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"We&amp;#x27;ve all got that cousin who runs a 5k every Thanksgiving morn. If you are that cousin, we salute you--and envy your well-justified ability to gorge, guilt-free. But us? We&amp;#x27;ll be here holding it down on the sofa, in various states of hunger, food-coma, and recovered-and-ready-for-leftovers. And during all non-nap periods, we&amp;#x27;ll be firing up some of our favorite Thanksgiving TV eps. Like: Happy Endings, &amp;quot;More Like Stanksgiving&amp;quot; I know, bold move putting an episode that&amp;#x27;s not even 24 hours old yet straight into the vault. But you&amp;#x27;ll thank me when you see it, if you didn&amp;#x27;t last night. I&amp;#x27;m a sucker for any show that spends Thanksgiving reminiscing on the beginnings of a friend group. And since we&amp;#x27;ve talked here before about how the HE gang got together, I knew you guys would love getting to see &amp;quot;early footage&amp;quot; of them on an unaired season of The Real World. Brilliant. How to watch: The full ep is up on the show&amp;#x27;s site now. Click here. How I Met Your Mother,&amp;quot;Slapsgiving&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap&amp;quot; I can&amp;#x27;t tell which idea the Pilgrims would have liked better: friends coming together over the chance to slap Barney Stinson, or friends lazily playing a &amp;quot;drink for every slap-pun&amp;quot; game as they watch these eps back to back and wait for dinner to be served. Frankly, it&amp;#x27;s slappalling. Drink! How to watch: HIMYM is on Netflix streaming--the first &amp;quot;Slapsgiving&amp;quot; is season three, episode nine; the second is five, episode nine. The Cosby Show, &amp;quot;Bonjour, Sondra&amp;quot; Any Cosby episode that includes Cliff showing Theo how to do something correctly (in this case, carving meat) is an instant classic. &amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;re supposed to respect the food, you understand?&amp;quot; Add in Sondra (and her four bags of dirty laundry) coming home from Princeton, and you&amp;#x27;ve got a regular Huxtable heartwarmer. How to watch: Gotta hit the YouTube for the older stuff. Here&amp;#x27;s part 1, part 2 and part 3. Modern Family, &amp;quot;Punkin Chunkin&amp;quot; The name alone makes me laugh, but I love this episode most because in it, everyone is so themselves. Cam talks about being his farm town&amp;#x27;s foremost punkin chunker, Claire squashes Phil&amp;#x27;s attempts to &amp;quot;help&amp;quot; with the centerpieces. When assigned to napkin-folding, Phil cries,&amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;re folding my dreams!&amp;quot; But everyone ends up lovey and happy. How to watch: Click here and watch the ep right now for just $1.99 on Amazon Instant. Of course, if you&amp;#x27;re spending the whole weekend with the fam, might not be a bad idea to spring for the whole third season on DVD. Plus, it gets you out of the house for an hour or so. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, &amp;quot;There&amp;#x27;s the Rub,&amp;quot; Parts 1 and 2 Leave it to Fresh Prince to look outside the dinner table for hijinks--in this ep, Will and Uncle Phil are thrown in the clink after a misunderstanding at a massage parlor (involving, cough-cough, prostitutes). Motivated by visions of turkey, mashed potatoes and &amp;quot;tiny little onions!,&amp;quot; Uncle Phil lays down the law and gets them freed. How to watch: How&amp;#x27;s this for luck--ABC Family is airing both parts at midnight and 12:30 a.m. EST tonight and tomorrow night. New Girl, &amp;quot;Thanksgiving&amp;quot; I just adore this episode because it makes me nostalgic for the beginnings of our great love affair with New Girl&amp;#x27;s and you still can&amp;#x27;t tell me a guest star has topped Justin Long (well, OK, Jamie Lee Curtis and Rob Reiner came close last night--so watch that one too). Plus, Jess in a turkey costume. &amp;#x27;Nuff said. How to watch: Another Amazon Instant for $1.99 deal. Click here. All in the Family, &amp;quot;The Little Atheist&amp;quot; If it involves a family getting together, it probably hasn&amp;#x27;t been done better than this show did it, and Thanksgiving is no exception. If you watch &amp;quot;The Little Atheist,&amp;quot; I promise that strained political conversation you had with Uncle Morty over dessert won&amp;#x27;t seem so bad. (And by the way, since we just discussed Rob Reiner&amp;#x27;s turn on New Girl--you know he&amp;#x27;s Meathead, right? Of course you did. Just checking.) How to watch: Here&amp;#x27;s part 1, part 2 and part 3 on YouTube. 30 Rock, &amp;quot;Reunion&amp;quot; OK, so this isn&amp;#x27;t technically a Thanksgiving episode. But since millions of Americans, including me, will confront former friends, foes and frenemies at their own high school reunions, it&amp;#x27;s only right we include one of the greatest Liz Lemon adventures ever. She and Jack came into the Whitehaven High School reunion as two nobodies and left as... one charlatan and one still-maligned outcast. But by jet! How to watch: Netflix instant streaming--it&amp;#x27;s season three, episode five. Seinfeld, &amp;quot;The Mom and Pop Store&amp;quot; Elaine has to help the crotchety old Mr. Pitt win a radio contest so that he can hold a string under the Woody Woodpecker balloon in the Macy&amp;#x27;s Thanksgiving Day Parade. &amp;quot;Will you shut up, I can&amp;#x27;t hear!&amp;quot; Naturally, a series of interlocking events lead to Jerry later piercing the giant balloon, yada yada yada. How to watch: It&amp;#x27;s on tomorrow, Thanksgiving night, at 11:30 p.m. EST on the CW. Otherwise you&amp;#x27;ve gotta go hard-disk and pick up the season six DVD. The O.C., &amp;quot;Homecoming&amp;quot; I am including this purely for the moment in which boozy Kirsten turns around and goes, &amp;quot;Fresh margs?&amp;quot; How to watch: Click here to purchase this ep on Amazon Instant for $1.99--but honestly, especially if you&amp;#x27;re on a bus, I think you should treat yourself to the full season. Friends, &amp;quot;The One With the Thanksgivings&amp;quot; You didn&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;d neglect to mention the all-time champion of Thanksgiving episodes, did you? Feel free to fire up a family-wide fight over whether this ep, in which the gang flashes back on bad Thanksgivings (like when Joey got his head stuck in the turkey) is the greatest, or if it&amp;#x27;s... Friends, &amp;quot;The One With the Rumor&amp;quot; Brad and Jen are long done, but Pitt&amp;#x27;s cameo and the I Hate Rachel Green Club will live on forever and ever and ever. How to watch: For optimal debate fairness, watch these two Friends eps back to back starting just after midnight tonight on Nickelodeon. Alternatively, catch &amp;quot;The One With the Rumor&amp;quot; on Thursday at 2 p.m. EST on TBS and &amp;quot;The One With the Thanksgiving Flashbacks&amp;quot; at 12 a.m. EST Friday (aka late-Thanksgiving-night) on the CW. Happy turkey day, girls! What&amp;#x27;s your favorite Thanksgiving TV? More on TV... First Look at Season 2 of Smash Let&amp;#x27;s Discuss HIMYM&amp;#x27;s Robin and Barney Situation Where Are They Now: The Cast of Home Improvement P.S. Want more Obsessed? Sign up for our awesome daily newsletter that features the latest celebrity gossip, TV news, hilarious Internet sensations, and more! Photo: ABC, IMDB "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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