Some tv episodes are classic and will live on. When you tell someone you like a certain show, there is always that certain episode that many people will bring up that represents that show. I’ll go through a few random shows in the next few weeks and pick the one that I remember the most. They will be in no particular order.
” Those can’t be skydivers. I can’t tell just yet what they are but… Oh my God! They’re turkeys! Oh no! Johnny can you get this?”
” The Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven”
“I really don’t know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counter-attack. It was almost as if they were… organized!”
“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
WKRP IN CINCINNATI – Turkeys Away
When I talk to people about this show. This episode always comes to mind. The Characters are Bailey Quarters, Les Nessman, Mr. Carlson, Venus Flytrap, Dr. Johnny Fever, Herb Tarlek, Jennifer Marlowe and Andy Travis
Les’s play by play of the promotion is great. The complete episode is great but when Mr. Carlson says the closing line it turns into a classic episode.
It starts off with the big guy Mr. Carlson trying to act busy driving everyone crazy trying to be useful and probing the office to see what everyone was up to. He decided he would plan a promotion. He told the salesman Herb to get 20 turkeys ready for a Thanksgiving radio promotion.
Les is at the shopping center and Mr Carlson and Herb are up in a helicopter. He then notices a dark object being dropped from the helicopter, then a second one. Believing them to be skydivers, his tone becomes increasingly cautious when he sees no parachutes are opening. After a few more moments he realizes in horror that the objects are live turkeys. Continuing his broadcast (which bears a strong resemblance to the Hindenberg disaster) he says that the turkeys are hitting the ground and that the crowd has begun running away in panic. One turkey hits a parked car. Les continues, saying the turkeys are hitting the ground like “sacks of wet cement”. He tries to retreat to the store behind him but realizes he can’t after annoying the owner.
At the studio, the gang are listening, horrified themselves, when the broadcast is suddenly cut off. Johnny calmly tries to re-establish contact with Les, but hears only silence. Johnny thanks Les, telling his listeners that the shopping mall was just “bombed by live turkeys” and ends the broadcast.
At the end, Mr. Carlson says the phrase that elevates the episode to a classic. “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
The play by play by Les.
As God As My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly
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I loved this show and this episode is a classic! Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
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Thank you so much! The same to you Eden.
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One of the traumatic events in American history, comparable to the Hindenburg disaster.
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Yes it was! Great comment
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“I honestly thought Turkeys could fly…”
Les’s coverage was like “Oh, the humanity…”
I miss that show.
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I do also…and again I”m glad I have the version with the real songs… VHS quality is good enough for me. Now if I was a good editor…I would get the new version for the quality and dub in the music.
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Can you dub?
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I have Cubase so yea it’s possible.
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Wow. Man of many talents…
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LOL…I use it to record my songs but yea it’s designed to do audio and video if you need it.
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One of best tv shows in comedy history and one of the best lines ever.
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a true classic , both the episode and the series. I can still hear Les lamenting ‘oh the humanity!”
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That looks like a pretty hilarious episode. I wasn’t familiar with it at all nor the show. While a good amount of American TV shows were shown in Germany at the time, I suspect WKRP in Cincinnati wasn’t among them.
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You would probably like this show Christian. The show helped Blondie’s Heart of Glass go to number 1. They played a lot of cool music…plus it’s funny.
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I guess the American TV shows they were showing back in Germany at the time were most crime/detective like The Rockford Files, Kojak, Streets of San Francisco, Magnum PI and Miami Vice, and drama like Dallas and Dynasty. The only sitcom I well remember was Golden Girls.
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‘Plight Of The Farbests’
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lol I had to look that one up.
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Sorry, sometimes my ‘I thought I had something funny to say’ comments land like a sack of wet cement…
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No I like it… I learn something new every day.
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Absolutely one of the top ten most memorable television scenes for me. No matter how many years go by, I can still picture the “carnage.”
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This one is one of my favorite scenes also. The look on Les’s face was priceless.
The runner up scene to me is from Taxi…not sure if you watched it but it was Reverend Jim getting his drivers license and the phrase “slow down”
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My wife remembered that Taxi scene you described word for word. We’ve never discussed it, but when I asked her she knew exactly what I was talking about. I’m gonna go find that to see if I just forgot it or not!
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You have probably found it but here it is…
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