Saw this on DVD again tonight. Absolutely one of the funniest episodes in this series. The whole thing takes place at a supermarket the night before Thanksgiving. They begin by Carrie racing through the parking lot and virtually stealing a hard-to-find open space from another woman.
In the show, we keep going around from Arthur to Doug to Carrie for short scenes.
Carrie's intentions are to grab some TV dinners and get out of there quickly. But Arthur tells her how wonderful it was when her mother cooked everything from scratch, so Carrie agrees to get a real turkey and make the other dishes from scratch to please her father. I loved the scene when they went for the turkey and found only two left-a tiny bird that appeared to be about 3 pounds, and a mammoth 30-pounder.
Arthur then starts pleading for Carrie to now invite other relatives, instead of the dinner just being the three of them. After he gets her to agree to adding 5 more people, Carrie asks, "Anyone else." Arthur: Just a step-cousin...and his nurse."
Doug, who was to get the pop and snacks, runs into someone who clearly knows him, whom he cannot remember at all. He tries to ask the right questions to figure out who it is, but never gets any help. After the second encounter with "The Guy" Doug now has his phone number, so he gets Carrie's cell phone and figures to call his number-getting his home answering machine, hopefully to learn his name. Instead, it rings the guy's cell phone as he is standing about 8 feet from Doug. The guy discovers Doug called when he does the callback feature and the phone Doug has begins ringing. This leads to a heavy argument as the pair get quite heated, the guy quite upset over something Doug did before, Doug somehow filling in his own comments even though he has no idea whatever went on between the two.
Doug keeps running into series regular, friend Richie, who has two items in his hands while waiting at the checkout line. Every time he passes near the area again, Richie is still in line, usually farther from the register than before. He moved out of one line because a lady in front had 100 coupons, only to find his next choice was manned by a trainee.
Arthur, after getting Carrie to agree to all his guests to invite, and to making everything from scratch, has also been talking to the free-sample girl, an older woman dressed in a Dutch outfit giving away snacks. He later tells Carrie that she has invited him to her apartment ON Thanksgiving. To rationalize his leaving the family, he says, "I've never had a Dutch woman!" Carrie tells him he's either eating with his family or she's going to put him in a home.
Arthur also has an encounter with that same stockboy about yams. He insists that he know they keep the "big" yams in back for the VIPs. The stockboy takes the one yam Arthur had in his hand, walks through the door and, without leaving our sight, spins around and brings back to Arthur the same yam. Arthur looks at it and is please that he got one of the big ones. Later in the show, star Donny Osmond also asks that stockboy for a big yam. This time, the man brings him a very large yam.
Carrie, unable to get the stock boy to help her with any recipes, encounters the very woman who she beat out for the parking space. Carrie tries to be apologetic, giving some excuse about her father needing the restroom right away. The woman seems nice, but starts to resent it when Carrie wants to get a whole recipe from her. Carrie then begins following the woman around the store, figuring to buy all the items she does and then somehow figure out her recipes. Now this is ridiculous, but it was certainly fun watching her try this.
Later, spotting a chance, Carrie just wheels away the woman's cart, thinking she can just take everything she picked up and buy it. Of course, it doesn't work. So they go back to Plan A, with TV dinners and packaged mixes for their meal.
There were a lot of little scenes, all quite funny in this episode. It was the first episode of this series I really liked a lot, the first one I recorded that I made sure to keep on DVD because it was so hilarious. I watch it, from my collection of Thanksgiving comedies, about every other year. A solid 10 to me.
In the show, we keep going around from Arthur to Doug to Carrie for short scenes.
Carrie's intentions are to grab some TV dinners and get out of there quickly. But Arthur tells her how wonderful it was when her mother cooked everything from scratch, so Carrie agrees to get a real turkey and make the other dishes from scratch to please her father. I loved the scene when they went for the turkey and found only two left-a tiny bird that appeared to be about 3 pounds, and a mammoth 30-pounder.
Arthur then starts pleading for Carrie to now invite other relatives, instead of the dinner just being the three of them. After he gets her to agree to adding 5 more people, Carrie asks, "Anyone else." Arthur: Just a step-cousin...and his nurse."
Doug, who was to get the pop and snacks, runs into someone who clearly knows him, whom he cannot remember at all. He tries to ask the right questions to figure out who it is, but never gets any help. After the second encounter with "The Guy" Doug now has his phone number, so he gets Carrie's cell phone and figures to call his number-getting his home answering machine, hopefully to learn his name. Instead, it rings the guy's cell phone as he is standing about 8 feet from Doug. The guy discovers Doug called when he does the callback feature and the phone Doug has begins ringing. This leads to a heavy argument as the pair get quite heated, the guy quite upset over something Doug did before, Doug somehow filling in his own comments even though he has no idea whatever went on between the two.
Doug keeps running into series regular, friend Richie, who has two items in his hands while waiting at the checkout line. Every time he passes near the area again, Richie is still in line, usually farther from the register than before. He moved out of one line because a lady in front had 100 coupons, only to find his next choice was manned by a trainee.
Arthur, after getting Carrie to agree to all his guests to invite, and to making everything from scratch, has also been talking to the free-sample girl, an older woman dressed in a Dutch outfit giving away snacks. He later tells Carrie that she has invited him to her apartment ON Thanksgiving. To rationalize his leaving the family, he says, "I've never had a Dutch woman!" Carrie tells him he's either eating with his family or she's going to put him in a home.
Arthur also has an encounter with that same stockboy about yams. He insists that he know they keep the "big" yams in back for the VIPs. The stockboy takes the one yam Arthur had in his hand, walks through the door and, without leaving our sight, spins around and brings back to Arthur the same yam. Arthur looks at it and is please that he got one of the big ones. Later in the show, star Donny Osmond also asks that stockboy for a big yam. This time, the man brings him a very large yam.
Carrie, unable to get the stock boy to help her with any recipes, encounters the very woman who she beat out for the parking space. Carrie tries to be apologetic, giving some excuse about her father needing the restroom right away. The woman seems nice, but starts to resent it when Carrie wants to get a whole recipe from her. Carrie then begins following the woman around the store, figuring to buy all the items she does and then somehow figure out her recipes. Now this is ridiculous, but it was certainly fun watching her try this.
Later, spotting a chance, Carrie just wheels away the woman's cart, thinking she can just take everything she picked up and buy it. Of course, it doesn't work. So they go back to Plan A, with TV dinners and packaged mixes for their meal.
There were a lot of little scenes, all quite funny in this episode. It was the first episode of this series I really liked a lot, the first one I recorded that I made sure to keep on DVD because it was so hilarious. I watch it, from my collection of Thanksgiving comedies, about every other year. A solid 10 to me.
