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.
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.”
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.
Yeah, safe travelling is too easy. Gotta spice things up a bit
Her: My husband taught me this yesterday. Other: Oh, didn't you learn this in school? Her: Yes there only!
"It seems... a very weird place to have caught on fire", IT crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_BKKnHgas&t=73s
This actually isn’t as bad as it sounds. Yeah it’ll hurt (I’d never do it) but the eye is the fastest healing part of your body and should be fine by the next day
I had two teachers that set themselves on fire in class (at two separate times). One set his tie on fire with steel wool and a battery, the other set his hair on fire with a Bunsen burner…
Well, his teacher appreciation day gift is clear. Safety goggles and an instruction guide on how not to give yourself a paper cut in the eye.
Reminds of a police officer, who giving a demonstration of the dangers of a weapon, too high schoolers, shot himself in the foot. Fun day.
Wait, the cops that come to the school bring guns? Here they aren't allowed...
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Reminds me of the day in science learning about potassium and water. The teacher lost his eyebrows.
there was a lawyer who did this but it was how the victim could of accidently shot himself
This sounds fascinating, can you tell me more? Like did he die or was he doing it with like a blank or something?
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If I had this opportunity I would make my friend Timmy so the stupidest s**t for me
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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.
My highschool had nerve gas drills because we were 20 miles away from the largest nerve gas depot in the continental US.
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.
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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.
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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It’s not super weird, but my school had a rule that you couldn’t use the bathroom at all during class time, no exceptions it was completely banned even if you were about to pee yourself (though some of the nice teachers might’ve pitied you). Most students were, understandably, really angry at the ban, and they protested online. Someone made a online account called ‘free the pee’, and the protest even had a motto, Believe You Can Pee (the schools motto was believe/achieve). A student eventually went to the goverment and it turns out the school were lying and were saying we could use the bathrooms. Eventually someone recorded a video of the toilet doors being locked during class time and got a recording of the announcement about the toilet rules. ANYWAY, we got our toilet privileges back, and it was in the local newspaper. Not the most shocking story but pretty funny.
We had same ban in elementary school. My poor friend had a UTI and pissed herself in class. They called her pissy panty for years. Flash forward 30 yrs she's still my BFF
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I was riding the bus to school one day. My bus developed problems and had to pull onto the shoulder of a highway . Another bus stopped on the highway beside us to inquire what the problem was. I heard tires screeching and turned just in time to see my drivers ed teacher rear-end the other bus. He banged his head on the windshield of his VW Beetle, but was not seriously injured. There were no seat belts in the early 70's.
My first week of high school I met a friend's sister, who had a cast on her arm at the end of the last year because the school bus had been rear ended and she was standing in the aisle and was thrown out of the window. Great impression for a little year 7 who also took that bus to get! It was a horrible bus too, always overcowded, hence standing in the aisle.
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My high school is actually fairly new, it was built less than 30 years ago. But the very first graduating class set the bar extremely high for graduation pranks and to this day nobody knows how it was done. I'm also positive they got the inspiration from the Simpson's. A few students somehow managed to get 5 cows on the roof of a 3 story building. The closest farm was well over 150km away. I knew how to get up to the roof by the end of my freshman year (I was a bored kid), but I could never figure out how they could get 5 cows. Because my best friends mom was a teacher there, I learned that the next year the school installed security cameras. Nobody ever topped the cow prank.
My 9th grade world history teacher had been a high fashion model in the 50s, 60s and 70s. She would tell us stories about fashion week, etc., all while being drunk most of the time. I learned how to roll a joint in that class. Only needed that skill once as I'm allergic to pot but we had some good times in that class.
We had a class all of the students called AP Coloring. It was Geography. The teacher assigned map coloring, and he was very particular. I once used markers instead of colored pencils, and I had to stay after class so he could explain why that was a problem.
Wow! (I once forgot about Asia existing when I had to label a map, and it was a group work, so maybe we should have been demoted to colouring)
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My high school was built in 1931, on top of a TB hospital that was torn down. In the auditorium mens bathroom, there is a small door that would lead to tunnels that led to the Toledo hospital, about a mile away, to a now gone crematorium, and a now removed maß grave. Tunnels were used to transfer patients with TB and the dead so they would not spread TB above ground
My society/world culture teacher spent over ten years in s. Korea, had pictures of himself all over the world when he was a younger man, and was fluent in multiple languages. He often hosted snack days once a month when we started a new section/region with coman food from that current place we were learning about. He was just the most chill dude you could imagine . . . Probably because he smoked weed with the chemistry teacher and spiked his morning tea with vodka he kept locked in his safe under the desk 🤣 he also had a habit of telling you to sit down and shut the hell up if it got too loud in class. My favorite though, was the fact that he was the go to translator for many FES in out school, and he straight up talked crap about the other teachers with them whenever he was asked to help them out. My school has also had various farm animals (chickens, a cow, donkeys, pigs, and I think a wild litter of racoons, but dunno if it was related) in the gym for senior prank.
Every year we had someone die... for like 5 years straight. There's a book written about it. And a movie. It was a school in Illinois. You can find the rest out yourselves. The book and movie aren't accurate but they're based on the real story.
My principal got on my ass for being late for a class in our tech center. (This was a building at the old high-school a couple blocks away use for all the "techy" stuff "autoshop, woodshop, computer stuff, home ech...") anyway, he got all mad cause I was walking through the door as the bell rang, he accused me of being a druggie and blah blah, I pretty much told him off, and that I'm actually a really good student, so he responded with, I will make sure you are marked tardy in this class... I was like ok.. whatever. The next day he pulled my to the side in the school to apologize, saying he'd looked at my school transcripts and records, and to tell me he'd fixed that tardy since it was his fault I'd actually been tardy, then he kissed my ass the rest of that school year, wanting to buy jewelry I'd made in class and all kinds of weird stuff.
Not weird but in Florida in the early 90s the KKK marched on our high school. At least 2/3 of the kids were black or brown. They kept us away from them (KKK) but understandably it caused a lot of fear. I still don't remember what their issue was but they were gone by the time school was over and no one was hurt thank God.
Not high school but elementary school, my principal once crossed dressed as a peocock and let us kids silly string him
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.
My highschool had nerve gas drills because we were 20 miles away from the largest nerve gas depot in the continental US.
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... 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.
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... It’s not super weird, but my school had a rule that you couldn’t use the bathroom at all during class time, no exceptions it was completely banned even if you were about to pee yourself (though some of the nice teachers might’ve pitied you). Most students were, understandably, really angry at the ban, and they protested online. Someone made a online account called ‘free the pee’, and the protest even had a motto, Believe You Can Pee (the schools motto was believe/achieve). A student eventually went to the goverment and it turns out the school were lying and were saying we could use the bathrooms. Eventually someone recorded a video of the toilet doors being locked during class time and got a recording of the announcement about the toilet rules. ANYWAY, we got our toilet privileges back, and it was in the local newspaper. Not the most shocking story but pretty funny.
We had same ban in elementary school. My poor friend had a UTI and pissed herself in class. They called her pissy panty for years. Flash forward 30 yrs she's still my BFF
Load More Replies... I was riding the bus to school one day. My bus developed problems and had to pull onto the shoulder of a highway . Another bus stopped on the highway beside us to inquire what the problem was. I heard tires screeching and turned just in time to see my drivers ed teacher rear-end the other bus. He banged his head on the windshield of his VW Beetle, but was not seriously injured. There were no seat belts in the early 70's.
My first week of high school I met a friend's sister, who had a cast on her arm at the end of the last year because the school bus had been rear ended and she was standing in the aisle and was thrown out of the window. Great impression for a little year 7 who also took that bus to get! It was a horrible bus too, always overcowded, hence standing in the aisle.
Load More Replies... My high school is actually fairly new, it was built less than 30 years ago. But the very first graduating class set the bar extremely high for graduation pranks and to this day nobody knows how it was done. I'm also positive they got the inspiration from the Simpson's. A few students somehow managed to get 5 cows on the roof of a 3 story building. The closest farm was well over 150km away. I knew how to get up to the roof by the end of my freshman year (I was a bored kid), but I could never figure out how they could get 5 cows. Because my best friends mom was a teacher there, I learned that the next year the school installed security cameras. Nobody ever topped the cow prank.
My 9th grade world history teacher had been a high fashion model in the 50s, 60s and 70s. She would tell us stories about fashion week, etc., all while being drunk most of the time. I learned how to roll a joint in that class. Only needed that skill once as I'm allergic to pot but we had some good times in that class.
We had a class all of the students called AP Coloring. It was Geography. The teacher assigned map coloring, and he was very particular. I once used markers instead of colored pencils, and I had to stay after class so he could explain why that was a problem.
Wow! (I once forgot about Asia existing when I had to label a map, and it was a group work, so maybe we should have been demoted to colouring)
Load More Replies... My high school was built in 1931, on top of a TB hospital that was torn down. In the auditorium mens bathroom, there is a small door that would lead to tunnels that led to the Toledo hospital, about a mile away, to a now gone crematorium, and a now removed maß grave. Tunnels were used to transfer patients with TB and the dead so they would not spread TB above ground
My society/world culture teacher spent over ten years in s. Korea, had pictures of himself all over the world when he was a younger man, and was fluent in multiple languages. He often hosted snack days once a month when we started a new section/region with coman food from that current place we were learning about. He was just the most chill dude you could imagine . . . Probably because he smoked weed with the chemistry teacher and spiked his morning tea with vodka he kept locked in his safe under the desk 🤣 he also had a habit of telling you to sit down and shut the hell up if it got too loud in class. My favorite though, was the fact that he was the go to translator for many FES in out school, and he straight up talked crap about the other teachers with them whenever he was asked to help them out. My school has also had various farm animals (chickens, a cow, donkeys, pigs, and I think a wild litter of racoons, but dunno if it was related) in the gym for senior prank.
Every year we had someone die... for like 5 years straight. There's a book written about it. And a movie. It was a school in Illinois. You can find the rest out yourselves. The book and movie aren't accurate but they're based on the real story.
My principal got on my ass for being late for a class in our tech center. (This was a building at the old high-school a couple blocks away use for all the "techy" stuff "autoshop, woodshop, computer stuff, home ech...") anyway, he got all mad cause I was walking through the door as the bell rang, he accused me of being a druggie and blah blah, I pretty much told him off, and that I'm actually a really good student, so he responded with, I will make sure you are marked tardy in this class... I was like ok.. whatever. The next day he pulled my to the side in the school to apologize, saying he'd looked at my school transcripts and records, and to tell me he'd fixed that tardy since it was his fault I'd actually been tardy, then he kissed my ass the rest of that school year, wanting to buy jewelry I'd made in class and all kinds of weird stuff.
Not weird but in Florida in the early 90s the KKK marched on our high school. At least 2/3 of the kids were black or brown. They kept us away from them (KKK) but understandably it caused a lot of fear. I still don't remember what their issue was but they were gone by the time school was over and no one was hurt thank God.
Not high school but elementary school, my principal once crossed dressed as a peocock and let us kids silly string him
