Dave cooks the Road kill

Ludicrous scenes of hilarity followed by gratuitous laughter, is this ticking a bell? You will find your self laughing when you read or hear the story “Dave Cooks the Turkey,” by Stewart McLean. In the story McLean demonstrates multiple strategies to make the story hilarious, but one in particular, the relate-ability of it all. In the story the character Dave is told by his wife Morley that for Christmas all he had to do was cook the turkey, and that’s where everything goes wrong for him. Morely tells Dave "You are the guy in the bar, Dave, pushing the button to ask for another drink," meaning that the woman in a relationship or family does all the work for Christmas and that the men reap the benefits, people can relate to this and will find it funny. On Christmas Eve Morely tell Dave to get the turkey out of the freezer Dave realizes he knows nothing of turkeys! He goes through some ridiculous scenarios as he didn’t realize that “looking after the turkey...meant buying it as well as putting it in the oven.” Dave buys a turkey that is low grade and looks like it was road kill. The fact that the turkey looks terrible makes the scenario humorous because all the readers already figured out that Dave has no idea what to do and he is likely to screw up. Dave then attempts to cook the turkey only to learn that he can’t even use the oven! Dave has a few drinks of scotch and off he goes to try to cook his road kill, I mean turkey. Dave comes to a hotel where he convinces them to cook his turkey for him saying that he has a medical condition. Where Dave is confronted about his home raised turkey with accusations that the turkey had been mistreated, this just built on how amusing the condition of the bird is and how Morely will respond upon seeing it. Stewart McLean uses comical entertainment by way of relating the hardships of Dave to the average reader.