The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featured tons of animated characters floating through New York City ... with balloons for SpongeBob, Baby Yoda and a host of others.

Snoopy, an oldie but goodie, made his trek through the skies above the parade route ... with Woodstock hitching a ride on Snoopy's matching green hat.

Spongebob SquarePants had a buddy riding with him too ... his balloon featured his pet snail, Gary.

Baby Yoda floated in from a galaxy far, far way ... and Grogu was looking super cute as always.

Kung Fu Panda made an appearance too ... along with one of the Minions and Chase from Paw Patrol.

There were holiday classics too ... including a massive turkey float and another with Santa Claus and some helpers.

Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson rode on the "Good Burger 2" float ... only weeks after first told you Kel was hospitalized in Los Angeles.

We saw Kel at the premiere for the movie sequel last week, and it looks like he's recovered from whatever it was that required medical attention.

As we reported ... pro-Palestine protestors tried disrupting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ... with some demonstrators being arrested.