As of September 2022, The Simpsons, entered season 34, and is ranked one of many longest working scripted exhibits in America, overtaking classics like Gunsmoke (which ran for 20 years), in addition to Scooby-Doo (which ran for 371 episodes, by means of a number of iterations). Whereas The Simpson’s didn’t usually have Thanksgiving specials, they did have a handful of nice reminiscences to depart us all feeling so totally grateful.
Recognized for his or her wild household antics and their high quality vacation specials, The Simpson’s represented a traditional, on a regular basis household. With a number of give attention to Halloween and Christmas, typically Thanksgiving will get the brief finish of the stick. Often, nonetheless, The Simpson’s delivered a tremendous episode that introduced Thanksgiving enjoyable into a pleasant 22-minute journey.
The Simpsons
- Launch Date
- December 17, 1989
- Principal Style
- Comedy
- Seasons
- 36
- Studio
- Fox
10 “Step Brother From the Identical Planet”
Season 34, Episode 8
Think about studying that you’ll have a step-brother that didn’t fairly sit effectively with you. Now, think about that very same step-brother being launched on probably the most aggravating time of the yr, Thanksgiving. You now know what Homer felt like within the Season 34 Thanksgiving episode “Step Brother From the Identical Planet,” which sees his father bringing house a girlfriend a lot youthful than he’s, and she or he, in flip, brings her son to the vacation festivities.
You’ll be able to perceive, considerably, the place Homer is coming from, as he’s anticipated to deal with her child as a step-brother. Whereas one would assume that Grampa Simpson and his new girlfriend would anticipate Homer to bond along with her son, it doesn’t all the time prove that means, which led to an episode that’s each hilarious and heartfelt on the identical time.
9 “Poetic Interlude”
Season 33, Episode 3
Who would have thought {that a} “Treehouse of Horror” episode would give technique to one of many higher Simpsons Thanksgiving episodes? That episode was “Poetic Interlude,” which was a phase from Season 33’s “Treehouse XXXII” episode. Right here, the late, nice Vincent Value reads Maggie a bedtime story about how her son, Bart, pulls a prank for every month of the yr, with a kind of pranks being a turkey carving prank for Thankgiving.
Whereas the story could appear mild, the episode shortly turns into darkish, which lends this episode an eerie vibe Value can be happy with. With the animation of the episode matching the horror-tinged tone, “Poetic Inerlude” needs to be in your radar if you need a aspect of mind-bending terror to go together with the turkey and stuffing.
8 “Tis the thirtieth Season”
Season 30, Episode 10
Technically, this isn’t a Thanksgiving episode, however it does begin off with Thanksgiving dinner after which moves right into Black Friday procuring and Christmas lists, and so forth. It’s a enjoyable episode in regards to the holidays, however it is not totally about Thanksgiving.
After Thanksgiving dinner, Bart and Lisa give Homer and Marge their Christmas lists, and evidently they need a massively costly TV. When Homer and Marge see that it’s on sale for considerably much less for Black Friday, they make plans to retrieve it. Lengthy story brief, they don’t get it and a number of hilarious but heartwarming moments come about for the household.
7 “The Wettest Tales Ever Instructed”
Season 17, Episode 18
Despite the fact that this episode just isn’t a standard Thanksgiving episode, it nonetheless has references to the vacation. On this transient point out, the household has dinner ruined, they usually find yourself telling one another tales which can be nautically themed in hopes of saving the night from complete catastrophe… and an octopus with knives.
In the course of the telling of one of many tales, Lisa tells of assorted variations of her members of the family on the Mayflower as they sail the seas. The tip of this bizarre and seemingly pointless story has the household assembly the Wampanoag tribe and becoming a member of them for the primary Thanksgiving feast solely to have this fictional version of Ned Flanders (Harry Shearer) reveal that they had been aspiring to take their land and kill all of them… good household Thanksgiving pleasure.
6 “Homer the Moe”
Season 13, Episode 3
What begins out as a wierd episode having nothing to do with Thanksgiving, turns into a comparatively heartwarming and wonderful choice of moments. Moe (Hank Azaria) decides that he’s sad with the mundane nature of daily being the identical at his bar, and displays on his time in school. As he leaves Homer answerable for his bar (horrible mistake) to go go to his school, he finally ends up making the choice to revamp his bar into a stylish and hipster hangout, making Homer and the remainder of the fellows hate it and depart.
Moe finally reverts his bar again to its common appear and feel. All the fellows find yourself again at Moe’s for a deliciously terrible Thanksgiving meal made totally of tofu and gluten. Such an odd episode, however because it ends, Homer solidifies his love for Moe by putting some cash in his tip jar on the bar.
5 “From Russia With out Love”
Season 30, Episode 6
Nothing says Thanksgiving fairly like a faux mail-order Russian bride, proper? Bart makes use of the darkish net to order Moe a Russian bride as a result of he now not responded emotionally to the prank calls Bart made. After a sequence of wildly unrealistic occasions, Moe lastly decides to marry this gal.
Happily for Moe, although, Bart finds out that this mail-order bride who stated she had truly fallen in love with Moe, is definitely a rip-off artist who was attempting to get all of the authorized rights to possession of Moe’s bar in order that she may steal all his internet value. He breaks off every thing, and she or he goes and pretends to be Scottish to seduce Groundskeeper Willie (Dan Castellaneta). And all of this could by no means have occurred if it weren’t for Marge asking Homer to uninvite a drink-too-much Moe to Thanksgiving dinner.
4 “Homer vs. Dignity”
Season 12, Episode 5
When Homer realizes that he can’t comply with by means of with a easy funds, and finally ends up to this point past broke that even in dying, he wouldn’t even have the funds for for his grave to be attended. In a determined try to make some cash, he asks Mr. Burns (Harry Shearer) for a elevate, who then proceeds to make use of Homer as his private court docket jester, of kinds, and pays him small quantities of cash for ridiculous duties, like throwing pudding at a co-worker or consuming a uncommon comedian e-book in entrance of the Comedian Ebook Man (Hank Azaria).
After being Mr. Burns’ amuser for lengthy sufficient, Lisa lastly will get Homer to cease doing these wild duties. So, when Homer takes all his “earnings” and donates all of it to Costington’s Division Retailer, the proprietor means that Homer gown up as Santa Claus for the Thanksgiving Day parade handy out toys to all the children within the crowd. After just a few extra wild moments, Homer is grateful to, and thanks Lisa for serving to him to save lots of his dignity.
3 “Holidays of Future Handed”
Season 23. Episode 9
Beginning with the top of Thanksgiving dinner and the household dashing to take their annual Christmas card image, each Bart and Lisa protest as a result of they hate it and want to not should do it anymore. Marge factors out that sooner or later they may look again and love these moments, particularly once they have youngsters of their very own and might admire these kinds of traditions. Each vehemently point out that they may by no means have youngsters as a result of they by no means wish to topic the world to extra Simpson dysfunction.
Flash ahead thirty years and each Bart and Lisa are actually dad and mom themselves, and are having important problem of their parenting and relationships. They find yourself at Homer and Marge’s home, and after some enjoyable adventures and heartfelt moments, the 2 notice that parenting is absolutely onerous, and acknowledge the effort their parents put in once they had been youngsters. The episode ends with everybody gathering (nonetheless thirty years sooner or later) to take one other household picture.
2 “Thanksgiving of Horror”
Season 31, Episode 8
In an homage to the annual and ever-popular Treehouse of Horror episodes, The Simpson’s recreate that very same Halloween magic, however for Thanksgiving. There’s a disturbing model of the household as Turkeys throughout the first Thanksgiving. There may be synthetic intelligence that Homer buys to quasi-replace Marge. And there’s a ridiculous area journey the place Bart inadvertently creates The Blob with cranberry sauce.
This episode actually does have every thing, because it has references to so many well-known films and genres. The primary Thanksgiving phase is a parody of Apocalypto, the A.I. phase touches on features present in varied episodes of Black Mirror, and the area journey phase clearly parodies the horrible movie The Blob, the place gelatinous goo turns into sentient and murderous. So, whereas not a typical Thanksgiving particular, it actually did ship with such a unbelievable number of enjoyable and pleasure and references that everybody will possible take pleasure in.
1 “Bart vs. Thanksgiving”
Season 2, Episode 7
In one of many earliest episodes of the sequence, after stepping into an argument with Lisa and breaking her selfmade Thanksgiving centerpiece and throwing it within the hearth, Bart finally ends up working away from house. Whereas away, Bart finally ends up attempting to steal a pie, will get chased by guard canine, and makes use of a faux ID to promote blood, after which leads to a soup kitchen receiving handouts for the homeless.
When Bart lastly returns house, we get to see a very loving reunion along with his household. After such a tough time, it’s very nice to see that Bart got here again, apologized, and that the Simpson clan was capable of lastly spend a household Thanksgiving collectively, even when it was solely leftovers that they had been capable of eat collectively. It actually was an amazing second to see all of them collectively and comfortable once more, actually having fun with what Thanksgiving is all about – household.
