Hello. I do apologize for the late Thanksgiving story. Although in my defense, I'm three days earlier than last year. And honestly, things have not improved much around the casa. More hospital stays, more surgery, no income. But I'm trying to survive as best as I could.

I got the idea for this from seeing a few of these lists online of late. I never realized how many funny Thanksgiving TV episodes there were in existence. I tried to get to a few of them, but I'm sure there is plenty of debate on what the greatest Thanksgiving episode is. I'll leave that to debate.

Hopefully I will get out a new chapter of "Upon Further Review" soon. If you have any ideas on that story, please let me know. I'm a little stuck at this point.

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving!

Uggghhhh….

The group of ten were strewn out over the couches and chairs of Chuck's and Sarah's apartment, the latest victims of Ellie's wonderful Thanksgiving meal. Devon and she had been planning to come to Burbank from Chicago to reunite with her little brother and his wife, not to mention all of the people she knew and loved…well, most of them.

"I don't think I can even move a muscle," Jeff droned.

"So how is that different from any other time?" Lester replied, feeling like he gained 50 pounds in the last three hours.

Chuck shook his head and smiled. Like all other stores, online shopping had changed how the Buy More operated. They would have a Black Friday sale, but it wouldn't start until 8AM, meaning Morgan could get a decent night's sleep for once. The only people who had any hard work to do were the people who shipped merchandise to customers through the mail. Jeff and Lester, who got themselves kicked out of Germany when Lester proclaimed he was a Scientologist, were back at the store as well. About the only things that really changed for them was the occasional residual check from sales of their album in Europe…where it was still popular to very specific fans…and a new van. Which they crashed the second day they had it.

"As always, spectacular, Ellie," Morgan chimed in. "And you still remembered the stuffing with apple chips and the sweet potatoes with marshmallows."

"Uh, I made the sweet potatoes, Morgan," Alex McHugh replied.

Morgan turned beet red with embarrassment. "Oops, you're right, honey. It's just…Ellie used to make me all my favorites, and she, you know…"

"I'd recommend cutting that sentence off before you get in trouble with both women," Devon advised, which prompted Morgan to shut up instantly.

"OK, here's what we can do," Ellie said, who was the only person who wasn't a step away from being fully comatose. "We should go around the room and say one thing we're thankful for."

That was met by a collective groan. "What?" Ellie demanded with some offense.

"You have us do that every year," Chuck said tiredly. "We always say the same things: we're thankful for our family, our Friends, our significant other. Let's try something new."

"What did you have in mind?"

"Each of us gives the best Thanksgiving episode on TV of all time."

Ellie scoffed. "Chuck, that's no contest. Everybody knows the best Thanksgiving episode of all time is when Friends did all of those flashbacks. Remember? When Monica was heavy, Rachel had a big nose, and Chandler had his 'Flock of Seagulls' haircut?

"Whoah, whoah, whoah, no," Devon replied. "That's not even the best Friends Thanksgiving episode, much less the best episode of all time. It was the next year, when Rachel screwed up the trifle and everybody started shouting stuff like Phoebe loving Jacques Cousteau and Monica telling her parents Ross got high in college?"

"Both wrong," Alex McHugh chimed in. "Did we forget the Thanksgiving ep with Brad Pitt? I couldn't stop laughing at Phoebe; she stole the entire show! "Come on, Will. Take off your shirt and tell us!" I SO wanted Brad to take off his shirt and tell us!"

Alex felt the weird glare from Morgan. "OK, fine," Alex said with a glare towards Morgan. "Which Friends Thanksgiving episode was the best?"

"Uh, none of them?" Alex gave him a disbelieving look. "Clearly you forgot about 'Slapsgiving' from How I Met Your Mother?" Alex's look got even more disbelieving. "Come on! The big countdown? Barney acting like a jerk until Lily granted Marshall the slap? And the SONG?"

A very loud scoff came from the other side of the room. "Casey?" Sarah began with a raised eyebrow and a big grin. "You actually have an opinion on this? I think I speak for everyone when I say we'd all love to hear it."

"No, just laughing at this inane argument…" Casey began, but nobody was buying it. "I remember being at Rutgers around Thanksgiving, and they had an episode of Cheers where everyone's plans fell through, so they ended up together for the holiday. It ended in a food fight. I laughed; I admit it."

Everyone feigned shock. "Something actually made you laugh?" Sarah gasped in fake horror. "I…I…don't know what to do. Up is down, water is dry, the sky is orange…"

"Shut up," Casey ground out.

"Chuck, you haven't given yours," Ellie noted.

"It's…I don't want to…"

"This was your idea."

Chuck exhaled slowly. "There was an early episode of The Simpsons where Bart accidentally broke Lisa's Thanksgiving centerpiece, and he ran away from home. He sort of learned a lesson from hanging out at a homeless shelter while they had their Thanksgiving meal, and he eventually went home and made up with his sister."

He turned towards Ellie. "A lot of times growing up, I felt like a total screw-up, just like Bart. And I was always messing things up for you. I felt so guilty about that sometimes."

Ellie looked down at the ground. Eventually she wiped a stray tear away and took Chuck's hand. "Trust me, Chuck. In terms of little brothers, I think I did pretty well."

She gave him a hug, which put a smile on his face.

"Hey everyone! Sorry we're so late."

Mary Bartowski and Emma Walker came in bearing a few gifts and the desserts they promised to bring.

"Mary's flight from Chicago was late, and I was at the shelter longer than I expected to be," Emma explained. "What did we miss, besides Ellie's wonderful cooking?"

"We were discussing the best Thanksgiving TV episode of all time."

Mary and Emma looked at each other. "Turkeys Away, WKRP in Cincinnati," Mary said.

Everyone's eyes widened. "Oh, right!" Morgan said. "God, that was hysterical."

The grin on Chuck stretched from ear to ear. "I really don't know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys…mounted a counterattack!"

"It was almost as if they were…organized," Morgan continued.

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

Everyone turned in shock at Casey. "You remember that?" Chuck asked in surprise.

He shrugged. "Your mother is right. That is the best Thanksgiving episode."

"Hope everyone still has room for dessert!" Emma announced.

Uggghhhh….

Everyone got up slowly and painfully as Mary and Emma set up the desserts and more drinks.