thanksgiving

Whether you're an audacious consumerist, anti-shopping, or a retail worker full of dread, these memes will entertain anyone with strong feelings about Black Friday. Hopefully this year the ground zeros of Walmart will be a bit more low-key due to the global pandemic, but we can't underestimate the consumerist thirst for deals. No one ever got hurt looking at some memes from the safety of their home. Just saying.

Black Friday has never been known to be a civilized event. It seems every year we hear of stampedes, physical violence and general mayhem - all because people want to take advantage of some insane deals. Now, thanks to this handy guide from College Humor, you have more of a chance to make it out of the mall alive. 

Sometimes bad things happen for a reason. On Wednesday, this was definitely the case. Twitter user @cheenadiabla shared a photo of a tray of mashed potatoes she had dropped on the floor. The dish had been intended for a potluck, but she quickly said "f*ck it." While she was probably expecting sympathy from her followers, they instead delivered a whole lot of scathing reviews of her admittedly terrible looking mashed potatoes. While she took it in stride, admitting it was her first time preparing the dish, some of the roastsare downright mean - and downright hilarious.  

Twitter user Maya Kosoff asked her followers to share the strangest family Thanksgiving recipes they were forced to consume growing up. 

Spoiler: most of them are just downright disgusting. That is, unless you like jello, cool whip, seafood, and mayo all in one dish- in which case, please get back in your time machine and go back to the 1950s immediately because we don't need that sh*t anymore. Barf.

Beautiful, shallow-focus closeups of warm pie and glistening cranberry sauce are cool if you want to feel really hungry for some reason, but otherwise, scrolling through an endless Instagram feed of the same holiday dishes can get pretty damn boring. How about some content that's both festive and cursed? The antithesis of food porn, if you will. Photographer Chris Maggio is someone who truly appreciates the repulsive beauty of the cursed image. We're featuring some of the most absurd Thanksgiving images from Maggio's 'Male Chef' series, which satirizes holiday traditions. We've also included a handful of random cursed tidbits from the weird crevasses of the internet for good measure. 

Covid-19 has probably changed the lives of most people in the United States at this point. With cases going up every day, the CDC - and most government officials - have been urging citizens to opt out of large family Thanksgivings and stick to celebrating with the people we already live with. While it's pretty clear that having a big family get-together, some people have been very vocal about how they're not about to let fear win. And according to airline records, millions of Americans have decided to travel against the CDC's advice. There are, however, many meme makers and Twitter users who are actually celebrating the opportunity to skip the often obligatory holiday for once. The ability to mute ones more annoying relatives on Zoom makes it all sound worthwhile. To celebrate this century's bleakest Thanksgiving, we've put together this gallery of memes and tweets that truly, well, say it all. And while we're enjoying laughing about the madness, we truly do wish you a happy Thanksgiving. Stay healthy, y'all. 

Dan Milano, a senior producer at Now This News, created this hilarious Twitter thread of his brother building an artistic masterpiece of a Cybertruck at Thanksgiving dinner using mashed potatoes. And honestly we have to admit that we like it better than the real thing - at least this one you can eat. Sorry, Elon.

Bored? Yeah, us too. Motivated? We're pretty sure you're not. Fortunately for you, we put together the incredibly small amount of energy we had today and put it all into collecting tweets to help you murder your boredom. They're not the most genius things ever tweeted, but they will probably keep you occupied for a few sad minutes.

Nihilist Arby's might be our new favorite Twitter account for some good cynical (and very depressing) fun.

Thanksgiving can be really great - you've got all of that delicious food and all of your family all in one place. However, sometimes the family situation can be a little much; you love 'em but they all love to bring up the fact that you're almost 30 and still not married, or that one embarrassing thing you did when you were four years old. And the icing on the cake? That inevitable family fight that always happens at the end of the evening. It can all be too much sometimes!

If you need to just get away from it all, then we gotchu. 

And what are we thankful for this year? All of you, of course!

In honor of Thanksgiving this year, people are prank-texting their moms asking how long it would take to microwave a 25-pound turkey. The responses have been pretty priceless.

Any family gathering can require some delicate social maneuvering, but there is something particularly sensitive about Thanksgiving. Arm yourself with these clap backs and your nosy extended family will leave you alone in the future. 

Whether you're parked at the appetizer station, avoiding family in the garage, or getting drunk with your "scary alcoholic aunt", these timeless comics from The Oatmeal will definitely be relatable. Happy holidays!

Can you guys believe Thanksgiving is already here? We certainly can't. It seems like the Fourth of July was just yesterday. Anyway, please enjoy these Thanksgiving memes while you eat a slice of pumpkin pie away from your annoying aunts and uncles who won't stop asking what you're planning to do after graduation. Seriously, that sh*t's annoying.