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School dances were the worst. I know that everyone doesn’t feel this way. Some of you probably loved them. Me? I never found anything even remotely enjoyable about standing around in a dance circle and breaking it down to ‘The Thong Song’.
Maybe school dances coincided with the age where I hated fun, I don’t know. It’s not that Homecoming was awful. I actually won Homecoming Prince/King my Sophomore year and was the first non-football player to win at the school. Shout out to H.S. Crew/Rowing and Golf for keeping me away from CTE, right? Right.
Anyway, homecoming is prom’s lame ass cousin who comes in town once a year and ruins all the fun. There’s a 50/50 chance your team loses the game ahead of the dance. There’s a lame ass parade that’s not for the students as much as it’s for the geriatric alumni who want to ride around the track surrounding the football field in a Chevy Camaro and wave at people they don’t recognize.
The theme of the dance 100% sucks ass and you’re too young to have your own money yet or any real sense of fashion so you end up dressing like a complete jackass with a suit that doesn’t fit well and a poorly tied necktie. It’s just, not good. And that’s all before something embarrassing happens.
A few days ago, Jimmy Fallon sent out a tweet asking people to use the hashtag #HomecomingFAIL and share their most embarrassing homecoming moment. Some of the responses are fan-f*cking-tastic.
Since this was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon he compiled this into a short little clip (below) but I know a lot of you would rather scroll through tweets than watch a video. I know this because you’ve told me so in the past. So I’ve also included a bunch of the popular tweets below the video for you to scroll through, enjoy.
Here are some of the best tweets from the #HomecomingFail hashtag (also check me out on Twitter at @casspa).
Super cute boy asked me "want to dance?" Me "sure". Super cute boy "OK. I'll watch." #homecomingfail
— tinaebright (@EbrightTina) October 9, 2018
My school discovered Asbestos the day of our homecoming dance so it was cancelled. We had shirts that said “Homecoming 2010, we did it asbestos we could”. #HomecomingFail
— Rikki Hoover (@RikkiTikkiTaco) October 10, 2018
Awkward:
I asked a girl to homecoming by slipping a note into her locker. On the way back home I had to pick up my dad’s meds at a drugstore so I passed the prescription to the pharmacist and she said she felt flattered but she was married. I guess the notes got mixed up #HomecomingFail
— Manoj Pillai (@man0jpillai) October 10, 2018
I feel like I’ve heard of this happening to several people. How hard is it to *not* hit cars?
When I picked up my date, I pulled out of her driveway and backed into her brother's car parked in the street…#HomecomingFail
— San Fran-Nicko (@gearsfordays) October 9, 2018
Nerd:
https://twitter.com/EJSpark1/status/1049677869289476096
This dude was trying waaaayyyyy too hard for something with poor execution.
I was gonna ask a girl to homecoming by giving her a painting of planets I did in art class and saying it'd be "outta this world" if we went together. She told me my painting looked like a boob. #HomecomingFail
— Bill Bradley (@gumgumerson) October 9, 2018
Semantics.
I asked a girl, "Do you want to go to homecoming" and she said yes. She never met me at my house. I continued to go to homecoming when I saw her there and confronted her about not showing up at my house. She said, "You asked if I want to go to homecoming, not go with you". Touche
— Tyler Tulowitzky (@iamtulo) October 9, 2018
This. Is. Something.
We went to the dance separately because we didn’t want to upset a mutual friend. Then proceeded to not dance with each other because of said friend. So basically I went alone but mentally had a date. #HomecomingFail
— Sarah Rung🪩 (@SarahRung) October 9, 2018
Claustrophobia or not, this sounds like a badass Homecoming location.
Space Needle. My date forgot to mention that he was both claustrophobic AND scared of heights. I figured it out somewhere between the hyperventilating and him shoving our tour guide out of the way once we reached the top to get out. #HomecomingFail
— Mariahh (@HurricaneMariah) October 9, 2018
Legends get remembered.
https://twitter.com/HeidiHoNayber/status/1049707832885444608
This has to happen at like 50% of all school dances.
https://twitter.com/boobear_Melly/status/1049677335094587392
Lastly, this is 100% a Homecoming Win and in no way a fail. This is definitely a humble brag this girl snuck into a trending tweet.
https://twitter.com/srbennett394/status/1049684768240087041
Honestly, I cannot say that anything embarrassing ever happened to me at homecoming. I was just never a fan of school dances. The after parties were great but the dance itself always sucked ass. Maybe I just had bad luck with some boring ass dances.