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Turkey TV: Set your pop-up timers and test your small screen knowledge

By WENDY ZANG McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

The table is set, the potatoes are mashed, and the gravy is congealing in its boat. You carve into the bird and - surprise! - it's pink! While you scramble to get that bird cooked all the way through, give your guests something else to chew on.

Check out this quiz on our favorite Thanksgiving TV episodes. It comes in two parts: Part A: "Friends" - Because the sitcom had a decade-long run, and every year put out a very memorable Thanksgiving episode. Part B: Everything else - Because, we admit, there have been other shows on television, before and after "Friends."

We hope this is enough fodder to keep everyone chatting for hours, or at least forget for 10 minutes you are in the kitchen nuking their turkey in the microwave.

PART A: 'FRIENDS!'

1. In the first season of "Friends," which Thanksgiving parade balloon breaks free? (The gang goes to the roof to watch, but gets locked out!)

A. Mickey Mouse

B. Snoopy

C. Underdog

D. Bullwinkle

2. In the second season, what was the name of the synthetic chocolate substitute that Monica was creating Thanksgiving recipes for?

A. Mockolate

B. Fauxcholate

C. Coco-wonder

D. None of the above

3. In the third Thanksgiving on "Friends," Monica and Ross compete for what football prize?

A. Joey's Hat

B. Geller Cup

C. The wishbone

D. Bing Cup

4. In the fourth season, Chandler tries to make it up to Joey for stealing his girlfriend by spending Thanksgiving ...

A. In the coffee shop

B. With his head in a turkey

C. In a box

D. With Joey's sisters

5. Thanksgiving season five: The "Friends" crew tells tales of Thanksgivings past. Which of these things did NOT happen in the episode's flashbacks?

A. Ross learns of Carol's affair

B. Chandler learns of his parent's divorce

C. Phoebe loses an arm

D. Chandler loses a toe

6. In the sixth season of "Friends," Rachel mixes up a recipe for English trifle with what other dish?

A. Meatloaf

B. Shepherd's pie

C. Pumpkin cake

D. Truffles

7. Season seven: Rachel has the hots for her assistant. Joey asks if the assistant likes her, because if he doesn't it is:

A. A mute point

B. Pointless

C. Time to got back to Ross

D. A moo point

8. On the eighth season's Thanksgiving episode, Monica invites Will Colbert, an old high school classmate, to dinner. Who guest starred in the role?

A. Brad Pitt

B. Leonardo DiCaprio

C. Matt Damon

D. George Clooney

9. Season nine brings another guest to the "Friends" Thanksgiving table: Rachel's sister Amy, who insults everyone and gets mad that Monica and Chandler would get baby Emma if Ross and Rachel die. Who plays Amy?

A. Reese Witherspoon

B. Christina Applegate

C. Meg Ryan

D. Jennifer Grey

10. In the final "Friends" Thanksgiving, Joey and Ross are late for dinner because they are ...

A. With Emma at a beauty pageant

B. Crashing the Thanksgiving parade

C. Playing football

D. At a hockey game

QUOTE

"Alright, I'd like to propose a toast. Little toast here, ding ding. I know this isn't exactly the kind of Thanksgiving that all of you planned; but for me this has been really great, you know ... I think because it didn't involve divorce or projectile vomiting. Anyway, I was just thinking, I mean, if you'd gone to Vail, if you guys had been with your family, or if you didn't have syphilis and stuff, we wouldn't be all together, you know? So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm very thankful that all of your Thanksgivings sucked." - Chandler Bing ("Friends," season one)

PART B: EVERYTHING ELSE

1. What does Snoopy make for Thanksgiving dinner in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?"

A. Toast

B. Cereal

C. Popcorn

D. A and C

2. Norm's wife Vera makes a cameo appearance in "Cheers'" 1986 "Thanksgiving Orphans" episode, however she is ...

A. Wearing a veil

B. Covered in mashed potatoes

C. Cliff in drag

D. Heard but not seen

3. In the 1970 "Brady Bunch" episode "The Un-Underground Movie" which Brady enlists the family to make a home movie about the Pilgrims?

A. Bobby B. Marsha

C. Greg D. Jan

4. What is the famous line from the Thanksgiving episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati"?

A. "The turkeys have parachutes."

B. "They are falling like sandbags."

C. "As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly."

D. "Free Turkeys for sale!"

5. In the 1967 Thanksgiving episode of "Bewitched," the whole gang ends up back at the first Thanksgiving, including nosey neighbor ...

A. Kimmy Gibler

B. Ethel Mertz

C. Patty Poole

D. Gladys Kravitz

6. Bob Newhart famously orders what dish in the "The Bob Newhart Show's" "Over the River and Through the Woods" episode (1975)?

A. Moo goo gai pan

B. Beef wellington

C. Kung pao chicken

D. Peking duck

7. In the 2001 "The Indians in the Lobby" episode of "The West Wing," President Bartlet discovers ...

A. A carving knife from Thomas Jefferson

B. An Iranian plot

C. The true landing spot of the Pilgrims

D. The Butterball hotline

8. In "Happy Days'" 1978 "The First Thanksgiving" episode, Fonzie (Henry Winkler) dresses as a Pilgrim with a ...

A. leather-jacketed turkey

B. primitive jukebox

C. wooden motorcycle

D. comb in his pocket

9. Which comedy had a "Slapsgiving" episode in 2007?

A. "Scrubs"

B. "How I Met Your Mother"

C. "The Office"

D. "Family Guy"

10. Christmas special favorites Rankin-Bass produced what 1968 Thanksgiving special?

A. "Mouse on the Mayflower"

B. "Frosty's Feast"

C. "Plymouth Rock"

D. "A Garfield Thanksgiving"

Sources: www.fandango.com, ww.associatedcontent.com, www.friends-tv.org, www.imdb.com

PART A ANSWERS: 1. C; 2. A; 3. B; 4. C; 5. A; 6. B; 7. D (it's a cow's opinion); 8. A; 9. B. Reese Witherspoon played Rachel's other sister Jill; 10. D

PART B ANSWERS: 1. d; 2. b; 3. c; 4. C; 5. D; 6. A; 7. d; 8. c; 9. b; 10. A