[SamAdams76]

I've watched and re-watched the "turkey drop" episode on YouTube of "WKRP in Cincinnati" and I just don't get what is so funny about it. For me, it just falls sort of flat. Like a bag of wet cement.

I'm not a fan of situation comedy (the canned laugh tracks and loud voices are like nails across a chalkboard for me) but if I have to pick my favorite 5 minutes, it was probably "Gilligan's Island" when NASA crashes a "Mars Probe" on the island and when the Professor finally gets the camera working, Gilligan somehow has them all covered in glue and feathers so NASA thinks Mars is a planet full of giant chickens.

[Calvin Locke]

I just don't get what is so funny about it.

Well, it is a parody of The Hindenberg mishap.

Perhaps that's the reason, other than just any promotion mishap?

[Charles Martel]

There was also a "giant chicken" that was part of an I Dream of Jeannie episode, which also featured Paul Lynde as a guest star. Lots of funny moments in that show.