When Holt misses his plane to Florida for Thanksgiving in "A General Thanksgiving Episode", he reveals that he wasn’t even invited to his estranged family’s holiday dinner. To help him get over his Thanksgiving blues, Rallo invites Holt’s father over for the holidays but finds the general is a strict military man. After they save Cleveland from crashing in an airplane, the general reveals that he is disappointed in his son for being too short to follow in his footsteps and join the military. Holt tells off his father and walks away with Rallo.