Queen of Melrose "My Father Gets a Job at the Palm Restaurant"

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Queen of Melrose "My Father Gets a Job at the Palm Restaurant" refers to a viral video of celebrity stylist and fashion designer Cosmo Lombino, aka the Queen of Melrose, speaking about her father in an interview with Soft White Underbelly on YouTube. Lombino is seen with bleach-blonde hair, wearing a fur coat and smoking a cigarette. The particular clip starts with her saying, "So we move to LA. My father gets a job at the Palm Restaurant. My Uncle Junior works there who was a Jehovah's Witness …" The video went viral on Twitter / X in mid-2024, trending as a reaction video on Stan Twitter. Many captioned the video akin to unnecessarily ranting in humorous scenarios, while others used her monologue as a copypasta.

Origin

On March 1st, 2024, the YouTube^[1] channel Soft White Underbelly uploaded a roughly 37-minute-long interview with celebrity stylist and fashion designer Cosmo Lombino, aka the Queen of Melrose, gaining over 399,600 views and 19,000 likes in three months. At the video's 4:07-minute mark (shown below), Lombino says, "So we move to LA. My father gets a job at the Palm Restaurant. My Uncle Junior works there who was a Jehovah's Witness …"

Copypasta

So we move to LA. My father gets a job at the Palm Restaurant. My Uncle Junior works there who was a Jehovah's Witness, believe it or not. He went from Catholic to Jehovah. So basically, my grandmother wanted us all to switch from Catholic to Jehovah, you know? Meanwhile, we're from Harlem; my father's doing coke, you know; my mother thinks she's Ann Margaret; she's teasing her hair with a bottle of vodka, you know; so dysfunctional, cross-addicted family, still cooking pasta on Sundays… Um, and uh, and the meatballs, they- they wind up being burnt, you know? It just got so dysfunctional. It got pretty bad.

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The first discovered upload of the clip is a since-deleted tweet shared by X^[2] user @heaven_toniight on March 17th, 2024. Although the tweet was deleted, viral replies are still accessible, like one shared by X^[3] user @intrus1v3thots on March 17th, who shared a different part of the interview, gaining over 1,100 likes in three months (shown below).

Also on March 17th, 2024, X^[4] user @mattxiv replied to the tweet with the extended "meatballs got burnt" quote, gaining over 1,800 likes in three months.

Later in the year, on June 11th, X^[5] user @mattxiv resurfaced the clip, captioning it, "I hope cosmo is having an excellent pride month," receiving over 6,800 likes in two weeks (shown below).

Others on X then used @mattxiv's video in subsequent quotes and tweets in June 2024. For instance, on June 11th, 2024, X^[6] user @chrismegrath captioned the video, "Me making up shit to people in the smoking area," gaining over 76,000 likes in two weeks (shown below).

The abovementioned tweet was reposted across social media platforms like Instagram^[7] in June 2024.

Iterations of the video became increasingly absurd later in June 2024, like a video posted by X^[8] user @remy4real23 on June 24th, which was dubbed in Chinese, gaining over 5,300 likes in a day (shown below).