MOVIES
(Plot) Charlie invites his friends (Patty invites herself) to eat Thanksgiving at his house and all he can offer is toast, popcorn, pretzel sticks, jelly beans, and ice cream sundaes. (1973)
What is "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"?
The main protein dish on the table.
From 1927 to 1932, handlers would just let the balloons fly away after the parade ended.
What is TRUE?
Television show that marches across the screen every year on Thanksgiving.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
The name of the essential amino acid found in turkey that induces slumber.
What is tryptophan?
(Plot) Neal is trying to get home for Thanksgiving with his family by any mode of transportation available, with no help from Del, a curtain ring salesman. (1987)
What is "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"?
Dessert made from those roundish vegetable things from Halloween.
What is pumpkin pie?
Macy's is the number 1 consumer of helium in the world.
What is FALSE? (They are number 2...NASA is number 1)
The part of the turkey where if you play tug-of-war with it and end up with the larger piece, you get your "desire".
What is the wishbone?
The process of soaking a turkey in a saltwater solution before cooking it.
What is brining?
(Scene) Michael (big Mike) envisions a traditional Thanksgiving at the big dining room table, so he takes his plate of food to the table...and the Tuohy family joins him. (2009)
What is "The Blind Side"?
Herbed side dish that is sometimes cooked within the turkey.
What is stuffing?
Parade organizers resulted to hanging the balloons from cranes when there was a helium shortage.
What is TRUE? (In 1958)
The name given to the day after Thanksgiving.
What is Black Friday?
The Thanksgiving side-dish that is the least popular among Americans.
What is the Green Bean Casserole?
(Scene) Crawl shocks a turkey into fainting (he thinks it died), tries to pluck the "dead" Turkey which wakes, and the chase in the kitchen begins! (1993)
What is "Son in Law"?
Baked vegetable side-dish usually served with almonds and crispy fried onions on top.
What is green bean casserole?
Each balloon takes 90 minutes to be fully inflated.
What is TRUE?
The widely-used name of a race run every year at Thanksgiving.
What is a "Turkey Trot"?
The movie that holds the record for the highest-grossing weekend in Thanksgiving history.
What is "Frozen 2"? (2019)
(Plot) A pair of turkeys discover a time machine and decide to use it to travel to the first Thanksgiving, to take turkeys off the menu forever. (2013)
What is "Free Birds"?
Condiment made from the fruit of a low-creeping bush, sometimes in jelly form.
What is cranberry sauce (jelly)?
The ropes affixed to the balloons to guide them are called "grapnels".
What is FALSE? (They are called "bones")
The name given to a Thanksgiving get-together without family.
What is Friendsgiving?
The U.S. president that was the first to officially pardon a turkey for Thanksgiving.
Who was George H.W. Bush? (1989)