TV: Inventory: "Boy, now I know how the pilgrims felt": 20 impromptu TV Thanksgivings
1. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
"This is not unlike another famous Thanksgiving episode," Linus Van Pelt says near the end of 1973's A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. The blanket-toting philosopher of the Peanuts set is trying to draw parallels between a disastrous holiday meal—which Peppermint Patty noisily interrupts with objections to her plate full of toast, pretzel sticks, popcorn, and jelly beans—and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Courtship Of Miles Standish, but there's some sly television commentary in that statement as well. Every year, TV families gather around their tables in the spirit of giving thanks, but just as often, the festivities are interrupted by turkeys refusing to thaw, guest lists altered at the last minute, or, in the case of Peppermint Patty's tirade, an 8-year-old's inability to assemble a traditional Thanksgiving spread on practically no notice. Not that Patty has any right to complain ...
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