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Jimmy Fallon Invited People To Share Why Their High School Was Weird, Here’re 30 Of The Funniest Responses
Remember the adults who told you that high school will be some of the best years in your life? Well, they left out that it can be pretty bizarre too. As a student, you often don’t question the things happening around you. Only when you graduate and compare memories with others do you begin to understand what an odd place it was.
“It’s Hashtags time! Tell us something weird or funny about your high school, and tag it with #MyHighSchoolWasWeird,” Jimmy Fallon tweeted and triggered a flow of tales from people’s wild teenage years.
From “bring your tractor to school” days to canoe lessons in the swimming pool, we have selected some of the best responses from this thread. So keep scrolling and share your own stories in the comment section below! Also, be sure to check out some of Fallon’s recent challenges on #WorstGiftEver, #MyFamilyIsWeird, #MyBadLuck.
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This challenge on The Tonight Show was all about the things that made people’s high schools look straight-up weird. Jimmy Fallon kicked off the thread himself by tweeting: “One time a swim meet was canceled at my friend’s high school because the pool ‘caught on fire.’ Still have no idea how that’s possible.”
Yet it seems that the people of Twitter have had it even weirder. Whether it’s mayonnaise bandits or “Dress Code Violator” T-Shirts, some of these stories make us scratch our heads from confusion. But imagine strolling through the halls of your school and finding a small room with a creepy dentist’s chair.
That’s what happened to Riley Smith, a singer and songwriter from Australia. He responded to the challenge: “One time, my friends and I found a locked secret room down the stairs from the bathroom with a dentist chair sitting in the middle of it.” His tweet was picked out from the crowd and aired on the show, with Jimmy Fallon responding to it: “That can’t be real, right?” Well, it seems that it was.
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Leet_loves_space 4 years ago
NO TIMMY you are NOT getting that Fortnite plushie because you had the wrong "your" in the letter
We managed to get in touch with Riley and he was kind enough to have a little chat with us. “It felt amazing to have my tweet read out by Jimmy because I really didn’t expect it,” he told Bored Panda. “When the original hashtag post was made, I put my tweet there thinking that it wouldn’t get picked but there’s always a chance.”
Later on, he watched the show and saw his tweet right there on the screen. “To hear him read my tweet and let alone say my name was amazing. I absolutely freaked out and I now can officially say that I’ve been on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Incredible,” Riley added that he still cannot believe it to this day.
The number of responses this thread received only shows that many have had odd high school experiences. Riley mentioned that one reason for it could be that every school is different and has its own history. “So the students wouldn’t expect something like a dentist chair to be in a room under their bathroom, for example.”
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DUN DUN (she/her) 4 years ago
If I were in your school, I'd sell my soul and buy a tractor only for this!
“Personally, I think ‘weird experiences’ and high school go hand in hand with each other and that our high school years are really the glory days of our lives. You never know what’s going to happen in a day at high school,” he continued by saying that days at his school were always like that.
His tweet left people wondering why on earth would a dentist chair be sitting in a hidden and locked place at a high school. While some jokingly wondered whether teachers used it for torture, Riley revealed that he can only guess the real motive behind it. “I really can’t think of any reason why the dentist chair was in that room apart from maybe at some point my high school had some kind of free dentistry service? Unlikely but possible.”
“If the door was unlocked, then my friends and I could’ve got a closer look at the rest of the room but we could only see the chair through the small window in the door.” Unfortunately, it seems that the mystery will remain unsolved. “It’s a shame that the school was renovated and the room is no longer there. Now it’s just a piece of a secret history that only myself, my friends, Jimmy Fallon, and his audience know about,” Riley said.
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Deutschland Mädchen 4 years ago
Yeah, safe travelling is too easy. Gotta spice things up a bit
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DUN DUN (she/her) 4 years ago
Her: My husband taught me this yesterday. Other: Oh, didn't you learn this in school? Her: Yes there only!
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Marcellus II 4 years ago
"It seems... a very weird place to have caught on fire", IT crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_BKKnHgas&t=73s
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Scipio Africanus 4 years ago
If I had this opportunity I would make my friend Timmy so the stupidest s**t for me
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IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
How to say "I live in America " without saying "I live in America " .
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IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
That was pretty much my high school's attitude to bullying too. Put up and shut up.
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featherytoad 4 years ago
I went to a very rural grade school and the graduating class ahead of mine only had like 7 or 8 students.
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IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Our English teacher used to pick his nose and flick boogers at us if we talked in class. Needless to say we were always very silent.
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Every bathroom in our university in Russia. I still forget sometimes. Though the second floor has a special teacher's closet/ toilet that does have separate TP
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago (edited)
I thought all bongs were water bongs...? In any case, let me put on my foot shoes and I'll meet you there.
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Scipio Africanus 4 years ago
Hate to admit it but that’s pretty funny. Rude and annoying….. but funny
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Scipio Africanus 4 years ago
My study hall teacher always lets us talk s**t about other teachers
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Cadena Norton 4 years ago
Our mascot was the hurricanes but for some reason everything had tornadoes on it. Took yrs for them to get proper merch
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
History teacher brought screwdrivers to work under the pretense of it being orange juice.
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Madzdad the Bard 4 years ago
Ours ended in early May when the wheat harvest generally started. If it started early, the farm kids were excused.
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chuck.dont.surf 4 years ago
Students in Japan and South Korea are expected to clean every day after school, it's supposed to teach them responsibility.
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Scipio Africanus 4 years ago
Why not just leave the guns in the car with the ammo. Although I guess they could get stolen a lot easier than ammo
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Atchaco-Leigh 4 years ago
I know this feeling, my primary school all of us were white, apart from me and my identical twin, we were black. We were a school of 1500.
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Julian McCallum 4 years ago
In the US, it would be weird for a high school to have free lunch.
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Craig Silberman 4 years ago
Freshman year in my high school, physical education began the semester with swimming. We did it nude. Over one hundred naked boys in the pool at the same time. Nobody ever explained why we couldn't bring swimsuits.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 years ago
My highschool had nerve gas drills because we were 20 miles away from the largest nerve gas depot in the continental US.
Who Panda 420 4 years ago
Wow for us it was nuclear drills. We were very close to a nuclear power plant but my teacher told us don't worry you'll be liquefied before you have the chance to realize anything's wrong.
Load More Replies... Madzdad the Bard 4 years ago
Went to a rural high school that let the FFA and 4H kids out for days to show their animals, but said no to the National Honor Society kids for wanting a day to go to an art festival because the administration was afraid we couldn't make up our work, sigh.
Michele Walker 4 years ago
Those programs were officially sanctioned UIL programs. Going to an art festival as a reward is NOT the same thing. And I say this ad an academic student who saw how unfair things geared to academics was.
Load More Replies... Craig Silberman 4 years ago
Freshman year in my high school, physical education began the semester with swimming. We did it nude. Over one hundred naked boys in the pool at the same time. Nobody ever explained why we couldn't bring swimsuits.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 years ago
My highschool had nerve gas drills because we were 20 miles away from the largest nerve gas depot in the continental US.
Who Panda 420 4 years ago
Wow for us it was nuclear drills. We were very close to a nuclear power plant but my teacher told us don't worry you'll be liquefied before you have the chance to realize anything's wrong.
Load More Replies... Madzdad the Bard 4 years ago
Went to a rural high school that let the FFA and 4H kids out for days to show their animals, but said no to the National Honor Society kids for wanting a day to go to an art festival because the administration was afraid we couldn't make up our work, sigh.
Michele Walker 4 years ago
Those programs were officially sanctioned UIL programs. Going to an art festival as a reward is NOT the same thing. And I say this ad an academic student who saw how unfair things geared to academics was.
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