To Kill a Turkey
Someone is planning to kill a turkey and eat it, usually for Thanksgiving, but either they can't bring themself to do it or the rest of the gang is against it.
Spin City
Appearances
- Taxi: Season 3, episode 7, "The Call of the Mild" (1981). The guys get stranded in the woods with no food, and Jim spots a wild turkey, but no one wants to kill it. Alex finally gets the guts to shoot it, but then nobody wants to eat it.
- Too Close for Comfort: Season 2, episode 6, "Rafkin's Bum" (1981). Jackie and Sara volunteer to cook Thanksgiving dinner, and they ask Monroe to bring the turkey, but to everyone's surprise, he brings a live turkey, and no one wants to kill it.
- Night Court: Season 2, episode 8, "Harry and the Madam" (1984). For Thanksgiving, Mac's family has a tradition of killing their own turkey. For some reason, he decides to store the turkey in Harry's office for the night, and when Bull finds out, he makes it his mission to save the turkey.
- Spin City: Season 4, episode 9 "The Thanksgiving Show" (1999).James insists on supplying the turkey for the mayor's Thanksgiving celebration, and he shows up with a live turkey that he plans to kill for dinner. Nikki and Janelle are appalled, and they try to rescue the turkey by setting it free, but the turkey won't go outside, so they hide it instead, but when James tells them that a cornered turkey tends to attack, they change their minds.
- Still Game: Season 4, episode 7, "Cold Turkey" (2005). Winston falls for a discount turkey scam and ends up with a live turkey. He tries to kill it with a meat cleaver, but he can't bring himself to do it, so he tries several other methods, like coaxing it across a busy freeway and trying to push it off a ledge. He even brings it to the butcher to kill, but he changes his mind at the last minute and rescues the turkey. Finally he gives up, names the turkey Albert, and sets it free.