Dave cooks the turkey

In "Dave cooks the turkey" by Stuart Mclean, there is alot of situational comedy used, as well as slap stick and imagery.
Dave is a bit of a clutz, and an occasional screw up, so when his wife tells him "[shes] trying to make [christmas] fun again" he wants to help. Naively, Dave asks his wife Morley "What [he] can do for her." Morley tells him she "[wants] [him] to look after the turkey." Dave, the screw up says, "I can do that," and so it begins.
Dave doesn't think ahead, he thinks his wife must have bought the turkey for him, but "taking care of the turkey," means buying it too. Dave doesn't want to tell his wife. This is part of Stuart Mcleans situational comedy. David is in a rough spot, he goes out and buys a 'grade B' turkey, the last one on the shelf. He get's it home and 'grade B' is obviously a lower end turkey. "The skin on the right drumstick [is] ripped," and there is "another slash in the carcass." Dave describes the turkey as "[looking] like it had made a break from the slaughter house and dragged itself a block or two before it was captured and beaten to death." This is a mixture of humour through imagery, and a bit of physical slap stick comedy. The situational comedy continues when Dave realizes the stove isn't going to work for him. "Nothing anybody did was going to turn it on." So he calls a hotel and asks them, "if someone brought their own food in-because of a special diet- would [they] cook it for them?" Anyone can see where this is going. Dave takes a taxi to the hotel with his mangled turkey he named 'butch.' More situational comedy comes into play when his neighbor and his mother are standing in line behind him. He's drunk at this point, and carrying a beaten turkey. It works out though, it's awekward, but he gets his turkey cooked. Dave get his turkey home and sets it on the table, "he [gets] a ladle of the turkey gravy" and "[smears] it on the light bulbs" to make the house smell more like christmas dinner. When his wife gets home, surprise surprise, she brings in the neighbor and his mother. The same people that saw his crazy act in the hotel. Yet more situational humour. Poor Dave.