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It’s Hashtags time, Pandas! Jimmy Fallon, the charismatic host of the legendary The Tonight Show, invited his fans to share the funniest, weirdest, and most embarrassing stories about their roommates on Twitter. And, wow, did they deliver!

Excited by Fallon’s challenge, Twitter users from pretty much all corners of the globe revealed the most hilarious things their roommates did and the utmost bizarre experiences they had while living with someone else.

We’ve collected the very best of the bunch to share with you, Pandas, so scroll on down for a genuine mood-booster (laughter and smiles included, free of charge). As you’re upvoting your fave stories, have a think and tell us all about the strangest things your own roommates have ever done. We’d love to hear your thoughts, so drop by the comment section.

Bored Panda got in touch with entertainment, pop culture, and lifestyle expert Mike Sington to have a chat about Fallon, standing out on Twitter with our stories, and the challenges of working as a TV show host. Scroll down for our interview with the former NBCUniversal executive!

Meanwhile, when you’re done with this list, check out Bored Panda’s feature about Fallon’s previous roommate challenge right over here.

"Jimmy Fallon’s warmth and engagement with people is what’s behind his ongoing success with hosting The Tonight Show. He just seems like a guy you’d want to spend time with," entertainment and pop culture expert Mike, from LA, explained to Bored Panda why the host and the show both resonate with the audience so much.

"To stand out on Twitter, and catch the attention of Fallon and his team, you need to be funny and unique. Simply having an interesting story to tell usually won’t be enough," he pointed out that it's not just what we write, but also how we write it, that's important. If you want to be featured on The Tonight Show, you have to really stand out.

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"I think the biggest job challenge of working as a TV host is creating original content, that will not only grab the audience’s attention but will also go viral. An outstanding production and writing team, of course, helps with this," Mike shared with Bored Panda.

"But there are certain qualities a good host must have on their own, such as the ability to think on their feet, an honest curiosity about people, a pleasing personality, and the skill to ad-lib effortlessly. It’s certainly not as easy as Jimmy Fallon makes it look!"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BUT WHY ANYONE PUT A KFC CHICKEN LEG IN THEIR POCKET IN THE FIRST PLACE

Carol Blyth
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lived with a couple - one worked at Pizza Hut, the other McDonalds - they were always bringing home 'extras' which sat uneaten in the fridge until I threw them out. They also had a nasty habit of sitting on the toilet drinking from the milk carton.....I just couldn't deal with them....

Riley Quinn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd say post a sign, but something tells that a person who keeps chicken in his pocket isn't a big sign reader.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To get into the lint trap, the item would have to first pass through very small (1/4 inch) air hole in the dryer - sorry, no chicken leg could do this. Maybe washed some pants with a chicken leg in the pocket, but no chicken leg in the lint catcher/trap.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a friend who used to get a hotdog on her way home from a party. For some reason, she never ate all of it and would find a stub in her pocket 😅

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I too have a bad habit and hung a sign in my kitchen (laundry machines are in the kitchen).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah. I could understand the wish bone but a chicken leg????

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The Tonight Show, officially known as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, obviously stars [drumroll] Jimmy Fallon. The project has been running on NBC since mid-February 2014.

However, there have been previous iterations of the show Between 1957 and 1972, we had Tonight Starring Jack Paar and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The current version of the show is filmed from Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center, in NYC, the same place where the other two shows were filmed. We absolutely love that continuity.

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If you’re a fan of Fallon’s, then you’ve got absolutely nothing to worry about. In May 2021, NBC officially renewed the show for 5 more years. So, at the minimum—barring any Earth-shattering Apocalypse—we should be enjoying him as a host until 2026.

This means more awesome quips, jokes, bamboozles, and challenges for all of us in the years to come! That also means yours truly can gently annoy you by writing ‘It’s Hashtags time!’ for a bit longer. There’s no escaping that.

The best tweets of the bunch always end up being featured on Fallon’s show. The cream of the crop from the #MyRoommateIsWeird challenge can be found in this video from The Tonight Show right over here.

Living with a roommate can be either a blessing or the biggest curse you’ve ever laid eyes on in your life (there’s a lot of overlap here, just like with landlords). No, seriously. From our experience, it’s a literal coin toss if the person you’ll be sharing your kitchen, bathroom, and living room with for the next [insert favorite number] years will be pleasant or an utter disaster.

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Open and honest communication, setting and respecting healthy boundaries, fairly distributing the chores, cleaning up after yourself—all of these things make for a good roommate. And, well, if we’re completely honest, doing these makes you a quality human being either way. At home, at school, at work, at the Thanksgiving table. Maturity and common sense are seriously underrated these days.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Part of me wants to commend the level of multi tasking and water saving... But the bigger part says yikes!

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Let us ask you a very personal question, Pandas: have you ever eaten someone else’s food without their knowledge? Whether it’s conducting a clandestine ninja-like operation in the middle of the night to sneak a candy bar from someone else’s stash or spooning a couple of mouthfuls from their leftover pot in the fridge, odds are that at least some of you might have taken a nibble of your roommates’ food without asking.

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And while everyone gives in to temptation at one point or another, most of us (hopefully) know to learn from our mistakes. However, if you constantly steal someone else’s food, whether at home, school, or work, then you might want to consider taking a good long look at your life.

The main issue here is that food thieves don’t even think about the possibility of asking for permission. Look, the simple fact is that many of us are incredibly happy to share food with others. Bonding through cooking/giving/eating food makes us happy. But you’ve got to go through the motions. You can’t just help yourself to something you think we’ll probably agree to.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a mother of a 25 year old son, I don't want to see him naked at this point in time and that would be super awkward in front of his friends 😳. I believe in healthy boundaries. I'm sure if there were a medical question or something my son would feel very comfortable coming to me to look into it and check it out, but as for just casual nakedness, I don't think it would fly at our house. No judgment though for people who live an alternative lifestyle or are just more relaxed about their nudity.

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We’ve covered stories about roommate food thieves countless times here on Bored Panda. Recently, we’ve looked at the extents to which some people go to catch the thieves in the act, after getting frustrated with their ongoing lies. One woman resorted to using a camera to catch the perpetrator red-handed; meanwhile, a guy shared how he switched the milk he drinks to finally prove that his lactose-intolerant housemate was eating at his expense.

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The woman, who resorted to using a camera, told Bored Panda earlier that there are a lot of reasons why someone would steal someone else’s food.

“I think there’s a lot of reasons. A lot of the time I think people just do it for convenience or affordability, thinking they won’t get caught. Or, especially in shared houses, people think there won’t be consequences to their actions even if they are caught, as opposed to stealing from a shop or business,” redditor u/Not_entirely_sure_ added that, in some cases, some people might be genuinely desperate and in need of financial support… though that often isn’t the case.

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“The best way is by trying to reason with housemates and establishing a shared understanding you won’t take each other’s stuff, but this doesn’t always work,” the woman told Bored Panda. She said that some ways around this issue can be getting separate mini-fridges. However, the best solution is to simply live with friends whom you trust. “Prevention is better than the cure.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a roommate that left her dirty dishes, pots and pans in the sink/counter. I lost it one day and brought all the foul, mouldy, sloshing dishes and put them on her bed with a note that she'd lost kitchen privileges until she learned how to be courteous to the rest of us.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like an excellent tactic! “Oh, nobody wanted any ultra expensive meat. I guess I’ll just have to eat it all. Sigh.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If brain size is so important have her explain why a bull with a much bigger brain is not in her college instead of the slaughterhouse. She is an idiot to regurgitate that argument. It is one the patriarchy used for years to defend their stance that women are just dumber than men because of our smaller brains.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't see why playing some modern game for six hours straight would be much different

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a âsshole move. I'd had to have moved it back to her desk, bed, floor, or something on her side of the room.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The episode of FRIENDS where Joey and Chandler were fighting over a comfy chair. Matt LeBlanc really hurt himself doing the scene where they both dived into it, which is why they began the next episode as if Joey was jumping on the bed and fell off and got hurt....to explain the sling he was wearing.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this was her assigned chore what a bratty way to handle not wanting to do it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some cultures have very solid pillows - think of the ancient Japanese ones made of wood or porcelain

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And you never thought of purchasing a super soaker for these precious moments?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember when I was little, I had a Disney Hercules plate from McDonald's with Pegasus on it. I put it in the microwave one morning, and it proceeded to explode into several pieces. Not related to your story, but you brought back a weird memory.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it works for her and you can overlook it, you should. roommates that are merely odd are so hard to find whereas roomies that are actively destructive jerks are a dime a dozen.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes it just hits the spot if you're restless. Get out of bed so you're not overthinking not being able to sleep, and sometimes it's just what the dr ordered for back or hip fatigue.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Able to help themselves. Great. Probably shidty parents though

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean ... you should be putting them back the sleeves if they're there!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never liked him until I heard him play blues. Check out Eric Clapton's Crossroads DVDs. That comment is pretty ignorant. Most players play multiple guitars. Check out Joe Bonamassa sometime. He changes guitars just about every song in a set.

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