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In Another Life, I Think I Would Have Really Liked Just Doing Laundry and Taxes With You is a quote from the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once by the character Waymond (played by Ke Huy Quan) to Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), whom his alternative version is married to in another universe. Online, the catchphrase gained recognition as one of the iconic lines from the film and has been used in various memes, often by being inserted into screencaps from other films or used as a simple reaction image and GIF.

Origin

On March 25th, 2022, the absurdist comedy-drama film Everything Everywhere All at Once premiered.^[1] In one scene of the film, the main character Evelyn's consciousness embodies a version of herself in another universe where she is a movie star in which she and her husband Waymond never married. In the universe, she is talking to that universe's version of Waymond outside a theater, with Waymond telling her that in another life he would have been happy just "doing laundry and taxes" with her, which is exactly the thing they happen to do in the primary universe (scene shown below).

So, even you have broken my heart yet again, I wanted to say… In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.

The line started first started gaining online recognition in May 2022. On May 14th, Twitter^[2] user @uhhmmily tweeted an It's Always WYD joke using the dialogue (shown below, right), with the tweet gaining over 12,800 retweets and 102,000 likes in 10 months (shown below, left). On May 17th, Tumblr^[3] user billy-crudup uploaded four GIFs of Waymond's dialogue to the site, with the post accruing over 21,600 likes and reblogs in a similar timeframe (shown below, right).

Spread

Throughout 2022, multiple posts expressing admiration for the line were shared online. For example, on October 20th, 2022, Twitter^[4] user @therealsupes wrote that no other line from a movie that came out in 2022 moved him more, with the tweet gaining over 670 retweets and 8,900 likes in five months. On December 29th, 2022, Twitter^[5] user @cinepullman replied with the clip of the scene to a thread of favorite line of dialogue of 2022, with the tweet accumulating over 15,200 retweets and 51,500 likes in three months.

On March 24th, 2023, Twitter^[6] user @joshcarlosjosh posted a three-panel image macro of The Lord of the Rings Aye, I Could Do That meme featuring Gimli and Legolas altered to contain the line. The post (shown below) gained over 10,900 retweets and 67,900 likes in three days.

The tweet inspired more similar memes to be posted in the following days. For example, on March 24th, 2023, Twitter^[7] user @mookinng posted a The Batman version of the meme that received over 7,800 retweets and 42,600 likes in two days (shown below, left). On March 25th, Twitter^[8] user @cianindublin posted a The Banshees of Inisherin meme that gained over 9,800 retweets and 76,400 likes in a similar timeframe (shown below, right).

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