I love the Atlanta Traffic System... They have cameras everywhere, radar stations everywhere, and huge, huge CMS (Changeable Message Signs) over the interstates that tell you road conditions up ahead..

Today, on my way to work:

Man, I hate it when people start dropping turkeys on the roads, now..

Me.

<Les Nessman>"They're hitting the concrete like sacks of wet cement... Oh the humanity..."</Les Nessman>

<Les Nessman>"It was like the turkeys mounted a counterattack! It was almost as if they were ...organized!!"</Les Nessman>

<Mrs. Tweedy>"And they are not organized!"</Mrs. Tweedy>

ROFL! They need to show that episode on TVLand this weekend. I wish I could remember some of the lines Gordon Jump (Mr. Carlson) had in that episode... I know one was something like, "How were we supposed to know turkeys can't fly?" A classic, no doubt.

<withnail>Accident black spot? These aren't accidents! They're throwing themselves into the road! Gladly! Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness!</withnail>

Peter

Excerpt link.

I just found an audio clip from the episode.

ROFL!!

Thanks guys. Geez, I wish I could hack into our database and throw those quotes out there..

Me.

I know one was something like, "How were we supposed to know turkeys can't fly?" A classic, no doubt.


"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

That episode of WKRP has been called the best single sitcom episode ever aired. I have to concur.

tanstaafl.

What was the name of the episode? I can't remember for the life of me.. and thousands of small birds.

Me.

Turkeys Away

What was the name of the episode?

According to epguides.com:
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"Turkeys Away"
gs: Michael Fairman [ Shoe Store Owner ]
Feeling left out because he doesn't have anything to do, Mr. Carlson suddenly decides to take full charge of every aspect of the station. He then proceeds to come up with a special, top-secret Thanksgiving day promotion involving twenty live turkeys.

b: 30 Oct 78 pc: 008 w: Bill Dial d: Michael Zinberg

NOTE: This is the series' most famous episode
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Since it was brought up, and since Fark recently posted it, Turkeys Away!

Speaking of which.. we had to stop the car and wait a few minutes for the local (newly arrived) wild turkeys to saunter off the highway tonight. One male and a harem of six or seven ladies.

-ml

Wild turkeys were reintroduced back to NJ a number of years ago. Now, you can see them in the most unusual places. Including the campus of the building I work in. It is always strange looking out of the glass and seeing wild turkeys looking back in at you!

Speaking of which (sort of..), is your address still the same?

Yes, it is. Which is kind of why it is so unusual to see live turkeys - while not "the big city", it is certainly industrial park suburbia...

I'm sure they used to show this on Sky One years ago. But I thought it had the bloke from Third Rock in it. But according to that episode guide it ran from 1978 to 82, now that can't be right.

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Aha, it turns out the series I watched was New WKRP in Cincinnati, and the bloke I was thinking of is French Stewart. Thankyou IMDB!