A Classic Moment from WKRP in Cincinnati
| Buk |
Monday, September 22, 2003 at 10:25 PM |
Mr Carlson: All it's gonna take is your complete co-operation, absolute secrecy, and twenty live turkeys.
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Herb: When that farmer asked me what I wanted with twenty live turkeys, I had to do some pretty fast talking, let me tell you.
Les: What did you tell him?
Herb: I told him it was a secret.
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Les: It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way ... No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but... Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!
Johnny: Les? Are you there? Les isn't there... Thanks for that on-the-spot report, Les, and for those of you who just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven.
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Venus: Les, are you okay?
Les: I don't know. A man and his two children tried to kill me. After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered, but some of them tried to attack me! I had to jam myself into a phone booth. Then Mr Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose. It gets pretty strange after that.
Andy: Les, c'mon now, tell us the rest.
Les: 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!
Mr Carlson: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
(Gordon Jump, who played Arthur Carlson on WKRP, passed away Monday.)
