In the first Thanksgiving Special of The Cleveland Show, The Brown-Tubbs Family tries to celebrate a decent family Thanksgiving, but all goes awry, when members of the extended family butt heads with the immediate family members.
Tropes:
- Character Catchphrase: This episode introduces Auntie Momma's catchphrase "I'm outrageous!", followed by a fart.
- Everyone Meets Everyone: The Browns meet a few people from the extended Tubbs family and vice versa.
- Intro Dump: When it comes to characters, this episode brings us a slew of the new, introducing Freight Train and Cookie Brown, Cleveland's biological parents, Auntie Momma, Donna's aunt, who raised her as a child, and even the angel and devil versions of Daryl Hall & John Oates, the little angel and devil moral compasses, that live on Cleveland's shoulders.
- Lying to Protect Your Feelings: As the only parental role model in her life, growing up, it's no surprise that Donna really looks up to and cherishes her Auntie Momma, for everything she is. It would really rock her world to know anything about her, that would completely change her views on her, as a person. That's why Cleveland kept it a secret from her that she was a transgender woman.
- Meet the In-Laws: Donna meets Cleveland's parents, and does not get along with his mother, Cookie.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: After revealing the truth about Auntie Momma to his father, Cleveland says "You. Had Sex. With A Man." to his father, with him vomiting more with each part.
- Thanksgiving Episode: This is the series' first Thanksgiving special.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Freight Train gets his comeuppance for cheating on and disrespecting his wife, when Cleveland reveals to him that, Auntie Momma, the woman he's been sweating the sheets with, is actually a transgender, who still has her penis.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Cleveland barfed all over the place, during the Thanksgiving dinner. After revealing the truth about Auntie Momma to his father, his father does the exact same thing for 30 seconds straight.
