Head of the Family
June 12th, 2009
Occasionally, someone will submit a family photo that isn’t so much awkward as it is strange. Doesn’t mean we don’t love it just the same.
(submitted by Kristin)
Tags: strange
Head of the Family
Doesn’t it bother her to have her face practically IN the ashtray-plate?
“Hey dude… Oh, not much. I’ve gotta watch mi abuela tonight, so uh, I’m just chillin. Nah, she brought over a kick-ass paella and a jug of sangria so I’m set. Yeah sure there’s plenty. C’mon over, and why don’t you bring your camera? And hey, can you pick me up some cigs on the way? Thanks man.”
I’m noticing that there’s two more cigarettes lined up, and no lighter. Chain smoke much?
This photo could just as easily be titled what its successor’s called: “What?”
maybe—i mean probably not, but maybe theres some miniscule chance that she ws sick and he was talking to a 911 operator—but why would someone take a picture of it
Isn’t that Cloris Leachman? She didn’t take the Dancing with The Stars thing too well….
This should be a poster for a new QUIT SMOKING campaign.
I think Gramma looks like she wants to swat the smarty-pants with the camera. (That`s what my Gramma would be thinking.) I like this photo, I actually think it`s sweet. Looks like she`s having a bit of a siesta with her favourite grandson watching over her.
he looks totally comfortable with the situation, and he’s all set up with all those damn cigs lined up. They’re gonna stay at the table all night after that crazy creepy sangria.
What I don’t get is why this is classified as “strange not awkward”… what ISN’T awkward about this picture? It’s more awkward than some others that are in the “awkward” categories.
Oh well.
My question is, why are there seashells in the what I can only assume is dinner…
1. It appears that he’s in it for the long haul with those ciggies, as he has several in line. But why are so many whole cigarettes snuffed out on the dinner plate/ashtray?
2. He definitely appears to be the one smoking…unless they’re just having some smokey bonding time.
3. That picture on the fridge is totally Grandma’s.
4. SUPER classy bottle opener magnet. Super. Classy.
5. Even if we were to put aside all of that… why did someone take a photo of this? I mean, the fact that this woman’s head is in this man’s lap is weird enough, but she looks totally incoherent and he’s ON THE PHONE…what posesses someone to capture this?
…But thank goodness they did.
I think grandma had a little too much wine……
As the house slid down the hill he tried desperately to call for help and save grandma. But damn, he needed a smoke.
This is easy to explain. He drank Grandma under the table.
Funny!
Bwahahaha!!! Well played.
Best comment!
Hmm, I know it’s a random stranger’s picture on the internet, but is there anyway we can request the submitter to post more pics of the guy? He’s kinda hot.
Nothing says “healthy” like using a dinner plate for an ashtray, giant scallop shells in the baking tin, melon rinds in your kiwi-strawberry MD 20/20, and your grandma’s head in your lap…what the f?
eww. Have a little casserole with your cigarettes buddy! He’s on his sixth with plans for 8 before the meal is done . . . And I think they gave Grandma too much sangria because she’s fallen and can’t get up. Very bizarre!
my 4 year old son keeps repeating is that just a head . .mommy is that just a head. I fully expect hium to be waking up screaming tonight
This is so Jerry Springer!
HEY I found Waldo! I win, I win!
Simon Cowell on vacation to Spain with his mother, circa 2002.
I’ve heard oysters are an aphrodisiac
After the shell caserole and mixed fruit wine Christopher Llyodd likes to have a cigarette
“And here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson…”
I can’t even conceive of the events that led to this situation happening?
Perhaps Granny had too much sangria and just had to lay down.
don’t tell me… I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
Oh no….this is completely awkward. Make me shiver a little.
I really love this, actually.
i think this is a blind date gone wrong, so very wrong ……. does gramma’s chair have a bite out of it???
They needed some fiber in the casserole.
I love how Granny is blinging.
too much sangria and grandma is taking a nap?
I agree this pic is a little off and the guy is cute but I don’t think that is his grandma. I think that’s his wife. Just sayin..
I think she just got drunk and tired.
I heard that smoking could shrink your body till you are just a Head.
I vote your comment a 10! I am crying I am laughing so hard
And this picture absolutely proves it.
And Joe, you are one of those funniest people on the planet. Kudos!
My kids want to know why I’m crying…I am laughing SO hard right now! Thanks for the therapy!
I swear, some of the funniest people on the planet log in to this website. Awesome!
agreed
except for the forced-compound-bow-joke people, yeah.
i think im laughing harder at the comments than the pictures
Is that grandma’s picture on the fridge also?
are those sea shells in the pan that they are eating?
That is a scallop’s sea shell. The scallop is baked in its shell.
I think the shell dish is paella. It’s normal to throw the whole critter in the pot with yellow rice, so you’d have clams, scallops, oysters, shrimp…all sharing the spotlight. It can be pretty yummy. I had a plate of the stuff in Spain once that had baby octopus in it. Octopi? That was creepy. Little tentacles everywhere. *shudder*
As for Granny, she’s lookin’ for her lost shaker of salt, obviously.
Wastin’ away again in Sangria-ville, for sure.
If not for the utter and complete bizarreness of everything about this photo, I would think that guy was actually quite attractive.
I would have to agree.
Me too, except he has Gramma’s nose.
hahahahahahahaha
Must be from Grandma…. See her below
Mmm mmm…and Granny…what a cougar!
Am I the only one who thinks he is helping Grandma smoke?
That’s what I was thinking, Grandma, the invalid needed help with a smoke!
Yes! My mind totally went to him about to put the cigarette in her mouth. He is trying to kill her off to get that swank pad of her’s.
A similar thing to this happened in the film Alien I seem to recall….
Grandma is so unimpressed and unenthused in this picture…like it’s no biggie that her head is in his lap as he talks on the phone and drops ash from his cigarette on her. She’s almost bored with the situation…
exactly why is her head in his lap……?
I think Grandma had a little too much sangria, which is why she’s just hanging out in his lap looking so bored/relaxed despite that fact that he’s ashing in her face.
i still to this day keep coming back to this one so i can read comments like this and LOL!!!
This is soo weird. Hahahahaaha keep them coming!
They really pulled out all the stops with the swanky dragonfly tablecloth.
I have yet to get past your comment without laughing out loud.
WHAT is in that glass?? and did they bake.. crusted sea shells??
“I spy…with my little eye….
I think I peed my pans.”
~ BWAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAAHAHAHAA!!!! great, now I think I peed MY pants..
Fruit + wine = Sangria
…and why is there a Slinky in the casserole?
I think it’s a sea shell? Not that that’s any less bizarre but…well I don’t know.
Someone misread the Baked Stuffed Shells recipe, and Grandma is slipping under the table from some kind of food poisoning. A helpful relative tries to revive her with a cigarette while calling for help.
I spy…with my little eye….
I think I peed my pants.
Why is the frig on the patio?
where do you see a fridge? what patio? you’re seeing way beyond the picture I think
Something tells me this was staged specifically for this site just to see what people would say
but think about it.. even if it was, imagine the guy trying to convince grandma to do this?
Good Lord! You can’t STAGE that! Why would they bother. I think that chances are more likely that these people are just…. uh.. weird.
What’s next to the casserole … a staple gun or a nut cracker?
They’re two knives, only the handles are visible. There is much more wrongness scattered throughout this one.
I was just thinking it’s like a look-and-find of wrongness, I spy shells in the casserole!
It looks like paella…also there looks to be Sangria…I’m sensing a Spanish theme.
I love I-Spy! Pick me! Pick me!
i jus love a good sea-shell casserole
id really like to know what the hell is in the glass.
SRSLY. It looks godawful.
looks like sangria to me…