Worst things kids have brought in for Show & Tell

[@dazcarrr]

the fact that you call emoticons "analogue emojis" fills me with agony

[@Matt_Rose]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@edgars9581]

@@Matt_Rose Analogue shrug face emojiiiiii

[@ShadowsightSolos]

@@edgars9581 Real 😱⁉️

[@spirosnapspirosnap403]

​@@Matt_Rose tsu

[@dradekon]

​@@Matt_Rose¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@theab3957]

My cousin's parents divorced when he was a baby; our grandfather practically raised him. When he was little, my cousin brought our grandpa to school for show and tell. He introduced him to the class, saying: "This is my dad; his name is Grandpa."

[@aryapatel1932]

Did he talk?

[@theab3957]

@@aryapatel1932 I'm not sure. Probably, although my grandpa was notoriously quiet.

[@dustorm5012]

That's adorable.

[@_raboot_]

@@theab3957 did he stay quiet ever since?

[@abigailn8704]

Wholesome

[@mungulor]

I remember a kid in year 3 stood up during show and tell, claimed he went jet skiing and a shark bit him on the calf. He was so pissed off that no one believed him that he cried and pissed himself on the carpet

[@theab3957]

Dear god, what an episode.

[@esmin2400]

reasonable reaction

[@WeirdLookingCat1]

wtf did i just read

[@Matt_Rose]

That's one of the best things I've ever read, made me snort out my wine 💪

[@ShadowsightSolos]

@@Matt_Rose Hi

[@GQuack]

The fact you actually put in the life size speedy gonzales plush toy scenario three times when the person had brought it in three seperate times was absolutely hilarious.

[@wordedpuppet6278]

I wasn't paying attention and I was so confused on why many separate people owned a Speedy Gonzales plush, and why they all described it as "life size".

[@Emma_The_H0ppin_H00ligan]

​@@wordedpuppet6278 plus, speedy gonzalez is a mouse....wouldn't "life size" mean he's the size of an actual mouse?

[@HelloHSR]

I was very confused by this lol

[@JayWalk_Official]

I must not have been paying close enough attention, I only heard it twice. At first I thought maybe Matt had just forgotten and put it in a second time, but when the rest of the story was told I just figured two different people had the same weird idea to bring a life sized Speedy Gonzales plush toy

[@TheEldritchHyena]

@@Emma_The_H0ppin_H00ligan So in other words, it was just a regular sized plush toy.

[@gooseofchaosandruin530]

My worst ever show-and-tell item was a stuffed animal. Which doesn’t sound so bad, except it was a three-foot long giant squid with a realistic glass eyeball that stared right into your soul. Imagine being 8 years old, and your classmate brings in something that looks like it just crawled out from hell, then you’re forced to listen to various squid facts while the thing refuses to break eye contact. I’m certain every therapist in a fifty mile radius knew my name after that

[@immabethehero1486]

That's actually iconic

[@KingBanjo1217]

I want one of those.

[@shadowgaming-en4lk]

Yes indeed

[@chanshengsupremacy8889]

username fits

[@what_equals_42]

That's legendary.

[@JoeyJohnDoe688]

When my mom was a teacher, she had a student ask if it was a ok to bring a goat to school. She thought that meant a stuffed goat, so she said yes. The kid was in fact talking about a live goat.

[@trianglemoebius]

That's actually awesome. They brought a goat, and became the GOAT.

[@monad_tcp]

That would have been an amazing barbecue.

[@Ensign_games]

God dammit we should of not let YN to reproduce and let his kid damage the school with Asriel's large and ever growing girth. And I save Asriel later with a strange set of armor and a original anime Mario movie plot. If you where around 12 year old me you would of known.💀

[@NepetasShippingWall1642]

@@Ensign_games ?????

[@commander3494]

​@@Ensign_games what the f did just read

[@anomalocaris.3]

my grandfather was a neurosurgeon, and for whatever reason he had a preserved brain (which he kept at home??). so my mother, in second grade, had the very bright idea of bringing it in to show-and-tell. She thought it was cool, so surely the rest of her class would agree...? ...screaming and crying ensued. In a shocking turn of events, the class most definitely did not find the brain cool.

[@tgyk80642]

Are you kidding me? That sounds awesome. I agree with your mother.

[@demo2823]

It could be worse. In seventh grade I sat in a biology class right in front of a shelf of jarred preserved creatures, including a miscarried baby. First time I ever saw a dead human body.

[@samoilis2276]

Plebs

[@genericname2747]

@@demo2823 I'm surprised the school can legally have that

[@thedisastrouslifeofsaikik_123]

111th like ^^

[@unknownuser3926]

I remember bringing by beer bottle cap collection to kindergarten. My teacher said "that must have taken a long time to get all those" but I told her no, my dad drinks at least 3 beers a day so it didn't take long.

[@heretichazel]

...holy shit this just brought back some memories for me lmaoo

[@juckya9660]

@@heretichazel you poor thing

[@anusaukko6792]

Only 3? rookie numbers!

[@iliketurtles50000]

Bro is set for the nuclear apocalypse

[@misty_creek]

I've seen a few people be like, "My dad drinks too!" And I just wanna make sure everyone is safe and feeling ok now 🩷 :(

[@CrustyFox87]

3:47 “Sheen, this is the 3rd time in a row you’ve shown your life size Speedy Gonzales stuffed animal in class.”

[@johnathan7624]

Jimmy neutron reference

[@littleolme7877]

The idea of a "life-sized" Speedy Gonzalez plushie confuses me because he's a tiny mouse, so like... was it a big plushie or was it the size of a mouse?

[@kanonwilliams9497]

The amount of sass behind the way Matt says, "I am ready for my compliment" is truly glorious.

[@Axel_the-Axelotl]

Well then give the man a compliment! He's doing a good job!

[@fish-champ]

That was a horrible story, don’t give him a compliment

[@paperstrawsYT]

@@fish-champ **holds back compliment**

[@Ello2010]

Sounds like a threat

[@101jir]

That was both hilarious and awesome! I hoped the teacher learned why that phrase is a bad idea to engrain so young.

[@revelryinthedark]

There was a time when my class had show and tell, I had been so proud of my pokémon prosthetic leg that I decided to show it off. I remember saying "I can take my leg off" a kid answered "No you can't" and I answered "Yeah I can" and proceeded to rip my leg off without warning and held it up talking about it and the Gen 1 Pokémon...no one in my class knew about my fake leg not even the teacher

[@spacem80]

I would've paid to see the reactions to that.

[@JxJx2005]

were you able to put it back on

[@ekzac]

Take the leg off is easy, the hard thing is reconnecting the nerves later. But it must have been a funny day haha

[@pooponastickinthewild]

that's metal.

[@soupcangaming662]

@@ekzac worth tbh

[@CatMom-uw9jl]

It’s been decades since it happened, but I told the kindergarten class that our dog had started climbing on people’s legs and “dancing.” The teacher mentioned it to my mom and that’s when she made an appointment with the vet to get our puppy fixed. I don’t remember it, but my mother sure does!

[@Phoen1xGen]

Took me a second to realise

[@ajayisbetter]

@@Phoen1xGen what is it?

[@laurahamilton8868]

Dog was humping people.

[@mazeditsvsf]

@@ajayisbetter the dog wasnt dancing, i assume it was humping people’s legs

[@dustorm5012]

​@@mazeditsvsf 😳

[@ForestofCicadas]

I was the weird girl that brought in a tarantula. So, to start this story, my parents were separated. I used to watch animal planet all the time with my dad, and we especially loved the stuff about spiders and snakes. So, hearing that show and tell was coming up, he took me to the pet store, walked me over to the tarantulas and said "pick one for show and tell." So I did. I named her Cutie and she was a menace with the temperament of a lit stick of dynamite and loved to shoot hairs at people. I still loved her, from a safe distance away from the grate on top of her enclosure. I had a fun show and tell and my mom was not thrilled when I came home with a tarantula.

[@BidenTrumpGayFanfiction]

i hate spiders but this is the cutest story ive read

[@nannikira]

bro no one in my family would willingly take me to a pet store to pick out a tarantula 💀

[@tamrabrawley4573]

I’m not a spider fan but love 🐍

[@The-S-H3lf-Eater]

You will become spider girl in 6 years from now

[@JanosBanics]

Jars of spiders where an almost weekly occurrence in my class show and tell. But I am Australian so you only have to lift a rock to find spiders,geckos,skinks and a tonne of other things.

[@wittyusername3469]

I brought in a box of teeth, not my teeth, I didn't even know whose teeth they were at the time, I've recently rediscovered the box, asked my dad about them, and he informed me that they belonged to him, I brought my own fathers teeth to show and tell, yet strangely that wasn't even the weirdest thing shown that day, that honour goes to the kid who brought in a memorial shrine of the teacher (not dead, not leaving).

[@monad_tcp]

That would be hillarius, bring the memorial of the last dead teacher and show to the new one.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@monad_tcp there was that painting of corrupt judge having his skin turned into a chair for new judge to sit on... might work for teachers too iunno am not into furnityre making.

[@sophthetoast1997]

Why is your dad collecting his own teeth 🤨

[@coloradoblue6929]

I think this one wins the comment section

[@c0zmozys]

MEMORIAL SHRINE?????

[@cultofnatethemagnificent5879]

I remember the time in show and tell a kid brought in a floating rock saying it could float on water. The teacher proceeded to ask the class "Can rocks float?" to get a collective "No," and the kid got so mad she filled a thing of water a plopped the rock in. It did, in fact, float.

[@radioactivebirbchild]

pumice is neat, I have some samples of it

[@genericname2747]

Bit cringe of the teacher to do that

[@cultofnatethemagnificent5879]

@@genericname2747 "Hey let's embarrass this 7 year old in front of the whole class!"

[@azhdarchidae66]

how did the others react?

[@cultofnatethemagnificent5879]

@@azhdarchidae66 It was a long time ago, I could tell you how I reacted which was thinking the girl, then the teacher was stupid. The rest of the students though idk.

[@someonenamedtoby]

I love the idea of someone bringing in their grandpa, who proceeds to sit in complete silence in front of a teacher and a group of children

[@mechengr1731]

Depending on the grandpa, he was probably flattered.

[@jadefae]

Bring your freak to school day

[@elexel3551]

Lmao I did that

[@misanthropicisolation4013]

​@@jadefaeWhat the fuck is wrong you? You're a sick disrespectful fucking waste of a life.

[@horse14t]

I wish I was clever enough to have brought my grandparents to school as a kid ;-; Though one time my sister showed up to my school and she had a cast on and we went around and everybody got to sign it! ... I think she still has it as a trophy somewhere.

[@beeheart8985]

I brought my grandpa to show and tell once, he played the guitar for my entire class and then walked me home when school was done.

[@datey_in_a_1st_taxi]

That was nice!

[@teaoftraffic]

awwww :)

[@jobah619]

wholesome

[@mouthwaterin]

Best story out of the comments section

[@epic_rain278]

very cool grandpa

[@junoshithead]

Mistaking a tampon for a rabbits foot is honestly the sanest thing a child has ever done

[@weegee-hehehe]

"Of course I ripped off a rabbit's foot, there's blood on it."

[@junoshithead]

@@weegee-hehehe 😭😭😭👍

[@pamelotms5867]

@@weegee-hehehe "so how did you get the um "rabbits foot" kid- "mum was eating the rabbit through the wrong hole so i tried to rip it out"

[@maxbanker7210]

Mistaking a rabbit's foot for a tampon... not so much

[@standardheat-fs8159]

@@pamelotms5867 Holy shit

[@thatsmolwolf]

Back in 5th grade I brought in my hairless cat for show and tell. No joke. My mom brought her in a cat stroller into the classroom. The class thought it was the coolest thing ever. My cat however, was terrified to see dozens of snot nosed germ magnets looming over her.

[@404_Toonz]

Question have you ever watched American dragon jake long? Cause there was an episode where the exact same thing happened. Anyway don't mind me and my cartoon obsession

[@m1aouzdt]

"Snot nosed germ magnets" 💀

[@liengandriod55]

​@@404_Toonz You seem to like cartoon dragon a whole lot. And i think I need to rewatch american dragon Jake Long now

[@Borbinator]

I also would be terrified

[@Anonymous-73]

Hairless cats are kind of cool

[@YuBeace]

So as a child I learned about the name “Titus” before I learned about the slang for breasts. So I nicknamed my stuffed cat “Titty”. The other kids laughed and the teacher wasn’t pleased. I had no idea. In fact we were all like, 4 or 5 years old so the fact that everyone in our strictly Christian school already knew what “titties” were concerns me a bit in hindsight. Not fair, guys.

[@MrMan002]

That must have sucked. That reminds me of the time when I was still in kindergarten, my and my friends were doing "cool" hand tricks and at the time I didn't even know what a middle finger was, so I did it, and maybe someone snitched on me or the teacher saw me but I got in a lot of trouble and I am very sensitive, so when she yelled at me I was on the verge of tears.

[@YuBeace]

@@MrMan002 I feel this. I've been crying about making adults angry at me for multiple occassions as a kid. All they had to do was tell me that was a bad thing to do, I didn't know! I've only been on this Earth for a little amount of time!

[@snowballthehybrid-wof]

I mean, I go to a private school and didn’t know what the middle finger was till 6th grade- also a random kindergartener swore on the bus

[@bulletcola7890]

@@MrMan002 The fact that the teacher felt the need to literally angrily yell at a child over a finger motion (Which can be easily interpreted as them being ignorant) tells me they are either so protective around children doing mean things, or is a verbally abusive asshole. That really sucks that you dealt with that.

[@MrMan002]

@@bulletcola7890 Thats what I remembered at least. It was a long time ago, and sometimes the way I remember things is a lot more dramatic. Like how one time we were walking a bridge, I was 5-6 and fell. My brain remembered it as this huge wound, but a few weeks ago, my dad showed my an image of whatit looked like and was the size of my fingernail. My parents do remember my kindergarten being strict so maybe I was right.

[@notdeadyet3680]

I once brought a fifty shades of grey novel from under my sisters bed and told the class “this is my favorite book,my sister reads it to me every night” because I wanted to sound cool that I could read and be read books that were long, my teacher called my mom and I had to explain that I just brought it because I couldn’t find anything else

[@Googleearthguy9797]

💀💀

[@justinm16]

It had nsfw in it? Im asking because I never read it before

[@LuckyDaDucky]

@@justinm16 Yes.

[@justinm16]

@@LuckyDaDucky ok

[@abbycollins]

@@justinm16 basically, it was a legally distinctive adaptation of a twilight not safe for work fan-fiction, I’m not even kidding.

[@wannixdroxe1880]

I had a friend that was a little weird back in kindergarten. Once she brought in a severed human hand that she found in the woods and a deer skull. Upon further study it was revealed her grandparents lived next to a mafia boss. Three kids including my self threw up. She was escorted out of school and I never saw her again.

[@wannixdroxe1880]

Oh yeah and once another kid brought in a snail he named Leo who died on the spot

[@WeirdLookingCat1]

@@wannixdroxe1880 first of all, what the fuck and why were you friends with this person, second of all, how did you discover that your grandparents lived next to a mafia boss?

[@wannixdroxe1880]

@@WeirdLookingCat1 the teacher asked what forest she found it in, also, it was kindergarten, you talk to someone once you're best friends lol

[@--CHARLIE--]

Thats awesome though, what! Just one of those two things is cool enough on its own but both!?

[@lilliematthews7922]

@@--CHARLIE-- I’m assuming people investigated WHY there was a severed hand left for a child to find in the woods and the mafia was found to be responsible.

[@gifflebunk]

So basically when I was 8 or 9, I was in the process of writing a story. Every week for Show and Tell I brought in this story and read a part of it to the class. Now Show and Tell wasn't actually mandatory at my school, it was something you simply volunteered to do, so every week, I WILLINGLY subjected. My whole entire class. To what was essentially my Super Mario: Paper Jam Bros fanfic. Everybody hated it.

[@sylviaafonso]

I bet they didnt hate as much as what my little sister brought once to show and tell: spit💀

[@wintig245]

I would've loved to be in that class

[@gifflebunk]

@@sylviaafonso What a, uh, *fascinating* thing. Bet everyone loved that

[@gifflebunk]

@@wintig245 My 8-year-old self would've appreciated your loyal patronage

[@sylviaafonso]

@@gifflebunk fascinating fr fr

[@viljamtheninja]

"Show and tell" essentially seems to be a kind of litmus test to see what kids live in inappropriate environments. And which ones have serial killers for parents.

[@gabrielgamer4458]

if that one kid at the end of my street becomes a parent then he might soon be in jail for 1794629462846184 seconds

[@gigitheskeleton6202]

Or are good at snooping around for their big sister's diary when she's not home.

[@soupcangaming662]

@@official-obama I would say r/hedidthemath but you can literally just Google that

[@echognomecal6742]

Reminds me of that old Art Linkletter show, "Kids Say the Darndest Things" when he'd say to the kid, "What did Mommy or Daddy tell you not to talk about?" Pure evil :P

[@dripcolors8756]

@@gabrielgamer4458 I put that amount of seconds in a converter, 1794629462846184 seconds is 56907.327 millenium. (1000 years = 1 millenium)

[@chrisball3778]

That foot has a number of explanations, and each one's worse than the next. Either it's archaeology that ought to be in a museum, it's literal grave robbery, or it's evidence of a crime. None mutually exclusive.

[@CoolHuskyReal]

D all of the above

[@ExtremeWreck]

It could be the remains of a murder that happened in like, 1493 in Ethiopia.

[@sygmarvexarion7891]

None of the above. Since it was found in a desert, it's probably America, and the remains probably belonged to some illegal migrant trying to get to America but died on the way, and the wild animals spread the remains.

[@yarnmisery]

@@ExtremeWreckmummification went out of fashion in the 3rd century so unlikely

[@masterofgoobers]

Or it could have just gotten infected so they had to cut it off

[@KL-hr2kj]

I brought my pet rat in for show and tell once in second grade. The mean kid in class who always got in trouble had to be warned multiple times not to stick his fingers in the cage. He stuck his nose in instead. She bit him. (Good job, Lucy, you did a great job and I miss you 💖) She'd never bitten anyone before and never bit anyone after that. We didn't have show and tell again.

[@aestronk-hungryball]

karmas real

[@lxmesoda]

W lucy

[@MelodyLumina]

lucy was a real one o7

[@Fem_Witch]

Domestic Rats are already great, but Lucy sounded brilliant, may she forever teach bullies leasons in rattie heaven.

[@That0neChick]

Some kid brought his hamster in one of those weird little tube maze enclosures. The problem was that his parents drove him to school in a truck. In *Oklahoma.* I initially thought the ride was too bumpy for the poor thing and he passed before he made it to the classroom. The kid tried shaking the enclosure but the hamster got stuck in one of the tubes, and it looked like that kid was the second-coming of Darla from Finding Nemo, what with how he kept yelling for Gerald to wake up. The section of tubing Gerald got stuck in was a loose corner piece, which suddenly popped off, fell to the ground, and released the supposedly dead hamster… who promptly began sprinting around the ‘Together Area’ of a preschool like he had consumed illegal amounts of energy drinks and was on his last hurrah before he would send himself flying into the sun. *Good times, man.*

[@AFarmerCalledChicken]

Am I the only person who’s had hamsters die peaceful deaths?

[@Zorro9129]

@@AFarmerCalledChicken yes

[@soupcangaming662]

Luckily I don't have a hamster. And I don't bring my cats for show and tell. And the schools I've been to haven't really had show and tells. The cat would escape anyway.

[@ArloDiAngelo-rp6gv]

My mom has forbidden me and my brothers from ever considering getting a hampster, because when she was a kid she had one and it was eaten by the dog 2 weeks after getting it.

[@Vicioussnakeboy]

​@@ArloDiAngelo-rp6gvImagine banning your kids from getting an animal cuz your dog ate one when you were a kid (Did you even have a dog at that point?)

[@gabbygold2692]

In the third grade I brought a letter from the mental hospital I went to for kids who need special help and rehabilitation before being in a proper school environment because it is either unfit for them or unfit for the other students. The letter was signed by everyone including staff and other “students” at the hospital. This note included One (1) death threat.

[@omniscientbarebones]

From who? The students or staff? Also, good job on getting a death threat before turning 18 lmao.

[@soupcangaming662]

@@omniscientbarebones Easy sub-18. Just browse 4-chan. Now sub-10? That's another story...

[@dandyrebellion]

​@soupcangaming662 easy dubs, my older sibling tried to actually kill me when i was like 5. Chased me around the house with a butcher knife and put a hole in my bedroom door with it when i hid. All he got was a "Don't do that again" from our parents. Fun childhood

[@StarDustedCloud]

​@@dandyrebellionJesus christ i am sorry that you had to go through that

[@HiWelcomeToIKEA]

​@@dandyrebellion my bro what

[@Tunafishling]

My dad worked at Queens university when I was little. One time in I don't know, 3rd grade I forgot to bring in a show and tell, so I came up with the ingenious idea of telling everyone that "My dad works for the queen!"

[@brodielarson9096]

Once I brought my grandfather for show and tell to talk about my family history when I was in preschool. My great grandfathers were almost all in some branch of the army, so it was a really cool experience for everyone. The teachers actually had him come back soon after to speak again as a guest speaker at our next assembly because everyone loved his stories that much. Even today I'm still finding out more about my heritage from him, and I'm in High school now.

[@EZX280]

Dammit, that's wholesome.

[@vengefulcurse3404]

That’s amazing

[@doq]

GOAT Grandfather right there.

[@aesthetix3398]

Wow!

[@grmpf]

The same is true for my grandfather and great-grandfathers, but it would have been a lot less appropriate for me to do this. I'm German.

[@Danka42]

I just crack at the mental image of a teacher saying "NOBODY COMPLIMENT HIM, THAT WAS A HORRIBLE STORY!" 🤣🤣

[@superblox6205]

To this very day he is still owed a compliment

[@Danka42]

@@superblox6205 what a sad world we live in 😔

[@zimriel]

@@superblox6205 I think danka42 just gave him one

[@MikeStavola]

Two fun ones: One, a kid brought in his dad's police service pistol, thankfully not loaded. This was in the 90s so he didn't get in trouble. Two, a kid brought in a Korean/Vietnam War vet, who brought in live 40mm grenade launcher ammo, and talked bout hunting down innocent civilians to prevent the spread of communism. The teacher was surprisingly okay with this, which was weird becauae this was a second grade class.

[@johnathan7624]

How do you not get in trouble for bringing a literal weapon to school

[@wakkowarner3716]

what the fuck?

[@The_Devils_reject]

Lmao. The vet is literally the chopper gunner from full metal jacket.

[@robblequoffle8456]

@johnathan7624 1990s cuh did you not read it

[@LawrenceTimme]

Based

[@littletechn8175]

When I was 6 brought in my diary and was really upset when my teacher wouldn't let me read my own diary to the class. In retrospect it did contain passages about September 11th from the perspective of a 5 year old 💀

[@sergioventura2595]

Can you tell us what you wrote?

[@organizer.spaztasticc3541]

Stop you're dredging up some very cringy memories 💀 In fifth grade, our teacher had us all do this thing where each week, we'd spotlight a student, and every day you'd have ten minutes to talk about your interests and whatnot to the class. So basically just an extended Q&A and sho-and-tell. I was one of those 'not like other girls', and I considered myself quirky because I liked to journal and read. So one day, I pulled up a stool and read some 'interesting' entries to the class, but I had to edit some of it because I wrote about the most mundane details (Ex: My experience pooping on the toilet). Suffice it to say, no one could care less. I cringe about this on a nightly basis.

[@felixmanface]

@@organizer.spaztasticc3541 aaaaaaaaa

[@V00doo1Xim]

tell me what you wrote or else you will be in the next 9/11

[@bartholomewhalliburton9854]

@@organizer.spaztasticc3541 💀

[@bonecanoe86]

I feel that Matt Rose was the kind of kid that would forget to bring an item for show and tell, panic and grab something random in his line of sight, and profusely bullshit about it for ten minutes while everyone just nods and waits for him to finish talking.

[@paperstrawsYT]

Great compliment! I am sure he appreciates it.

[@trianglemoebius]

I used to basically do this, but I was already getting into creative writing (or, what passes for such when you're 6-ish) and apparently my bullshitting was actually rather interesting and people enjoyed it. I know this because I still keep loose contact with a few of my friends from back then and they've informed me my students were looking forward to my stories. To be clear: there was no veneer these were true stories, I once claimed I had a rock from my vacation to Mata Nui (the Bionicle island, not to be mistaken for the real Rapa-Nui), and told a sprawling tale about meeting various Bionicle characters.

[@aperson1754]

I'm pretty sure that Matt would just be able to tell a true story and have it be much more interesting than whatever he brought in.

[@eviltoad746]

Thought I was hallucinating with the 2nd appearance of the life size Speedy Gonzalez stuffed animal, but laughed delightedly upon seeing it was a setup for the third one

[@Cheese_McCheeseMan]

What do you mean? He never showed that meme before that. He only showed it once.

[@voidbite]

@@Cheese_McCheeseMan Wrong, he showed it 3 times, I don't remember the timestamps, but some random reply posted them, you can rewatch the video if you don't believe me.

[@Cheese_McCheeseMan]

@@voidbite it was a joke because the kid tried to gaslight the teacher into saying it was there once

[@K4_is_gaming]

​@@Cheese_McCheeseManwheeeyyy banter, you've got everyone laughing. *Cricket noises intensify*

[@finn_20]

A boy in my 1st grade class told everyone that he had something “super cool” to show us…this child proceeded to pull A LIVE TARANTULA out of his lunchbox and set it FREE INTO THE CLASSROOM! The chaos that ensued as 25 little children jumped onto tables and chairs, screeching like we were all gonna die will forever hold a special place in my memory. 12 kids (including me) ended up in the nurse’s office and 2 ended up in urgent care. Some twins jumped onto one table but they jumped onto the EDGE. They both face planted into the floor when the table gave out and needed a couple stitches, her on her forehead and him on his chin. After that, our principal set a school-wide rule that no animals were allowed for show and tell, pet or not.

[@ocean6857]

Moments like these make life worth living

[@robblequoffle8456]

I don't know whether to say that show and tell should or shouldn't be a thing. On one hand, kids can share really cool stuff, such as art that they made, or even a stuffed animal. On the other hand, they could unknowingly bring in something that has the ability to kill someone, like a goddamn mortar shell that Grandpa obtained during WWII, or even a super venomous spider. On both hands, they might bring in "Mom's lightsaber", or "Dad's balloons", or even "big brother's crunchy socks"

[@dyingdonkeyjeremy]

If this happened I would honestly be having the best time of my life (as long as I'm not one of the ones in urgent care)

[@user-iy3nt5mm2v]

@@robblequoffle8456maybe to combat those scenarios, parents should help their kids pick something to bring and tell their teacher in advance. Or maybe creating a list of things that are and aren’t acceptable and sending it home a couple days before show and tell could also prevent unwanted items!

[@octosquid48]

I read this and the first thing that came to my mind was the line in the banana boat song from Beetlejuice, “Hide the deadly black tarantula”

[@cjsplace9565]

My preschool did alphabetical show and tell, and for "C" I brought in a little battery-operated cat. You turn her on and she's supposed to walk and make little meowing noises, but that cat BARKED and preschool me just loved that. Anyways, I brought her up to show the class and I called her a cog and everyone laughed at me. EDIT: How did this get so much attention? 😄🫥

[@loucantnot]

That's adorable and a great pun too

[@sillycreatures_]

What makes this better is that cogs are mechanical components

[@impishrebel5969]

@@sillycreatures_ Yeah I think people caught on to that already.

[@Rainbow-Coffee]

@impishrebel5969 I hadn’t lmao

[@sillycreatures_]

@@impishrebel5969 But what about the people who didn't, huh? Are they supposed to just sit there confused? No. Stop being a little turd and keep things to yourself.

[@GippyHappy]

“I’m ready for my compliment” is the absolute funniest way to end a presentation

[@BoldActionSkitty]

Aside the fact that it makes people sound like a narcissist lol, but I guess it isn't the kids' faults because they were told to say it by the teacher.

[@ZooieUndeni]

Imagine you are just singing a prayer and something goes… “U-NYE-TYE-AY-DOO?”

[@pastalovertwentyseven]

I once brought in a WWII German gas mask for show and tell, once my turn was over I proceeded to wear it around for the rest of the afternoon which left everyone who saw me a bit puzzled

[@trianglemoebius]

Putting the "Kinder" in "Kindergarten"!

[@genericname2747]

Are you my mummy?

[@JetFalcon710]

That's actually pretty fuckin cool and a bit spooky

[@amadeobordiga8464]

my sister did the same thing but british. we're pretty sure it has asbestos in it. hey, at least there's also cork stuck in it, so the asbestos probably got into our lungs _less_

[@multiplefandoms3164]

Are you my mummy?

[@madalynnk4221]

My daughter's first grade teacher asked the parents to come and talk about their careers to the class. I'm a physician. When the teacher asked if anyone had questions every child raised their hand. Most "questions" were just kids telling me about getting their shots or having stitching until one little informed us that her mom had gotten into a fight in a bar and then was hit on the head with a bottle. What fun!

[@AerCloud]

I brought the 1200 year old scapula (shoulder blade) of a seal to grade six. My next door neighbour was a palaeontologist and I thought it was the neatest thing ever. Forgot to mention it was old af and my teacher called fish and Wildlife on my neighbour.

[@NoPeacekeeper2008]

Someone bought in one of those massive bears from ikea. This being foundation year this kid was completely dwarfed by the bear, and when he first walked in everyone thought the bear was moving under its own steam until the kid said “guys look!”. Some kids thought the bear could speak too

[@jacquelinewarner-smith1770]

May I ask what "foundation year" is? I've never heard of it before, and my Google searches only lead to information on university preparation courses.

[@Nutella2004]

Prob first grade or kindergarten

[@NoPeacekeeper2008]

@@jacquelinewarner-smith1770 4-5ish year olds

[@midnighta9574]

lmao my brain saw the words “foundation” and “ikea” first 3008

[@ShadowFenix]

No way haha, one of those bears is sitting here right next to me as I was reading these comments hahah

[@Sub_3690]

One time one of the kids in my class bought in her adoption papers And Matt you are amazing (there’s your compliment)

[@junoshithead]

NAHHH😭😭

[@colinnelson4080]

How was that received by the class?

[@Sub_3690]

@@colinnelson4080 honestly I don’t remember but probably just confusion

[@alexlee2237]

That's actually quite wholesome. Well, depending what she said about them.

[@WackyrDrago]

Your pfp was probably what you were doing when you saw the papers

[@jamiehall1460]

I brought sea monkeys to school once (They had a little travel necklace thing that came with their main tank, it was kinda weird now that I think about it) and everyone thought it was cool until one of girls who didn't like got a hold of it and dumped them into a puddle. I was so mad I don't remember what happened next, I know a lot of people saw it happen so I vaguely remember a teacher telling her that wasn't nice or something like that, but for the rest of the time the puddle was there I told myself that my sea monkeys were happy and not already dead. It was also a seasonal puddle so it would come back every spring and every time I looked at it I thought of my poor sea monkeys.

[@NellaJade]

They’re in a better place now, sorry for your loss 😔

[@soupcangaming662]

bro I would think of actually throwing a chair at that girls head lol

[@dfquartzidn6151]

I hope she learned her lesson. Holy shit.

[@eldritchtourist]

Child: commits premeditated murder Teacher: "that's not nice!" I really don't feel like she learned her lesson.

[@theMyRadiowasTaken]

that girl definitely grew up to be a serial killer

[@nullstudios2989]

I once brought in a rancid slice of deli ham, i then ate it in front of my whole class and went “ta daaa”. I got sick that Christmas.

[@abbycollins]

On Christmas, Jesus. Finally found something worse than me getting diagnosed with Covid on Christmas in 2020. 😂

[@esmin2400]

Your compliment is that me (21), my sister (18), my mum (50) and my step dad (53) all love your content and excitedly wait for new uploads. Your content is enjoyed by many and by pretty much all age groups :)! We also quote the furby vids so much that they’re just household inside jokes

[@Matt_Rose]

Amazing! Hello to the Esmin household!!

[@MOVED_acc.144]

@@Matt_Rose hello to the rose household

[@BirdaeBlue]

Hello to me

[@duffpaddy3996]

​@@MOVED_acc.144 hello to the skullemojeeeeeeeeeyyyy man

[@esmin2400]

@@Matt_Rose hahah they all say hi back and ‘skullemojiskullemojiskullemojiskullemo-‘

[@Jinxprincess13]

My mother was like 7 when she stood up in show and tell to tell everyone her sister had just had a baby. The teacher said something along the lines of 'her husband must be so proud' so my mum corrected her and said 'she's not married' (my aunt was a teenager when she had her first child) and then proceeded to explain where babies come from to the other little kids who, bless their innocence, thought you needed to be married to have babies. I also once brought in some graffitied children's books I'd gotten at a car boot sale, and proceeded to read them out, edits and all, to the class. I can't remember much about them, beyond Goldilocks and the Three Bears being raging cannibals, but I do recall them not being totally child appropriate.

[@robblequoffle8456]

Did her aunt not know about contraceptives?

[@BnRstudios4912]

I once brought in a cartoon book called “the bunny suicides” and I may have traumatised my entire class. It’s a comic book about a bunch of cute, fluffy little bunnies… well… another time, I brought in my snake, which scared everyone. I think everyone has some cursed “show and tell” story.

[@catsungdae]

did you discover this book in the school library/class bookshelves or was this an original piece? if the former, oh my god who wrote that why was it in a school and is that person ok. if the ladder, i hope youre doing well now and that whatever pain made you write that has healed. or this could just be a case of a little kid just not knowing what the word meant. either way, youve got me intrigued. as a depressed artistic person i live for morbid shit like this

[@BnRstudios4912]

@@catsungdae neither, actually. My dad received it as a gag gift, and I discovered it in 3rd grade. I, being a probably psychopathic 9 year old kid, thought it was absolutely weird and I wanted to make sense of why someone would write it (plus, the shock made it funny, in my mind) and took it in. I had, in my childhood, many situations in which I didn’t really grasp social norms, including an incident in which I played the song “warm leatherette” to some kids in my class. I wasn’t violent, just really unempathetic and wanted to better understand people, I guess

[@catsungdae]

@@BnRstudios4912 interesting! the confusion of wanting to understand what it meant as an unempathetic child makes total sense; wanting to understand my peers was something i tried really hard to accomplish too (and failed miserably most of the time) and was difficult even while being highly sensitive and empathetic, so i wouldnt necessarily say that's psychotic behavior. (DISCLAIMER: i am not a psychiatrist, just a young person with a deep interest in psychology and a haver of a a handful of disorders). hopefully the class and the teacher weren't too traumatized by that experience though!!

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

Pet snake for show and tell is BASED, screw your class lmao

[@Sushininja10]

My mom had that same book. (Except it was called, "The Return of the Bunny Suicides", so there's a sequel) I didn't read it when I was little, so either she hid it really well, or I found it but wasn't interested in it for whatever reason.

[@TerraDome810]

I remember years ago my dad gave me a large roll of unused wallpaper for me to doodle on, at this time I had a bunch of lego stickers from a sticker book. So over the course of three days I used all the stickers to make different scenes on the lego, alongside drawings as well. On a show and tell day i decided to bring it in and when I showed it to the class but I couldn't show it all to the class since it was a massive bloody roll of wallpaper, so the teacher got three other students to hold it up for me. I think my parents still have it as well in the garage.

[@datey_in_a_1st_taxi]

Wow!

[@DEAD_ACCOUNT0000]

In year 1, I brought in this whaleshark plushie that was purchased from a soap shop up north so it smelled really nice. This may sound normal enough, only when it was getting passed around, one of the kids was sniffing it for 5 minutes and wouldn't give it back to me or to anyone else and began screaming because of it. Then my teacher yelled at me for not answering any questions that the class may have.

[@sergioventura2595]

Did they get withdrawn affects from whale shark plush being taken away?

[@AFarmerCalledChicken]

What the hell

[@mildlymarvelous]

Why did the teacher yell at YOU when the other kid was the one misbehaving???

[@budgiesmsmaccount302]

@@mildlymarvelous because some teachers are shits unfortunately 😭 I was constantly bullied in elementary but I’d always be the one getting in trouble because the bullies would just say “I didn’t do it” and the teachers would believe them without any further questions

[@DEAD_ACCOUNT0000]

@@mildlymarvelous Because it gave the teacher a reason to continue making fun of me and my ADHD

[@CoolLookinPea]

I remember bringing in an optical illusion I drew to class, Unbeknownst to me I drew it wrong and nobody understood what I was talking about

[@nevenazMadwrld]

i think this meant unbeknownst

[@ethanol1586]

​@Nevena was just about to say that but you beat me to it

[@CoolLookinPea]

@@nevenazMadwrld I did mean unbeknownst, thank you for correcting me and I will be sure to be more literate in the future

[@grmpf]

This story is melting my brain, how did you not realise this before you showed it to everyone from the fact that, when you looked at it, you couldn't see the illusion either?

[@cillianwatters5619]

The illusion was that there was no illusion

[@YuBeace]

I love how at first I genuinely wondered if I had made a mistake when unpausing the video when speedy gonzales appeared a second time. Then the third time it all made sense. Both Matt and this kid are trying to gaslight me.

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

I didn't even notice he included that 3 separate times until you pointed it out. Matt is a master troll!

[@paperstrawsYT]

Yeah I got really confused

[@Scrufflord]

bro what? it only showed up once

[@XanderHarris1023]

@@Scrufflord is educating everyone on what gaslighting is.

[@emeraldhillzone1992]

"Sheen, this is the seventh week in a row you've shown Ultra Lord in class."

[@scrub8423]

It's a real shame that your cooking videos don't have so many views, because you truly are a masterful chef

[@Matt_Rose]

They are a secret gem for a select few of us lunatics ❤

[@Chrokosaur]

@@Matt_Rose I'd say they aren't safe for mass consumption honestly

[@Lukey-D]

@@Chrokosaur or human consumption

[@sym3ra]

Where I live, we never did Show & Tells (at least as far as I remember), instead we had something called a toy flea market, where kids could trade toys they didn't want anymore. No one really traded toys and it was more of a Pokemon trading card market, but there was one instance, where the parents of a kid had to be called, because he was pawning off his parents jewelry to the students.

[@billcipher8645]

Imagine trading a gold 24 karat necklace for a toy car or something, I would never forgive myself😊

[@AverageMobileGamePlayer]

Once my younger brother in grade 2 he brought 60 buck worth of cash to his class and my mom had left it in his backpack by accident and I guess he found it and gave some to his friends but the teacher caught them and my mom get the money back😂😂😂

[@therealnarnia5117]

My brother once sold a snack sized bag of pretzels to a friend for 20 bucks. He was 10.

[@schrodingerscat4503]

My sibling recently stole a $50 bill from me and used it to buy toys from their friends at school. They gave me the 50 bucks back but it’s not the same.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@schrodingerscat4503 Your $50 is in a superposition state of being both returned and not returned at the same time

[@Chemical-Clown]

In preschool i once brought in my giant african millipede. The teacher was confused but used it as a teaching moment to ask the kids if they knew why it was called a millipede. My pets name was Milly and she was gifted to me by my neighbors because they had given my sister geckos and wanted me to have something too. We ended up relocating her a few years later.

[@heatherduke7703]

Your millipede lived for years??

[@JetFalcon710]

@@heatherduke7703 I looked it up and giant African millipedes have a life expectancy of about 7-10 years

[@aedwynn6474]

@@heatherduke7703 They've been known to live up to a decade in captivity.

[@jakepullman4914]

Where did you relocate your sister to? Did you still visit?

[@Chemical-Clown]

@@jakepullman4914 we relocated Milly, not my sister lol, sorry for the confusion.

[@princess_ama]

I used to be a preschool assistant. This one little girl brought in her great-grandma’s dentures. We called her house, just in case great-grandma needed them, and it turned out that she had been looking for them all morning. 😬

[@courtneyblaylock315]

Not the weirdest story, but the kid that lived across the street from me HATED my guts when we were in kindergarten. During show and tell, this little psychopath brought in a really fast, really large, super cool drone. Everyone was impressed and they all wanted to see it fly. Kid said “Okay!”, plopped the darn thing right in front of me, and then proceeded to fly it full speed, into my face. This was really funny to write for some reason because I feel like if someone had caught a video of it, I could be a vine

[@Dr-Random]

I would’ve just slapped it right off the desk and hoped it hit him. “You wanna be a demon, I can be a demon too.”

[@LunarMoth]

​@@Dr-Random no offense but that sounds really cringe. If you don't care, alright that's neat. Just a heads up yknow

[@Dr-Random]

@@LunarMoth ok cool

[@LunarMoth]

@@Dr-Random thumbs up 👍

[@fartfart-z8x]

@@LunarMoth Shards pt.1 The Mirror Screams This Is It. If You Shall Wish for Pain Callix Lunaris - A Thousand Times More - Fixed Remember Them [Tribute] tbh that is more cringe then what they said and also ur use of emojis

[@Volvith]

A friend of mine once brought a rolled up lead roof gutter lining to show and tell. Like, 35 kilograms of lead. He rolled it in. It was our emergency school building's roof gutter. He thought it was cool because the rain made metal that's soft. _He was no longer allowed to bring stuff for show & tell anymore from then on. _*_And neither was anyone else._*

[@Nutella2004]

Yikes

[@rheynotryan]

yikes

[@JetFalcon710]

Yikes

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

yikes

[@JeremiahWolfe-tz6gk]

We just got a lead we just got a lead we just got a lead we just got a lead we just got a lead wonder who it’s from

[@BrokenHedgehog]

One kid in my kindergarten class brought his own preserved tonsils in a jar. We all thought it was the coolest shit, but our poor teacher was visibly trying not to throw up, all while telling him it was "very nice."

[@Mo_Thecat]

That’s nasty…! Also I love your profile picture! It’s King Dedede, right?

[@R3DR0PE]

I wish they would've preserved my tonsils and adenoids after I got them removed! Would be a nice conversation starter

[@BrokenHedgehog]

@@Mo_Thecat Ye! Drew him myself!

[@Tomato12830]

​@@BrokenHedgehog That's really good!

[@SethsterFilms]

ye kids are unphased by gore for some reason

[@lunanote-cassettemeower]

I wanted to show and tell a stuffed animal I had made during the weekend but this was in third grade and apparently we weren’t allowed to do show and tell unless “it was something we worked towards to” (something like that) I’m pretty sure a stuffed animal I spent several days on is worthy of a show and tell That teacher was a jerk though, she hated me for no reason and said nasty things about me to my parents and I’d get punished for things nobody else got punished for if they did the same thing I did. I found the stuffed animal again years later and it honestly doesn’t look very good, at least by the standards of the plushies I’ve made more recently. I didn’t have a pattern or a reference image and I didn’t have the perfect materials for it. It was supposed to be of Om Nom from Cut the Rope and it honestly doesn’t really look like him too much, if you didn’t know it was him you’d probably think it was some random alien frog and not Om Nom.

[@JohnDoe-tl4gm]

But still!! You made him in third grade! That’s quite the feat! Even if he didn’t look like Om Nom when you finished, he was still made with love!

[@TheOtherGuys2]

I had a class project when I was in.. probably third grade or so, where we each had to make a stuffed animal, and step one was to make a pattern for it. As ended up the norm for my school career, I adhered to the rules as loosely as possible, and a couple weeks later I had to explain to the arts and crafts teacher what a "Saturn V rocket" was, and why I had a meter-tall and very very furry stuffed one.

[@redeye4516]

I was about to ask if we had the same teacher but mine was my second grade teacher.

[@Borbinator]

„Alien frog”💀

[@jojawesome_]

blah blah Scrump, blah blah brain surgery

[@kiamaria331]

I brought in a dead baby snake that I found in my yard & thought was cool because I’d never seen a baby snake before 😂. My teacher just death-glared at me in silence and snatched the brown paper bag I brought it in from my hand.

[@TheIndieMoon640]

There was this girl called Lily in my school, and she brought her hamster, Fluffy, to school. In a cardboard box. With no air holes. When she opened the box to see that the hamster was dead, she was so upset that she pissed herself on the carpet.

[@AverageMobileGamePlayer]

Wait was the box taped up and how long ago was this and what grade and if it was recent do you have an update?

[@TheIndieMoon640]

@@AverageMobileGamePlayer Yes, the box was taped up, that was year 2 (first grade) about 9 years ago, and when I asked Lily about it the other day, she reminded me that she was so sad that she also vomited on another kids head.

[@bigbaz4632]

Damn man, seems hamsters having the most abnormal deaths rings true again.

[@cynister7384]

This is a the second comment that I've read about someone pissing the carpet here.

[@lixscat9419]

@@cynister7384was thinking the same thing

[@rrodey]

I once brought in a stuffed hermit crab toy to an animal show and tell at my local church. I was so embarrassed at being the only person who brought in a stuffed animal I refused to go the next time the show and tell came around.

[@theab3957]

Hey, at least you didn't bring a dead pet.

[@rrodey]

@@theab3957 Fair point, that would have been much worse.

[@theab3957]

@@rrodey The comments I have seen on this video make me question why some parents let their children have pets.

[@Mo_Thecat]

Aw! If I were there, I wouldn’t have laughed at you or anything! People can develop super close relationships with stuffed animals (like me), that they can even feel like pets or even friends. I don’t know why someone would bring their pets to places without any parents because…who knows what can happen. Unlike a stuffed animal, you can always get a new one! However, I real hermit crab would’ve been cool too haha.

[@natesullivanw24]

I brought in my grandmother for show and tell because she happened to be visiting from Tennessee. When asked about her, I said, "Well, she talks funny"

[@JoelMurphy77]

Before I had ever been to school, my sister would talk about show and tell. My child's mind thought it was some weird game where you take your pants down and show off. Fortunately, I never did that.

[@Sayeed1601butmunchesoncurry]

Mine isn’t so much bad, it’s just what happened, I brought in a trophy (can’t remember what I won it for) and when it was just after break, the teacher stepped outside for 2 minutes and some kid said “can I see your trophy” and I was like “sure”. He then proceeded to run around attacking people like it was a sword and when I chased after him to get it back, he ran off into a toilet and locked himself in, when the teacher finally got him to open the door we were greeted with my trophy being in two pieces inside the toilet as he tried to hide the evidence, what made it worse he had also taken a piss in said toilet and thought that meant it would flush better… it didn’t

[@beardiemom]

Your teacher sounds... mentally unstable. Nvm, turns out I just can't read.

[@oderchannel426]

@@beardiemom what?

[@Sayeed1601butmunchesoncurry]

@@beardiemom wuh…

[@jello-anthem]

That entire situation is chaos what on Earth

[@aylen7062]

@@beardiemom What did the teacher do wrong?

[@Hajilex]

Can we just appreciate the blood rituals and sacrifices of innocents that is required for Matt's amazing voice

[@Matt_Rose]

😊

[@upseguest]

😊​@@Matt_Rose

[@keshobii]

I remember in grade 6 I brought my laptop in to show how I edited images in GIMP, but the image in question was a picture I made in Garry’s Mod with Splatoon characters fighting each other. Throughout the whole thing, I was nervously showing all the different tools I used to edit the image and the biggest wave of embarrassment went over me, realising how much self-awareness I was lacking. It still haunts me to this day.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

Screw that, that's a great show and tell. You could have gotten somebody in the class into image editing, or Splatoon for that matter. The only problem is sixth graders aren't gonna reveal that they think it's cool when other people think it's weird.

[@sylviaafonso]

man i bet if i was in your class i would be fucking amazed

[@totallynotaclone]

Very cool. Much better than bringing a mummy's decaying remains or a syringe off of NYC's streets.

[@gavinthecrafter]

Coolest thing I've seen on here so far

[@presidentcherry6193]

Do you still make em?

[@Overview0725]

When I was around 5 years old (2011) I couldn't think of what to bring in for show and tell, so I went in my parents room and found a rubber thing which I assumed was a toy, turns out after I arrived and showed it off in class my parents got called because I brought a condom to school

[@GEU1164]

WTF

[@justinm16]

that's crazy was it used or no

[@AFarmerCalledChicken]

I tried to show off a Pokeball in kindergarten. It was imaginary. I still cringe when I think about it. It wasn’t as bad as another girl in the class showing us all that she knew how to eat glue sticks

[@gifflebunk]

My 4-year-old self was OBSESSED with eating glue sticks. But then again, my 4-year-old self was obsessed with eating everything. Sand? Play dough? Paint? *Nothing was safe.*

[@gingermaniac5484]

I imagine the antichrist would be like you, the goatly inherited instinct to eat anything and everything. are you goat?

[@AFarmerCalledChicken]

@@gifflebunk how did any of us make it to adulthood

[@Maddiee04]

I brought my dog is grade 1. He is a golden retriever, extremely friendly and he was a huge hit. I forgot my classmate was extremely allergic to pet hair, I sent him to the hospital for a good month… hehe 😬

[@gigitheskeleton6202]

​@@AFarmerCalledChicken by barfing relentlessly?

[@tinyrocketship]

Didn’t have anything to bring in for show and tell one day in pre k. Instead I pulled a 3 year old’s equivalent of a 200 IQ move and announced that the fuzzy sweater I was wearing was my object for show and tell. Then proceeded to walk around the circle getting everyone to feel how soft it was, I remember feeling like a god.

[@pinkdarkman]

I did something similar in 2nd grade, only I decided to show off my shoes by slamming my foot down on a boy in the front row's desk. Sometimes I think about that and feel bad still lol. I don't think my shoes were very clean.

[@HeyitsBri_]

Imagine watching a child grow from conception, heavily anticipating their birth, and doing whatever you can to be good parents and give them opportunities in life you’ve never had only for them to become a snitch at show n’ tell

[@demo2823]

Most of this snitching is when parents do something bad in front of their kid or expose the kid to something inappropriate yet refuse to explain it, so the kid has to fashion in their own imagination an explanation as to why this super weird thing happened. No kid shows up saying, "This is my mom's crack pipe. Her addiction makes the family dysfunctional and drives our finances to ruin." They show up saying, "This is the glass bottle mommy uses to make clouds. It makes her happy and fun! Except for the times it makes her scream and throw stuff."

[@BontrasSnide]

3:02 This one’s actually scarily accurate. Every time we had show and tell as a kid, someone would bring in poison ivy.

[@taraanelair7044]

I'm curious, was it always the same person or was it passed around like a tradition of some kind?

[@BontrasSnide]

@@taraanelair7044 I think it was a different kid but it’s honestly been so long that all I remember was that someone did it XD

[@samuel-aka-contepic]

someone brought it in once and another asked if they could touch it

[@Star-pd6lu]

show and tell shouldnt stop being a thing as you get older, as a 16 year old i would love if we had a show and tell in my highschool

[@bartholomewhalliburton9854]

Which class would you do it in?

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

It would have to be opt-in though, because otherwise people would bring lame things to get it over with, and at most high schools in the US I have the feeling basically nobody would opt in.

[@Star-pd6lu]

@@bartholomewhalliburton9854 english or whatever you have first period

[@Star-pd6lu]

@@Nat_the_Chicken the top 5 coolest things people bring in get them extra credit

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@Star-pd6lu Well that sounds completely fair and balanced and definitely not subjective at all lol

[@katielinzie7444]

I used to bring my Webkinz to show and tell a lot. The funny part was that I’d use my time slot to try to get my classmates to sign up for the site by hyping up all the things you could do and how cheap the stuffed animals were. (They were not 😂) Looking back, I think I wanted my friends to play with me online, but it seems like I was working a pyramid scheme or something! 😆😆😆

[@twelved4983]

I REMEMBER THOSE THINGS AAAAAAAAAAAA

[@damlatorun6756]

Omg I grew up with webkinz AAAAAAAAA THE NOSTALGIA

[@Camsvfx_]

Oh god. A few weeks ago a girl brought in her pet rabbit to show to her friends. It suffocated in her bag.

[@zacuddin3821]

F

[@CoasterPlanet]

to hell with that kid

[@DarkDragonSlayer]

F

[@the_looperr]

F

[@Spongyboi897]

Oh no... (also F)

[@F-35BLightningII]

"I am ready for a compliment." I mean *_I've seen worse hair styles_*

[@Niko69420]

2:35 I love how Matt gives us a warning before showing the pictures for the squeamish viewers (I’m not squeamish myself), but I find it very wholesome and a nice little way to tell and let us know when the pictures are gone. Wish more channels did the same thing.

[@heartofthewild680]

Me too. Some channels give a time stamp for when it’s safe to look, but then KZbin shows you the pictures in the miniscreen when you search for the time stamp so you end up traumatized anyway, assuming the channel even gives you enough time to read the time stamp and skip to it

[@Sillimant_]

oh please. after seeing your third beheading on the internet a small thing like a mummified foot is nothing

[@Sillimant_]

@@heartofthewild680 sounds like a skill issue

[@deanplaysroblox]

bro i pressed the timestamp now traumatised

[@quan-uo5ws]

​@@Sillimant_Idk how these people arent just unfazed by this, if you frequently visit the internet you will see some bad stuff even if you dont want to

[@maxolotl7089]

Our Show and Tell was very normal, everyone brought in plushies or Pokémon cards or some other toy, but every single kid only asked one question for the following week: Can we do a Pet Show and Tell? The teachers only said they couldn't because people might be allergic but I found out later that my school did do a single event where every class did that, all on the same day, at the same time, long before I was there. By the end of the day, the school had picked up ~120 pounds of waste (which some kids *ate*) and one kid was hospitalized for having a severe allergy to cats that he didn't know he had.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

Yeah that's definitely a thing where you want to let at most one kid in the class bring in their pet every week, and only if it's extremely well-trained...

[@Jelloomi]

teachers: no dont bring pets people can have an allergic reaction the school: BRING IN YOUR PETS ALL AT THE SAME TIME SURELY NOTHING WILL GO WRONG RIGHT the kids:

[@martinhybelbauer4857]

3:43 i thought i was losing my mind

[@HarrisForte-bo2rh]

That punchline was legendary

[@chickenshrek]

Agreed

[@thethumbisafinger]

0:15 I actually also had a kid in my elementary school day he had wooden knees. funny coincidence. he lied a lot. I was a VERY gullible kid, but even I saw through the stuff he said. the other two that I remember were 1. his grandma was Harriet Tubman. while not impossible, this was the 2010s and he was white as a sheet. 2. he was a robot. I doubted this and asked him to make robot noises, which he obviously couldn’t do.

[@vange13113]

When I was in Year 4, I was obsessed with Moshi Monsters, so for a Christmas-themed show and tell, I preformed a terrible Moshi-themed rendition of a Christmas carol (can’t remember which one). It was off-key and I couldn’t remember most of the lyrics. Everyone clapped to support me but most of them were giving me pained looks

[@francesca_dogs]

One of the girls in my primary school class brought in a whole bag of wood lice. A SEALED FREEZER BAG OF WOODLICE. I still shiver a little thinking about it.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Were they alive?

[@francesca_dogs]

@@Amy_the_Lizard they were to begin with…..

[@WeirdLookingCat1]

where did they get them??

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

@@WeirdLookingCat1 Probably a log, that's where they usually hang out in my experience, though I'm impressed the kid managed to bag them since they're pretty zippy

[@jordanr.2120]

I never had show and tell growing up. As a kid I always felt cheated because I had cool things I wanted to show people. Now as an adult I feel cheated because I never had the chance to have any stories like this.

[@MrVhampOfficial]

that singular phrase: “im ready for a compliment.” scared the living hell out of me when it was said at the very end

[@RonnieAnemone]

I brought a rock once. Nothing else, just a rock. Didn't even try to make it sound cool

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

one time in kindergarten my friend was panicking about not having anything for show and tell so i lended her the fake gold necklace i was wearing. she then proceeded to tell the class that it was an artifact from ancient egypt and "forget" to give it back to me.

[@alexspillowfort888]

I had a classmate that would bring in different kitchen utensils every time. I think she probably forgot that it was show and tell dad until right before she left her house and would just grab a spatula or spoon. It was honestly kinda fun seeing what she’d bring in each week.

[@mackback319]

did she ever bring in a knife

[@Phoca_Vitulina]

That was actually cute though, the kid who brought the durian! Durians are the weirdest fruits, so fun and strange looking! :)

[@PhoenixofEru]

At first I thought the second mention of Speedy Gonzales was a slip up on Matt's part. I mean, even Matt can't be perfect all the time right? But nope. At the third mention I realized that it was completely intentional and, in my personal opinion, absolutely brilliant.

[@yYSilverFoxYy]

I stuffed my pockets full of living frogs I found outside in the rain, and brought them to kindergarten. Not for show and tell, I was simply *that kid*

[@flickcentergaming680]

Cool

[@zimriel]

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[@bomatosauce]

I've only done Show & Tell a few times back in Kindergarten/Year 1, yet I explicitly remember a kid brought a glowstick...then broke it open and ate it.

[@ExtremeWreck]

Madlad

[@Vicioussnakeboy]

Is that kid still alive

[@bomatosauce]

@@Vicioussnakeboy He was in the hospital for a while but yeah.

[@totallynotaclone]

Lots of kids used to brag to me about eating the gunk inside of glowsticks and getting sick.....what was going on all those years ago??

[@Dawg347]

@@totallynotacloneso the tide pod challenge wasn’t a one off thing?

[@LtBasil]

My (at the time) 4-year-old oldest sister once brought my 1-year-old middle sister to school for show-and-tell. My middle sister was bald at the time, and my oldest sister happily pointed out all of the blood vessels on her head to the class.

[@shadesoftime]

I brought a yellow submarine dvd to show and tell once and the whole class said Im on crack. I was incredibly pissed though because I absolutely adored that film and the beatles in general lmao

[@gairisiuil]

that is extremely unfortunate

[@xandwich3915]

One time I brought in some souvenirs from my holiday to Greece but a girl who went before me did exactly the same thing but it was also her mum’s wedding. I decided that mine would be boring in comparison and I just couldn’t live with that so when it was my turn I just started lying about how there was a plane crash and I barely survived

[@theab3957]

Lol, a classic move. I cringe whenever I think of the many times I lied to try and make friends at school.

[@therealnarnia5117]

I convinced everyone I had super powers but they never worked while anyone was watching me

[@dallanledford6364]

I remember when a girl brought her doll that could eat toy food. The teacher warned everyone else to keep their hair away from its mouth, so of course you can guess what happened next.

[@augustoof13]

Was it that cabbage patch eating doll that wouldn’t let go of your hair if you had it near it? I think I’ve heard about that thing!

[@Anotherdawgthatiscrispy]

They put the hair in?

[@theofficialwoohoogamers]

that's metal!

[@maryleethefox8642]

I brought in a taxidermy baby alligator head, my aunt sent it to my for my birthday when she moved to Florida. I now keep it on my alter.

[@numberonesnarkfan]

I brought in Allie Brosh's "Hyperbole and a Half" for show and tell once. I loved the book. For anyone unaware, it is a book version of a blog with the same name of a woman talking about herself and her childhood: things like getting lost in the woods, being attacked by a goose, getting depression, and adopting mentally challenged dogs. This was one of the moments when I realised that maybe I wasn't quite like all the other kids as the teacher informed me it was too mature for a child to read.

[@m.nic.5080]

I used to love that book, I got in trouble once with my family for using the r word to refer to the dog in it. I never tried bringing it to school though.

[@russellhamm7891]

“Please Stop”

[@kryw10]

I insist all my mental health professionals read “This is why I’ll never be an adult” because it describes my process perfectly. They’ve all been glad I shared it. Even if it’s very sweary. And aggressive. I adore her and you are awesome.

[@kryw10]

@@russellhamm7891 please stop is broken. ✋🛑😂

[@heinzbeans2117]

Brother went on his Matilda arc