Mike Schur, the mastermind of The Good Place and Parks & Rec, urges people to stay home this Thanksgiving due to the COVID pandemic and horrible food.
Mike Schur urges everyone to stay home for Thanksgiving this year by reminding people that the COVID pandemic isn’t over and saying that the food for the holiday is not very good. Schur is a comedy giant best known for creating The Good Place, the fast-paced and hilarious sitcom set in the afterlife. Before becoming a showrunner, he co-wrote The Office and Parks and Recreation, helped create Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and was a sketch writer on Saturday Night Live.
The Good Place was a network sitcom focused on ethics and moral philosophy, meaning it was filled with a number of meaningful life lessons injected with humor and wit. Now, Schur has another message he wants to impart on the world: stay home for Thanksgiving this year. In a Twitter storm two days before Thanksgiving, Schur (handle @KenTremendous) urges everybody to sit this holiday out. He writes a long thread expressing his distaste for traditional Thanksgiving food. You can read his rant below:
Turkey: tasteless
Cranberries: gross swamp pellets
Mashed potatoes: available anywhere, any time
Green beans: c’mon, man
Stuffing: dry starch chunks with herbs?
Gravy: beefy fat juice
Hot fruit pie: are you kidding me
Virus: worse than everStay home. It’s the easiest call ever.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 24, 2020
You have been conditioned, from birth, to think Thanksgiving food is good and important. You never had a vote. It’s a religion, and you were indoctrinated. It’s not fair, and it’s not your fault. There is still time. Start over. Think about what you’re eating. It’s just not good.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 25, 2020
And year after year, you dressed up, and your cousins came over, and you ate This Meal. The Important Meal. And year after year, you secretly thought…why? Why is This Meal so Important. You’d had turkey before, obviously, but this turkey…is better, somehow?
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 25, 2020
And then you had the mashed potatoes, and they were good, because they were soaking in butter, but also: you’d had those before. You hated the green beans and didn’t eat them. Someone insisted you have cranberries, and you tried them and *they were nasty and awful.*
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 25, 2020
And then everyone talked about The Gravy, Oh Man The Gravy, The Gravy!!!!!, so you poured gravy on a little part of your turkey and it was thick and goopy and maybe made the turkey taste…different? At least it wasn’t so dry. But why was everyone losing their minds?
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 25, 2020
You weren’t old enough or confident enough to stand up to them, but you knew: it was *fine.* Some of it — the cranberries and green beans and stuffing — was straight up gnarly. But you said nothing. Because *they* kept saying: It Is Amazing!
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 25, 2020
You can keep up the lies and fake enthusiasm if you want. The Turkey Is So Moist! The Potatoes Are So Fluffy! The Stuffing Is Mom’s Recipe And She Always Made It The Best! The Cranberries Are Adequate! (Not even orthodox Thanksgiving acolytes can claim cranberries taste good.)
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 25, 2020
Also there’s a pandemic, so, just, everyone stay home.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 25, 2020
Although Thanksgiving-lovers and The Good Place fans may be taken aback by Schur’s take, his opinion is not entirely surprising. Jake Peralta, the main character of one of the many sitcoms Schur has created, also hates Thanksgiving. He was also featured in a podcast hosted by Taylor Cox called Hills I’d Die On in which he insisted that Thanksgiving is the worst holiday because of the food, the timing, and the fact that it has historically white-washed holiday that erases the experiences of America’s indigenous people.
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