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With 4 days until Thanksgiving, Jack and Mary go shopping. Can Jack afford to buy a turkey big enough to feed his entire staff? As he gets sentimental over the frozen turkies, layed out in the butcher shop, other customers make up their minds. Deciding to save money, of course, Jack settles on a live turkey to take home. If only the butcher had some steaks, but in these days of meat shortages and rationing by the government, a circus sideshow might be the only place to glimpse them.
On the walk home, Jack grows fond of his ccute turkey. He and Mary encounter his eccentric boarder, Mr. Billingsley, who mistakes the bird for Jack’s new baby. At home, Rochester sizes up the bird while Jack grows more protective. Meanwhile Mary shares a secret about Jack, and an unfortunate meeting with a different turkey. Dennis Day pops in with an important request. Dennis sings, Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There.
After Dennis and Mary leave, Jack gets ready for bed.
As dreams wash over him, and his attachment to thee new turkey affect him, Jack begins dreaming. Relibinh the events of the day, but from a turkey’s perxpective, Jack can’t convince his friends he isn’t a turkey.
