Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November. Its traditions include turkey dinners and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
Most people associate Thanksgiving with the feast held by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe in 1621 at Plimouth Plantation. However, there is evidence that it was preceded by similar feasts in other colonies. Also, many myths about it have been debunked by historians. It didn't become a national holiday until 1863.
Hanna-Barbera focused on the holiday in some of its cartoons.
== The Huckleberry Hound Show ==
* "Grim Pilgrim": Huck is a pilgrim who competes with a Native American to hunt down a turkey for dinner.
== The Flintstones ==
* Before they became cave dwellers, one of the ideas during the show's development was for them to be a family of Pilgrims.
== The Peter Potamus Show ==
* "Pilgrim's Regress": Peter and So-So meet Miles Standoffish, and try to help him win the hand of Priscilla.
== The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't ==
* An adult male squirrel tells his son about the first Thanksgiving of 1621, and the role their ancestor, Jeremy Squirrel played in it.
== The New Scooby-Doo Movies ==
* "The Caped Crusader Caper": During the episode's climax, the gang sees balloons of Yogi Bear, Fred Flintstone, Santa Claus and Batman, which were built for the Gotham City Thanksgiving Day Parade. All of those characters were featured in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
== Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids ==
* In "Double Trouble", Butch asks Prince Taki, "Who wrote 'Alice's Restaurant'?" to which the prince replies, "Arlo Guthrie." "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" is an epic-length song written and recorded by Guthrie in 1967, in which he recounts many events from two years earlier, including when he and a friend joined Alice and Ray Brock for Thanksgiving dinner, and volunteered to get rid of their garbage. The song is traditionally played on Thanksgiving Day on radio stations throughout the country, or played by those who own the album.
== Valley of the Dinosaurs ==
* Kim Butler mentions Thanksgiving in the episodes "What Goes Up" and "Torch". In the former, Katie Butler rambles on about the food served at Thanksgiving dinner, until Kim says that she shouldn't have brought it up.
== The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show ==
* "Wedding Bell Boos, Parts One and Two": This episode reveals that Shaggy Rogers and his family were descended from the Pilgrim McBaggy Rogers, and Scooby-Doo and his family from McBaggy's pet dog, Yankee Doodle Doo. Both of these ancestors came over on the Mayflower with the other Pilgrims.
== Pac-Man ==
* "Happy Pacsgiving": Pac-Baby hears from his grandmother a story about Pacland's first Thanksgiving, with the Pac-Family as Pilgrims and the Ghost Monsters as Indians.
== Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventures ==
* "Model T for Ted": When Mr. Logan's vintage car is accidentally damaged, Bill and Ted go back in time to look for someone who can fix it. Their first stop is 1621, at the time of the first Thanksgiving.
== Other shows ==
Several Hanna-Barbera specials aired on Thanksgiving, even though they weren't about the holiday. These include:
* Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
* The Last of the Mohicans
* Five Weeks in a Balloon
* Yabba-Dabba-Doo: The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
From 1966 to 1977, ABC aired its Saturday-morning shows on Thanksgiving Day. These blocks included the following Hanna-Barbera productions:
*The Magilla Gorilla Show
*The Peter Potamus Show
*The Fantastic Four
*The Adventures of Gulliver
*Cattanooga Cats
*The Funky Phantom
*Yogi's Gang
*SuperFriends
*Goober and the Ghost Chasers
*Hong Kong Phooey
*Devlin
*Korg: 70,000 B.C.
*These Are the Days
*The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show
*Jabberjaw
*The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour
*The All-New Superfriends Hour
*Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has had balloons of Fred Flintstone, Scooby-Doo and Yogi Bear.
There is also a children's book called Scooby-Doo! The Thanksgiving Mystery.
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