This quote from Oscar-winning EEAAO now serves to highlight all unfulfilled fictional loves

As the movie nears its end, Waymond Wang (played by Ke Huy Quan) addresses the protagonist Evelyn Quan Wang (Michelle Yeoh) and says, “In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you”. His simple statement prompts Evelyn to see beauty in little mundane things that she enjoys with her husband in her otherwise boring domestic life.

my personal “In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.” pic.twitter.com/sYhuTU5syq

— s (@yoongienthusias) March 23, 2023

this loveliness to jungkook’s welives. cooking dinner, listening to music, working out, washing dishes. he shares the little things with us, a little bit of every day. he’s very “in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you” very love shaped

— ammi ⁷ 🍊🪞 (@ammisays) March 23, 2023

“in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you” pic.twitter.com/euuRa8KbP6

— ندھی (@manmarziiyaan) March 26, 2023

this is my personal “in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you” 😭 pic.twitter.com/oVC4oDVrDW

— king simp account (@bluntcupcake) March 25, 2023

In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you pic.twitter.com/S2auleabl1

— Meduvada Sambhar (@Hardiikrathod) March 25, 2023

In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you pic.twitter.com/TY1KkmSbMQ

— ak (@arjunality) March 25, 2023

As someone who has solely shipped pairings that have crashed and burned “in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you” trend seems like a personal attack

— Pri_C (@ShhMainHoon) March 26, 2023

jungkook is such a very “In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you” & “I love you, i want us both to eat well” coded

— 🍄 (@alongwithsoop) March 23, 2023

“so, even though 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.” pic.twitter.com/JF3YZaSV1v

— ْ (@cherryearz) March 17, 2023

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Many people found meaning in this simple statement and are now using it to highlight the longing of potential fictional characters who did not get their happy ending in the original canon.

For instance, Om Prakash Makhija’s (Shah Rukh Khan) wistful love for Shantipriya (Deepika Padukone) in Om Shanti Om, the incomplete love story between Abhimanyu Roy (Ayushmann Khurrana) and Bindu Shankaranarayan (Parineeti Chopra) in Meri Pyaari Bindu, and the abrupt ending of Deepak Kumar (Vicky Kaushal) and Shaalu Gupta’s (Shweta Tripathi) story in Masaan.

Netizens have also used the quote to point to the unrealistic but robust parasocial relationship between fans and celebrities (primarily within K-pop fandoms).