Simon Says "No Thanksgiving"

**Simon Says "No Thanksgiving"** is the eighteenth episode arc of *The Underdog Show.* In these series of episodes. Simon Bar Sinister goes back in time to sabotage the first ever Thanksgiving.

## Story

### Part 1 (#73 - 11/25/1965)

One night, in a new scheme, Simon takes Cad to a street corner where he shows him a tricky traffic light control box. On the box are two buttons; one will sound an air raid siren that will send everyone in the city into their homes or air raid shelters. When Simon pushes the second button, it will slam all the doors and windows shut and trap everyone inside thus making the plunder of the city easy. The two fiends leave the scene to prepare for the take over of the city. But the two villains are unaware that Sweet Polly Purebred has been following them and she calls for Underdog for help. The next morning, the pair are stopped by a cop as they head for the street corner to push the buttons on the tricky control box. The cop tells them that it is Thanksgiving Day and the parade will be marching down the streets for hours. Hence, no one is permitted to cross the streets. This doesn't stop Simon. Together, the two villains head back to Simon's basement lab where Simon takes out one of his time bombs. The evil twosome will travel back in time to prevent the Pilgrims of 1621 Plymouth Rock from becoming friendly with the Indians and starting the Thanksgiving tradition.

### Part 2 (#74 - 11/25/1965)

Simon and Cad use one of Simon's time bombs to head back in time to Plymouth Rock in 1621 where they destroy the Indian village and the Pilgrims settlement. In present day, Sweet Polly and Underdog head for the two villains basement lab where they find Simon's hidden cache of time bombs in a secret compartment behind a bookcase. They use the time travel device to land in 1621 Plymouth Rock, only to discover that a war between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans has started and that Simon and Cad have returned to the 20th Century.

### Part 3 (#75 - 11/27/1965)

After destroying both the Indians reservation and the pilgrims' settlement, Simon and Cad return to the 20th Century where the Thanksgiving Day Parade and all the remnants of Thanksgiving are gone. With this interference out of the way, Simon gives his army the signal and the villain's armed forces begin their assault on the city. In the past, Underdog and Polly try to stop the war between the Indians and the Pilgrims, but neither side is willing to stop fighting and apologize.

### Part 4 (#76 - 11/27/1965)

Simon, Cad and their army are about ready to attack the city. Underdog takes away the Indians and the pilgrims' weapons and points out to both sides that the strange little paleface Simon is the one responsible for causing the destruction of both parties' homes and instigating the war. Both the Indians and the pilgrims refuse to make a peace pact and apologize until our hero builds new homes for both sides. Seeing how foolish and unnecessarily destructive their war was, the pilgrims and the Indians unite and finally have their Thanksgiving feast- the first one ever. The parade begins down the streets once again and take Simon and Cad with them. The villains' army is captured and Simon and Cad are made the laughing stock of the city. Underdog and Polly use their second time bomb to return to the 20th Century.

## Trivia

* Parts 1 and 2 premiered on Thanksgiving Day 1965, right after the 39th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC. This is the only episode of not just The Underdog Show, but any Total Television Productions show to premiere on a day (Thursday) other than a Saturday.
	+ On the same note, the 1965 Macy's Parade introduced the giant Underdog balloon which was used for many years following, and appeared in many media related to the parade, such as a CGI 2008 Coke commercial (despite the balloon having been retired from the actual parade for 24 years at that point), and serving as the plot basis in the *Friends* Thanksgiving episode "The One Where Underdog Got Away".
* The Part 3 title card doesn't have any indication that it is the third part.
* Also, as seen in Part 3, the hand on Underdog and Polly's time bomb is in the wrong place.