Before arriving on ThanksKilling, creators Jordan Downey and Kevin Stewart were toying around with another holiday slasher set during Easter, which they titled Eggstravakill. ThanksKilling definitely flows more easily off the tongue, so they made the right choice there; however, the holiday concept wasn't the only tough topic up for debate. During the entire conception and creation of the film, Stewart and Downey attempted to come up with a clever name for the killer turkey, but nothing ever stuck. That's why they went with "turkey" in the first film, which later morphed into "Turkie" in the 2012 follow up. What can you really expect from a college film whose central tagline ("Gobble, gobble, motherf*cker!") was conceived before its plot?!