Happy Thanksgiving!
For your holiday entertainment, here are a couple of surreal Thanksgiving episodes from The Jack Benny Program. Aside from the usual jokes about Jack Benny's cheapness and vanity, both of these episodes involve unusual dream sequences about turkeys.
"Jack Dreams He is a Turkey" begins at the supermarket butcher counter where Jack attempts to find a turkey that fits his budget. Ultimately, he discovers that the cheapest turkey is a live one, but after Jack brings it home, he has doubts. His guilt about having to kill it causes him to dream that he is a turkey. This episode aired on November 11, 1943.
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In the second half of the episode "Turkey Dream," Jack has a strange dream wherein he is tried for murder by a court of turkeys and then eaten. The trial also includes the bizarre, but catchy, song about the "Turkey of 29 pounds." The episode aired on November 30, 1947.
I only wish Sarah Palin suffered the same fate Jack did with the turkey trial in real life as she was being interviewed while turkeys were being slaughtered behind her!
Posted by: Stacy Sobotka | November 29, 2008 at 01:54 PM