Many Republican-held states, so incensed that a Democrat would move such a seemingly time-honored tradition, refused to recognize the new date for SIX YEARS.

Moments like these lampoon the ridiculousness of the situation. Note the turkey’s defeated shrug in this bit from 1942’s Holiday Inn.

You’ve probably seen a joke like this one in an old movie about Democrats and Republicans having their own Thanksgiving days. But why do these gags exist in the first place?

It’s the Franksgiving controversy! In 1939, FDR moved Thanksgiving to accommodate an extra week of holiday shopping.

Calling all oomfs to say good morning

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987, John Hughes)

No one will ever do Losing My Mind better than Barbara.

If you saw Wicked: For Good this weekend, did you catch its cheeky reference to Charlie Chaplin’s globe dance in 1940’s The Great Dictator?

Good morning 🧟‍♂️

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Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931).

One of cinema’s greatest entrances and most enduring images thanks to the man behind the monster, Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt on this day in 1887.

Good morning 🤪

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The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)

As @juliusgoat.bsky.social put it: “a machine built to eat people will eat people.”

Jumping into the week like:

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Goldeneye (Martin Campbell, 1995) opened wide on American screens 30 years ago today.

Who was your first Bond?