Turkey Drop Apr 2026

In the 1978 episode "Turkeys Away," station manager Arthur Carlson decides to stage a massive secret Thanksgiving promotion to boost the station's ratings. He hires a helicopter to hover over the Pinedale Shopping Mall, intending to release live turkeys as a "gift" to the crowd below.

: He soon realizes they are turkeys, screaming, "Oh, the humanity!" as they plummet. Turkey Drop

: The birds, being flightless domestic turkeys, hit the pavement "like sacks of wet cement," smashing through windshields and sending the crowd into a panic. In the 1978 episode "Turkeys Away," station manager

: Nessman initially thinks the dark objects falling from the sky are skydivers. In the 1978 episode "Turkeys Away

The scene is narrated by the station's eccentric newsman, Les Nessman, who delivers a dramatic, play-by-play account that parodies the Hindenburg disaster: