Don't touch that dial!

This year, why not just say no to the real life mayhem of Black Friday sales at Walmart and yes to sitting on the couch to enjoy a marathon of watching giant monsters attack Tokyo?

And if you're really jonesing for some vintage "Save the Earth" action, here's the American International Pictures English audio track that you can sync up with your official Godzilla vs. Hedorah DVD or Blu-ray:

Happy Turkey Day!

Thanksgiving day Kong!  Black Friday Godzilla!

Compilation of WOR-TV Channel 9 Holiday Movie Special bumpers and commercials:

Friday Filmstrip Funhouse: Our Thanksgiving Day

Our Thanksgiving Day from Film Strip of-the-Month Clubs, Inc.:

Musica Moonday

Anyone growing up in the northeast US during the pre-digital analog TV era in the 1970s-80s will to this very day undoubtedly associate a few specific movies that aired annually in November (usually around Thanksgiving) with the gluttonous turkey-centric holiday: Laurel and Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) on WPIX channel 11 and King Kong (1933) on WOR channel 9 on Thanksgiving Day along with King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) and Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971) on WOR the day after Thanksgiving.

(For more about this regional holiday programming see this excellent overview by Joe Cascio at DVD Drive-In.)

There are a few other fantastic films that I also personally associate with late November and Thanksgiving due to having seen them for the first time as a kid around this time of year: The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976), The Beatles' Yellow Submarine (1968) and the Rankin/Bass adaptations of The Hobbit (1977) and its semi-sequel The Return of the King (1980), from whence the following Orc marching/protest song comes from.

Dedicated to anyone that doesn't want to go to work today or is just having a bad case of the Mondays, here's "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way!":