On March 9, Jimmy Fallon kicked off a hilarious Twitter thread with the hashtag #MyFamilyIsWeird by asking his followers to tweet out funny, weird or embarrassing things a family member has done or said. In another tweet, The Tonight Show host too shared a humorous story and revealed that his friend’s family used to send out Christmas cards with everyone’s height and weight details on it.
It's Hashtags time! Tweet out a funny, weird, or embarrassing thing a family member has done or said, and tag it with #MyFamilyIsWeird. Could be on the show!— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) March 8, 2021
My friend’s family used to send out their annual Christmas card with everyone's height and weight on it. #MyFamilyIsWeird— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) March 8, 2021
The tweet started an amusing thread with hundreds of people sharing their strangest family stories ranging from unusual traditions to embarrassing childhood stories.
It has gathered more than 3000 likes and hundreds of other users shared their own cringe-worthy stories, unusual traditions and other bizarre stories.
Here are some of the most amusing reactions from the netizens. A woman shared that her mother would dress up their raw turkey with jewellery before cooking it for Thanksgiving.
My mom likes to dress up the turkey before she cooks it for Thanksgiving. #MyFamilyIsWeird pic.twitter.com/E1mylzY3eu— HeyStephanie (@stephsloser) March 8, 2021
She shared another picture of two raw turkeys with wine glasses with caption ‘And of course pre-pandemic.’
And of course, pre-pandemic. pic.twitter.com/zzaNV7mkkQ— HeyStephanie (@stephsloser) March 9, 2021
Another woman shared that her great-grandmother would bite her earlobe every time she hugged her goodbye.
Every time I would leave my great grandma she would bite my earlobe really hard when I hugged her goodbye. Whenever I brought up the issue to my mom she would tell me it’s just… what she does. #MyFamilyIsWeird— Megan (@meganhughes93) March 8, 2021
A user shared that her uncle would send her his beard hair when she was little saying that her Barbies needed armpit hair. She mailed him her brother’s hair after 20 years as a payback but her uncle pasted her brother’s hair on a doll and gifted the doll to her on Christmas.
My uncle sent me his beard hair when I was little because he said my Barbies “needed” armpit hair. I paid him back by mailing him my brother’s hair 20 years later. The next Christmas I got this from him. That’s my brother’s hair on a doll he found in his yard. #myfamilyisweird pic.twitter.com/vvxjYeEuu8— Seana (@SeanaArrechaga) March 8, 2021
Another woman shared that on her kid’s birthdays dinner her husband would recite a list of notable people who died on that day. She added that now that they are off to college he does that over phone.
My husband spends our children's birthday dinner reciting a list of all the notable people who DIED on that day. When he finally stops to take a breath and looks at our faces he asks, "What?" Now that they're out of the house and in college, he does it via phone. #MyFamilyIsWeird pic.twitter.com/8Qa1D2ZzDq— Eileen Burmeister (@EBurmeister) March 8, 2021
Another user shared that his mother interrupted his first college class because she thought he was getting beaten up as he didnt pick up his phone.
My husband spends our children's birthday dinner reciting a list of all the notable people who DIED on that day. When he finally stops to take a breath and looks at our faces he asks, "What?" Now that they're out of the house and in college, he does it via phone. #MyFamilyIsWeird pic.twitter.com/8Qa1D2ZzDq— Eileen Burmeister (@EBurmeister) March 8, 2021
Another user shared that his mother would announce before farting and once they were in Target when she said ‘it’s time’ and let out a loud fart after which she looked at him and said ‘why would he do that.’
My mom always announces whenever she's about to pass gas no matter where we are. One time in a Target she looked at me and went "It's time" and released the loudest fart I'd ever heard. Then she looked at me again and said "omg why would you do that" #myfamilyisweird— ° alexis ° (@alex0000s) March 8, 2021
The thread went viral with manhy hilarious responses of their loved ones’ pet peeves.
My family likes to sit around my dads yard and count the turkeys they see running across the field, once you get to #3 you must take a drink. They call it turkey roulette.#MyFamilyIsWeird— 🌹Marie🌹she/me/her🍀falpal😁🍀 💝 (@marie_ishfr) March 8, 2021
Our family will immediately stop in mid action of whatever we were doing, collapse, and pretend we are sleeping anytime a family member comes in the front door. #MyFamilyIsWeird— Danielle (@Danielle_Nellie) March 8, 2021
#MyFamilyIsWeirdWhen my son was around 9 or10, I was a single mother. Driving to a birthday party with bothof my children, kept hearing a "buzz" in the background ONLY to see my son giving himself the greatest time in his ear with MY "bullet" 😳— Veronica Marquez (@vbmarquez76) March 9, 2021
#MyFamilyIsWeirdMy family is in the South, and my mom is obsessed w etiquette and dignified behavior. When we have fam dinner in a restaurant, my Sis waits for as many ppl as possible to be near our table and screams, “NO! I CANNOT GO BACK TO PRISON!” Mom always yells “Dammit!”— Liz Smith (@LizSmith1950) March 8, 2021
Post-family-funeral, my family decided to cope by having a pool party which turned into my aunt challenging my mom to a relay race that resulted in my mom face-planting trying to tag up at the end #MyFamilyIsWeird pic.twitter.com/JRrCXEtwzA— Hon (@honeyrvincent) March 9, 2021
Our downstairs neighbor is named Rhonda, every time she comes home she slams the door so hard sometimes the building rattles. When it happens we say “Rhonda’s home!” We also say “sorry Rhonda” if we drop something heavy on the floor #MyFamilyIsWeird— hannah (@plusnminussign) March 8, 2021
What are your family’s pet peeves?
