If you've been on Twitter at all over the past 24 hours, chances are you've heard about the sorry saga of John 'Bean Dad' Roderick and his epic Twitter downfall. If not, we'll catch you up to speed. On Jan 2, @johnroderick posted a marathon of a Twitter thread, boasting at length about refusing to show his hungry nine-year-old daughter how to use a can opener to open a can of beans. In the thread he recounts encouraging her to struggle with the device over a span of six hours in hopes to help her build character, or something. An outcry across Twitter immediately ensued and it didn't take long for people to dig up many racist, sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic tweets from @johnroderick's past. This kerfuffle went so viral, it might even affect the future of Jeopardy! (Don't ask.)
'Bean Dad' is, without a doubt, the unfortunate first main character of 2021. Hopefully this isn't foreshadowing a very cursed year. We've collected some of the funniest Twitter reactions to the whole 'Bean Dad' saga. (Content warning: some of the screenshots of @johnroderick's older tweets contain offensive language.)
TL;DR: Bean dad's nine-year-old daughter wants some beans, but has never used a can opener before. Instead of teaching her how to use it, Bean Dad makes her figure it out herself over a span of six hours.
From the book of bean dad pic.twitter.com/f0eJy0ZTf1
— Vinnie Mancuso (@VinnieMancuso1) January 3, 2021
"I once spent six hours trying to open a can of beans because my dad refused to show me how to use a tin opener" pic.twitter.com/m9hvaOOqWW
— Jonny Sharples (@JonnyGabriel) January 4, 2021
You must open a tin of beans with no help from your dad. You have 6 hours. pic.twitter.com/CnoJBynqxy
— Rhys James (@rhysjamesy) January 4, 2021
Me after struggling to open a can of beans for 6 hours while my dad laughs at me pic.twitter.com/0jpo21JZkA
— GDB (@GreenDragonBot) January 4, 2021
The real issue with the Bean Dad was that he simply had no class. pic.twitter.com/waQuym8lU0
— Mikael 🐈 Privatby (@mikaeltja) January 4, 2021
Thanks for sending. I am not reading all of that (Bean Dad). However, it looks like nonsense.
— Dionne Warwick (@dionnewarwick) January 3, 2021
Bean dad: “My kid is fine!”
— Gene Park (@GenePark) January 3, 2021
The kid: pic.twitter.com/GSp9jPokgu
watching someone learn about bean dad is funny as fuck. visceral hatred in moments pic.twitter.com/3HxwqAeBNZ
— ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Dakota. (@CEOofBitchcraft) January 3, 2021
This is how #BeanDad should have gone. pic.twitter.com/7vMhtVh6zr
— 🎲Roll+Weird👁️ (@roll_weird) January 4, 2021
You know, I was reading this thinking about my own father, who was very much like this. As a child he would always force me to me “figure out things” that I just didn’t know, like it was a “teaching lesson”. I stopped asking him for help and never asked anyone.
— cillian-it-slowly (@epictheoretic) January 4, 2021
#BeanDad explained pic.twitter.com/eVLUVuyRGL
— Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) January 4, 2021
You either die a bean dad or live long enough to see yourself become the bean nazi pic.twitter.com/youjQ4qodh
— Eugene (@eugeneh84) January 4, 2021
Interesting how Bean Dad just deleted his account instead of appreciating the teachable moment
— shelby. (@cathedralslut) January 4, 2021
Bean Dad's daughter is now about 6 hours into watching her dad try to learn how to close a can of worms.
— Syama Mishra (@SyamaMishra) January 4, 2021
guy posts annoying thread of something that probably never happened, people make least charitable reading of it, people find bad tweets from 2011, guy erased from various podcasts etc. that cycle used to take like a week, twitter now knocks it out in 18 hours flat
— james hennessy (@jrhennessy) January 3, 2021
Extremely jealous and annoyed that my podcast co-host is going to be a dictionary entry and I never will.
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) January 3, 2021
Apparently Ken Jennings hosts a podcast with Bean Dad! Jennings' defense of Bean Dad on Twitter may have cost him his chance to host 'Jeopardy.'
If we're word-searching through old tweets now, it's pretty easy to find what he actually thinks about anti-Semitism. On our show he's always the pro-Israel one!
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) January 3, 2021
Does Ken Jennings support of bean dad mean we can stop fucking around and make LeVar Burton the host of Jeopardy? pic.twitter.com/YRzwNSP5zo
— Dr. Jennifer W. Taylor (@JWhitmerTaylor) January 4, 2021