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10 Awkward Moments And Mishaps From The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

A mess.

by Ryan Schocket

BuzzFeed Staff

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is obviously a huge American tradition. But the mess of it all is also a huge tradition in MY house.

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Here are some of the messiest, most awkward mishaps from the parade:

1. Paul Abdul's tap dancing track was not synched properly:

SΞAN @Seanlofficial

Paula Abdul dancing and doing flips on a float at 60 yers old is actually insane #MacysParade

03:09 PM - 24 Nov 2022

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2. And people pointed out how there was clearly some Auto-Tune effect applied to her vocal track, which didn't sound right:

Paige @tayneliastreet1

@vigiilanteshit they wanted us to believe that paula abdul had natural autotune in her voice sjdjdkdjj

03:44 PM - 24 Nov 2022

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Twitter: @tayneliastreet1 / Via @tayneliastreet1

3. Joe Biden's phone call was super awkward because there was bad connection:

TV News Now @TVNewsNow

Awkward! 30 seconds of silence and mumbling as Joe Biden attempted a tech-plagued call into NBC’s Thanksgiving Parade today

05:36 PM - 24 Nov 2022

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4. The lip synching was particularly obvious this year:

Nate Thompson @flyprideair

The hold Sean Paul has on white women while lip syncing a song that came out 17 years ago #MacysThanksgivingParade

03:58 PM - 24 Nov 2022

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Even though we know that they're basically required to.

5. Hoda Kotb tried to correspond with Mario Lopez while he was on the float, but he couldn't hear her:

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6. Someone pointed out this awkward float situation:

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