DAVID CRANE (CO-CREATOR): There was never a plan like, Were going to win Thanksgiving!
Those tend to be our best episodes.
Monica ends up with a turkey on her own head later in the episode.
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CRANE: That is absolutely not a real turkey.
I think there are so many health issues about actually putting a turkey on someones head.
I dont really think so.
MALINS: We wanted I especially wanted a real turkey.
Just because I wanted Matt to have to put his head into a turkey.
The prop department did their due diligence, but it didnt exist.
The biggest turkey ever for sale is not big enough to fit a human head.
I remember them coming to us and saying, We have to build it.
So we made it out of foam.
BRIGHT: What they didnt want was the look of the stereotypical prop turkey.
We needed the turkey for rehearsal, too.
Obviously, your whole movement is affected by it.
In addition to Joeys flashback, the faux turkey (furkey?)
He says I love you for the first time.
Thats Sitcom Writing 101 to me.
CRANE: [The episode is] crazy, and the comedy is really big.
It was like we were so shocked when Ross [David Schwimmer] says Rachel at the altar.
