A Cincinnati sitcom made a joke out of flying turkeys. But bird experts may have the last laugh

Even if you’ve never watched the ‘80s sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati”, there’s one line you’re probably familiar with.

“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly,” says Dayton-native Gordon Jump, who plays WKRP station manager Arthur Carlson in the show.

The show – about a fictional Ohio radio station – went off the air 40 years ago, but it lives on in pop cultural memory, thanks to a make believe radio stunt in its iconic Thanksgiving episode…

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