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Thanksgiving Tweets Are the Only Family Reunion Where Everyone Gets the Last Word

Thunder Dungeon Staff Nov 13, 2026 05:00 AM EST

Thanksgiving is the one day a year I willingly eat four kinds of beige food and call it heritage. I love it, I really do, but I spend the whole week before it negotiating with relatives like a diplomat with a pie budget. These thanksgiving tweets come from people who have survived the drive, the seating chart and at least one uncle with a theory. Read them now, while you still have strength, because by Thursday you’re going to need every ounce of it.

Thanksgiving tweets joke that friendsgiving means everyone gets a rotisserie chicken and a Four Loko — Potluck, but make it gas station.
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Ellie Schnitt tweet grateful her family skips the 5k, touch football and all physical activity — The only workout is passing the gravy.
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Dan Regan tweet showing adult time jumping from Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas in minutes — Where did November go? I was right here.
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Tweet where a seven year old argues hot dogs could become a Thanksgiving tradition — Tiny lawyer, airtight case.
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Tweet about a visiting sister and little brother choosing to sleep in your bed instead of the spare — The spare room just sits there, unloved.
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Tweet suggesting Home Depot should sell a 12 foot turkey skeleton for Thanksgiving — Please, I have the lawn space.
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Tweet about talking to an 8 year old nephew at Thanksgiving with forced praise for his math — Kid conversation, level: substitute teacher.
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Ellie Schnitt tweet wondering what to eat for lunch on Thanksgiving to maximize dinner — A cracker, a prayer, and stretchy pants.
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Tweet offering to FaceTime in scrubs and pose as a boyfriend stuck working at the hospital — Best hundred dollars you'll ever spend.
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Tweet hailing the Thanksgiving tube with a photo of canned cranberry sauce still shaped like the can — The ridges are the best part.
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Tweet about asking to watch the game and getting a Gossip Girl Thanksgiving episode instead — Technically, there was drama.
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Tweet advising you to call your dad now so he can find the paper with the wifi password — The paper is in the junk drawer. Probably.
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Tweet sharing a Thanksgiving text where mom turns off the router at night, fearing a fire — Protecting the home, one modem at a time.
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Tweet about hosting Thanksgiving, sending guests to the wrong parking spot and every car getting towed — Memorable, I'll give her that.
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Tweet joking about bringing beef to Thanksgiving and starting a fight with a cousin — Bringing the drama, not the dessert.
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Tweet about friendsgiving being just you at Chili's with the restaurant staff — The staff is family now.
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Tweet about hosting Thanksgiving with a 31 person group text asking someone to bring a turkey — Forgot the turkey, remembered the SunChips.
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Tweet sharing the advice that any Thanksgiving dish improves by doubling the butter — Cardiologists hate this one tip.
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Tweet about an office decorating employees as paper turkeys but making the vegan worker a corn cob — Inclusive and a little bit corny.
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Tweet about a coworker crossing out deviled eggs on a potluck list and writing angel eggs — Same eggs, better morals.
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Tweet joking that showing up to Thanksgiving undressed would stop anyone from talking politics — A bold distraction strategy.
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Tweet about announcing a trip to the gender neutral bathroom every time you leave the table — Exit strategy, with commentary.
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Tweet where mom bans politics at dinner and someone says the casserole reminds them of a revolution — Lasted four seconds.
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Tweet worrying that the Thanksgiving turkey might not fit inside the air fryer — Cut it in half. It's fine.
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Tweet asking people to stop posting Thanksgiving food that doesn't photograph well — Beige on beige on beige.
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Funny thanksgiving memes always come back to hosting, because hosting is a stress test disguised as a dinner party. I hosted once, forgot to buy enough chairs, ran out of ice by noon and spent the meal checking whether the turkey was still pink. So when someone sends every guest to the wrong parking spot and all the cars get towed, I don’t laugh at her. I salute her.

The thanksgiving memes about family are the ones I forward to my sister without comment. Every family has a mom who unplugs the router at night because she’s convinced it will burn the house down. Every family has a dad who needs a week’s notice to find the wifi password on a scrap of paper. And every family has a seven year old making a compelling case for hot dogs, and honestly, the kid has a point.

Then there are the friendsgiving memes, which show what the holiday looks like when nobody’s grandmother is supervising. Rotisserie chickens for everyone. A party of one at a chain restaurant, surrounded by servers who are now technically family. I spent one friendsgiving eating mashed potatoes out of a mixing bowl because six of us owned three plates, and it remains one of the best meals of my life.

I think we tweet through the holiday because Thanksgiving asks for a lot of performance. You smile at the casserole, you nod at the political theory, and you pretend to know what lunch is supposed to be on a day when dinner happens at 3 p.m. The internet is where the honest version goes, the one muttered into a phone in the bathroom between courses.

But underneath the jokes about towed cars and dry turkey, there’s real affection. Nobody tweets this much about people they don’t care about. A group text with thirty one people in it is proof that someone still wants everyone in the same room, even if they forgot to buy the turkey. I’ll be there again this year, carrying a pie I didn’t bake and a story I’m definitely going to tell twice.

The turkey is dry. The router is off. The family is home.

Still hungry? Last year’s funny thanksgiving tweets to survive family dinner make a perfect second helping, and the thanksgiving food memes will leave you hungry and judgmental at the same time. Once the plates are cleared, our day after thanksgiving memes are built for leftover sandwiches and couch naps, and gamers can recover with the thanksgiving cooldown memes. Loosen your belt. Pass the pie.

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Thunder Dungeon Staff is the byline for galleries our team makes together, led by co-founders Roy R. and Phil M. We've been curating internet humor since 2012: finding the funniest memes, pictures and posts, crediting creators wherever we can, and adding our own take. Roy or Phil reviews every post before it goes live.