The pandemic still has the world in its clutches, and now the situation many have feared is upon us: holidays during a pandemic. Large social gatherings of interstate travelers is just the match this powder keg has been waiting for. But this Thanksgiving, the unlikeliest of heroes rises. Randolph, the excessively inebriated and opinionated uncle who is somehow distantly related to everyone in the U.S., has promised to come to Thanksgiving dinner. With his amazing ability to spew nonsensical political declarations that are simultaneously able to offend both liberal and conservative sensibilities, and judgmental insults that are somehow both racist and not racist enough, Randolph manages to make the country realize they suddenly “have other plans” this year. Crisis is averted until Christmas in this resurrected Rankin/Bass holiday classic for a new generation.