[THON] Choose Your Thanksgiving Starting Lineup (Maybe win something)
0It’s time to choose your starting five for thanksgiving meal prep. You get to draft five individuals from all of human history to help you pull off the best meal possible. Here are the positions you need to fill.
Head Chef: Designing the meal, making it all happen.
Interior Decorating and Related Aesthetics: Making it pretty.
Master of Ceremonies: Carves the turkey, runs the party.
Personality Hire: Maybe useless, maybe not. Fun at the table.
Wild Card Slot: Table-side violinist? Cigar roller? Bartender? Anything you want!
Share who you think can deliver the best Thanksgiving dinner experience for your chance to win a free IRK. Don’t forget to tear down the competition by pointing out why other lineups will be a disaster!
Winners chosen tomorrow after we run some simulations on the finalists.

Contest Disclaimer: Fictional dinner drafts are subjective and judging is hard. If you didn’t win but think you should have, there’s a good chance you’re right. We’ll do our best, though. If you don’t win a prize, just remember that ALL PRIZES ARE IRKs and that IRKs are the definition of disappointment and regret. Not winning one is like not winning gum on your shoe. We’re probably saving you a trip to the donation center. All disputes associated with the Game will be decided by binding arbitration and you and McDonald’s hereby waive the right to assert claims in any class or representative action.
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Head Chef:
Interior Decorating and Related Aesthetics:
Master of Ceremonies:
Personality Hire:
Wild Card Slot:
If this were a real draft, which slots would you fill first?
@jouest I’m just drafting five personality hires and ordering pizza
I’m actually going to try to be a little bit funny and genre cliche with this. I’ll probably fail. Sorry for no paragraphs because well voice to text on a small screen. Head chef Captain Christopher Pike. Interior decorating and related Aesthetics counselor troy. Master of Ceremonies Jean-Luc Picard. Personality hire Mr spock. And wild card slot Mr Scott.
@Cerridwyn “Personality hire Mr spock”
Head Chef: Julia Child (bonus because she can share spy stories)
Interior Decorating and Related Aesthetics: Catherine the Great
Master of Ceremonies: Sally Ride
Personality Hire:Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (first woman Medal or Honor)
Wild Card Slot: Virginia Hall WW2 spy
@UnionLiz I’m suspicious that you’re assembling some sort of special forces.
@jouest exactly! We will go from house to house and conquer Thanksgiving!
I’m going to list Mehtizens for this!
Head Chef: @Sillyheathen
Interior Decorating and Related Aesthetics: @tinamarie1974
Master of Ceremonies: @chienfou
Personality Hire: Too many to list! (So many funny/interesting characters here!)
Wild Card Slot: Matthew, the creator of Irk & Glen
@Kyeh oh this is good! I def want to be at this table.
@tinamarie1974 Yay!
Head Chef: Julia Child with Jacques Pépin, they are a matched set! And I would love to be withing their orbit to just absorb like a sponge!!
Interior Decorating and Related Aesthetics: Vincent van Gogh, just gotta watch him around knives.
Master of Ceremonies: Lucille Ball
Personality Hire:Gabrielle Igleses
Wild Card Slot: Maya Angelou
Head Chef: Joël Robuchon - Dude has more Michelin Stars than any chef in history. Even dead he’s probably still the best chef ever.
Interior Decorating and Related Aesthetics: Charles and Ray Eames - Their designs and modern aesthetics were groundbreaking.

Master of Ceremonies: Is there really any other option than Morgan Freeman?!
Personality Hire: Rodney Dangerfield - We’re all going to laugh until we throw up our turkey.
Wild Card Slot: My grandfather on my mother’s side. He died when I was too young to know him and I’d do anything to be able to share a dinner with him. From everything I know about him, he was a spectacular human. He owned a small grocery store and after he died (heart attack), a whole bunch of his customers returned to pay the tabs he let them run up. Yeah, he was that kind of awesomely good and loved person.
@cinoclav sophisticated, why are mine all just power rangers and guy fieri
Head Chef: Andrew Garland from Down Right Delicious - bc he shines a light on how awesome ppl with down syndrome can be with a great personality and yummy food. He just makes me smile
Interior Decorating and Related Aesthetics: Xzibit. Because nothing makes more sense than having him pimp this out
Master of Ceremonies: Clark Griswold. No explanation needed.
Personality Hire: Jane Lynch - could be great. Could be weird. Either way, you will walk away with a good story.
Wild Card Slot: Chris Farley. For more reasons than I can list


POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
@roachy Xzibit is an inspired choice
Head Chef: Mom
Interior Decorating and Related Pavlov
Aesthetics:Marie Kondo
Master of Ceremonies:PT Barnum
Personality Hire:George Carlin
Wild Card Slot:Sam Heughan
@speediedelivery wait your mom or my mom?
@jouest Yes.
Jackson Pollock would be runner up for decor.
Sam is expected to bring the alcohol. I am planning that kind of party
Can’t resist.
Head Chef: Ralph Fiennes’ character from Menu
Interior Decorating and Related Aesthetics: Salvador Dali
Master of Ceremonies: Harold Zidler from Moulin Rouge
Personality Hire: Chairman Kaga, oc
Wild Card Slot: Bjork
Head Chef: Anthony Bourdain
Interior Decorating and replate Aesthetics: Martha Stewart
Master of Ceremonies: Snoop Dog
Personality Hire: Matt Rife
Wild Card Slot: Oscar the Grouch
@khristenas Oscar! That’s the best.
Head Chef: Guy Fieri
Interior Decorating and Related Aesthetics: Lady Gaga
Master of Ceremonies: Cher
Personality Hire: Stefon
Wild Card Slot: Paul Stamets (That mushroom guy from Joe Rogan)
Bartender? Mariah Carey
ok so I’ll tear down my own post and say why its a disaster, cause well it’s designed that way so I have immunity. Trust me it could have been worse! This is the edited list (The bartender was going to be Amy Winehouse but I thought that was a little too shady),
Head Chef: Me
Decorator: Also Me
Master of Ceremonies: Predictably Me
Personality Hire: Myself
Wild Card Slot: Anyone else
This would clearly be one of my best holidays I could concoct if I do say so myself.
The menu would be catered to the guest of honor, I. The arrangements would be rent to their favorite locale, my
pigstycrater ofhomely home. The narration would be done by someone with experience and longstanding history with the venue and cuisine: yours truly. And who better company than someone who knows me best: Me!/giphy Muppet Beaker singing
