action called as a face,

(05:28):
which I always follow that I never called it. I'm
scared of it to this day. I'm scared of home.
So anyway, it was a fun episode. I hope you
guys and enjoyed it. Dave said he had had him
going at first, and I think I think when we
first started out, I think in our minds we knew

(05:51):
what we were doing, and so I think we were
helping feed the mixer to and then I think as
we went on, we kind of are We kind of
went back to our normal voices, which it was still
supposed to change, but it didn't. So I think it
sounded pretty good in the beginning, and then it kind

(06:11):
of fell apart. And then Christopher Todd, yeah, he wouldn't
falling forward it. So Jason pointed out that Calonga didn't
come out to nineteen eighty so oops. Yeah, so Jason said,
maybe the tape was recorded in Nadywood. No, we just yeah,
we said there were a couple of errors that we said,

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because again it was all off the top of our head, right,
and we weren't you know. So anyway, so that's why
we said Gallago, Jason, because we I didn't realize it
didn't come up to it. I guess it probably didn't. Yeah,
I didn't either, but thanks for pointing that out. So
Jason called Dave, called Gretchen. Called Gretchen said that the

(06:54):
recording sounded a little more digital, but she was glad
that we dug up the cassette and she couldn't believe
that it sounded as good as it did. Thanks great,
And then got a email from Robert. He says, a
brief note about how much I enjoyed the seventy seven show.

(07:15):
Many of the topics from them movies TV's records are
still present today, and there was a reference to the
Marvel Star Wars comic book issue number two, which you
also recently mentioned. And the thing about that is, yeah,
that's exactly how I got Star Wars number two. Your
comments about school lunch brought fond memories and who didn't

(07:37):
annoy their sisters when parents were out and the opportunity
was in itself. He says, any more of those tapes
from your vault would be welcome. So Robert again, if
I find a better voice changer, and we'll probably dig
up another cassette and do another one here these days. Yeah,
I liken it too potions. Yeah, yeah, it's just it's theatricals.

(08:03):
That was our theatrical pretendi. And then me and Kurt
Treanery have been going back on messages and all sort
of stuff, and here this was interesting. He said, this
is like super cool. He said, around this time of year,

(08:25):
I go back and listen to your holiday episodes, it's
almost become nostalgic already. Oh wow, that's awesome. Cool, that's awesome.
And then he said, whatever happened to Ze at Callahan's,
I don't know. She just appeared. Well, she she went
part time, which I think made them move her to

(08:46):
a different area of the restaurant. So when we did
go in, she wasn't waiting on our table because she
was in a section where the part timers were. And
now I think she's kind of I don't even know
if she's still working there because we haven't seen her
in a while. I think she kind of comes and goes.
I think she works chills in for people. Yeah, it
just works now and then so that so the's still

(09:09):
an init I just she doesn't work at Calhoun's full
time anymore. That so that's why we haven't been talking
about Ze, but next time we do see her, we're
going to tell her. One of our listeners asked about her.
That's right, she's a hoots too. Yeah so but yeah,
thanks Kurt. So hopefully tonight's episode will be Thanksgiving enough

(09:29):
that people will go back and listen to it next Thanksgiving. Yeah,
we'll see. Uh. And then real quick an update, Larry
is almost done with his music poll on the Facebook group.
Oh it's hit tough. We are down to Dreams. Just
beat Baby come back. So Dreams is in the final.
Hotel California is like seventy two percent over Band on

(09:52):
the Run stuff, and so it's gonna win. So the
final will be Hotel California versus Dreams. Oh no, that's
to be. That's gonna be the final. And then so
we'll see. Yeah. For me, that's like, that's like a
tough one because like I don't know. Three rounds ago,
four rounds ago, I thought, I think Hotel California is

(10:13):
going to So that's my prediction, but I don't know.
If I'm voting on it, I may vote for Dreams
because you know me and fleetwood Man. So uh. And
then real quick, it is Thanksgiving week and We just
wanted to do a shout out and say thank you guys,
thank you about you guys, we wouldn't have the show.
We appreciate all of you. We appreciate everybody, but especially

(10:36):
the people that call and write and email. Why do
you people keep listening? What okay on with the show?
Gosh we got any time with Oh yeah, okay? So yeah,
So it is Thanksgiving week and it's Thanksgiving eve Eve.

(11:01):
I went back through the old episodes and we did
an episode on Thanksgiving in the seventies, which I'm sure
five minutes of it we talked about Charlie Brown. But
we've never done a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving episode, and we've
never talked really and there wasn't an episode on like

(11:24):
seventies Thanksgiving show, TV shows or anything. So we're not
covering everything. We've picked out what we think are the
two most iconic Thanksgiving shows, such Essential, When's Essential from
the seventies, and both of them are from the seventies,

(11:45):
whereas some of the Charlie Brown stuff came from the sixties,
like Christmas and Great Pumpkin. Yeah. And then there's shows
that were barely decent in the eighties. Oh yeah, but
the Thanksgiving shows in the seventies were always the best.
So why is that, mister Wheeler, Because that was the
biggest ding known to man. It was to Kipper stop that.

(12:10):
So so basically we're gonna tonight's episode is all about
the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special and k r Key in Cincinnat.
Turkey's Away, Turkey, No Turkeys. Turkey's Away is the name
of the episode. Oh, it was Turkey's. I was gonna say,
I thought there was Turkey's Away, And if you guys

(12:32):
have not seen Turkeys Away, you'll want to go see it. Yeah,
you can see it on I found it on YouTube.
I found it on I can't even there's some website
that shows old episodes founded on there. So what we're
gonna do for Brownie Brown? Okay? I do have to

(12:53):
say that I am an Apple guy, and you know,
I've had so many Apple devices and stuff. But I
I'm a little disappointed that Apple bought the right. They
bought limited rights to the Peanuts characters until twenty forty,
which prevents kids today of seeing Charlie Brown on regular TV.

(13:19):
And to me, that's the coolest time to see these
Christmas and holiday specials is when you have to going
to Apple TV. Of course they did a free three
day deal or wherever we could actually go when you
get it's just not the same going and searching for
the show as having to sit down at a certain

(13:39):
time on a certain night and catch it. So I'm
a little disappointed that there's going to be a gap
of I don't know, almost five to ten years where
those kids probably are never and I don't know that
they would watched it anyway. Today's generation. I think they're
too involved with TikTok and other things on their phone

(14:00):
to sit down and watch the Charlie Brown. But the
leer kids would watch it. Yeah maybe, Yeah, I didn't
think about that, But there's gonna be I can't remember
how long Apple's had it now, like three years maybe,
and if they've got till forty, that'd be what about
four or five I don't know, Almost seven to ten
years is what their deal is. That's like almost a

(14:22):
whole generation of kids that aren't gonna have seen it
on regular TV. What's forty you said got till forty?
Apple has the rights until twenty forty. Oh, and then
they revert back to the family or whoever, that's fifteen years.
Oh yeah, I geah. Oh so maybe they signed a
twenty year. That's fifteen with the three we've already had. No,

(14:43):
that's twenty twenty five right now. Yeah, out fifteen so
it must have been a twenty year. It's probably been
five years. Yeah, so that's like two generations almost. Wow. Anyway, Okay,
so I'm a little upset that some kids aren't getting
to see it. So if you have kids and they
haven't seen it, our grandkids, sit down and let them

(15:05):
see the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special. Yeah, it's putting. One
thing I noticed because I watched it last night. The
music are so cool and it's I don't think there's
ever a I don't think there's ever a spot in
the show where there's not not some background music. The

(15:25):
piano and I've Got I've Got the Christmas. It's a
Giraldi trio. I can't remember what his first name is, Vince,
but he's done. He did all of the all of
the Peanuts major holiday specials, and the Christmas one. There's
an album out of all the music from the Charlie

(15:46):
Brown Christmas and it's like the second best selling jazz
album of All Time. And it's literally it's like listening
to the whole Charlie Brown episode on vinyl. Yeah, so
you could listen to it and you know it it's
from Yeah, it's just cool as heck. But anyway, so
the music's a little different. I don't think it's as

(16:06):
fun in the Thanksgiving as it is a Christmas. The
Christmas has songs you recognize. You know, it's got some
Christmas songs in that. But it does have So if
you guys didn't know that Charlie Brown theme, you know,
that's called Linus and Lucy. That song is called Linus
and Lucy. I didn't know. Yeah, And it's played in

(16:28):
almost all of the Charlie Brown specials. In this one,
it's when they're cooking toast. If you in the Thanksgiving
special put together in nineteen seventy three, Charles Schultz had
CBS put it together. It was It aired November twentieth,
nineteen seventy three, won an Emmy Award the following year.

(16:52):
Except for the opening gag, it was peanuts first TV
special to have a completely original script without relying on
the strip. The comic strip, right, yeah, Yeah, he had
to come up entirely new. Yeah. So apparently the Christmas
episode in a Great Pumpkin episode follows the comic strip
pretty close. Yeah, yeah, because in the comic strip, Linus

(17:13):
is always waiting for the Great Pumpkins. Yeah. You remember
back in the day, we'd watch we'd read the comics
and it was like three panels, well it depended sometimes
he'd switched it up, and but it was like it
took like a week, yeah, to finish the story. Yeah,
you'd be like, oh man, I can't wait till newspaper

(17:34):
comes out tomorrow. And that's back when newspaper was cool.
Well yeah, and the cartoons were big. Noah, yeah, they've
gotten strung. But yeah. So so basically all the specials
kind of went off with the comics, except this one.
They just completely wrote a whole new thing. So, so,
trivia question. I'm sure because you research this, but so

(17:55):
really it's a trivia question for you all out there
listening without looking it up. Tell us what was on
Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving menu? I'm sure you know, I know,
So we'll give you, guys five four three one toast,

(18:22):
which was buttered popcorn but it was pan fried if
you remember, and Snoopy cooked everything, pretzel sticks, jelly beans,
and I'm gonna say they never really said what kind
of Sunday, But well, I read somewhere where they didn't

(18:43):
know if it was a Sunday or a shade. To me,
it was a Sunday. It was a Sunday because it
was a goblet. That's what I thought. I thought, that
looks like a Sunday. It doesn't look like a shape
to me. And they never really talked about the Sunday
or who. It didn't really show them making the Sunday.
I was just there. And then I read something about
the jelly beans, and I can't remember. There was something

(19:04):
about jelly beans were made different before nineteen seventy three,
so it was there was an article that said how
to make the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Meal, and it was
talking about you had to get certain jelly beans that
were made prior to a certain year because the jelly
bereans that you buy today are different than the ones

(19:26):
that they would have been eaten. Yeah. Yeah, So can
you name all of the people that were at the
Thanksgiving feast? Marcy Jefferson, Sally Franklin, Franklin Franklin that's what
I said, Franklin, Marcy, Franklin, Sally Patty now Sally living there?

(19:56):
Why didn't you got the meal? Why was she as
a little sister? Well, but at the meal on the
ping pong table? Was she not there? I guess she
wasn't was she? I don't, I don't think, so let
me look at the picture. Okay, anyway, go ahead and finish. Okay,

(20:18):
so ah, uh, lionis Charlie? Who else? Well? Kid wise?
That was it? That was it?

Speaker 6 (20:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:32):
But and I never really noticed until let me see.
I guess, yeah, I guess she was there. Yeah, she
would have been. But did you I never really paid attention.
Did you notice who wasn't there? Who wasn't there? Somebody
really obvious? Wasn't there? Lucy? Lucy held the football at

(20:57):
the beginning of the cartoon, and then just hear the
rest of the show. She never came back a pick.
Then wasn't there either? But Lucy was at the beginning, sure,
but she didn't come eat. And when they left to
go to Grandma's house, they took Linus but they didn't
take Lucy. Wow, So Linus and Lucy didn't eat Thanksgiving together.

(21:18):
That's weird. That is weird. That's what I thought, And
I never noticed that. I never it never dawned on
me that Lucy wasn't really in the special thanks except
for the beginning football deal. Well I got met. Up
until yesterday, I hadn't seen the shows in probably twenty
years at least. Oh really, I don't watch them. Oh dude,

(21:40):
I've bet I've watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving every year, like
every year. So of the three holiday specials, Christmas came
out in sixty five, great pumping about sixty six. This
came out seventy three. Which is your favorite?

Speaker 7 (21:54):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Oh, the Christmas was by far. Yeah. I don't like
the Halloween one because there's too much Snoopy as the
flying Ag. Yeah, to me, that throws the whole thing off.
I like the Thanksgiving one, it just doesn't have the
music and the feel of the hall. Christmas one, yeah,

(22:17):
Christmas one is much better. Yeah. The only thing wrong
with Christmas one is Woodstalk's not going well the very
and I don't think even come out till sixty six.
It doesn't matter. I like Woodstock. I think he's in
there somewhere that yeah, because I think he helped Snoopy

(22:41):
decorate anyway. Okay, back to Thanksgiving. Okay, So, so reading
through researching trying to come up with little known facts,
did you read the fact that said a Charlie Brown
Thanksgiving is the only Peanuts special that does not include
any adult characters or voices? Did you run across that anywhere?

(23:04):
He's on the phone to his grandma, that's what I Yeah, yeah,
it's grandma. I've read it on multiple websites that there
was no adults in this, and I was like, yeah,
there was. He talked to his grandma on the phone. Yeah, yeah,
so there was an adult. I don't know if they
meant there wasn't an adult. You don't see any adults anyway,
I don't know. Yeah, but you hear their voices, yeah,
the teacher, Yeah, I kid you not? I bet, I bet.

(23:27):
I went to three different sites that had like fifteen
little known facts and they all had that, and I
was like, no, no, grandma. Grandma was on the phone. Yeah,
because she invited them all over her comeplace. That's exactly right.
They went over the river and through the woods to
her condo, her condomenting. That's what I said for condo

(23:48):
Snoopy and his struggle with the lawn chair. I lunchair,
but that was a tribute to the early Walt Disney
slapstick cartoons. Oh really yeah, Oh that's pretty. But I
like Snoop favorite and I didn't, so there. So researching this,
you find people write articles and they point out things.

(24:10):
It never the thing about as a cartoonist. The thing
about Charlie Brown cartoons is they're not exact. It's like
the animators took a lot of liberties. So like when
you're looking at the Thanksgiving ping pong table and the

(24:30):
chairs around it, in one view there's like, you know,
there's like twelve chairs, and then when you come back
a few seconds later a different view, there's only eight chairs,
and then another view there's eight chairs, but the rocking
chair is no longer there. But now there's no continuity,

(24:51):
especially with the chairs. If you watch it again, pay
attention to the chairs and you'll see how random the
chairs probably did that on purpose. Well here's what I
never really noticed that. Of course, being in a woke society,
people noticed that when they're eating, Franklin is on one

(25:13):
side of the ping pong table all by himself. Four
of the white kids are on the other side of
the ping pong table together and then there's somebody at
the end. But Franklin is all by himself, And so
that was pointed out by the way Franklin was a
black kid. Yeah, Schultz's widow said her husband had to

(25:38):
work to engage Franklin in his comics and stories because
he didn't have as many overt character quirks as the
other kids. So writing a scene in a Charlie Brown
Thanksgiving in which Franklin's chair breaks provided him a moment
in the spotlight because he sat in the chair that
Snoopy was fighting. This Snoopy was fighting and it broke.

(25:59):
The reason he was by himself as far as the
animators were concerned, was because that gave a clear view
that they didn't have to draw his chair breaking behind
one or two other characters, which is an animator and
it makes it a whole especially back in that day,
because probably, yeah, you probably couldn't move characters like on

(26:24):
a computer like you can today. You had actually drawn,
So that is why it was a practicality. It was
a practicality. That's why Franklin was on the side all
by himself and his chair broke and you could see
it because there was no kids in the way. But
it never dawned on me. It never dawned on me
that Franklin was on on one side of the ping
pong table by himself. So weird. One of the disputes

(26:51):
producer Lee Mendelssohn, he did not want Woodstock to eat turkey. Yeah,
cannibalism at the end of the which when you think
about it, now, birds eat birds all the time. Yeah,
but it's a cartoon too, sure, so but Charles said, no,
my my character's my show, Woodstock's eating turkey. Yeah. I

(27:13):
thought I thought it was funny that Snoopy had turkey
and all that good stuff for him and Woodstock. Yeah, popcorn, popcorn,
and for everybody else. I don't know, if anybody, I
don't know if people picked up on that. You know,
once the kids left, he pulls out all the real yeah,
real food. Now there was there was backlash, like audiences

(27:33):
did right in back then, Yeah, complaining that Woodstock ate turkey,
and so they they cut it out for several years.
Oh really yeah, and then eventually they put it back in. Oh,
get over yourself, people will use it. Oh God, yeah,
so were they were woke back then. They were a

(27:54):
little woke back then. Line is the speech about the
pilgrims first Thanksgiving inspired his own special title, This is America,
Charlie Brown the Mayflower Voyagers, which I don't think I've
ever seen. Yeah, and of course all that stuff at wrong.
But you know, I had to get all new kid
actors because the ones from the sixty five and sixty

(28:16):
six episode programs got older, got older, voices changed seven
years at past. Yeah. The actors who voiced Lucy and
Charlie Brown in the Thanksgiving special were in the same
high school and remain friends to this day. Oh that's cool. Yeah,
and Peppermint, Patty and Marcy were voiced by male yeah actors. Yeah,

(28:41):
and you can kind of after you know that, you
can you can hear it now. Yeah, thinking about those
two characters, they do kind of have tom boyish voices.
And then the boy that voiced Charlie Brown, his name
was Todd. Todd could not do the arm after he
misses the kick with Lucy and falls to the ground.

(29:04):
He couldn't do that. I guess they he said he
tried it twenty five times. I'll just steal the old one. Well,
they I guess they, he said, he doesn't even know.
He said they either brought in another kid or an
adult and somebody else did it in one take, but
for some reason he just couldn't do it. Just go
get the arc from one of the other ones. Yeah,
but see back in the day, I don't think it

(29:25):
was that easy. Oh yeah, probably not. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if it was the Thanksgiving special or
the Christmas but producers, I don't know if it was producers,
but studio or whatever wanted to put laugh tracks. Oh no,

(29:46):
the cartoons said no, no, no, there will be no
laugh tracks. No, no, no. And Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Charlie
Brown is referred to as Chuck twenty six times. And
that would be by she was kind of mean to him,
and she was way mean to him and giving him

(30:09):
grief about the toast and yeah, and then who was
it that said? Hey? It was Marci Marcy? Yeah, Marcy, Hey, sir,
the voice of reading. Why she called him sir? That's
what she calls him her, That's what she always calls her. Hi, sir,
did you invite yourself or what? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
And then we you know, you were just talking about
the music and the jazz. So me being a cartoonist,
I was in the I used to hang out in
an online forum with all the national cartoonists who were
members of the National Cartoonist Society, which Charles Schultz was
a member of. And his nickname was Sparky, So anybody

(30:51):
that knew him called him Sparky, especially cartoonists. But anyway,
Sparky was not a fan of jazz. He thought it
sounded awful, really yeah, but he thought it sounded good
in the kids show, you know, and he so he
always wanted it in this but he was not a
fan of it. So so there you go. You got

(31:15):
any other little known facts or no, no, no, yeah,
you stole my chuck twenty six times shuck. I guess
that was kind of a kind of a groundbreaking deal
when Charles had Peppermint Patty in boys short in shorts

(31:37):
because most cartoon characters at that time had dresses, and
she was always in flip flops sandals always, which is
kind of groundbreaking back then. Yeah, and she was a
really good baseball player. Yeah, basically she was a tomboy
and head the hospital. Charlie Brown. Yeah, and he was

(31:58):
making sure that that Tom boyd Girls got representation there. Yeah. Okay,
that pretty much covered Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special. Moving on
to Judy k rp Oh, hang on, I forgotten, hang on,

(32:18):
I forgot to plug it is plugging blogging in god,
hang on, hang on, that's so much. This episode, Oh
my God, is from nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
Y.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
There is several of these, and I could this is
the closest one to the real theme. I'm not sure
it's the real theme. Yeah, but there may the real
theme may not be out there unless you like rip
it off of a video, So we want to know.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
Wow, since then they're getting a two for tonight, a
two for a two for two for you know.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
W kmpen Cincinnati and Tyler Brown. Yeah, that's Tuesday. They
should two for Tuesday. Tuesday. Yeah. So this episode was
called Turkeys Away. If you have not seen it, oh
my god, you must go find it on YouTube and
see it YouTube YouTube. It aired October thirtieth, nineteen seventy eight,

(33:44):
which was early. Why did they do it? I don't know.
It literally aired before Halloween. Yeah, now, I've seen I
saw some places online that showed the video of it.
It had the date of November twenty second, nineteen seventy
eight on it. Oh that's some tarler posts. So I
don't know. I don't know why. But all the research

(34:05):
that I dug up said it first aired on October thirtieth,
So I don't know. I don't know why so early,
because Thanksgiving wouldn't have been till three more weeks away
at least. Yeah, it's not always toys on the third Thursday,
so yeah, so it would have been four third Thursday.
I don't know one of those still it has been

(34:25):
three weeks away. Yeah. So the episode's plot was based
on a Thanksgiving promotion held a reel a real promotion
held in the nineteen sixties in Dallas, Texas, where turkeys
were tossed from the back of a pickup truck and
a shopping center parking lot, creating a chaotic mess, real
live turkeys. Yeah, why did you do that? Just to

(34:49):
be same reason? Those guys, yeah promotion. I literally think
it was the same thing. They didn't realize. I think
they thought the turkeys would fly off the back of
the t rock and at least they didn't fall two
thousand feet yeah, going through windshields, and we know if
there's some of you out there that are listening. Turkeys

(35:09):
can fly, yeah, a little bit. Wild turkeys can fly
fairly well. Domesticated jurkeys could fly if they really needed
to for a short distance. But I don't think any
turkey is going to be able to fly being thrown
out of the pelop. No, they fly up in trees,
and they used to fly up on the house next
door before we bought it. We have turkeys run around.

(35:33):
They'd fly up on the roof and yeah, you know,
I haven't seen the turkeys walking around in it in
a while. It's yeah, I don't know where they went.
They used to come up to our porch in the
woodlands every now and then. Yeah, they used to walk
right down jump up on the roof so they could
because I like to. They stop in trees in the
wild get up off the ground. So yeah, so they
can like flap their wings and catch the are but

(35:55):
they don't like fly. Like you're not gonna see a
flock of turkeys. Yeah, yeah for the windurds, not gonna
app anyway, Just for everybody correcting us out there. Yeah,
So that was the seventh episode of the first season,
which was good. It was a good one. I mean,

(36:16):
if you look on lists of the funniest sitcom episodes
of all time, this episode always ranks something. Well, now
that you mentioned that, nineteen ninety seven, TV Guide ranked
this episode number forty of the top one hundred episodes
of all time. Oh there you go.

Speaker 9 (36:33):
Now.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
It did slip a little bit as time went on
because more other shows, But in nineteen ninety seven they
said that's the fortieth funniest episode of all time, which
says a lot because there was a lot of funny stuff,
a lot of episodes of stuff out there. Yeah. Yeah.
The show's creator, Hugh Wilson based the famous line at

(36:54):
the end of the show, which we'll play soon, a
comment made by Jerry Loom, the general manager of the
radio station involved in the original promotion. I guess it
was something his grandma used to say. Oh really, Yeah,
that's where he got the yeah, that's where he got
that phrasing from. His grandma used to say that. And

(37:16):
the thing about the show, if you have not seen
the episode or you don't remember it, is, you know,
it's a radio station and the manager feels like he's
not really part of what's going on anymore. So, Well,
they had a format change recently, right, I don't know
what they've played before. I don't either. They went to
rock and roll from something which I don't remember which was,

(37:38):
and they had a lot of cool music in the background,
and they had licensing for that music at that time,
but it ran out. Oh did it? Oh did you
don't know that? Yeah, let me jump to that real quick.
I mean, after like season three or four, they had
to come up with fake music. However, after a few years,

(38:02):
that episode was pulled because the licensing for much of
the music used in the show, mostly contemporary rock songs,
had expired. A DVD release of season one in two
thousand and seven, which included Turkeys Away, attempted to replace
the music in question, or simply cut out the whole
scenes that had music in him to avoid using it.

(38:25):
Oh he can't do that, because well they tried. The
latter happens in Turkeys Away, most notably when mister Carson
Carlson walks into the DJ booth while Johnny is playing
Dogs by Pink Floyd. That whole scene was taken out.
Oh really, he's trying to read the label scored around
and there's dog barking. But I guess at some point

(38:48):
they re bought the right okay, and most of the
songs have gotten put back into it. So Carlton's like,
do you hear dogs marking? And Johnny Theavers's well I do, yeah, Okay,
where was I Yeah, So the story basically, the station

(39:10):
manager comes up with this Thanksgiving promotion but doesn't tell
half the station anybody except for her. I guess herb
goes up in the a covert with yeah. So basically
that so that's kind of the premise of what's going on.
Nobody nobody the premises, nobody knows what's going on. Yeah,
so if Andy had known about it, he would have stocking,

(39:32):
you know, because he's probably Yeah. So Andy was the
program director, yeah, I think program manager or whatever they
call him, okay, and mister Carlson was the manager station
station station manager. Okay, so what are you going to play?
Here's the deal with? I always thought, so there's Ronnie

(39:56):
Anderson of Courses on it, super hot, but there was
also uh, the other girl, the other girl who was
Jen Bailey quarters Jan Smithers. Yeah, she was kind of
pretty hot. It was it was the whole Marriannie Anderson
was like too hot. Yeah, she was like overproduced. Yes,

(40:19):
it's kind of like Ginger and Marry Anne. Yeah, the
girl next door versus the movie Stone. Yeah. Yeah. So
I'm sorry, yeah me Lannie Anderson's cute, but she's hot anyway.
All kay. So this is a little little snippet of

(40:41):
this is for your Thanksgiving pleasure. No, hang on, hang on,
hang on, hang on, I forgot I forgot to queue
it up. Sorry, okay, uh, you know where the hell?
Oh no, it's over hang on. One of the other
funny lines, not part of what you're gonna hear, is

(41:01):
when mister Carlson is going around. He goes to that
girl you're talking about, and he says, what are you doing?
And she says, I'm trying to make some decisions on
T shirts. And he says, oh, well, let me help,
and she says, no, I gotta take care of you. No,
he goes, I've done it for years. She goes, well,
hope we're thang on. Go ahead, We're trying to decide
between Boston and foreigner T shirts. And he says, I'll

(41:23):
go with Boston foreigner T shirts. I always shrink, basically
thinking there was foreign foreigner. Okay, okay, are you there? No, boy,
you are, my god, there's so much technical difficulty going
around here right now, well we go here, we go?

(41:48):
Got it? You got it? Are you sure? No? Everybody
weaves with their mashed potatoes and there.

Speaker 10 (42:01):
All right, fellow, it is and now it's time to
go to water live the mote man on the scene
at the Pindale Shopping Mall to make w k r
P Turkey giveaway.

Speaker 6 (42:10):
So take it.

Speaker 9 (42:11):
Away less and that's bad.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
This is I say this.

Speaker 9 (42:14):
You have to see here the pine Dale Shopping Center.

Speaker 7 (42:16):
But excite that.

Speaker 10 (42:17):
This mounting bere bitness getting them the work basaltn't get
away and you've got permission to be out here, but
you're blocking my store here, buddy.

Speaker 9 (42:27):
Don't you know who I am? I'm the last this one.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
I love the buck.

Speaker 9 (42:31):
I knows book aboard last.

Speaker 10 (42:32):
Year, you buck, I get out of my doorway from
sorry before great.

Speaker 6 (42:41):
For so good, fine.

Speaker 9 (42:43):
Three hundreds of people who have gotten the point. That's
what I've been describing, perhaps the rightness Turkey Amendment.

Speaker 7 (42:48):
Thanksgiving Day.

Speaker 11 (42:48):
Everybody's falling over here.

Speaker 9 (42:50):
And then in the very few moments, they're going to
be a lot of it. I may people out.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
Here now, the crowd is, the crowd is the curious
will be hey. I think I hear something now.

Speaker 9 (43:06):
The crowd is moving out into the parking area.

Speaker 6 (43:09):
And oh yes, I can see it now. It's a
it's a him, a doctor and it's coming this way.

Speaker 10 (43:18):
It's flying something up light and I packed my bringing out.
It's a arch manner and it says, uh, heavy fame.

Speaker 6 (43:28):
Beginning double.

Speaker 9 (43:33):
Hey, I call.

Speaker 11 (43:38):
Hey here, what a sight?

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Thing is doing?

Speaker 6 (43:41):
What a sight?

Speaker 9 (43:42):
The culture seems to be certainly in the parking area.

Speaker 10 (43:44):
Now and against it's looking place, and I know something
just came out of the light of the hot doctor.
It's a dark doc Jans who was a skyty gun
blobing to hear po me two thousand pet of the air.

Speaker 11 (43:57):
Heard, I'm talking to you.

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Stut there.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
More?

Speaker 9 (45:00):
Okay on the spot to day nails got is my

(45:23):
waess the turkey's gonna funny.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Oh my, that was pretty funny stuff. I hope that
comes through.

Speaker 6 (45:39):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
Yeah, I didn't win any lines, so I don't know
if it recorded it or not. It should we pause
and check it? Oh my god, no, I can always
try to add it. They can bling pause. No, you
can add it back in later. Yeah, okay, just don't

(46:01):
forget to go check. Yeah, we'll do that here as
soon as we get done. Okay. And so he mentioned
when he was talking, you know, the turkeys are falling about.
Nothing like this has happened since the Edinburgh And that's
basically what they made him sound like, was the announcer
that was announcing right, all of the humanity, yeah, during

(46:23):
the Hindenburgh. So I don't don't really have any other
the cast, some of them are still alive, Andy Travers,
Gary Sanders is alive, Gordon Jomp passed away, Lesnessma' still alive,
Johnny Fever died, Herb died, Bailey still alive, Jennifer Marlowe,

(46:48):
Johnnie Anderson. She did this year? Was it just this year? Yeah,
it's just yeah, earlier this year. And I mean it's fine,
Flag Traps alive. Well, so anyway, there you go. So again,
if you have not actually seen the entire episode, is
a great Thanksgiving And if you watch it on YouTube

(47:11):
without commercials, which it won't have, it's like only twenty minutes.
They're all twenty six twenty eight minutes. Yeah, it's it's
not super long, so give it a watch. It was
a sitcom, a great little pre Thanksgiving show. Almost makes
you want to go back and binge watch the series.
I've done that a lot. How many seasons I don't

(47:32):
even know how many seasons are working for? Oh that
was all Yeah, that's not bad. Yeah, got into the eighties.
You might have to check that out. Yeah, yeah, Okay, guys,
there are are two most favoritist Thanksgiving shows from the seventies.
If you guys remember anything super Thanksgiving cool in the seventies,

(47:56):
let us know. Maybe next year we'll do ad those,
maybe maybe make a list of some new Now, there
was a lot of Thanksgiving episodes like a Brady Bunch
and but none. I don't think there was anything memorable
as memorable as these two shows as far as Thanksgiving
and and they're very different from each other. Yeah, I

(48:17):
mean once a cartoon. Yeah, once for kids and On's
not for kids so much, so much. Yeah, okay, you guys,
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your favorite Thanksgiving ship from the seventies. What else would
we ask at the beginning anything. I'm trying to remember

(48:40):
what we had asked asked of our listeners.

Speaker 9 (48:45):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about,
will us, what you're talking about willis, Yeah, I don't know.
Back a Red listened to the beginning anyway, everybody had
to have the Thanksgiving. I think we're get out of
your chairs, bonm