What was this Nickelodeon (?) Thanksgiving (?) Show from the 80s/90s (?)

November 15, 2021 4:57 PM

I am bald and when little hairs grow on top of my head my wife tells me that I need a haircut because I "look like the puppet kid from that Nickelodeon Thanksgiving special." The show was about a kid who saves a turkey (maybe?) and it was on Nickelodeon (maybe?) in the late '80s or early '90s (probably?) He had spiky hair on a mostly bald head, and he was a puppet. School was a setting. We can find no evidence whatsoever of the show and she doesn't know the title or any details; I told her this is what AskMe does.
posted by AgentRocket to Media & Arts (9 answers total)

Long shot because it’s not puppets, but could it have been the Rugrats Thanksgiving special?
posted by Kriesa at 5:23 PM on November 15, 2021 [4 favorites]

Well, who knew there was a thanksgiving special wiki!
posted by wellifyouinsist at 5:37 PM on November 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

Long shot, but Pinwheel? (More images.)
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:38 PM on November 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

I think I have a vague recollection of this. Could it have been claymation instead of puppets. My brain can only latch on to Inside Out Boy right now, but I think it may be the same or similar animator. Google is telling me Scott Webb, but he was the creative director for all of Nickelodeon back in the day so most things back then point back to Scott Webb.
posted by phunniemee at 5:53 PM on November 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

Just a long shot but you're not thinking of Turkey Television, are you? This was on Nick around that time.
posted by bondcliff at 6:50 PM on November 15, 2021

Was it one of the Weinerville puppets - like Socko or one of the head puppets?
posted by Glier's Goetta at 3:20 AM on November 16, 2021

I don't know about any Thanksgiving episode, but bald with short hair does sound kinda like Cousin Skeeter, which was a Nikelodeon show in the 90s.
posted by AzraelBrown at 7:45 AM on November 16, 2021

Other Nickelodeon shows of that era with puppets are Eureeka's Castle (started airing in '89) and Allegra's Window (started airing in '94) but neither seem to have Thanksgiving episodes (at least not that I could find).
posted by edencosmic at 8:29 AM on November 16, 2021

He is a not a puppet but I immediately thought of Doug Funnie.
posted by RobinofFrocksley at 8:30 AM on November 16, 2021 [1 favorite]