“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

With those words, the Turkeys Away episode of WKRP in Cincinnati takes it place as a holiday classic, a rare Thanksgiving episode in a genre dominated by Christmas.  In this episode, Arthur Carlson — the station manager of the perpetually low-rated and eponymous radio station — incorrectly assumes that turkeys can fly, turning his plans for the greatest radio promotion in history into something very different.

As with many of WKRP‘s wildest stories, this episode was based on something actually happened..  A radio station in Atlanta tried a similar promotion, with the station manager tossed the turkeys out of the back of a moving truck.  Turkey still couldn’t fly or get out of the road fast enough.  It’s not easy being a turkey in November.

While celebrating the holiday tomorrow, take a moment to enjoy this classic TV moment.  Happy Thanksgiving!