Thanksgiving – as seen on TV! Favorite holiday episodes

Thanksgiving - Friends - Turkey head
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Over the years, nearly every TV show has featured a Thanksgiving episode — some good, some total turkeys.

Here’s a look back through the decades at just a few of the sitcoms and other primetime shows you might remember — including favorites like Friends, Seinfeld, Bewitched and The Cosby Show — as they celebrated with the traditional feast.

Friends

Raising a Thanksgiving toast

Thanksgiving - Friends
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The Simpsons

Thanksgiving dinner shenanigans

Thanksgiving - Simpsons
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Bewitched

Dressed up as Pilgrims

Bewitched Thanksgiving Pilgrims
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Brady Bunch

Gathering around the turkey, from “The Brady Bunch Hour”

Brady Bunch Hour Thanksgiving
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Cheers

Diane suggests that the rest of the gang spend Thanksgiving together in Carla’s new home.

Thanksgiving table - Cheers
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Just your typical Thanksgiving dinner…

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Thanksgiving
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The Munsters

Herman Munster tries the turkey

Munsters Thanksgiving
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Felicity

Thanksgiving dinner

Felicity Thanksgiving
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Diff’rent Strokes

Sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner

Diff'rent Strokes Thanksgiving
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Roseanne

The loud Thanksgiving dinner tables

Roseanne Thanksgiving
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Seinfeld

Kramer is the turkey

Thanksgiving - Seinfeld - Kramer is the turkey
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Brady Bunch

Dressed up as Pilgrims

Brady Bunch pilgrims - Thanksgiving
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Friends

Monica with a turkey on her head, in the episode, “The One with All the Thanksgivings”

Thanksgiving - Friends - Turkey head
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