Oh, the humanity! 7 of our favorite 'WKRP in Cincinnati' Turkey Drop posts

This year is the 45th anniversary of the classic "WKRP in Cincinnati" episode that showed turkeys do not, in fact, fly.

The sitcom follows the trials and tribulations of a fictional radio station in Cincinnati. In the seventh episode of the first season, aptly titled "Turkeys Away," released on Oct. 30, 1978, the struggling station puts on a well-intended but poorly executed Thanksgiving promotion, dropping live turkeys from a helicopter outside a busy shopping center.

In the episode, reporter Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) delivers a dramatic on-the-scene recount of the incident, mimicking journalist Herbert Morrison's broadcast of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, "One just went through the windshield of a parked car. This is terrible. Oh, the humanity!"

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To this day, "WKRP in Cincinnati" fans still recite some of the episode's iconic lines.

Station manager Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump) delivered another oft-quoted line at the end of the episode: "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

To pay homage to a sacred Cincinnati Thanksgiving phenomenon, here's our favorite WKRP turkey drop memes.

The best internet reactions to the WKRP turkey drop

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This 'Ohio-set sitcom' makes it in a Jeopardy question

Thanksgiving pie pays tribute to the turkeys

A very Gen X cultural reference

Cincy Shirts covers the episode from all angles

How to watch 'WKRP in Cincinnati'

"WKRP in Cincinnati" is currently available to stream on Apple TV.

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