Flashback: How We Birthed a Turkey | S1E9 "Belly Full of Turkey"
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate Thanksgiving, we are flashing back to our Season 1 rewatch of “Belly Full of Turkey.” Josh and Craig reflect on Lily’s hilarious but heartfelt journey into Marshall’s giant Minnesota family, while Ted, Robin, and Barney navigate their own offbeat holiday at a food shelter (and later, a strip club). They discuss Alyson Hannigan’s standout performance, the visual comedy of a Brooklyn girl in a land of giants, and the deeper emotional themes of family, identity, and partnership. With behind-the-scenes stories, a moving listener letter from Australia, and insights from Jordana about in-laws and marriage, this episode blends big laughs with big feelings—just like the show always did.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Josh and Craig here. We are taking a week off for Thanksgiving, but we're not going to leave you without an episode to listen to. We are going to replay our Thanksgiving episode from season one, which is called Belly Full of Turkey. Great episode, both the episode of How I Met Your Mother, and we enjoyed talking about the episode. What else? Do you have anything to add, Greg? It's a rerun of a rerun of a rerun. It's a tur-tur-tur-tur- turkey. I'm not saying it. But yes, please enjoy. This was a great one. This is one of our favorites. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Yeah, happy Thanksgiving. Here's a rerun. Hi, Josh and Craig. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Rishi from India. |
| 0:40.6 | And how I met your mother was the first English TV series I ever watched before I knew |
| 0:45.8 | what a sitcom was. |
| 0:47.0 | And to me, it's never been a sitcom. |
| 0:49.1 | To me, it's been a beautifully written slow burn drama by very organic bits of endearing, |
| 0:55.0 | of slightly dorky comedy. |
| 0:57.0 | And I adore the development of the slightly flawed characters, |
| 1:01.0 | and especially the way the show plays with time. |
| 1:04.0 | I absolutely love that, and it's a, it's a, just masterful filmmaking. |
| 1:09.0 | It just lets every emotion soak in unapologetically. And in a way, the |
| 1:14.0 | creators of the show are the hopeless romantics of filmmaking. So here's how I met him of other |
| 1:19.0 | timidly bold, subtly adventures, and the slow burn drama with the side of comedy. That's what it is to me. |
| 1:26.1 | I'm alone. |
| 1:28.6 | What a pity I won't be soon in New York City when I see you. |
| 1:38.6 | Please permit me to tell you everything in New York City. |
| 1:45.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Josh Radner. |
| 1:48.0 | I am joined by my friend Craig Thomas. |
| 1:50.0 | Hello, Craig. |
| 1:51.0 | Hello, my friend. |
| 1:53.0 | This is how we made your mother. |
| 1:56.0 | We are talking about the TV series, |
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