This was, IMO, the best episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.

I watch this re-play every thanksgiving..........

That will be forever more, a classic line.

...but not very high or for very long.

They can but we hardly ever see them do that. Just don't throw them from a helicopter.

Funny episode.

They fly over fences all the time

but one raised on a farm getting regularly fed probably hasn't had a chance to practice free fall!

(What is terminal velocity for a frozen plucked bird?)

Rather like pumpkin chunkin, though. (KROK's morning guys in the '90s used to do/talk about that.)

The GM of WQXI told him about the turkey drop promotion they had done when he was at KBOX in Dallas. They dropped them from a flatbed truck rather than a helicopter, but hilarity ensued. When Wilson heard the story he said “You just won me an Emmy!”. Sadly, he was wrong, but it’s a great episode from a great show.

It was such a stunning surprise that the laugh just burst out and still does to the sound of me saying the words with him.

Wild Turkeys CAN fly, they just don't like to, unless absolutely necessary, like flying up to their roosts, or across the road.

We've had flocks of hens and poults, with occasional toms and jakes, swarm our bird feeders in a deep-snow winter, leaving an abundance of poopsicles for the dogs to snack on. Gross!

I'm wearing my "First Annual WKRP Thanksgiving Day Turkey Drop" sweatshirt today!

The other would be the end of the Bob Newhart Show.

Happy Thanksgiving DUers

It never gets old. Thanks for posting. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Here on Cape Cod there are many groups of turkeys that wander all over during the day. When it turns dark they fly up into tall trees where they roost for the night. And if your car is parked under one of those trees you awake to turkey crap all over the car… yes, turkeys do fly!

Classic.

It brought back this childhood memory. I saw this happen in my small Missouri town! Just picture it, taking a couple of hundred turkeys to the top of the bank building (about 4 stories tall) turkeys can’t fly from that height either, oh the carnage. My dad got one when it hit the ground, it was still alive when he got it to the car. The poor thing had a broken wing and leg and probably internal injuries, dad put it out of its misery when we got it home. I don’t think I could eat any of it.

Turkeys are tough...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vk9rmTkVSFs

"As GOD as my witness... I thought turkeys could fly!"