23 of the Funniest Tweets from Thursday, November 27, 2025
It’s finally Thanksgiving, the feast we’ve all been waiting for.
The funniest sitcom episode comes from the first season of WKRP in Cincinnati: ‘Turkeys Away.’ That episode chronicles the most disastrous promotion in radio history, and, amazingly, it was based on a real-life stunt gone wrong.
Hugh Wilson, WKRP’s creator, had worked with plenty of radio stations, each bringing its own wild stories to the table. While spending time at a rock station in Atlanta, he heard a story from Jerry Blum, one of the real-life inspirations for Mr. Carlson.
Blum told Wilson “about a promotion – I believe in Texas, and I want to say Dallas, but I’m not sure – in which he threw turkeys out of a helicopter, and they didn’t fly,” Wilson says in an oral history published on The Classic TV History Blog. “They crashed to the ground, it was just a horrible disaster, and he wound up losing his job over it.”
And that’s how you make a great sitcom episode. It aired at just the right moment and even saved the show from cancellation. Who knew that someone thinking turkeys could fly would end up making TV history?
And since turkeys are the theme of the day, here are the funniest Thanksgiving-related tweets featuring, probably, traumatized mashed potatoes, canceled plans and, of course, the frozen turkey.
