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! 

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

• 7:9 The Thanksgiving Decoupling
• 9:9 The Platonic Permutation

Boy Meets World

• 4:10 Turkey Day
• 5:8 Chasing Angela Part 2

The Mindy Project

• 1:6 Thanksgiving

Good Luck Charlie

• 2:29 It’s A Charlie Duncan Thanksgiving

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

• 6:4 Thanks, But No Thanksgiving
• 10:1 I’m Thanksgiving Up

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!

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