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The Best Thanksgiving TV Specials

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Callan Ghareeb
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Sewanee chapter.

One of the best parts of the holidays is all the holiday specials that TV shows do. While some people may get tired of all the holiday themed episodes, I live for them. They are always some of my favorite episodes of the show, no matter how corny or dorky they are. If you, like me, get a kick out of them but don’t know how to find them, here is my list of the all-time best shows with Thanksgiving specials.

Gilmore Girls

  • Season 3, Episode 9: “A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving” (2002)
  • Season 6, Episode 10: “He’s Slippin ’em Bread…Dig?” (2005)

Grey’s Anatomy

  • Season 2, Episode 9: “Thanks for the Memories” (2005)
  • Season 6, Episode 10: “Holidaze” (2009)
  • Season 10, Episode 10: “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2013)

One Tree Hill

  • Season 8, Episode 9: “Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace” (2010)

 

Gossip Girl

  • Season 1, Episode 9: “Blair Waldorf Must Pie” (2007)
  • Season 2, Episode 11: “The Magnificent Archibalds” (2008)
  • Season 3, Episode 11: “The Treasure of Serena Madre” (2009)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  • Season 4, Episode 8: “Pangs” (1999)

The Vampire Diaries

  • Season 6, Episode 8: “Fade Into You” (2014)

Supergirl

  • Season 1, Episode 4: “Livewire” (2015)
  • Season 2, Episode 8: “Medusa” (2016)

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

  •  Season 9, Episode 10: “The Gang Squashes Their Beefs” (2013)

Malcolm in the Middle

  • Season 5, Episode 4: “Thanksgiving” (2003)

The Nanny

  • Season 6, Episode 9: “Oh, Say, Can You Ski?” (1998)

Scrubs

  • Season 1, Episode 9: “My Day Off” (2001)

Friends

  • Season 1, Episode 9: “The One Where Underdog Gets Away” (1994)
  • Season 2, Episode 8: “The One with the List” (1995)
  • Season 3, Episode 9: “The One with the Football” (1996)
  • Season 4, Episode 8: “The One with Chandler in a Box” (1997)
  • Season 5, Episode 8: “The One with All the Thanksgivings” (1998)
  • Season 6, Episode 9: “The One Where Ross Got High” (1999)
  • Season 7, Episode 8: “The One Where Chandler Doesn’t Like Dogs” (2000)
  • Season 8, Episode 9: “The One with the Rumor” (2001)
  • Season 9, Episode 8: “The One with Rachel’s Other Sister” (2002)
  • Season 10, Episode 8: “The One with the Late Thanksgiving” (2003)

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

  • Season 1, Episode 12: “Talking Turkey” (1990)
  • Season 6, Episode 9/10: “There’s the Rub (Part 1)”/”There’s the Rub (Part 2)” (1995)

How I Met your Mother

  • Season 1, Episode 9: “Belly Full of Turkey” (2005)
  • Season 3, Episode 9: “Slapsgiving” (2007)
  • Season 5, Episode 9: “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap” (2009)
  • Season 6, Episode 10: “Blitzgiving” (2010)

Modern Family

  • Season 3, Episode 9: “Punkin Chunkin” (2011)
  • Season 6, Episode 8: “Three Turkeys” (2014)
  • Season 8, Episode 7: “Thanksgiving Jamboree” (2016)

New Girl

  • Season 1, Episode 6: “Thanksgiving” (2011)
  • Season 2, Episode 8: “Parents” (2012)
  • Season 3, Episode 10: “Thanksgiving III” (2013)
  • Season 4, Episode 9: “Thanksgiving IV” (2014)
  • Season 6, Episode 7: “Last Thanksgiving” (2016)

Raising Hope

  • Season 1, Episode 9: “Meet the Grandparents” (2010)
  • Season 2, Episode 7: “Burt’s Parents” (2011)
  • Season 3, Episode 7: “Candy Wars” (2012)

That ’70s Show

  • Season 1, Episode 9: “Thanksgiving” (1998)
  • Season 5, Episode 8: “Thank You” (2002)
  • Season 7, Episode 9: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (2004)

Bob’s Burgers

  • Season 3, Episode 5: “An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal” (2012)
  • Season 4, Episode 5: “Turkey in a Can” (2013)
  • Season 5, Episode 4: “Dawn of the Peck” (2014)
  • Season 6, Episode 4: “Gayle Makin’ Bob Sled” (2015)
  • Season 7, Episode 6: “The Quirkducers” (2016)

Family Guy

  • Season 10, Episode 6: “Thanksgiving” (2011)
  • Season 12, Episode 7: “Into Harmony’s Way” (2013)
  • Season 13, Episode 5: “Turkey Guys” (2014)
  • Season 14, Episode 6: “Peter’s Sister” (2015)

Full House

  •  Season 1, Episode 9: “The Miracle of Thanksgiving” (1987)

Greek

  • Season 3, Episode 9: “The Wish-Pretzel” (2009)

Boy Meets World

  • Season 4, Episode 10: “Turkey Day” (1996)
  • Season 5 Episode 8: “Chasing Angela-Part II” (1997)

The Middle

  • Season 1, Episode 8: “Thanksgiving” (2009)
  • Season 2, Episode 9: “Thanksgiving II” (2010)
  • Season 3, Episode 10: “Thanksgiving III” (2011)
  • Season 4, Episode 8: “Thanksgiving IV” (2012)
  • Season 5, Episode 7: “Thanksgiving V” (2013)
  • Season 6, Episode 7: “Thanksgiving VI” (2014)
  • Season 7, Episode 8: “Thanksgiving VII” (2015)
  • Season 8, Episode 6: “Thanksgiving VIII” (2016)

Mad Men

  • Season 1, Episode 13: “The Wheel” (2007)
  • Season 4, Episode 1: “Public Relations” (2010)
  • Season 5, Episode 9: “Dark Shadows” (2012)
  • Season 6, Episode 13: “In Care Of” (2013)

Pretty Little Liars

  • Season 5, Episode 12: “Taking This One to the Grave” (2014)
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