Buckle up, everyone, we’re about to have a Thanksgiving ride! The title speaks for itself. Call it a seasonal family comedy drama with action elements and a totally unpredictable ending.

Introverts may take it as a horror movie, thanks to the four walls without a possibility to exit and a bunch of people throwing ‘what are you doing with your life’-sorta questions at you. For those who are introducing their partners to the family, it may feel like a romantic movie until an uncle makes an inappropriate comment. But for the most part it’s a wild cooking show with special effects. Just think of how many charcoal turkeys, shattered ovens, dropped pumpkin pies, and whatnot there will be across the country. I’ll just leave it here.

For those wondering how come we still love Thanksgiving so much, it’s basically the only thing that gets our families together. We may argue over politics, vaccines, housing prices, and whatnot, but hey, we love each other and that’s what matters. Plus, we stuff our bellies.

So just in time for Thanksgiving, we have a special treat for you—this dramatic list of funny Thanksgiving failures that’s basically a to-do list of “what not to do.” Enjoy!

#1 Cut A Lemon In Half And Place It Under Turkey Skin To Lighten The Mood This Thanksgiving

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#2 Traditions

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#3 I’m Not Sad I’m Working Thanksgiving, I’m Sad My Donut Shop Is Closed

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#4 My 17 Year Old Cousin Made This For The Family Thanksgiving Party. Took Me A Good 30 Minutes To Notice

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#5 Carving The Turkey

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#6 Someone Asked Me What I Use To Marinate My Turkey, I Told Them I Use The Marinating Drawer In The Fridge… Why, What Do You Use?

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#7 Happy Thanksgiving From My Little Sisters First Ever Turkey

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#8 I Think The Neighbor’s Turkey Is Done

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#9 Last Year My Brother Had To Work On Thanksgiving. He Asked Me To Save Him A Little Bit Of Everything

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#10 Thanksgiving Dinner Was Lit

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#11 Spent Thanksgiving Morning In ER Because I Had Sharp Pains In My Belly Area. Turns Out I Have An Ovarian Cyst. In The Spirit Of Giving Enjoy A Pic Of Me Doped Up On Morphine. Happy Thanksgiving

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#12 Yes, A Happy Thanksgiving To All

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#13 My Friend Dropped His Thanksgiving Turkey

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#14 Merry Thanksgiving

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#15 The Turkeys Might Have Been Burned But The Laughter And The Company Were All That Mattered. Happy Thanksgiving

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#16 I Call This Performance Piece “Thanksgiving Eve”

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#17 Happy Thanksgiving

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#18 Thanksgiving Fail. Someone Order The Pizza

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#19 Really Looking Forward To Some Custard Pumpkin Pie For Thanksgiving

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#20 Got Snowed In So We Had To Work With What We Had. I Present Meatloaf “Turkey”, Complete With Little Smokie Stuffing. Happy Thanksgiving Y’all

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#21 Dog Pulled The Turkey Off The Counter And Shattered The Glass Dish It Was In

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#22 Thanksgiving Is Cancelled

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#23 The Turkey My Wife Bought For Thanksgiving

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#24 Our Thanksgiving Cake

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#25 Just An Fyi – These Are My 2 1/2 Hour Baked Biscuits. Easy Baking Instructions – Put Biscuits In Oven Then Leave For 2 1/2 Hours Then Come Home To A Smokey House

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#26 A Thanksgiving Classic

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#27 Thanksgiving 2019, Have I Hit Rock Bottom?

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#28 The Fruit Tart My Wife Made From Scratch. Happy Thanksgiving

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#29 It’s Not Truly Thanksgiving Until Heather Drops A Cheesecake In The Floor

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#30 Everyone Complains About Their Family After Thanksgiving, But Mine Truly Are Monsters

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#31 I Think Someone Was Not Pleased With His Share Of The Thanksgiving Turkey

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#32 Happy Thanksgiving

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#33 Stayed Up Until 4 Am Baking My First Fully From Scratch Apple Pie For Thanksgiving. Stayed Up Until 4:30 Am Having A Breakdown Over Dropping It

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#34 My Apartment Building Burned Down This Afternoon. Happy Thanksgiving I Guess

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#35 First Year Mom Trusted Me With The Turkey

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#36 I Tried

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#37 Why, Of All Days, On Thanksgiving

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#38 The Way My Roommate Ate This Pie I Bought For Thanksgiving

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#39 Jell-O Shot Casserole: Because I’m Too Lazy To Do Individual Shot Glasses. It’s The Perfect Thanksgiving Tradition

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#40 Thanksgiving Delight

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#41 Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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#42 Found Out I Had Covid Right Before A Friendsgiving. Was Gonna Treat Myself To The Mac And Cheese I Had Made, But Put The Dish On A Burner I Didn’t Know Was On

Apparently, pyrex explodes when exposed to direct heat.

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#43 Fell Down 3 Stairs On Thanksgiving Weekend, Had To Have Ankle Reconstruction Today

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#44 Spent 4 Hours In The Emergency Room On Thanksgiving Day. Today I Received The Post-Insurance Bill. Screw American Healthcare

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#45 I Tried To Make A Pie For Thanksgiving

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#46 I Faced The Ultimate Pumpkin Pie This Thanksgiving

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#47 My Thanksgiving Monstrosity

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#48 Everything’s Okay. Everything’s Okay. Now We Know What Happens When Cranberry Sauce Boils Over A Lot

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#49 My Grocery Store Sells These Beauties

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#50 I Removed The Skin Before Carving My Turkey And Made A Thanksgiving Burrito

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#51 My Friend “Smoked” A Turkey

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#52 It’s A Good Sign You Ruined Thanksgiving When The Bird Comes Out Of The Oven Looking Like The Iceman Ötzi

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#53 Lesson Learned. Always Have A Backup Turkey. Texas Deep Fat Fried. We Left It In An Extra Three Minutes And Quickly Regretted It

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#54 Refrigerator Decided To Call It Quits On The One Job It Had – Getting Cold! On The Day Before Thanksgiving

In the middle of a pandemic after I just stocked up for my state shutting down.

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#55 Happy Thanksgiving

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#56 Happy Thanksgiving

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#57 Hopefully Everyone’s Thanksgiving Was Less Eventful Than Ours. I’m Pretty Sure I’ve Never Browned Marshmallows On The Top Of Our Sweet Potatoes Without Burning Them

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#58 Turkey Crafted From Spam, Merry Thanksgiving

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#59 Obligatory Thanksgiving Turkey

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#60 Anyone Want A Slice Of The Turdkey Cake?

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#61 My Cat Ruined Thanksgiving

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#62 These Were Supposed To Be Mini Pumpkin Pies, However, The Crust Crumbled On Every Single One When I Pulled Them Out Of The Pan

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#63 These Are Dinner Rolls, Allegedly

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#64 Thanksgiving Fail

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#65 Shout Out To All Of You Who Get Stuck Doing All The Thanksgiving Dishes

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#66 My “Family-Oriented” Company Provided Thanksgiving Dinner Since They Couldn’t Bother To Let Us Go Home

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#67 I And My Girlfriend Was Making Stuffing For Her Mom’s Early Thanksgiving

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#68 Line Oven With Tin Foil To Catch Thanksgiving Drippings

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#69 Thanksgiving Tacos

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#70 My Cat Ate My Turkey While It Was Thawing In The Sink For Thanksgiving

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#71 I Hope Everyone Had A Happy And Safe Thanksgiving

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#72 Thanksgiving Fail. Hot Fudge Pie Recipe Didn’t Say What Size Pan. Apparently Needed Bigger Pie Dish

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#73 It Was Delicious

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#74 When There Are To Many Calories In Turkey But You Want A Good Thanksgiving

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#75 Someone From My Snapchat At Thanksgiving

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#76 Perfect Start To Thanksgiving

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#77 While Many Are Posting Their Beautiful Golden Turkeys And Perfectly Set Tables, I’m More For Keepin’ It Real. This Is My Green Bean Casserole. On The Ground. In My Driveway

I was looking forward to it quite frankly. Par for the course in 2020 I suppose.

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#78 Happy Thanksgiving My Fellow Friends

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#79 Heard A Crash In The Middle Of The Night And Thought It Was A Cat Knocking Something Over But Couldn’t Find Anything. Found This In The Morning. Happy Thanksgiving

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#80 Thanksgiving Night. The Perfect Time For The Microwave Door To Shatter

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#81 This Hotdog Was The Thank You Meal For Working On Thanksgiving

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#82 Happy Thanksgiving Earthlings

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#83 So Ummm Yeah What Did Your Thanksgiving Turkey Look Like?

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#84 Thanksgiving Fail

This was 1 of our restaurant purchases “cooked” turkey breast. Thankfully our other purchased bird was actually cooked.

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#85 Bake Until Golden Brown

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#86 We’re Also Here, Wishing Everyone A Happy Thanksgiving

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#87 Happy Thanksgiving

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#88 Dad Forgot The Turkey Was In The Oven

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#89 The Turkey Mascot Of 2020. Thankful It Still Tasted Ok

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#90 Someone In My House Decided To Heat Up Their Pizza (In My Pre-Heated Oven). They Cranked It Up To Broil And Never Turned It Back Down Or Told Me

2 minutes after my pies were in I smelled burning sugar and pulled them out, but the damage was done… Hopefully, they’ll still taste decent if we can eat around the burnt bits.

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#91 It’s Not Black, It’s Off-Brown

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#92 My Thanksgiving Leftovers

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#93 Thanksgiving Has Begun

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#94 Sofia Made Chocolate Pie For Thanksgiving And Then Dropped It In The Floor

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#95 Sums Up 2020 When Your Hands Forget To Hold Tight

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#96 So My Mom Set The Oven To 225°c And Not 225°f. Luckily We Had Another Turkey

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#97 Our Precooked Turkey

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#98 Yep. That’s About Right For 2020. Deep Fryer Fail

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#99 If 2020 Was A Pie Crust

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#100 We Tried Using Pilgrim And Indian Cookie Cutters To Make The Pie Top For Thanksgiving And It Came Out Looking A Little “Holocausty”

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#101 This Thanksgiving Cupcake Array My Friend Made

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#102 Turkey Fail

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#103 Thanksgiving Cookie Cake At Target

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#104 Flaming Hot Cheetos Thanksgiving Turkey

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#105 This Was 2020 But Here You Go

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