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Episode 13-The Crash at Crush
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In this wild ride of an episode, Shakin Shaner and Psycho Bob the Cat dive into the bizarre world of failed marketing stunts and publicity disasters. From the infamous WKRP “Turkeys Away” episode to McDonald’s Olympic giveaway blunder, they explore how good intentions can spiral into chaos.
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But the real showstopper? The story of William Crush, who orchestrated a head-on collision between two 35-ton steam engines in 1896—on purpose—as a publicity stunt for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. The spectacle drew thousands... and ended in tragedy.
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It’s a mix of absurdity, dark humor, and historical curiosity—perfect for the Nerd Herd’s appetite for the strange and spectacular.
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WKRP In Cincinnati
The Turkeys Away episode aired in 1978
The most quintessential, uproarious Thanksgiving episode of a sitcom remains “Turkeys Away,” the WKRP in Cincinnati masterpiece of bird-dropping pandemonium that first aired in 1978. Four decades later, at least among those of a certain age or those possessing a certain amount of Thanksgiving pop-culture knowledge, it remains a touchstone. That’s partly because the jokes still hold up and partly because it ends with a perfectly quotable mic drop of a last line, spoken by the late Gordon Jump as clueless radio station manager Arthur Carlson: “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”