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30 greatest Thanksgiving episodes of all time

By Reed Gaudens

385848 12: Actors (l-r): Courteney Cox Arquette as Monica Geller and Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay star in NBC's comedy series "Friends" Episode: "The One Where Chandler Doesn''t Like Dogs." (Photo by Warner Bros. Television)
385848 12: Actors (l-r): Courteney Cox Arquette as Monica Geller and Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay star in NBC's comedy series "Friends" Episode: "The One Where Chandler Doesn''t Like Dogs." (Photo by Warner Bros. Television) /
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8. The Office

Episode: Season 7, Episode 9, “WUPHF.com”

What’s on the menu: Don’t come to The Office’s Thanksgiving episode with an empty stomach. The Dunder-Mifflin crew aren’t dishing out an office feast. In fact, it’s rather incredible that the comedy even acknowledged Thanksgiving, given that with 200 episodes and nine seasons, the holiday was perennially overlooked. But in Season 7, Dwight decided to take matters into his own hands a reinvent an old tradition from his past. The results are wonderfully weird.

When Dwight was younger, his family had competing hay festivals, naturally, and he grew up living with the resentment that he was never crowned king for the festivals. Now that he’s an adult, he creates his own hay festival in the office parking lot with the obvious sole intention in crowning himself, king. Because of his mission to replace his negative memories with positive ones, Dwight misses his contractually-obligated sexual rendezvous with Angela. You win some, you lose some.

Why we’re thankful for it: If you have time to kill and a Netflix account, you’re thankful for The Office. Since the series ended, it has only grown in popularity, with talk of a reboot or revival lingering ever since. Maybe a future rendition of the series would celebrate a more traditional Thanksgiving, but Dwight’s take on the holiday takes the cake, er, hay king crown. Even though there’s hardly a turkey in sight, Dwight’s hay festival and its ridiculous fallout in “WUPH.com” ranks as one of the greatest Thanksgiving episodes of all time.

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