America's First Thanksgiving

Tuck in, and have a heaping helping of some Industrial Complex!

Day of Thanksgiving

No Thanksgiving turkey for the Johnson family. The kids are disappointed, but Dad shames them into feeling thankful anyway.

How to Carve a Turkey

Miss Martha on a remote feed? Naw, we just called her up on the phone.

A few Thanksgiving specials for the night

Things I didn't bother to do right away so just to get them out now.

First, since I bothered sharing a previous special featuring this insipid forest critters, here's another go with Rusty & Buttons in "The Turkey Caper"...

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Next, something from Hanna-Barbera involving a squirrel and two kids of opposite group as they get lost in "The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't"...


Following that, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang reenact pilgrimish children as they set come ashore in the New World in the "This Is America, Charlie Brown" installment, "The Mayflower Voyagers" (you were expecting that 'other' special?)...


Next, a fat cat and his master seek romance 'n food in "Garfield's Thanksgiving"..


Yet more to go, up next a pioneering family moves to a planet unacceptable of their differences and customs, see how it all turns out in "Intergalactic Thanksgiving"...




Next up, Johnny Hart's famous comic strip comes to live in "B.C.'s First Thanksgiving"...




And because some people just don't get it, here's a special where Bugs Bunny, a diet physician consults several patients of their eating habits in "Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet"...

God I feel like I'm repeating myself.

And because I have nothing else to say, here you go!

Bake it with BUTTER

Screw all that war-time rationing! This is America and we need BUTTER. We won the war, and we're going to celebrate with BUTTER.

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Good luck finding any cheesecloth at your local grocery store. It's not going to be right next to the BUTTER.



Thank god we've got all that foil to hold the BUTTER.



Oh, forget the butter. let's just eat.

I'm thankful for old cartoons

Ah, back when Daffy was a dick.



Amazing that they end on the same gag.

Thanksgiving During Wartime

I showed this classic Tex Avery cartoon at Yulecon in an attempt to add a bit of Thanksgiving before diving in to some X-mas clips. I had fondly remembered Jerky Turkey from seeing it over and over and over again in my formative years. Which only goes to prove that memory is deceptive.

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First gag...I don't remember this. And I don't think I would've gotten this as a kid.




Wha? What the heck is that? "C?" What does "C" even mean?



Oh, right. This is a cartoon from 1945. World War II gags. Ha!



Yeah, I don't remember any of these gags.



I think I remember this, but I didn't get it.



Ah. Gasoline rationing gag. Right.



Oh, hey, I get it. I don't remember this gag, but at least I get it.



They must be waiting in line for Thanksgiving dinner.



Hollywood and Vine? I don't recall that gag. Did they edit these out when they were rebroadcast?



Cigarette rationing. Whoa.



Draft gag.



Another Draft gag. I really don't remember any of these.



Literary gag. Subtle.



....and I don't remember this either. I could do this for the whole cartoon. It's filled with dozens of WWII gags that didn't make an impression on me as a kid. Gags that don't make any sense to me even now. Within two generations most of the sight gags in this cartoon have lost all meaning. It must seem completely incoherent to the current generation.

Look at the size of that wishbone...



Thanks to Chris S. for sharing his copy of Jerky Turkey

Thanksgiving Toonage

Some thanksgiving tripe to spoil your day!

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First, Buttons and Rusty uncover the origins of Thanksgiving and more in "The Turkey Caper".





Next, Tennessee Tuxedo sets the record straight to a certain kangaroo rat with the help of Mr. Whoopee's 3DBB


Now, onto a science fiction kick with a tale of one family's attempt at fitting in on a new planet in "Intergalactic Thanksgiving (or Please Don't Eat the Planet")




After that, a behemoth-chinned Jay Leno visits a small mountain town's school in the hopes of reminding children about what we should be thankful for on this day, with unsatisfied results...


Next, Johnny Hart's famous comic strip prepares for it's "First Thanksgiving"




And then, Jon Arbuckle's plans for a lovely dinner goes awry in this "Garfield minus Garfield" inspired vid.


And finally, a little story told by a squirrel about how the first Thanksgiving almost never happened, at least according to this Hanna-Barbera special...

There, I figured out how to make my posts short enough with that trick (since someone didn't explained it to me, I just wasn't sure what it did).