Your Guide to Thanksgiving Movies and TV Shows
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There aren’t a lot of things to watch on TV for Thanksgiving, but we’ve found some for you to watch this year and every year leading up to the holiday!
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Here you’ll find a list of Thanksgiving movies, TV specials, and Thanksgiving TV show episodes to get you excited about Thanksgiving. They’re fun to watch while cooking Thanksgiving dinner too.
Thanksgiving Movies
- Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – This Peanuts gang movie is a classic!
- Planes Trains and Automobiles – This film is a comedy starring Steve Martin and John Candy. It is directed by John Hughes.
- Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Turkey Drop
TV Specials
- Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC which happens in New York City
- National Dog Show on NBC
TV Show Episodes are listed as season number and then episode number.
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Friends
- 1:9 The One Where The Underdog Gets Away
- 2:8 The One With The List
- 3:9 The One With The Football
- 4:8 The One With Chandler In A Box
- 5:8 The One With All The Thanksgivings
- 6:9 The One Where Ross Got High
- 7:8 The One Where Chandler Doesn’t Like Dogs
- 8:9 The One With The Rumor
- 9:8 The One With Rachel’s Other Sister
- 10:8 The One With The Late Thanksgiving
How I Met Your Mother
- 1:9 Belly Full Of Turkey
- 3:9 Slapsgiving
- 5:9 Slapsgiving: Revenge Of The Slap
- 6:10 Blitzgiving
Big Bang Theory
Boy Meets World
- 4:10 Turkey Day
- 5:8 Chasing Angela Part 2
The Mindy Project
- 1:6 Thanksgiving
Good Luck Charlie
Fuller House
- 2:6 Fuller Thanksgiving
- 5:12 Cold Turkey
Last Man Standing
- 3:9 Thanksgiving
- 5:9 The Gratitude List
- 6:8 My Father the Car
Chopped
- 5:12 Cornuchopia
- 9:12 Give it Your All
- 13:9 Happy Turkey Gizzards Day!
- 17:13 A Chopped Thanksgiving
- 22:6 Chopped Family Thanksgiving
- 25:11 Thanksgiving Soup-er Stars
- 31:10 Turkey Day Heros
- 35:12 An Iron Chef Thanksgiving
- 40:12 Thankful Siblings
- 44:1 Thanksgiving Champions
- 44:2 Thanksgiving Heroes
Chopped Junior
- 1:4 A Chopped Junior Thanksgiving
- 4:3 Thanks Kidding
- 9:1 Turkey Day! Hooray!
- 9:3 Thanksgiving Leftovers
Cutthroat Kitchen
Guy’s Grocery Games
- 3:6 Thanksgiving Grocery Trot
- 6:10 Turkey Day Tournament
- 11:7 Thanksgiving in Flavortown
- 15:14 GGG Gives Thanks
- 19:6 Family Feud Thanksgiving
- 19:8 Judges Thanksgiving Throwdown
- 22:1 DDD Thanksgiving
- 22:2 Guy’s Thanksgiving Games
Alexa & Katie
1:10 Thanksgiving
Riverdale
- 4:7 The Ice Storm
Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge
So Far this show has had 2 seasons. You can find them here. Giada DiLaurentis hosts this Thanksgiving cooking competition show.
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Siesta Key
- 3:18 I’m Thankful
Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and get in the spirit all November long over Thanksgiving movies and shows!
