30 People Share What Funny Things Their Moms Have Said In Response To Jimmy Fallon’s Challenge
“It’s Hashtag time!” yells the beloved host of the The Tonight Show and we all know what we gotta do. Bring our seats closer, open Twitter, and share a bite of our very own ensued hilarity in a form of a hashtag.
And just in time for Mom’s day, Jimmy Fallon put up an announcement: “Tweet out a funny or weird thing your mom has said and tag it with #MomQuotes,” on May 3.
The answers started flooding in like there was no tomorrow, because we know how crazy, boomer-like, adorable, and clueless in tech (but not in your dating life!) our moms can be. So let’s give them a big round of applause and get ready for the funniest tweets right below.
After you're done reading this one, be sure to check out our earlier Jimmy Fallon hashtags, #MyWeirdSuperstition, #WeddingFail, and #FitnessFail.
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Whenever someone asks me that i wonder how they got on the cliff in the first place...
I... never thought about that. But now I will!
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Dd I raise children stupid enough to go hanging off a cliff? would be my answer. Unfortunately, I think maybe I did sometimes...
That’s just an easy way of getting out of that one, would’ve said the same thing
I left my daughter in her stroller , not once , but twice when a bee chased me . Don't judge me , they were big evil bees
The chances are your mom is at the top of your speed-dial list, and you may be anywhere between 10 and 80 years of age. Because this bond that a child, no matter their age, and their mother shares is something truly special and should be viewed as a gift. And how could it not be when often, it’s mothers who are the emotional backbones of our families?
And deer perverts, and especially perverted deer! It's a cute way to say she wants you to be safe ^-^
But the appreciation most of us have for our moms surpasses the realization that if it weren’t for your mom, you wouldn’t be breathing right now. And it’s not just the time she knew (but didn’t tell you) that you ran away for a night in town with your boyfriend in high school when she noticed your sneakers at the door were soaking wet. You didn’t realize, but she knew it—it was raining that whole night.
And nothing speaks more subtly of the goofy and fun side of our moms than the tweets people shared for Jimmy Fallon’s #MomQuotes challenge. So we reached out to one Twitter user, Reva Rice, who shared a funny moment: “'These are my daughters and they are single' This is how my mom introduced my sister and I at a FAMILY REUNION!” and added the hashtag #MomQuotes.
Reva Rice told us that she was very close to her mom, who sadly passed away 18 years ago. “My mom was always trying to marry off my sister and I. I can’t even count the number of times she told me, 'By the time I was your age, I was married already,'” she recounted.
It all changed one day as “At the age of almost 26, I met and married my husband within 8 months. She left me alone at that point.“I had always considered myself a Mama’s girl, especially after having children,” Reva said and confessed that she doesn’t think she “completely appreciated her until then. She died from stomach cancer about two years after I became a mom. Mother’s Day is still difficult.”
She tweeted the story because “it was funny and one of the most embarrassing things my mom ever did to me and I was hoping Jimmy Fallon might say my name.”
Its mom-instincts. There was a guy driving with his kid with his head totally out of the window the other day in the opposite direction of me and before I knew what I was doing I was yelling at him to put his head back in the car! So I get that it just pops out.
I love this! My mother-in-law says this sort of stuff all the time too.
I am sure I will be like this some day, probably sooner than I think. Back in my day etc etc XD
My grandmother did the same with her osteoporosis pill Boniva. She used to call it her "Sally Fields pill" cause she did the commercials! Lol!
Super cringy that the mom in insinuating that her some has a "big package"
One, he was shot in Dallas, not Austin. Two, Are you famous? (I'm just joking)
We went to the Grand Canyon and it was snowing in Flagstaff. The Grand Canyon has some snow on it, but it melted by mid day. We were walking back to our car when it started to hail, even though we expected snow. When my mom figured what is was she says, "It's the thing! Not the thing!" (she said it in French, but I don't know how to spell it.) We still make fun about it.
We used to call someone who left the door open a church visitor. I suppose it is because church doors are always open here.
I'm sure the next message was "now that you know where it is, call your mother more often"
My mum once introduced me to a friend of hers we happen to meet in a shop "Hi, oh yes, this is my daughter, she doesn't always look this terrible, she's been ill"
I still make fun of my boyfriend for this very same scenario. He thought LA Fitness was a fancy French gym.
I studied translations and English is my second language. Whenever I don't know a word in English, my mum goes "Wait, aren't you a translator?" It's super annoying. I love it! <3
I took my 82 year old Grandmother to a grocery store and a guy in a huge jacked-up Hummer parked next to us. (Well, in two spots, right down the line). My grandmother stood there and waited for him to get out and, bless her southern belle heart, said "I like your car. So sad about your penis." and toddled off to Aldi.
Clothing store, age 14-15, trying on jeans (during the super low rider jeans stage 🤦♀️) asked my what she thought as I was struggling to find something with more than a 1cm zip! Well, meaning to say she could see my 'muffin top', ie my hip fat etc, she said, right there in the store, "Your m**f is showing". It took her a moment to twig to what it sounded like but I was mortified! She made it sound like I was some kind of flasher 😂
My mom: "Oh look, a pe*is compensation unit!" every time she saw a sports car, and I still call them "PCUs". Side note: I just raelized my dad owned a Mustang convertible when they married. Oh gad. Things I did not want to think about...
My Dad had a corvette convertible when he married my mom. They used it to go from the church to the reception and, with the top down, were cleaning rice from the car the next day. It rained later that day and the inside of the car got doused with water. A week later, little plants started growing in the carpet. Apparently not all of the rice grains had made it out of the car.
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When I was learning french my Mom didnt know any. So she would just say "le" followed by whatever she was going to say. She was watching a movie with me and my friends and someone said Gonads. I looked at her and said dont. She broke down laughing at "Le gonads" in front of my friends.
Not wrong, 'Les gonades' have the same meaning in French, but it's more a medical term.
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"You're my daughter so I guess I have to love you anyway" when my sister got a pierced belly button. "I don't like when they make those realistic reconstructions because you can't tell if it's real anymore" about a documentary on dinosaurs. And once I needed my pin code to unlock my cell phone and she could get it for me (can't remember how or why). I think I must have still had a land line so I could call her and ask her for the code. She said she'd text it to me. (I did point out that that wouldn't help me much.)
My grandmother was a naturalized citizen. She spoke Spanish and knew only a few words of English from watching TV. One day at the butcher's, she asked for 2 pounds of porky pig. She wanted pork chops. I couldn't stop laughing but she got mad at me because she said she only brought me along to translate, not to laugh at her English.
My Mom was in her 80s, a guy approached her, smoking a cigarette, as she walked into the supermarket and asked her for money to buy his kids food. My Mom said, well you've got money cigarettes, you should have spent it on milk. She was lucky he took it well.
My mother got in a very heated argument with security at a casino. She kept waving down the cocktail waitresses to bring her more drinks as she argued, they kept giving her more drinks. The argument raged on and one said "If you continue to argue we will have to take you to jail" she slammed down a shot and smiled saying, "That's okay, I've never been to jail before and I am always game for new experiences." I will never be able to achieve that level of not giving a damn.
My grandmother always told us only boring people get bored. And I tell my kids.
My mom told me that too, and I thought it was super annoying and rude, so I stopped telling her I was bored and came up with annoying ways to entertain myself. When my son told me he was bored, I gave him chores to do, so he stopped telling me he was bored and found annoying ways to entertain himself. Same result.
Load More Replies... One morning everyone is hovering around the kitchen semi groggy and my brother was making himself tea so he boils the water (we use electric kettles) and pours it. The kettle was empty so he refills it with cool tap water and starts having breakfast. As he's sitting there he takes a sip of his hot tea and burns his tongue and exclaims "Ah! f**cking hot!" A second later, from behind him, mom takes a sip from her coffee mug and is like "Ah f*cking cold!" she thought the kettle water was hot and had made coffee with cold water. It was funny cuz she never ever swore in English.
It was nice that he refilled the kettle, since it was empty, but surely he realised others would want it too? It would have taken an extra second to switch it on again.
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I laughed out loud a lot reading this article. Thank you BP! It this kind of material that brings me to this site, not the articles that judge or have an agenda behind them. Way to go!
When my mom was sick (cold) she wanted some cracker but it came out as "could you get me some quackers ?"
I have one as well; when my brother and I used to do something stupid and mom found out, she would always say: I'd have to look for two as you as far as the sky is blue.
Whenever we misbehaved and got caught by my Uncle he'd say "You don't want to end up as a statistic...stop!"
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"I'd take you anywhere twice. The second time: to apologise." Now i say it to her when she sasses me in front of eg retail staff
Whenever we left to go somewhere, my mom would say we were "Off like a dirty shirt" or "Off like a herd of turtles." Not sure where she got those phrases from, but darned if I don't say the same thing now.
I had a friend who used to say 'Off, like a Jewish foreskin'. I thought it was a terrible expression.
Load More Replies... I once hit a moose, like 25 years ago, and damaged my car (the moose got up and trotted off, so don't worry). I was telling my mom about it and she said, "Are you sure it was a moose?". I said "yes I'm sure. Why? What else could it be?". And she said " Maybe it was a big goat?!". I tease her about this to this day.
"You're giving my teenage daughter a screw fixation?!" - My mother (loudly) to the doctors right before my foot surgery, which, they had just told us, is officially called a bunionectomy with screw fixation
I took my 82 year old Grandmother to a grocery store and a guy in a huge jacked-up Hummer parked next to us. (Well, in two spots, right down the line). My grandmother stood there and waited for him to get out and, bless her southern belle heart, said "I like your car. So sad about your penis." and toddled off to Aldi.
Clothing store, age 14-15, trying on jeans (during the super low rider jeans stage 🤦♀️) asked my what she thought as I was struggling to find something with more than a 1cm zip! Well, meaning to say she could see my 'muffin top', ie my hip fat etc, she said, right there in the store, "Your m**f is showing". It took her a moment to twig to what it sounded like but I was mortified! She made it sound like I was some kind of flasher 😂
My mom: "Oh look, a pe*is compensation unit!" every time she saw a sports car, and I still call them "PCUs". Side note: I just raelized my dad owned a Mustang convertible when they married. Oh gad. Things I did not want to think about...
My Dad had a corvette convertible when he married my mom. They used it to go from the church to the reception and, with the top down, were cleaning rice from the car the next day. It rained later that day and the inside of the car got doused with water. A week later, little plants started growing in the carpet. Apparently not all of the rice grains had made it out of the car.
Load More Replies... When I was learning french my Mom didnt know any. So she would just say "le" followed by whatever she was going to say. She was watching a movie with me and my friends and someone said Gonads. I looked at her and said dont. She broke down laughing at "Le gonads" in front of my friends.
Not wrong, 'Les gonades' have the same meaning in French, but it's more a medical term.
Load More Replies... "You're my daughter so I guess I have to love you anyway" when my sister got a pierced belly button. "I don't like when they make those realistic reconstructions because you can't tell if it's real anymore" about a documentary on dinosaurs. And once I needed my pin code to unlock my cell phone and she could get it for me (can't remember how or why). I think I must have still had a land line so I could call her and ask her for the code. She said she'd text it to me. (I did point out that that wouldn't help me much.)
My grandmother was a naturalized citizen. She spoke Spanish and knew only a few words of English from watching TV. One day at the butcher's, she asked for 2 pounds of porky pig. She wanted pork chops. I couldn't stop laughing but she got mad at me because she said she only brought me along to translate, not to laugh at her English.
My Mom was in her 80s, a guy approached her, smoking a cigarette, as she walked into the supermarket and asked her for money to buy his kids food. My Mom said, well you've got money cigarettes, you should have spent it on milk. She was lucky he took it well.
My mother got in a very heated argument with security at a casino. She kept waving down the cocktail waitresses to bring her more drinks as she argued, they kept giving her more drinks. The argument raged on and one said "If you continue to argue we will have to take you to jail" she slammed down a shot and smiled saying, "That's okay, I've never been to jail before and I am always game for new experiences." I will never be able to achieve that level of not giving a damn.
My grandmother always told us only boring people get bored. And I tell my kids.
My mom told me that too, and I thought it was super annoying and rude, so I stopped telling her I was bored and came up with annoying ways to entertain myself. When my son told me he was bored, I gave him chores to do, so he stopped telling me he was bored and found annoying ways to entertain himself. Same result.
Load More Replies... One morning everyone is hovering around the kitchen semi groggy and my brother was making himself tea so he boils the water (we use electric kettles) and pours it. The kettle was empty so he refills it with cool tap water and starts having breakfast. As he's sitting there he takes a sip of his hot tea and burns his tongue and exclaims "Ah! f**cking hot!" A second later, from behind him, mom takes a sip from her coffee mug and is like "Ah f*cking cold!" she thought the kettle water was hot and had made coffee with cold water. It was funny cuz she never ever swore in English.
It was nice that he refilled the kettle, since it was empty, but surely he realised others would want it too? It would have taken an extra second to switch it on again.
Load More Replies... I laughed out loud a lot reading this article. Thank you BP! It this kind of material that brings me to this site, not the articles that judge or have an agenda behind them. Way to go!
When my mom was sick (cold) she wanted some cracker but it came out as "could you get me some quackers ?"
I have one as well; when my brother and I used to do something stupid and mom found out, she would always say: I'd have to look for two as you as far as the sky is blue.
Whenever we misbehaved and got caught by my Uncle he'd say "You don't want to end up as a statistic...stop!"
Load More Replies... "I'd take you anywhere twice. The second time: to apologise." Now i say it to her when she sasses me in front of eg retail staff
Whenever we left to go somewhere, my mom would say we were "Off like a dirty shirt" or "Off like a herd of turtles." Not sure where she got those phrases from, but darned if I don't say the same thing now.
I had a friend who used to say 'Off, like a Jewish foreskin'. I thought it was a terrible expression.
Load More Replies... I once hit a moose, like 25 years ago, and damaged my car (the moose got up and trotted off, so don't worry). I was telling my mom about it and she said, "Are you sure it was a moose?". I said "yes I'm sure. Why? What else could it be?". And she said " Maybe it was a big goat?!". I tease her about this to this day.
"You're giving my teenage daughter a screw fixation?!" - My mother (loudly) to the doctors right before my foot surgery, which, they had just told us, is officially called a bunionectomy with screw fixation
