Thanksgiving is a time for family, eating too much and watching football. It is all about being thankful but also there are also moments that call for a funny caption for that amusing pic. We have scoured the internet for the best funny Thanksgiving captions and short funny Thanksgiving quotes for Instagram.
So take the time to relax, let the turkey digest and enjoy these funny sayings for Thanksgiving.
Our Favorite Funny Thanksgiving Captions for Instagram
This wine pairs well with a crazy family
Here’s the one photo we got before the food coma hit…
Casse-rollin’ with the fam!
Birds of a feather flock together
Happy Piesgiving, folks!
Official occupation: couch potato
Is butter(ball) a carb?
Hit me, gravy, one more time
Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater
All you knead is love — and pumpkin pie
Fifty shades of gravy
We go together like turkey and cranberries
More rolls? You butter believe it
Can’t nobody tell me stuffin’
Family, turkey, and football — oh my!
Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine
I cran and I will go back for seconds
Nobody puts gravy in the corner
There is a fine line between fun and family at Thanksgiving.
Judging by the chaos, you’d never guess this was a planned activity.
As far as anyone knows, we’re a nice, normal family.
Family is like that annoying itch you can’t scratch.
Good Times + Crazy Family = Great Thankgiving Memories!
You call it Thanksgiving chaos. We call it family.
Living our dreams. Creating family Thanksgiving memories.
Our family is one tent away from a full-blown circus.
In case anyone wanted a Thanksgiving family update, here it is.
A large family really helps when you’re a lazy one. Especially at Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving family time is perfect content.
No one will ever be as entertained by us as us.
Getting into petty arguments is our favorite Thanksgiving game!
Love, strife, competition, and family.
My family is just the right mix of chaos and love.
We go together, like drunk and disorderly.
We laugh, we cry, we make time fly.
Small moments. Big Thanksgiving memories.
Blessed with the best.
Good family Thanksgiving vibes only.
Epic family Thanksgiving moment!
Turkey tastes better when you eat it with family.
Dad jokes up ahead.
Every family has a Thanksgiving story. Welcome to ours!
Thanksgiving with Family: A little bit of loud and a whole lot of love.
Like tree branches, family may grow in different directions, but their roots will always be one.
Time spent with family at Thanksgiving is worth every second.
Winner, winner, turkey dinner
I can’t eat another bite. Oh look, pie!
It doesn’t get any butter than this
Gobble ’til you wobble
Give thanks and pass the mashed potatoes
It’s all gravy, baby
Stop, drop, and pass the rolls
You call it chaos. We call it family.
Thanksgiving: A time to count blessings, not carbs
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Thanksgiving Puns, Thanksgiving Captions, Fall Puns, November Captions and November Quotes.
Funny Thanksgiving Puns
Because you know I’m all about that baste
Gourd times
Talk turkey to me
Zero plucks given
What a cluster pluck
Pie plucking love this holiday
Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about
Thanksgiving is plucking awesome
I yam what I yam
Oh my gourd-ness, I love Thanksgiving
And they lived apple-y ever after
My gobble-let overfloweth
Let the gourd times roll
Short Funny Thanksgiving Captions
They whine. I wine.
The gravy train
B-autumns up
Easy as pie!
Let’s get basted!
Eat, drink, and cranberry
Thanksgiving indulging
Happy Winesgiving
Thankful for elastic waistbands
Thankful. Grateful. Blessed.
Eat, drink, and be thankful
Thankful today and every day
Thankful, blessed, and mashed potato obsessed
I’m thankful to have a family who takes eating as seriously as I do
Thankful for friends that turned into family
A happy heart is a thankful heart
Not to be corny, but I’m feeling thankful
Eat hard, nap harder
Funny Turkey Captions
Let’s face it, Thanksgiving is all about the turkey. Enjoy these funny turkey captions.
Current status: stuffed like a turkey
It’s turkey time!
Because you know I’m all about that baste
Let’s talk turkey
We go together like turkey and gravy
Fitness? More like fitness whole turkey in my mouth
Don’t be a jerky, eat some turkey
Talk turkey to me
Touchdowns, tailgates, and turkey
Family, turkey, and football — oh my!
Funny Pumpkin Captions
Cutest pumpkins in the patch
Pumpkin kisses and harvest wishes
I’ve never met a pumpkin I didn’t like
Gourd out of my mind
There’s a new pumpkin in the patch!
Give ’em pumpkin to talk about
Go big or gourd home
Pure pumpkin goodness
I’m a little bit of a country pumpkin
You’ve got to be pumpkin-ding me!
At this point my blood type is pumpkin spice
Gourd your loins!
I can’t make everyone happy—I’m not pumpkin spice!
Autumn skies and pumpkin pies
Pumpkin season has begun
Autumn leaves and pumpkins please
Easy as pumpkin pie
Pumpkin is the spice of life
Pumpkin spice and chill
Funny Fall Captions
I haven’t tripped, but here I am in the fall
Leaves are falling, autumn is calling
Meet me under the falling leaves
Long sleeves and autumn leaves
The only thing getting lit this weekend is my pumpkin spice candle
In an autumn state of mind
Oh my gourd I love fall
I never want to leaf this beautiful place
I love fall from the bautumn of my heart
Don’t stop be-leafing
Never fear, pumpkin-flavored everything is here!
My favorite color is autumn
Orange is the new black
Don’t even chai to say you love fall more than me
Orange you glad it’s fall?
It’s November so I’m off enjoying fall
The trees are standing all sticks and bones.
It’s November – Time to be thankful
November is the time to have an attitude of gratitude
November…Chapter 11
November: Cardigans. Moccasins. Flannel Shirts. Big Sweaters. Scarves. Pumpkin. Leaves. Cool nights.
Life is better in November
Short Funny Thanksgiving Quotes for Instagram
“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” —Kevin James
“It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.” —Phyllis Diller
“Here I am, 5 o’clock in the morning, stuffing bread crumbs up a dead bird’s butt.” – Rosanne in Rosanne
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” —Erma Bombeck
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” —Jim Davis
“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.”—Rita Rudner
“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”—Jay Leno
“Coexistence: What the farmer does with the turkey—until Thanksgiving.”—Mike Connolly
“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”—Ina Garten
“Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftover in aluminum foil and throw them out.”—Nicole Hollander
“Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life.” —Lindsey Bareham
“Pie makes everybody happy.”—Laurie Halse Anderson
“It’s Thanksgiving and we should not want to be together, together!”—Rachel Green, Friends
“I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.”—Charlie Brown
“Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.” – Eric Samuel Timm
“A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.”—Kin Hubbard
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”—Oscar Wilde
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”—George Bernard Shaw
“Of all of the food filled holidays, Thanksgiving reigns king in the United States.” – Gia Scott
“People who love to eat are always the best people.” – Julia Child
“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”—William Jennings Bryan
“Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.” – P.J. O’Rourke
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson
“Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.” – Augusten Burroughs
“The Thanksgiving tradition is, we overeat. ‘Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?’ ‘But we do that every day!’ ‘Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?” —Jim Gaffigan
“Thanksgiving—when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn’t have to cook.” – Melanie White
“I got to go home for Thanksgiving and sit at the adults’ table. That’s ’cause, you know, somebody had to die for me to move up a plate.” —Andre Kelley
“Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.” – Stephen Colbert
“For those of you who cannot be with family this Thanksgiving, please resist the urge to brag.”—Andy Borowitz
“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.” – Irv Kupcinet
“I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.” – Damien Fahey
“Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America’s obesity statistics.”—Stephen Colbert
“It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.” – Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
“Hope my relatives are getting along with the professional line sitter I hired to hold my place at the front of the Thanksgiving food line.” —John Lyon
“Thanksgiving – fall’s finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.” – Carew Papritz
“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?” – Erma Bombeck
“Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.” —Melanie White
“Thanksgiving is America’s national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.”—Michael Dresser
“Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.” —Erma Bombeck
“A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear them consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.”—Jimmy Fallon
“I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.”—Damien Fahey
“I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” – Marcus Samuelsson
“‘So what do we do?’ We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.” – Heather Brewer, Eleventh Grade Burns
Funny Thanksgiving Sayings
“November is the time to be thankful, a time to remember and to embrace those who enrich our lives.”
“Give thanks for a little and you’ll find a lot.”
“Let our hearts be full of both “Thanks” and “Giving”!”
“It’s not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it’s the seconds.”
“May the wishbone snap in your favor this Thanksgiving.”
“It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a little emotional scarring.”
“Thanksgiving is a lot like Christmas, except you don’t get any presents for holding in your familial rage.”
“We’re thankful for football, recliners, and elastic waistbands.”
“Thanksgiving. Bringing out the best in family dysfunction since 1863.”
“There’s always something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving. Even if it’s just not being a turkey.”
“Eat – Watch Football – Eat – Repeat.”
“Eat, Drink, and be Thankful!”
“Leftovers are for quitters.”
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Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
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