Thanksgiving is a unique day of the year. It doesn't revolve around candy like Halloween or Easter and doesn't involve gift-giving like Christmas or birthdays.
Instead, it focuses largely on your skills in the kitchen and your ability to tolerate people. But while we expect the rich aroma of roasted turkey or the warmth of pumpkin pie, sometimes life brings us kitchen fires and slippery stairs.
So, in an attempt to remind you that our holidays don't have to (and probably will never) be perfect, we at Bored Panda put together a list of some of the most unfortunate Thanksgiving fails.
Oh, and while you're at it, don't miss the chat we had on surviving and even enjoying this hectic festivity with Dr. Jennifer Hardy, a psychologist from Maryville, Tennessee. You'll find it spread between the pictures.
#1 My Sister Was Supposed To Bring A Dessert For Thanksgiving
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#2 Nailed It
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#3 My Solid White Husky/Shepherd Decided Thanksgiving Lunch Was The Perfect Opportunity To Be A Bad Boy
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#4 My Boyfriend Fell Down Our Stairs On Thanksgiving Day. Instead Of Fixing The Hole, We Got Creative
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#5 Mom Was Making Thanksgiving Pie When Suddenly This Happened
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#6 Our Family Will Come For Thanksgiving, And My Mom Set Her Oven, Not Remembering That She Had Silicone Rack Guards In There
Fun fact: If heated high enough silicone vaporizes and does this to the oven.
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#7 Pie Update: "The Paw Print Is Now A Small Sinkhole. The Piece Lives On, For Posterity"
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#8 The Handle Of My Serving Spoon Snapped. Turns Out The Handle Was Full Of Sand, And It Ruined My Delicious Turkey Stuffing
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#9 My Brother's Face, From My Point Of View, The Entirety Of Our Thanksgiving Dinner. I Didn't Tell Him Until The End, When We Took The Picture
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#10 Every Year At Thanksgiving, I "Fix" My Aunt's Computer. I Have A Feeling She's Not Keeping Up With My Advice
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#11 I Turned The Wrong Stove Burner On, And My Pumpkin Pie Made From Scratch Exploded
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#12 This Stack Of Plates We Bought For Thanksgiving Only Has The Top Plate Decorated, And The Rest Are Plain White
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#13 An Extended Family Member Broke The Toilet Seat While At A Gathering And Left Without Mentioning It To Anyone
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#14 Happy Thanksgiving
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#15 I 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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#16 My Mom And Sister Are Gone For Thanksgiving, So We Had To Improvise
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#17 I Bit Down On My Crown While Eating An Appetizer Right Before Thanksgiving Dinner
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#18 Well Guess Who Forgot To Take The Thermometer Out When I Checked On The Turkey
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#19 My Mom's Thanksgiving Desert
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#20 Presentation Is A Key This Thanksgiving
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#21 This Is How My Thanksgiving Is Going So Far
This morning, Whole Foods delivered the groceries that I ordered yesterday but forgot to remove the lock from the bottle of champagne.
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#22 Happy Thanksgiving
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#23 My Late Mum Had This Served To Her On Thanksgiving During One Of Her Many Stays In The Hospital. They Called It A "Hot Turkey Sandwich"
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#24 I Brought Cherry Pie For Our Station Thanksgiving, But I'm Clumsy And Dropped It In The Parking Lot. Thought That Counts?
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#25 My Friend Just Sent Me This Picture Of A Pumpkin Pie She Made For Thanksgiving That Her 3-Year-Old Snuck Into
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#26 We Had One Job. Who Likes Paprika?
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#27 Happy Thanksgiving To The Ground
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#28 My Thanksgiving Fail
Yesterday was my first time hosting Thanksgiving. I had planned to make cinnamon rolls from scratch for breakfast, which is a ton of work. Anyway, I was running late, and everybody was starving, so I put the pan in the oven when I thought the time was right and waited patiently. I noticed a stringy substance that had formed on top of the rolls. I thought it was the sugar getting gooey or a weird product of the yeast, sugar, and gluten free flour. I took the rolls out of the oven and began to ice them. I touched the side of the pan and felt hardened plastic wrap. It was plastic wrap.
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#29 Our Oven Broke Just Before Thanksgiving. I Just Got The Replacement From Our Landlord Today, But Now The Dishwasher Won't Open All The Way
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