30 People Who Had The ‘Pleasure’ Of Living With A Weirdo Roommate Share Their Worst Stories For Jimmy Fallon’s Challenge
It’s Hashtags time, Pandas! Jimmy Fallon, the charismatic host of the legendary The Tonight Show, invited his fans to share the funniest, weirdest, and most embarrassing stories about their roommates on Twitter. And, wow, did they deliver!
Excited by Fallon’s challenge, Twitter users from pretty much all corners of the globe revealed the most hilarious things their roommates did and the utmost bizarre experiences they had while living with someone else.
We’ve collected the very best of the bunch to share with you, Pandas, so scroll on down for a genuine mood-booster (laughter and smiles included, free of charge). As you’re upvoting your fave stories, have a think and tell us all about the strangest things your own roommates have ever done. We’d love to hear your thoughts, so drop by the comment section.
Bored Panda got in touch with entertainment, pop culture, and lifestyle expert Mike Sington to have a chat about Fallon, standing out on Twitter with our stories, and the challenges of working as a TV show host. Scroll down for our interview with the former NBCUniversal executive!
Meanwhile, when you’re done with this list, check out Bored Panda’s feature about Fallon’s previous roommate challenge right over here.
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"Jimmy Fallon’s warmth and engagement with people is what’s behind his ongoing success with hosting The Tonight Show. He just seems like a guy you’d want to spend time with," entertainment and pop culture expert Mike, from LA, explained to Bored Panda why the host and the show both resonate with the audience so much.
"To stand out on Twitter, and catch the attention of Fallon and his team, you need to be funny and unique. Simply having an interesting story to tell usually won’t be enough," he pointed out that it's not just what we write, but also how we write it, that's important. If you want to be featured on The Tonight Show, you have to really stand out.
"I think the biggest job challenge of working as a TV host is creating original content, that will not only grab the audience’s attention but will also go viral. An outstanding production and writing team, of course, helps with this," Mike shared with Bored Panda.
"But there are certain qualities a good host must have on their own, such as the ability to think on their feet, an honest curiosity about people, a pleasing personality, and the skill to ad-lib effortlessly. It’s certainly not as easy as Jimmy Fallon makes it look!"
The Tonight Show, officially known as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, obviously stars [drumroll] Jimmy Fallon. The project has been running on NBC since mid-February 2014.
However, there have been previous iterations of the show Between 1957 and 1972, we had Tonight Starring Jack Paar and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The current version of the show is filmed from Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center, in NYC, the same place where the other two shows were filmed. We absolutely love that continuity.
If you’re a fan of Fallon’s, then you’ve got absolutely nothing to worry about. In May 2021, NBC officially renewed the show for 5 more years. So, at the minimum—barring any Earth-shattering Apocalypse—we should be enjoying him as a host until 2026.
This means more awesome quips, jokes, bamboozles, and challenges for all of us in the years to come! That also means yours truly can gently annoy you by writing ‘It’s Hashtags time!’ for a bit longer. There’s no escaping that.
The best tweets of the bunch always end up being featured on Fallon’s show. The cream of the crop from the #MyRoommateIsWeird challenge can be found in this video from The Tonight Show right over here.
Living with a roommate can be either a blessing or the biggest curse you’ve ever laid eyes on in your life (there’s a lot of overlap here, just like with landlords). No, seriously. From our experience, it’s a literal coin toss if the person you’ll be sharing your kitchen, bathroom, and living room with for the next [insert favorite number] years will be pleasant or an utter disaster.
Open and honest communication, setting and respecting healthy boundaries, fairly distributing the chores, cleaning up after yourself—all of these things make for a good roommate. And, well, if we’re completely honest, doing these makes you a quality human being either way. At home, at school, at work, at the Thanksgiving table. Maturity and common sense are seriously underrated these days.
Let us ask you a very personal question, Pandas: have you ever eaten someone else’s food without their knowledge? Whether it’s conducting a clandestine ninja-like operation in the middle of the night to sneak a candy bar from someone else’s stash or spooning a couple of mouthfuls from their leftover pot in the fridge, odds are that at least some of you might have taken a nibble of your roommates’ food without asking.
And while everyone gives in to temptation at one point or another, most of us (hopefully) know to learn from our mistakes. However, if you constantly steal someone else’s food, whether at home, school, or work, then you might want to consider taking a good long look at your life.
The main issue here is that food thieves don’t even think about the possibility of asking for permission. Look, the simple fact is that many of us are incredibly happy to share food with others. Bonding through cooking/giving/eating food makes us happy. But you’ve got to go through the motions. You can’t just help yourself to something you think we’ll probably agree to.
As a mother of a 25 year old son, I don't want to see him naked at this point in time and that would be super awkward in front of his friends 😳. I believe in healthy boundaries. I'm sure if there were a medical question or something my son would feel very comfortable coming to me to look into it and check it out, but as for just casual nakedness, I don't think it would fly at our house. No judgment though for people who live an alternative lifestyle or are just more relaxed about their nudity.
We’ve covered stories about roommate food thieves countless times here on Bored Panda. Recently, we’ve looked at the extents to which some people go to catch the thieves in the act, after getting frustrated with their ongoing lies. One woman resorted to using a camera to catch the perpetrator red-handed; meanwhile, a guy shared how he switched the milk he drinks to finally prove that his lactose-intolerant housemate was eating at his expense.
The woman, who resorted to using a camera, told Bored Panda earlier that there are a lot of reasons why someone would steal someone else’s food.
“I think there’s a lot of reasons. A lot of the time I think people just do it for convenience or affordability, thinking they won’t get caught. Or, especially in shared houses, people think there won’t be consequences to their actions even if they are caught, as opposed to stealing from a shop or business,” redditor u/Not_entirely_sure_ added that, in some cases, some people might be genuinely desperate and in need of financial support… though that often isn’t the case.
“The best way is by trying to reason with housemates and establishing a shared understanding you won’t take each other’s stuff, but this doesn’t always work,” the woman told Bored Panda. She said that some ways around this issue can be getting separate mini-fridges. However, the best solution is to simply live with friends whom you trust. “Prevention is better than the cure.”
Some people are just like that - they’re not listening, they’re waiting for a gap to talk about themselves again. They’re not worth opening up to.
How many were still in his mouth when he woke up, is the question.
Poor fella, he may have been having an existential crisis of sorts.
Sounds like an excellent tactic! “Oh, nobody wanted any ultra expensive meat. I guess I’ll just have to eat it all. Sigh.”
Wait, he got a new bird and left it, alone and loose in the house with no warning? Something is either missing or very wrong here.
If brain size is so important have her explain why a bull with a much bigger brain is not in her college instead of the slaughterhouse. She is an idiot to regurgitate that argument. It is one the patriarchy used for years to defend their stance that women are just dumber than men because of our smaller brains.
We played YouTube cat videos on the tv for our cats - they just went mental trying to find the birds in the speakers, and it’s not great for the screen either. It was hilarious watching them check behind the tv all the time, though. Fun while it lasted…or until we get a cat-proof tv setup.
Like disco balls, three foot tall snoop dogg bobble heads don’t need a reason.
I can't see why playing some modern game for six hours straight would be much different
That's a âsshole move. I'd had to have moved it back to her desk, bed, floor, or something on her side of the room.
The episode of FRIENDS where Joey and Chandler were fighting over a comfy chair. Matt LeBlanc really hurt himself doing the scene where they both dived into it, which is why they began the next episode as if Joey was jumping on the bed and fell off and got hurt....to explain the sling he was wearing.
If this was her assigned chore what a bratty way to handle not wanting to do it.
My friend likes to poke me and say things like “that extra in the back has a hat that looks exactly like a hat my grandma had. Only it was white, and it had more feathers. Why don’t people wear feathers anymore?” It’s always random, but it always starts off an a sartorial note.
I remember when I was little, I had a Disney Hercules plate from McDonald's with Pegasus on it. I put it in the microwave one morning, and it proceeded to explode into several pieces. Not related to your story, but you brought back a weird memory.
If it works for her and you can overlook it, you should. roommates that are merely odd are so hard to find whereas roomies that are actively destructive jerks are a dime a dozen.
Sometimes it just hits the spot if you're restless. Get out of bed so you're not overthinking not being able to sleep, and sometimes it's just what the dr ordered for back or hip fatigue.
I mean ... you should be putting them back the sleeves if they're there!
I never liked him until I heard him play blues. Check out Eric Clapton's Crossroads DVDs. That comment is pretty ignorant. Most players play multiple guitars. Check out Joe Bonamassa sometime. He changes guitars just about every song in a set.
Not a roommate but a guy down the hall in the college dorm. I was the only one with a TV who was around on Saturday morning. He would wake me up so he could watch bowling. While I tried to go back to sleep he sat on my roommates bed watching Pro Bowlers Tour while peeling the calluses off his feet and eating them.
My roommate in college always came back from his dorm shower naked. There was a large picture window in our room that looked over the quad. One day, he came back to the room and there were three people standing in front of our window in the room and with the sun shining behind the window all you could see were silhouettes. My roommate grabbed his penis and said, "Reach for the sky, this is a d**k up". It was visiting day and his mom, dad and sister had come to visit. I nearly fell off by chair I was laughing so hard. His family was less than impressed though.
Was a freshman and drove up to my college a few weeks early before the semester started to drop things off at my apartment and meet my roommate. This girl was very weird and kinda crass. Weird and crass I can deal with. But when she started talking about how important mattress spring count is and that she likes to pick up homeless men in her van to bring home- my internal alarm went off. I reloaded all of my stuff back into my car, drove home and refused to even go to that college. I strayed home my first year and commuted to a closer college lol.
Lol, she wanted her own room. I can imagine thinking up weird things to say to a freshman to make them blow & get my own room
Load More Replies...Had a roommate who would eat half of my food without asking. Had 2 Taco Bell burritos I was saving for lunch the next day. Instead of just eating just one of them, she ate half of both. She denied doing this.
There was a guy here complaining about this same issue once! His girlfriend ate piece of everything he ordered, bought, cooked. And wouldn't stop doing this. Insane behavior
Load More Replies...Reading all these posts about roommates, I can actually say that I'm not sorry for a second I never went to college and thus a roommate ;)
I knew a guy in NYC that if you burped or God forbid farted in the same room he was in he would freak out. He was freaked out by that going into the air and then him breathing it in. I mean he'd get p*ssed!!
I had a roommate that would sit on the front porch for the whole neighborhood to watch her with a bobby-pin pop her shoulder pimples. (insert gagging sound from me)
Mine was a guy who was regularly brought home by police. Every time it was the same thing. Too drunk and screaming for his dog back at a local pet shelter around 3am. Neither of us was from this town and he hadn't had a dog in this city at least. He would never give me the story, but I know it had to be very sad
Lived in a mansion with five very attractive male musicians, for a few years. I'd regularly wake up, and make tea for their one night stands. Had some really interesting conversations. Met one of my closest, that way.
Not sure how that one is funny, weird or embarrassing.
Load More Replies...Not a roommate but a guy down the hall in the college dorm. I was the only one with a TV who was around on Saturday morning. He would wake me up so he could watch bowling. While I tried to go back to sleep he sat on my roommates bed watching Pro Bowlers Tour while peeling the calluses off his feet and eating them.
My roommate in college always came back from his dorm shower naked. There was a large picture window in our room that looked over the quad. One day, he came back to the room and there were three people standing in front of our window in the room and with the sun shining behind the window all you could see were silhouettes. My roommate grabbed his penis and said, "Reach for the sky, this is a d**k up". It was visiting day and his mom, dad and sister had come to visit. I nearly fell off by chair I was laughing so hard. His family was less than impressed though.
Was a freshman and drove up to my college a few weeks early before the semester started to drop things off at my apartment and meet my roommate. This girl was very weird and kinda crass. Weird and crass I can deal with. But when she started talking about how important mattress spring count is and that she likes to pick up homeless men in her van to bring home- my internal alarm went off. I reloaded all of my stuff back into my car, drove home and refused to even go to that college. I strayed home my first year and commuted to a closer college lol.
Lol, she wanted her own room. I can imagine thinking up weird things to say to a freshman to make them blow & get my own room
Load More Replies...Had a roommate who would eat half of my food without asking. Had 2 Taco Bell burritos I was saving for lunch the next day. Instead of just eating just one of them, she ate half of both. She denied doing this.
There was a guy here complaining about this same issue once! His girlfriend ate piece of everything he ordered, bought, cooked. And wouldn't stop doing this. Insane behavior
Load More Replies...Reading all these posts about roommates, I can actually say that I'm not sorry for a second I never went to college and thus a roommate ;)
I knew a guy in NYC that if you burped or God forbid farted in the same room he was in he would freak out. He was freaked out by that going into the air and then him breathing it in. I mean he'd get p*ssed!!
I had a roommate that would sit on the front porch for the whole neighborhood to watch her with a bobby-pin pop her shoulder pimples. (insert gagging sound from me)
Mine was a guy who was regularly brought home by police. Every time it was the same thing. Too drunk and screaming for his dog back at a local pet shelter around 3am. Neither of us was from this town and he hadn't had a dog in this city at least. He would never give me the story, but I know it had to be very sad
Lived in a mansion with five very attractive male musicians, for a few years. I'd regularly wake up, and make tea for their one night stands. Had some really interesting conversations. Met one of my closest, that way.
Not sure how that one is funny, weird or embarrassing.
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