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

A mess.

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.

smokey the bear balloon at the parade

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

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

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

NBC / @Seanlofficial

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

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

Twitter: @tayneliastreet1 / Via @tayneliastreet1

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

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

NBC / TVNewsNow

4. The lip-synching was particularly obvious this year:

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

NBC / @flyprideair

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:

mario sitting on a large turkey

6. Someone pointed out this awkward float situation:

Absolute peak #MacysThanksgivingParade is having a float celebrating a black female astronaut and the performers on the float are all white.

NBC

7. Some performers — like the Neil Diamond performer — didn't even try to "fake" the live performance with a microphone, they just mimed along:

Neil Diamond musical performance. Wow. #MacysThanksgivingParade

NBC / @tomsilvestro

8. People pointed out the lack of diversity among the Rockettes:

How is it even statistically possible that there are only 2 Black Rockettes???? Come on, now. #MacysThanksgivingDayParade #Rockettes #RockettesSoWhite

NBC / @Possamaquadi

9. Dionne Warwick suffered a noticeable lip sync fail:

closeup of Dionne with a mic

Y’all Dionne Warwick is on this parade not even trying to lip sync. I’m hollering.

Twitter: @whoisAshleyG

10. And lastly, kid hilariously blocked the audience shot with his face during Sean Paul's performance:

kid in front of the camera

What did you make of this year's parade? Let me know in the comments below!