If you’re in the United States, you’re probably enjoying a four-day Thanksgiving vacation, either celebrating or lamenting the arrival and survival of English pilgrims in the New World. There’s bound to be turkey, sports, dry leaves on the ground, and endless family squabbles.

Bored to tears? Same here.

Here are a few Revolutionary things you can really enjoy this Thanksgiving holiday.

TV: The Cartoon Network is showing their yearly Iron Giant day-after-Thanksgiving marathon (if you figure out the link, let me know), and the Disney Channel is showing a marathon of Kim Possible leading up to the first feature-length Kim Possible movie. The Iron Giant was one of the best and most underrated films of 1999, criminally buried under Star Wars and Matrix hype and the inevitable box-office backlash of an animated movie that lacks singing cute animals. So never mind all that; tune in and watch. When you’ve seen it once or twice, try Kim Possible on the Disney Channel. Everything else I’ve seen on the Disney Channel is garbage, but Kim Possible is terrific and funny-- part spy spoof, part first-season Buffy but without the angst and blood.

DVD: The extended edition DVD of The Two Towers matches the brilliance of the extended Fellowship of the Ring: It manages the seemingly impossible feat of improving the movie by making it longer. People who were irritated with Faramir being so unsympathetic or with the ents getting too little face time will love their new scenes; but for my money, Miranda Otto’s Eowyn and the computer-generated Gollum still steal the movie. Look for interviews with the writers, director, and producers explaining the liberties they took with the book, and some they almost took.

X2: X-Men United is also just out on DVD. It earned a place as one of the best superhero movies ever, putting the X-Men rightfully in a league with Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man on the page and on the screen; grab the disc to see how.

Movies: There are no good sci-fi or fantasy movies in theatres now. Sorry. If you’re forced out of the house, celebrate mediocrity with Timeline, Gothika, or The Matrix Revolutions. Otherwise wait for The Return of the King.

Books: Stephen King gears up for the grand finale of the Dark Tower series with book 5 of 7, The Wolves of Calla. The gunslinger Roland and his friends continue their quest through Midworld, battling brigands and other nasty threats as they seek to save the Dark Tower and set the universes right. I haven't read it yet but it sounds like this is one for the old-time fans, full of links tying the Dark Tower series to King's other work.

Comics: The main event this season is Justice League vs. Avengers. We’ve been waiting 20 years for this showdown between the ubergroups of the DC and Marvel universes, and reading it will make you feel like you’re nine again. It features battles royale between about, oh, 7,800 superheroes; for a highlight, look for the duel between Batman and The Punisher in issue #1. (But don’t look too hard; it doesn’t even take place on panel.) Two of the miniseries’ four issues are now out.

Anime: Did I mention there are about 29 hours of extras on the Two Towers DVD? I ain’t got time for anime.

Videogame: Getting impatient for the movie? Try EA Games’ videogame adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Chock full of action and sword-slinging, arrow-shooting carnage, the ROTK game weaves together three storylines toward the big finish at Mount Doom: Gandalf rushing to the defense of Minas Tirith; Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli walking the Paths of the Dead to summon the aid of an undead army; and Frodo and Sam escaping Osgiliath and facing the orcs of Cirith Ungol and the monstrous Shelob as they sneak into Mordor with the One Ring.

RPG: I own my own game company. Buy Godlike and keep food on my kids’ table. (What, you thought I was going to recommend somebody else?)

And if all that doesn’t work, eat more turkey. Even those cranky relatives can’t bug you in a tryptophan-induced coma.