30 Of The Most Hilarious “My Family Is Weird Tweets” People Shared For Jimmy Fallon’s Challenge
With Thanksgiving finally over, we all had the chance to remind ourselves of just how weird our families are. The phenomenon is quite well known—it may not seem like a big deal to you, but to your friends, coworkers and outsiders in general, you may resemble a bunch of weirdos.
So when Jimmy Fallon tweeted “It's Hashtags time!” and asked everyone to share “a funny, weird, or embarrassing thing a family member has done or said” for his new challenge, it was destined to go viral. So today we’re diving into some of the weirdest, silliest, and most hilarious #MyFamilyIsWeird stories people tweeted and it’s one hell of a chuckle ride.
Buckle up, scroll down, upvote your favorite tweets and share how weird your own family is in the comment section! After you’re done, there’s more of the funniest “My Family Is Weird” stories from 8 months ago waiting right here for your amusement.
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Came out to my mom with a comic. She said: "This is cute! What do you want for breakfast?"
I feel for all the gay young people and the angst they go through before bracing themselves to "break it" to their family. My son worked himself up to it finally, even though we had all known for years. We thought we were doing right by letting him tell us in his own time but in hindsight, I wish we had approached him so much earlier and told him we were aware, and saved him all that stress
“Did.. did you just realize?” Me with my head tilted genuinely wondering.
Way back in the early 70s, my late brother decided he would finally tell our mother he was gay. She just looked at him and said "Oh, we all knew that. Now about this Buddhist thing you are into..." Told that story on himself many times. Boy, do I miss them both.
Bored Panda reached out to one Twitter user named Bonnie, who goes by the handle @Bonniezzila, who shared a tweet for Fallon’s #MyFamilyIsWeird challenge. It read as follows: “My birthday falls on Thanksgiving occasionally, and when it does, my family puts birthday candles in the turkey.” When asked whether she sees his family as a bunch of weirdos, Bonniezilla said that she indeed does but added that “in New Jersey, we’re all weird here.”
“We like blowing stuff up for fun because every guy in my family is a firefighter. We are a family of helpers,” The Twitter user said and added that family is very important to her. So much that she decided to move back to New Jersey from Colorado “because I was so sad it was impacting my mental health."
Whaaat? That's DELICIOUS beer!! Doesn't have to cost a lot to taste great!!
Load More Replies...LOL, that wouldn’t work in my ADHD family. We’d never find it, forget where it was, forget about it entirely and let it slowly grow and assimilate the house, with us in it.
Like the afikomen! This is a piece of matzoh hidden prior to Seder dinner on Passover. The child who finds it gets a prize. Not beer tho!
We have a forgotten twin who lives in the attic and is really the favored child. My sis-in-law isn't entirely convinced this is not true.
Heh...my dad did this once XD. "You know, there's a reason why there's 4 years between [my big brother] and Raven..."
Did this to my oldest.... always said her older brother did or didnt do things. Turns out she told a teacher that her older brother had died :O
That’s a bit too dark for me. I’d be asking where did BillyBob go?
That's all sorts of F'ed up telling a child you "disappeared" a sibling who misbehaved.
The turkey not the stuffing. The wax doesn't melt because we put those little birthday candle holders that capture the wax. This has been the tradition since 1984 :)
Load More Replies...My son's birthday is the 28th. When both fall within the same week we celebrate both at the same time. TOTALLY putting candles on the turkey when this happens. Thanks for the idea!!
My mom giggled when I told her that our weirdness is going viral online. Go for it! Just make sure you get the candle holders with the drip things at the bottom!!!
Load More Replies...I was drinking water when I read this. Now my wall is drinking water.
At least your drinking water is safe. We have to use reverse osmosis systems here because PFAS :(
Load More Replies...My birthday was on thanksgiving one year, now I wish my family had done this 😣
If it fell on Turkey day one year, it will again. Start a new tradition!
Load More Replies...Thanksgiving is not the same DATE every year. Look at the calendar and you'll see. Sometimes my birthday falls on Turkey day, some years it doesn't.
Load More Replies...Just like all the families, Bonnie believes that her family is full of weird little quirks. “My dad just retired from Amtrak and being part of the railroad is its own weird thing, '' she said and added that “I think we're particularly weird here because of chemical exposure from Dupont.”
The Twitter user is referring to the fact that for years DuPont manufactured PFAS-type chemicals, also known as “forever chemicals,” in a plant near the Delaware river. As a result, for decades, locals have been exposed to drinking water tainted by a group of chemicals called PFAS, used widely for decades in products like Teflon pans, stain-resistant carpets, even cosmetics. The exposure has been either from direct contact or from polluted ground and surface water and soil, and have been linked to debilitating health conditions, obesity, birth defects, and cancer.
More about the incident and the story of DuPont pollution in New Jersey can be read here. In her pinned tweet, Bonnie said that “I was seriously about to cry when they took pics of my teeth for this story, but the truth needs to be told” referring to this story. She also told us that “they have the highest incidence of autism per Capita in the US” which is likely related to chemical exposure.
Hopefully they put you on the "list." They have a list of houses that they don't go to because of bad encounters. When my ex are I first moved in together we were still in our late teens. They came up to him while he was washing the car. They wouldn't let up so he turned the hose on him. (I know, pretty bad, but funny.) Later a friend who had left the church told us we were on "the list." TLDR: Ex turned hose on Jehovah's Witness guy and they never came back.
There is an easier way. Just told them you were ex jehova witness that get expelled. They have this lovely rule that do not allow them to speak to expelled former JW.
Load More Replies...When Witnesses or missionaries knock on my door and I'm not doing anything, I'll bring them in for a sit. Odds are they've been on their feet all day. Be nice, offer them water. You might not believe in what they do, but they are decent human beings.
When they wouldn't stop coming to our house, hubs started answering the door in his underwear. Was hilarious to see him look out the peephole and start stripping down. Worked like a charm
Oh man. If I had a family like this, I'd bring my dog. Would love to see who would win that race! :o)
Just remember not to let them gnaw on cooked bones
Load More Replies...we go to my uncle's house for Thanksgiving, and he lives on a lake...thanks for the idea >:)
I’m so confused! Frozen turkey? Cooked? Stuffed? Alive? I just keep thinking of the episode with the WKRP Turkey Drop
Exactly what I though. Lets waste a whole turkey leg, who cares?
Load More Replies...I came home with my first boyfriend and my 2 brothers kept sniffing at him, smelling his hair and stuff. Basterds :D
Somewhere I'm sure your first boyfriend is telling this story as the most weird first time in a girlfriend house.
Load More Replies...Me and my brother came home from school with 2 of our friends, yes mom was in only her bra in dining room doing bills
I'm not sure if I'd be mortified or if I'd turn to my friend and say "this is my family"
MINE HAS TOO! Also, I have a full upper denture and have woken up with them missing, only to find them plastered to my ass.
*guffaw* I've slept on chocolate, but yours is funnier.
Load More Replies...Some years ago they booked a woman into Sarasota county jail and found a snub-nose .38 in her…vAgInA
Load More Replies...I hate when I can't recall what I did with something. Worst is misplacing my better driving glasses. 3 years ago. I think they fell behind something ...
i thought it was mean at first, but she was thrilled, so she probably was grateful of the gift. also, it could remind her of things that were important to her.
Amazing idea tho! Saving money, saving the environment. As long as grandma's happy!
This is actually recommended by dementia experts if they are things that the person enjoys and bring good feelings back.
It's possible that, while she didn't consciously recognise them, subconsciously they triggered feel good hormones. Great idea. Once someone has developed dementia the time for novelty has passed. They need the familiar to feel safe.
Have you ever tried to deal with a herd of drunks?
Load More Replies...In Ohio,Jimmy Buffet stopped coming g to Blossom Music Festival because the local cops would park on the road leading out of the place and nab all the intoxicated drivers. Buffet found out and stopped playing Blossom because he didn't want to subject his fans to that rotten trap.
Looks like a pickle. A baby in a stocking. A human potato baby. I do not see an elf anywhere. But I can see why Mommy doesn't want it.
I have so many questions but only 1 advice : never make your great aunt mad. Neverrrrrr
Well, that is just creepy. I wonder what would be her reaction if someone sent alike pictures to her...
If I'm looking for my sister in a public place, like a store, and I can't see her, I yell, "Fluffy!" with a little old lady's British accent!
I would love to hear "Fluffy" in an American's definition of an British accent
Load More Replies...I can't stop laughing. This is how family traditions begin and everyone knows you do this weird thing but have always been too afraid to ask. A daughter who cuts a big hunk of meat off the end of a roast. Mom asks why, she's wasting so much good meat. Daughter does it cause that's how grandma taught her. Mom lets her daughter know it was because the oven was too small. Tradition. Or the ding dong gene is simply passed to each generation. Makes your family unique. Unlike any other. And you had no choice in it. You can pick your friends, your nose, but not your family.
See and all I can see is Michael Scott banging his fists at reception screaming "Pam! Pam! Pam!" LOL
This used to happen regularly with my mum. She bought things so far in advance, that she'd often forgotten what they were by the time we came to open them, so sometimes it was a genuine surprise!
When my mom died, there were ungifted items she'd bought on vacation with my dad, twenty some years before.
Load More Replies...I buy myself a Christmas and birthday gift each year. If there's nothing I want or need, I take myself to a meal and movie.
I took myself to a fancy sampling menu restaurant for my 65th; mom loved good food, it was in her honor.
Load More Replies...We have a rule that no one is allowed to buy anything for themselves during December unless it’s urgent, and anything that comes into the house that can gets wrapped and put under the tree. And that’s the story of how my grandma ended up getting a 24 pack of Kleenex boxes for Christmas one year.
My Mum always made a Christmas pudding with thrippences and sixpences in it. My Dad would always pretend to choke on a coin! We had to stop this tradition when the grandkids came along because they really thought Grampy was choking and were frightened for him.
I buy something for myself and wrap it. The name on the card is always from one of my cats. First time I did this, my husband looked so surprised 😂
My Serb family does this. The pics always look like they should be captioned "When the dog died"
That was a common thing in Germany. My Grandparents all did that for years after moving here. Birthdays looked like funerals.
Just here to say that I read what you wrote, then said to myself, "That's great, but they didn't spell 'did' backwards," then facepalmed myself.
Load More Replies...It used to be a standard test by police to see if someone was driving drunk. The alphabet is nearly impossible to say backwards after several drinks...unless you already know how.
It's almost impossible sober. Definitely not a fair test
Load More Replies...I had a friend who memorized the numerical equivalent for each letter. Tell her your name and she spits out the number sequence like computer.
I had to learn this in 6th grade. Still remember it! Zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba
We used to play the alphabet game on car rides, where you spot letters in alpha order on license plates or road signs. When my little sister was old enough to play, us olders only won if we could do forward and back before she could finish. So I learned it by 12.
I have enough trouble remembering how to spell WORLD backwards and taking 7 away from 100 until the tester says stop in a Mini mental!😄😄
I hate those Mini Mental Status Exams. But at least I can draw an analog clock with the numbers and hands in the proper place. Many of today’s youth can’t even tell time on an analog clock
Load More Replies...Wait you mean everyone doesn't have some of those?
Load More Replies...We used to have a real cool bong shaped like The Cat in the Hat. Then my 5 year old came across it. We told her it was a vase, put fake flowers in it, and put it in her room. Now she’s 26 and yes, we both use it as a bong
Load More Replies...I think that's mean. Maybe because of my experience as a child. I'm the less loved child and my mother would always say things like, "We found you on the beach". "Someone threw you in the garbage"., etc. She didn't stop until I started to cry. Then she never said it again but that's just mean.
I was there too. Mine always said (she past away) I get exchanged in one airport and her true lovely unique perfect girl had sure been taken by a freak -just like me- family, and omg she must be suffering just like she suffered me. She said it soooo many times, that I really grew a thik skin and then when she played victim due my bad and rebel behaviour, I allways tell her I was not her daughter, so she was complaining all in vain, sure her real daughter was like just as perfect as herself.
Load More Replies...That's not weird; that's incredibly cruel. What a crummy way to treat another person, much less someone you say you love. I hope your brother is okay.
In my extended family, I have two cousins who are twins. They switch clothes and hairstyles at every family gathering, and once they even pranked their boyfriends.
My dad always said that a big bird crapped me out on a fence post and they felt sorry for me and took me home. We knew he was teasing and laughed. Because we actually HAVE a sense of humor.
Ohhhhh I sooooo need a pic of this!! Picturing a middle aged guy in white briefs doing a 'Risky Business' slideeeeeee!!
I told my daughter to wipe that look off her face...she was 10...she literally reached over and got a tissue and WIPED her face. I didn't know what the he!! to do!
Sounds normal to me. If the new pronunciation is funny, then it sticks. Though I don't think Nigella Lawson's pronunciation of mee-crow-warvay will catch on. ;-)
Until your kid screams "Firefuck" at top volume every time he sees a Fire Truck....
My daughter started calling bagels donut toast when she was 3, so of course that's all we call them now
My three-year-old: "Snow White and the Seven DORFS"... I still call them dorfs.
Mine did the same lol. They will always be dorfs forever! Other granddaughter used to call New York You Nork haha. And You Nork it shall always be :)
Load More Replies...My husband and I have been called cous cous "cow cow" for years now.
My family always uses the Latin plurals, e.g., one Kleenex, two Kleenices.
We still see the lovely white Juans and their snigets (Swans and cygnets)
My sister used to call smoothies “fwoobies” when she couldn’t pronounce the word correctly. Now that’s what everyone in my family calls them.
Leave some out if it's a nice flavor of Pinnacle, pls! :)
Load More Replies...Just say he can't make it this year and that you'll bring the presents over to his place...
Ha! Haven't thought of Cathy in years, and you are so right, lol!
Load More Replies...I would have hung about eight mini stockings around mine, and when asked, I would explain that I've come out as a cat lady.
My family also shared a galvanzed tub when I was young. You wanted to be first.
I am not able to drive a car due to my disabilities. But even if I could drive and wasn't drunk, I wouldn't be able to say the alphabet backwards. It is such a strange thing to me to use this as a test. (Not living in the US, as far as I know it isn't necessary here?). I would probably say them in the wrong order. Do you all learn this in school, or practice before you get your permit/drivers license?
Me and my friends did this whenever the school would serve fortune cookies with lunch. I still do the rare times we get chinese.
They're not eating just the cookie, they're eating the paper fortune
Load More Replies...Old men LOVE to say "okrie" in place of okra. Good thing old men are cute.
My grandfather did this too... A lot! No athlete was safe from him! :) Gail Devers was always kail Givers to us! XD
If we drove past the local graveyeard, Dad would say we were at the dead centre of the town.
"Please drag your body away from the walls and into the dead center of the room" (sorry I couldn't resist)
Load More Replies...MY dad would say after a bug flew into the windshield, "I bet he doesn't have the guts to do that again!"
My friend in FL took reservations for Disney hotels. One day she started laughing on the phone, apologized, and explained to the caller that Chip and Dale (the chipmunk characters) had just walked in and they were dancing around. The woman got quiet and said "I don't that it's appropriate to have strippers at Disney". She thought it was the Chippendales. Understandable.
Best gift cherished was a Botts Dot and one of those blue light reflective doo hunkies that let firemen know there's a hydrant on the corner. The Botts Dot is the white bump on freeways between lanes that are supposed to get you back in your own lane or wake up a sleepy drive after 5 million miles of flat road.
It's not the worst idea... friend told me a story of his grandpa who put a board across the toilet seat so "the boys" wouldn't skim the water & get cold lol
Load More Replies...I mean, in sweater shapes?? I have questions, but honestly I really don’t want to know the answers.
So, according to Wikipedia -- "According to the Croatian knitter Radmila Kus, knitted protectors were traditionally worn by Croatian men, particularly in the Mrkopalj mountain region, as a guard against frostbite. Such garments were also worn in Norway, where they were called forhyse, vænakot, or suspensorium. Several examples are preserved in the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. Sometimes in Norway they would be made from squirrel fur with the fur side inside, to be worn under leather trousers in the winter. On the Faroe Islands such garments are called kallvøttur (man mitten) or purrivøttur (testicles mitten). There was a tradition in Norway and Denmark, particularly on the Faroe Islands, where a girl would present her boyfriend with a forhyse to see how seriously he took their relationship. If the gift was rejected, this was seen as evidence that he was not yet ready for marriage."
Load More Replies...They were probably love 4 and on. Or just not on the list if it was a running joke.
Load More Replies...Here in the US, a slice of cheese on a burger is over a dollar, sometimes two. A package of 24 slices is under $4; why wouldn't you do this if you already have the cheese at home and that's where you're going to eat it anyway? This is solid advice IMO. If you're buying 5 burgers, that a savings of $5-$10!
What's so weird about snuggling your dog? I do it multiple times a day.
There is no such thing as an area without tornadoes. Even NY got hit by a tornado.
We got a watch in Georgia recently. My lord, my friends here were freaking out. When I was in Michigan, I literally had a tornado jump my house so I was all calm. My friends are texting their parents like "if the tornado hits, I love you". It's interesting to watch that happen as I have memories of my grandma going to stand on the porch and saying "I don't see a tornado".
Load More Replies...One of the reasons I don't have any close by neighbours.
Load More Replies...This one is not that weird, really. 1) that's how you use a sauna. 2) in some places saunas are basically part of daily life
OMG poor dog! Honest mistake tho, I did that once with my cat. I thought my cat had warts and keep touching them to inspect how many warts he had. He scratched me feeling super annoyed. Who wouldn't be annoyed getting their nipples payed around for 2 minutes tho?! Lol
not weird. but each Christmas my grand parents always told us to don't give them presents, to keep our money to ourself. When i had my first kid i decide to give them a calendar with picture of him. They never ask that again. Even more they were expecting that gift every christmas. it goes on for 12 years now. but now with pictures of my 3 kids. but it makes others jalouse :-) i have to make 3 each years for my mom and mother in law :-)
When my mom was a kid one of her brothers used to play practical jokes on her to the point where she would get so mad at him she'd try to beat him up. Note: back in the late 30's & early 40's beating another kid up was considered normal behavior 😳) As an adult she considered it to be her calling to get back at him. Whenever we went to my aunt & uncle's cottage she would take her revenge on him. One Labor Day weekend we were sitting eating dinner & my mom drew a tiny water pistol out & squirted him in the face as he took a mouthful of food. He looked at her & said "I'll get you for this". We went up to their cottage regularly throughout the year. The next Labor Day we are sitting quietly eating dinner. Out comes a water pistol & my uncle got my mom in the face while she was taking a bite of food. He said " I told you I'd get you for that". One time she tied the bathroom door shut with him in it. Ha! No. In he came through the side door. He heard her & climbed out the window. Ha!
When I was 10 the whole family was at my grandmas for NYE and we were all using plastic champagne glasses that had detachable bases. We were outside ringing in the New Year and we came in my grandma noticed hers was missing so was going around shouting, "I lost my bottom has anyone seen my bottom!" It was so funny that we used to tease my grandma til the day she died about losing her bottom! The weirdest part of the whole thing was we never found that plastic base!
My turn! My younger sister recently came downstairs and said to out mom, "Mommy... I was going to the bathroom... and I just could not stop pooping." She then proceeded to say that it was mushy, and that when she went to wipe, poop just started coming out. #myfamilyisweird
When we were little, our grandparents would take us to Church in the middle of Seattle. The trip home would require us going up steep hills. As soon as we started to climb one, my grandfather would say "Everyone lean forward so we can get up the hill!" And we'd all lean forward as far as we could.
not weird. but each Christmas my grand parents always told us to don't give them presents, to keep our money to ourself. When i had my first kid i decide to give them a calendar with picture of him. They never ask that again. Even more they were expecting that gift every christmas. it goes on for 12 years now. but now with pictures of my 3 kids. but it makes others jalouse :-) i have to make 3 each years for my mom and mother in law :-)
When my mom was a kid one of her brothers used to play practical jokes on her to the point where she would get so mad at him she'd try to beat him up. Note: back in the late 30's & early 40's beating another kid up was considered normal behavior 😳) As an adult she considered it to be her calling to get back at him. Whenever we went to my aunt & uncle's cottage she would take her revenge on him. One Labor Day weekend we were sitting eating dinner & my mom drew a tiny water pistol out & squirted him in the face as he took a mouthful of food. He looked at her & said "I'll get you for this". We went up to their cottage regularly throughout the year. The next Labor Day we are sitting quietly eating dinner. Out comes a water pistol & my uncle got my mom in the face while she was taking a bite of food. He said " I told you I'd get you for that". One time she tied the bathroom door shut with him in it. Ha! No. In he came through the side door. He heard her & climbed out the window. Ha!
When I was 10 the whole family was at my grandmas for NYE and we were all using plastic champagne glasses that had detachable bases. We were outside ringing in the New Year and we came in my grandma noticed hers was missing so was going around shouting, "I lost my bottom has anyone seen my bottom!" It was so funny that we used to tease my grandma til the day she died about losing her bottom! The weirdest part of the whole thing was we never found that plastic base!
My turn! My younger sister recently came downstairs and said to out mom, "Mommy... I was going to the bathroom... and I just could not stop pooping." She then proceeded to say that it was mushy, and that when she went to wipe, poop just started coming out. #myfamilyisweird
When we were little, our grandparents would take us to Church in the middle of Seattle. The trip home would require us going up steep hills. As soon as we started to climb one, my grandfather would say "Everyone lean forward so we can get up the hill!" And we'd all lean forward as far as we could.

