[DallasBiff]

I will never forget the quote, "As God as my witness, I thought turkey's could fly".

A little breather in this election mess, set your DVR's.

[wally_bert]

WKRP is still one of the best sitcoms ever made.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"

[diatomite]

I laughed so hard at that episode when it originally aired that I thought I was going to have a coronary.

[Mr. K]

That is one of the funniest things ever on TV.

There are SO many moments in that one episode...

[Reading the banner] “W....K....Rrrrrrr........[staff nearly falls over in anticpation] ...P!”

“THEY’RE HITTING THE GROUND LIKE SACKS OF WET CEMENT!”

[rrrod]

Do the actors still receive residuals?

[Revel]

One of the funniest moments of all time- Different episode.

“Its the phone Police”.

[joma89]

Yes, Virginia, Turkeys can fly!

JoMa

[madison10]

LOL My husband and I talk about this scene all the time...not sure what triggers the conversation.

[joesbucks]

Watching now.

[LouieFisk]

https://www.ajc.com/life/radiotvtalk-blog/unearthed-audio-claims-that-a-wkrp-like-radio-promotion-turkey-drop-actually-happened/5M5U577MFZFZTPQM54GWNXRH4A

“Blum’s son Gary said his dad actually held a much smaller Thanksgiving promotion throwing frozen turkeys out of the back of a flatbed truck in the early 1960s at KBOX-AM in Dallas.

“The public went nuts fighting over the turkeys and it was a mess,” Gary said. “That was about the whole story.” But he admitted the story became embellished over the years. Even Wilson himself in the interview thought the turkeys were thrown from a helicopter as opposed to a flatbed truck.

Mark Kanov, a former WQXI exec, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1996 that Blum actually uttered the words, “I didn’t know turkeys couldn’t fly, “ similar to Carlson’s line on the show.

Blum “thought he would just throw them out of the back of the truck and they would fly,” said Kanov, general manager of Star 94 at the time. “But they were like dead weights hitting the ground. Hundreds of people were grabbing them. One would get hold of a leg, another a neck. It was like tug of war.”

[lizma2]

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6tug84

Great show and agree with Barney Miller a close second.

Could you imagine “All In The Family” on TV today??

[Hulka]

The funniest scene EVER in the history of comedy.

[Eddie01]

OMG, it’s happening now!!!!

[Ciaphas Cain]

Just watched it. A lot of good hearty laughter in what is otherwise a very confusing time.

Thanks for the heads up!!

[wny]

A classic. Over 40 years later, it’s still talked about. From a time when you could watch TV with your 10 year old daughter and not worry about it getting sleazy.

BTW, Jan Smithers was one of the most beautiful women on TV back then.

[vetvetdoug]

One of the writers for “WKRP” got his inspiration for the episode from a yearly event that was held in Yellville, Arkansas, where they dropped a live turkey from a helicopter. The writer I understand was from Arkansas. Yellville received a tsunami of complaints from HSUS and PETA and subsequently has stopped the tradition.

[Roadrunner383]

Wild turkeys can fly, and faster than you’d think. The big, overfed domestic turkeys, not so much.