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A [['''Thanksgiving Episode]]''' is a story or an episode within a larger series that focuses on the holiday of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a holiday on the fourth Thursday of Novemeber. Canada also has a Thanksgiving holiday on the second Monday in October. For more informations about the history of the holiday, see '''[[Thanksgiving Day]]'''.

Thanksgiving stories fall into two basic categories. The first category consist of stories that relate to the origin of the holiday. Traditionally, the holiday is dated back to a feast given in 1621 by Pilgrims of the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts to offer thanks to [[God]] for their survival past the first harsh year of the settlement. They invited the local Wampanoag tribe, who had been key to that survival, to share the feast with them -- whencethem—whence the traditional Thanksgiving iconography of steeple-crowned and bonneted Pilgrims alongside buckskin-clad Native Americans. Optimistic portrayals focus on the event as a time of inter-cultural cooperation and celebration . More cynical portrayals will place more emphasis on the long-term negative effect of colonization in displacing the Native Americans.

* Radio stations have been known to play the 18-minute song "[[Alice's Restaurant|Alices Restaurant]]" on Thanksgiving to mark the transition from regular music to Christmas music -- andmusic—and to give hungry DJs a chance to gobble some turkey.