Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion for TV specials in many ways. After all, it provides an excuse for the show to gather all the characters in a room under high pressure while trying not to fight.

As a result, most of the great American TV shows over the years have appeared on Thanksgiving shows—and in the process, they have produced some delicacies that we can only crave at home. They have also experienced some absolute disasters, and we can learn some important lessons from them.

Here are the biggest tips about Thanksgiving food we learned from classic Thanksgiving episodes, Friends, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Inheritance, etc.

Cooking on Thanksgiving is always a matter of time. Make sure everything starts at the right time so that it's ready at the same point.

The best way is to make a plan so you know when you need to go into the oven. This may not make you so relaxed that you can dance while preparing your meal like in the full house episode "The Miracle of Thanksgiving," but it will definitely make everything go smoother.

The big sin of Thanksgiving is to burn turkey, but it is easy to do. The full house gang discovered this, just like Kirsten Cohen in the OC series "Return."

The problem here is that the internal temperature of the turkey must reach 165 degrees to be fully cooked-but if you have a larger turkey, the skin may burn before you reach this point. Fortunately, the solution is simple: if the bird is not ready when you expect it, cover it with foil and explode quickly at a higher temperature.

Most of us eat the same dishes every Thanksgiving, which can be a bit repetitive, frankly. So be sure to try something new-but when you do, make sure the two pages of your English recipe are not stuck together.

Of course, this is what happened to Rachel in the episode of "Friends", asking her to combine a little thing (an English dessert with layers of sponge, jelly, cream and custard) and a shepherd's pie (beef, peas) And onion main dish, served with mashed potatoes). The lesson here is: if you want to try something new, try it before the big day.

Canned cranberry sauce is one of the most controversial staples on the Thanksgiving table. Some people will not be seen dying on the gelatinous red substance that maintains the shape of their cans (as seen in the famous moments of the Simpsons). For others, it would not be Thanksgiving without it.

We will let you decide the position of the fresh versus canned debate, but you must know one thing: a can of cranberry sauce can be used as a weapon.

This is what Kendall Roy discovered in Succession's "I Go to Market". Logan Roy, who was frustrated at the time, used one to beat his grandson during the feast. If you have a relative who is changeable, be sure to take it out of the jar and put it on the table.

Many more advanced chefs try to make the traditional Thanksgiving feast even more lively by deep-frying turkey. Of course, it clogs the arteries, but many people will say that it tastes much better-besides, cooking a bird in this way is much faster, reducing the two-hour cooking time to about 40 minutes.

However, hot oil is dangerous, so you should pay close attention to your turkey when frying it. What you should never do is get everyone drunk and start trying fried butter, napkins and shoes. This is what Sookie learned too late in Gilmore Girls' "Fried Korean Thanksgiving".

If a dish is a disaster (even the best chef can sometimes be a disaster), don't be afraid to simply throw away everything you have done and start over.

Or, you can choose to pluck a leaf from the cheers set "Thanksgiving Orphans" and literally throw away your recent cooking disaster: your in-laws will surely remember Thanksgiving, and it will fall into a A large-scale food war.

Getting everything ready in a hurry makes it easy to get flustered and make big mistakes. Planning is helpful here, as is everything you need to prepare the recipe before you start. This can prevent you from panic, such as substituting salt for baking powder and ruining everything.

This is what Amy San Diego learned during "Thanksgiving Day" in Brooklyn. Although she asked Boyle to save her with some creative takeaway orders there, you may not be so lucky.

Thanksgiving should be about the people we spend with, not the food we eat. So, if preparing a well-prepared feast scares you, keep it simple. Your family is more willing to let you be around without feeling stressed, rather than being locked in the kitchen because of a panic attack.

Perhaps a lesson can be learned from "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving." Snoopy and the group seemed to be as satisfied with their meal of toast, popcorn, pretzel sticks and fudge as they were with turkey and all the ingredients.

When everything goes wrong, sometimes you just need to piece together what you have in the store cupboard into something edible. You never know that this dish you created may become a family tradition, and you cannot live without it in the future Thanksgiving.

So it continues. This is our "pilgrim Rick". Jack Pearson, trapped in a terrible motel with only gas station supplies, prepared a meal for his family, including hot dogs cooked on the stove, wrapped in cheese, and rolled with crushed salt stand up. On the surface, since then, the Pearsons had to celebrate the holiday without paying tribute to the impromptu recipe.

If the worst result comes—your turkey is burned, your relatives have started a food war, and you don’t have hot dogs and kraft slices—there is always takeaway.

Countless TV specials throughout the year have seen their actors try to cook a Thanksgiving meal but ended in failure. They ended up eating Chinese food. This metaphor has been at least since the beginning of the Bob Newhart show in 1975. Existed.

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