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 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 completely grateful.

Identified for his or her wild household antics and their high quality vacation specials, The Simpson’s represented a standard, on a regular basis household. With lots of deal with Halloween and Christmas, generally Thanksgiving will get the brief finish of the stick. Often, nevertheless, The Simpson’s delivered an incredible episode that introduced Thanksgiving enjoyable into a pleasant 22-minute journey.

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 anxious 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 dwelling 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 together with her son, it doesn’t all the time end up that method, 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 solution to one of many higher Simpsons Thanksgiving episodes? That episode was “Poetic Interlude,” which was a section 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 type of pranks being a turkey carving prank for Thankgiving.

Whereas the story could seem mild, the episode shortly turns into darkish, which lends this episode an eerie vibe Value could be happy with. With the animation of the episode matching the horror-tinged tone, “Poetic Inerlude” needs to be in your radar if you’d like a facet 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, nevertheless it does begin off with Thanksgiving dinner after which strikes proper into Black Friday buying and Christmas lists, and so forth. It’s a enjoyable episode concerning the holidays, nevertheless it is not completely 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 lots 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 is just not 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 are nautically themed in hopes of saving the night from complete catastrophe… and an octopus with knives.

Throughout the telling of one of many tales, Lisa tells of varied variations of her relations on the Mayflower as they sail the seas. The top 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 model of Ned Flanders (Harry Shearer) reveal that they have been desiring 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 beautiful choice of moments. Moe (Hank Azaria) decides that he’s sad with the mundane nature of every single day being the identical at his bar, and displays on his time in school. As he leaves Homer accountable for his bar (horrible mistake) to go go to his school, he finally ends up making the choice to revamp his bar into a classy and hipster hangout, making Homer and the remainder of the blokes hate it and depart.

Moe finally reverts his bar again to its common feel and appear. All the blokes find yourself again at Moe’s for a deliciously terrible Thanksgiving meal made completely 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 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 making an attempt to get all of the authorized rights to possession of Moe’s bar in order that she might steal all his web value. He breaks off every little 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 with a easy funds, and finally ends up up to now past broke that even in demise, he wouldn’t even manage to pay for for his grave to be attended. In a determined try and make some cash, he asks Mr. Burns (Harry Shearer) for a increase, who then proceeds to make use of Homer as his private courtroom 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 costume up as Santa Claus for the Thanksgiving Day parade handy out toys to all the children within the crowd. After a couple of extra wild moments, Homer is grateful to, and thanks Lisa for serving to him to avoid wasting 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 must do it anymore. Marge factors out that in the future they are going to look again and love these moments, particularly once they have youngsters of their very own and may respect a majority of these traditions. Each vehemently point out that they are going to by no means have youngsters as a result of they by no means need 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 issue 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 de facto exhausting, and acknowledge the hassle their dad and mom put in once they have 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 through 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 little thing, because it has references to so many well-known movies and genres. The primary Thanksgiving section is a parody of Apocalypto, the A.I. section touches on points present in varied episodes of Black Mirror, and the area journey section 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 moving into an argument with Lisa and breaking her do-it-yourself Thanksgiving centerpiece and throwing it within the hearth, Bart finally ends up working away from dwelling. Whereas away, Bart finally ends up making an attempt to steal a pie, will get chased by guard canines, 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 dwelling, we get to see a very loving reunion together 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 in a position to lastly spend a household Thanksgiving collectively, even when it was solely leftovers that they have been in a position to eat collectively. It really was an ideal second to see all of them collectively and pleased once more, actually having fun with what Thanksgiving is all about – household.

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