Turkey Queens
| "Turkey Queens" | |||
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| Episode no. | Season 9 Episode 8 | ||
| Directed by | Season Atkins | ||
| Written by | Karly Jameson | ||
| Production code | 912 | ||
| Original air date | November 20, 2020 | ||
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"Turkey Queens" is the eighth episode of the ninth season of the animated comedy series Queen of the Willis and the 212th episode overall. It is scheduled to air in broadcast syndication in the United States on November 20, 2020, and is written by Karly Jameson and directed by Season Atkins.
The episode features the return of Anna Pamhouser (who had died two years earlier in "The Rappe of Heather Willis") after Brynn and Heather goes back in time to save Pamhouser.[1]
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Plot
The Willis family goes to Quillsville Westgate Mall for the annual Thanksgiving Carnival, but they find the festivities have been cancelled, causing Pheobe and Alaina to go on a destructive rampage. Melissa learns that Finola Atkinson, Ava's step-mother and Harry's wife, canceled the carnival. Angie confronts Finola who tells her that it was cancelled because she despises the Thanksgiving season. Angie vows to help Finola find her holiday spirit. Angie tries a fake story letter, making Finola drink egg nog and having her masturbate, to no effect. When Angie accuses Finola of acting Jewish, Finola reverses her position on the carnival.
Despite being re-established at the Quillsville Westgate Mall, the Thanksgiving Carnival fails to raise the spirits of Pheobe and Alaina as much as Tabby and Shushu. When the Mall Santa Claus asks Tabby what she wants for Christmas, Tabby realizes she wants Ava's friend Pamhouser back. Heather pretends to be Pamhouser, but fails to cheer up Tabby. Trying to raise her spirits, Heather, Tabby, Shushu, and Brynn return to the Quillsville Westgate Mall, where Brynn spots her past self time travelling to purchase a gift. Remembering the time travel prior to Pamhouser's death, Brynn realizes she can use Past Brynn's return pad to save Pamhouser. Heather appeals to Past Brynn's vanity to obtain her backpack, and brings it to Present Brynn.
Brynn and Heather arrives in the past at the Quillsville Police Department, saving Pamhouser from being shot. After explaining the situation to Pamhouser, Brynn sends the return pad back to her past self in order to prevent a temporal paradox. Now unable to return and having altered her past, Brynn and Heather fades from existence as Pamhouser thanks her and Heather for her actions. Unaware of what occurred, Past Brynn comes out of the police station and wonders who Pamhouser was talking to.
In the present on Thankgiving Day, Pamhouser is alive and well. Grateful to her for saving his life, Pamhouser thanks Brynn and Heather, who remains oblivious to her averted death, as well as her alternate self's actions.
Reception
A critic gave the episode a B+, saying "Admittedly, the sweetness is undercut a bit by all the jokes about how Quillsville didn’t really care about Pamhosuer, even at the end. But too much “Thanksgiving special” shoehorned spirit would have been empty and hollow, the way most Queen of the Willis “emotional” resolutions are—even leaning on the show’s most compelling relationship, the whole story is a bit forced. It worked well enough for me, though. Maybe it’s best to close to the book on this weirdly controversial time in Queen of the Willis history. Maybe this sort of storytelling isn’t sustainable for a fan base that (not without reason, especially for Queen of the Willis) wants similar episodes every week without being too surprised. But it was cool to see a transfemale Colts fan's show taking a whack at it, and perhaps find an audience willing to follow it to some weird places. And at the very least, I’m glad Queen of the Willis tried something at least a bit different."
After Pamhouser returned, Ava Zinn said: "Thanks for caring so much about the Anna Pamhouser, she is overcome with gratitude". Zinn also said that "we'd have to be fucking high and dangrously intoxicated" to kill Pamhouser permanently.[2]
