On "Friends", who were the two characters that had a turkey on their head?

On Friends, Joey and Monica were the two characters who had a turkey on their heads. The memorable gag appears in “The One with All the Thanksgivings,” the eighth episode of Season 5, which first aired on November 19, 1998.

The episode uses flashbacks to revisit the group’s worst Thanksgiving memories. In one story, Joey gets his head stuck inside a turkey while trying to pull it out of the oven. Later, Monica places a cooked turkey over her own head while wearing sunglasses and dancing to cheer up Chandler after accidentally injuring his toe years earlier.

A common mix-up is remembering only Joey, because his turkey incident is the most immediately absurd part of the episode. Monica’s turkey moment is separate and happens during the flashback involving Chandler’s toe. The scene also becomes important to Monica and Chandler’s relationship: Chandler unexpectedly tells Monica that he loves her while she is wearing the turkey, marking a major emotional turning point.