On this date in 1978...

The "Turkeys Away" episode of WKRP in Cincinatti first aired.

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

I wasnt alive then.

RossD said:

I wasnt alive then.

It's okay.  You can probably find it on youtube.

Best Thanksgiving episode ever.

I saw that episode on tv. Scary to realize that 78 was so long ago...

I remember seeing that as a rerun. I have also watched turkeys fly. They fly like chickens (not very far) and can land in treetops and on roofs.

A bunch of turkeys flew into my yard when I was trying to mow last week. They don’t fly very well, but they do fly. And they make an awful lot of noise while they’re doing it. 

RossD said:

I wasnt alive then.

I was a junior in high school and had just started to spread my wings....

In reply to matthewmcl (Forum Supporter) :

But what happens when you drop them from a helicopter?

That was fun!!!!

Thanks for making me look that up.

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

A bunch of turkeys flew into my yard when I was trying to mow last week. They don’t fly very well, but they do fly. And they make an awful lot of noise while they’re doing it. 

Those are wild turkeys,...domestic turkeys are bred to be so massive that they'll pretty much drop like a rock.

"The humanity!"  

It's been forever since I watched that clip. Thanks for the reminder. Pure comedy gold. 

That is a classic!

03Panther said:

I saw that episode on tv. Scary to realize that 78 was so long ago...

It wasn't THAT long ago!

(born in 78)

I remember it.  I was 8.  After my bedtime.  I’m laying in bed in my room and I hear my father just howling from down the hall.  Literally screaming in a way I’d never heard him laugh before. 

There were a couple others episodes of Taxi that produced the same result.  He’s near 80 now and I haven’t heard that laugh since.

I remember it well from its initial showing.  One of our favorite sayings at my old employer.  

Saw them all on TV, I am slightly old.  Also, being from Cincinnati made it even more funny.  Went into the Navy in '85 and when people learned where I was from they always asked "is WKRP a real station?"

I don't remember my father watching a lot of WKRP, but I remember that episode making him howl with laughter.

Gotta love the show that put my hometown Cincinnati on the map....  Watched a lot of reruns but don;t remember this one.  Sadly I was 1 so will have to youtube it.

I think the FCC laid it down on Bubba the Love Sponge for a similar stunt... I had never heard of this episode, so minus points to BTLS for not coming up with the idea.

A 401 CJ said:

I remember it.  I was 8.  After my bedtime.  I’m laying in bed in my room and I hear my father just howling from down the hall.  Literally screaming in a way I’d never heard him laugh before. 

I'm jealous.  One of my earliest TV memories was some officer forcibly removing Hawkeye's arms, and then he sat in a rowboat in a sea of arms and came ashore to some operation, but he couldn't do anything because the Army took his arms away.

I hid behind the couch 

There were a couple others episodes of Taxi that produced the same result.  He’s near 80 now and I haven’t heard that laugh since.

When my grandmother's health was failing in her early 90s, she happened upon Airplane! on one of the movie channels.  I hadn't heard her laugh so hard in a very long time.

I'm old enough that I watched that first run.  It was great then and great now!