Thankful For Comedy

Overslept a bit this morning and got a quick start with breakfast and To Tell the Truth. New York Eyewitness News anchor Roger Grimsby (who would apparently be the face of ABC News through the mid-80's) joins the others to question three men who claim to be the security guard who discovered the break-in at the Watergate Hotel. Poor man lost his job after asking for a raise (and he never did get it) for being the one who found the "burglars."

Rushed out after that. Yes, the bike was fixed. It was just in the way back of the garage. I dashed off and got into work just in time. Thankfully, that was the worst that happened all day, other than I'm still overwhelmed with everything I have to do. I'll be trying to sweep and someone will call me to return cold items, and then another person will want me to get plastic bags for the front, and someone else will want me to empty recycling. At least I did get the outside trash and recycling done this time and had help from a sweet college student for the last hour. 

Went straight home and online. Sent off more apartment requests, then worked on writing. Brett's sons literally pull the rug out from under Jack (Klugman) the Red Knight, stopping him before he can harm their mother or Sir Richard Dawson. Betty leads them all to a large gilded mirror in the palace hall with the Red King's men in hot pursuit. She gets the boys and Orson and Gary through...but they're getting closer...

Broke for dinner at quarter of 7. Had baked herbed turkey London broil and roasted Brussels sprouts for dinner while watching Match Game '79. The panel is a bit confused when a contestant answers "In September" for "I'll See You In __." An audience member brings them up to speed with a not-bad rendition of the early 60's hit. 

Charles spent most of Match Game PM being extraordinarily fussy, even for him. He wrote one of his answers in "Hebrew," then went down with Gene to see if his Audience Match answer to "Strictly __," Kosher, was on the board. They also had some drug-and-sex fueled answers to what the snake gave Eve in a "really revised" version of the bible. 

Switched to Thanksgiving sitcom episodes as I made chocolate chip muffins. One of the most famous Thanksgiving shows is "Turkeys Away" from the first season of WKRP In Cincinatti. Station manager Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump) feels useless and tries to shove his way into everyone's projects. He, timid newscaster Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) and sleazy sales manager Herb Tarlek (Frank Bonner) come up with a huge promotion involving launching 20 turkeys into the air as a promotional stunt. It proves to be memorable, all right, just not in the way Arthur intended.

Balki (Bronson Pinchot) and Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) don't have much more luck with "Wild Turkey" during the 7th season of Perfect Strangers. Larry picks up 58 birds from a farmer, intending to sell them to last-minute shoppers. Not only does he only sell one turkey, but it may have swallowed his wife Jennifer's (Melanie Wilson) wedding ring. He and Balki upend the dinner of the family who bought the turkey while trying to find it.

Finished the night on Hulu after the muffins came out of the oven with "The Yalu Brick Road" from the 8th season of MASH. Most of the 4077th spend their holiday weekend in the infirmary after eating bad turkeys Klinger got from another camp. Winchester (David Ogden Stiers), Hot Lips (Loretta Swit), and Father Mulcahey (William Christopher) try to take care of their patients without Winchester and Hot Lips killing each other. Meanwhile, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Hunnicut (Mike Farrell) do everything they can to return to the base with the medicine, with the help of a North Korean soldier they "capture" and keeps following them around.