Thanksgiving Cartoons

[Davey-Girl]

Which by the way, didn't follow Nick's Thanksgiving guideline. You know the whole character befriends a Turkey and decides that eating Turkey is pretty much the 11th Commandment

[littlechic110]

Since making another thread related to Thanksgiving might be pointless, I'll just ask this one here:

What cliches are seen in cartoons' Thanksgiving episodes/specials?

To start:

- It's usually a fall setting for Thanksgiving (leaves falling off trees, etc.), even if it's always summer-like/spring-like in every other episode. (See the Halloween cliches'-thread about California animators' antipathy toward actual weather patterns...). The Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special's backgrounds conveyed nicely a late November setting.

- Someone will try to claim turkeys shouldn't be eaten, and go to great lengths to keep it from being the main course (with another character often being gung-ho about eating said bird, thus creating tension).

- No mention of the day-after-Thanksgiving sales or excessive Christmas hype whatsoever, despite that lately that's overshadowed Thanksgiving Day itself to an excessive (IMO) degree.

- In some specials (mainly primetime ones), football will be mentioned or played. See: The Simpsons' Thanksgiving special.

- Pilgrims will appear or be mentioned somehow---usually in some retelling of the first Thanksgiving with the show's characters *somehow* having had ancestors on the "Mayflower". The 80s Pac-Man cartoon showed Paccy having had such ancestors in its Thanksgiving episode.

Any others?

-B.

[Derealisation]

Or in a school play form.

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Besides the regular Peanuts Thanksgiving special, there is also a Mayflower Voyage special where the Peanuts kids are on the Mayflower and experience the first Thanksgiving.

Somebody also mentioned the Hey Arnold Thanksgiving episode. It was basically about the fact that no family is "perfect" or the idealized "normal," so you should just be happy (or at least satisfied) with what you have.

There is also the obsession about food, or the meal being "just so," or it's a gip Thanksgiving and shouldn't count. They then learn that it's all about family and friends, and not necessarily what you are eating or how you are eating it.