A Thanksgiving Tale

🦃 We’re talking turkey as we dig up and dig in to a 1983 Thanksgiving special from puppeteer Paul Fusco, the creator of ALF. 

🎙️ Chad Young, Tommy Coombs, and Jayme Kilsby join us the follow a turkey’s dream of stardom that ends with dogs and cats living together. 

📺 You can watch “A Thanksgiving Tale” on Youtube, with curated retro Thanksgiving commercials. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

Imagicom Productions’ Holiday Specials Collection. 

Fred Travalena as the Joker in the 1989 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. 

A November 16, 1983 TV listing in an archived New York Magazine. 

Paul Fusco’s “Space Cats.” 

David Lander in “Funland.” 

Mental Floss’s Oral History of ALF. 

Today’s TV Trope: Invited as Dinner. 

The “You Bet Your Life” Duck. 

The art of making puppets fight: Throw them into the air from behind a fence. 

We compare the Thanksgiving play in this special to the one in Addams Family Values. 

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📼 Commercials: 

Butterball Turkey Commercial (1985) 

Christmas Time in the City. 

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“A Thanksgiving Tale” © 1983 Imagicom Productions, Inc. 

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