Dialogue & Drumsticks: Movie Quotes About Thanksgiving

 by Michael Lyons

Placed next to the number of movies that are about or take place at Christmas, the number of movies about Thanksgiving is so small they wouldn't even serve as a side dish for dinner.

But there are a number of them out there, and as we head into Thanksgiving week, grateful for all we have and ready to bust our belts from the turkey to the pumpkin pie, here are just some quotes from movies about or taking place at Thanksgiving.

 

"What he wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey." - movie poster tag line for Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987).

"Eat us! Hey, its Thanksgiving Day! Eat us, we make a nice buffet! We lost the race with Farmer Ed, eat us 'cause we're good and dead. White man or red man from east, north or south, chop off our legs, and put 'em in your mouth!

Eat me!

Sautéed or barbecued!

Eat me!

We once were pets but now we're food! We won't stay fresh for very long! So eat us before we finish this song! Eat us before we finish this song!" - Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and the camp kids singing in Addams Family Values (1993)

“It's not yet Thanksgiving and we're enjoying our lovely fall weather.” - the meteorologist reporting on a snow storm in Grumpy Old Men (1993).

"Every weapon he's using is straight off a Thanksgiving table." - Deputy Labelle (Jeff Teravainen) in the horror movie, Thanksgiving (2023).

"We go on Snoopy." - Josh (Ben Stiller), let his team know which Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will serve as their signal in Tower Heist (2011).

"You cut the turkey without me?!?" - Gabriel (Lou Jacobi), Avalon (1990)

"I'm giving thanks that we don't have to go through this for another year." - Adelle (Anne Bancroft), Home for the Holidays (1995).

"Black Friday's coming, so my dance card's gonna be pretty full." - Paul Bart (Kevin James), Paul Bart: Mall Cop (2009).

"You're going to be in Chicago in less than three hours, around there, if we don't hit traffic, and I don't think we should...it's Thanksgiving." - Del Griffith (John Candy), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987).

There they are - most may not make for an inspirational quote as your family says grace before dinner, but all these movies would be a perfectly balanced diet of binge-watching for a Happy Thanksgiving!

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