Wednesday night’s Vice Presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris was a pretty standard affair but one off the cuff moment involving an insect took center stage.
Right in the middle of the debate, a random fly landed on Pence’s head and stayed there for about two minutes.
There’s no other way to put it: a fly landed on Vice President Pence’s head during tonight's debate and stayed there a long, long time. https://t.co/2EB2fLUrPq pic.twitter.com/faDLzmSpc0
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) October 8, 2020
During tonight's vice presidential debate, a fly sat atop Mike Pence's head for about two minutes https://t.co/6nnYOUj3ww pic.twitter.com/mG5KSRV0ie
— Variety (@Variety) October 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1314029118279897089
The fly instantly started trending on Twitter and produced a ton of hilarious jokes.
Imagine Mike Pence going on Twitter after the debate to see what people thought of his ideas only to see over half a million tweets about the fly on his head instead lmaoooooo pic.twitter.com/jM8QWhTc0c
— Pokémon (@ActualAero) October 8, 2020
Pretty fly on a white guy pic.twitter.com/w0S1vDmAte
— Matthew Weinstein (@MBWeinstein) October 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/MikePenceFly___/status/1314030304651169792
I’m self-quarantining now.
– the fly— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) October 8, 2020
I hope SNL gets Jeff Goldblum to play the fly on Pence’s head.
— Ronda 💜🐾🌈🐝 (@Rondaline68) October 8, 2020
Somebody get that damn fly a covid test stat!!
— Dave Bautista (@DaveBautista) October 8, 2020
the snl writer’s room when the fly landed on pence’s head https://t.co/UD5liN25yW
— leigh 🪩 (@sincereleigh_me) October 8, 2020
Everyone, please send me your thoughts and prayers. pic.twitter.com/vfHBwHd9J1
— Matthew Weinstein (@MBWeinstein) October 8, 2020
Even LeBron James joined in on the fun.
