Worst things kids have brought in for Show & Tell 

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

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

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

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

"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.

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!"

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

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

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.

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.

I brought my collection of over six hundred beer bottle caps to my fourth grade show and tell, I proceeded to say my aim was a thousand and explained how I had collected them for a couple of years. My teacher was shocked and looked very concerned throughout my presentation.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

one kid in my brothers class when he was like 3 said “i dont wanna show, I wanna tell.” The teacher: “what do you wanna tell us?“ “ *my dad is in prison* ”

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.

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.

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? 😄🫥

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.

“This is my life sized Speedy Gonzales plushie!” “gardenkweenPNW, this is the third time you’ve shown your life sized Speedy Gonzales plushie in class”

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

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 💀

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.*

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.

One time for show and tell i bought a photo of my vomit soaked cat after i threw up on her from eating too much bbq. I am ready for my compliment.

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.

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.

My friend brought his iPad and showed it off to the entire class. I don't know why the teacher let him. Because it was 2013, everyone knew what an iPad was. He just used show and tell to play his iPad for 30 minutes during the school day.

Here’s your compliment. Your videos are so funny and awesome to watch, and you upload them weekly. 10/10 uploads!

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.

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

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.

I once bought in an ostrich egg only to smash it on the floor at lunch and then show and tell the remaining shell

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

1:32 that was a rather appropriate way to segway into that memory everybody remembers from elementary school;

well hes ready for a compliment so.. these videos genuinely make me feel so much happier after i go though another episode of me thinking about all of the horrid things that has been done to me or that i have done and makes me forget for quite a while actually

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

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

I brought in a live slug I found and a piece of grass that I convinced myself was a dead praying mantis.

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. 😬

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

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

i remember having show or tell. one time i just talked about fnaf 2 teasers but another time i explained how i participated in a fight to the death with someone from the year below. some kid asked ".....did you win?"

We didn't usually have show and tell but I'd always bring my Slush beanie buddy because I was always bullied and kinda just wanted an excuse to hold him, and it was one of the few things they dared not touch. Still have him.

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

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.

I don't recall ever having show and tell at my schools, though it was certainly a thing I knew about from media (along with other mythical things.. such as lockers.. and home ec class..) Alls well, it would've been- MATT YOU SHOULD SEARCH CRAZY THINGS KIDS HAVE SUBMITTED AS SCIENCE PROJECTS

Your compliment: I love your channel, and the bit with Speedy Gonzales was great!

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."

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.

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

matt rose is like a wall keeping my depression from getting worse

This is once again another amazing video you never fail to make me laugh 😂

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!

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

Alrighty, here’s your compliment: your videos are hilarious, Bamboo is adorable, and your Furby voice is very funny!

dude that video was hilarious. you deserve my compliment. 100%.

In like second grade I had found some pig bones by the lake my family was camping at and I thought they were super cool. I brought them into show and tell only for everyone there to be grossed out and my teacher made me throw them away. I like to attribute this moment as part of my villain origin story as I now have a fascination with and love for collecting all things skulls and bones.

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.

One time I stole my dad’s car keys in for show and tell, the school phoned my parents and they were not impressed

The speedy Gonzalez story reminds me of Ultra Lord in Jimmy Neutron lol

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.

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.

I dont actually recall anything about having Show And Tell But You did Great Matt!

The Speedy Gonzalez bit was brilliantly executed, well done my good sir

3:43 i thought i was losing my mind

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.

Appreciate the warnings for images, man!

The fool is a badass guitar though

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

I love how instead of just reading the speedy gonzolez one, he read it three times and then read the ending. Pure gold.

~whimpering~ I probably should have closed my eyes

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! 😆😆😆