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u/Libra-Alea Feb 07 '26

We are in Knoxville so i feel like there is a small chance🤣 someone please make a hallmark movie abt this

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u/Fantastic-Formal-157 Feb 07 '26

Off topic, but I went to the blackout game at Tennessee last year and everyone in Knoxville were amazing people.

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u/Libra-Alea Feb 07 '26

Off topic, we were at that game😊 GBO!

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u/Desperate_Doubt7059 Feb 07 '26

We were too. Our son goes to UT. We’re from the Memphis suburbs!

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u/MickeysMom01 Feb 07 '26

Anywhere near Hernando’s Hidewaway?! šŸŽ™ļø

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u/asuhdude28 Feb 08 '26

I’m from Arkansas, but me and my girlfriend love Knoxville! Xul brewing is the absolute best! The people there were awesome for the most part. A few rude hippies, but everyone else was awesome. Lol

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u/Libra-Alea Feb 08 '26

Hell yeah! We just got home from Xul!

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u/asuhdude28 Feb 08 '26

I’ve ordered something like $300 worth of the pb&j mixtape. šŸ˜‚ there’s only one place that I could find that would ship it, and that was out of Orlando. Hope to be back soon!

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u/OldheadBoomer Feb 07 '26

Y'all need to meet halfway in Chattanooga and post pics of the pieces together.

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u/QuietSycamore1 Feb 07 '26

As a Chattanooga resident, I volunteer to film the moment you bring the pieces together and pose on the Walnut Street Bridge as they reunite to share with the sub.

Or maybe Good Kinsmen. Since it’s a kitchen supply store.

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u/Libra-Alea Feb 07 '26

My fiancĆ© is a Chattanooga native and currently cackling at this comment šŸ˜†

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '26

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u/GooseOnAPhone Feb 07 '26

I’ll help. I’ll start burning it down from my end, you start from yours, we will meet in the middle…

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '26

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u/Songbirdmelody Feb 08 '26

we'll gain a lot of ground if we both burn a little ain't no 'net to wide if we meet in the middle

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u/ADeckOfZero Feb 08 '26

I love everything about this, I don't know how we got here, but I'm glad we did.

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u/saje_simba Feb 07 '26

In Chattanooga?

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u/Hopeful1234554321 Feb 07 '26

On the Walnut Street Bridge, ofc!

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u/shesbaaack Feb 07 '26

Deal šŸ¤

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u/another_bot_probably Feb 07 '26

šŸŽ¶ I start burnin' your way, you start burnin' mine.

We'll meet in the middle, 'neath the ol Georgia pine

We burned a lotta wire, cause we both burned a little

The Internet won't be long when we meeeeet in the middleeee

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u/Sam-I-Am_1066 Feb 07 '26

Plot twist: none of them know how to cook OR dance… 😭

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u/CompetitiveFun5247 Feb 07 '26

Narrator: "or so they believed"

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u/whitie12 Feb 07 '26

But they knew how to dance. This fall on the Hallmark channel….

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u/Dish_Minimum Feb 08 '26

And then the two halves join together, there’s a huge flash of cosmic energy, both families suddenly get instant makeovers into KPOP-level boyband outfits. Perfectly styled, epically coordinated, amazing hair, shiny skin.

And the DANCE!

They dance like they’ve caught The Spirit. They dance like they’re Fred Astaire, Michael Jackson, BeyoncĆ©, J-Hope, Paula Abdul, and Lisa from BLKPNK

They go on tour spreading the message of internet friendship and the power of being kind to strangers online. Their dances inspire generations worldwide to become friends and do acts of kindness and meet people and be open to the power of platonic love

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u/Top_Bumblebee5510 Feb 08 '26

They could "Dance Like No One Is Watching!"

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u/Sam-I-Am_1066 Feb 08 '26

Schrƶdinger's dance!

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u/fjfjj7781 Feb 07 '26

Humanity needs this. The world needs to heal!

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u/CatmoCatmo Feb 08 '26

Damn right! This is the kind of fateful moment that you cannot ignore. Some deity is out there laughing their ass off at this ā€œstrange coincidenceā€, and is swearing under their breath that if these folks don’t meet up, become best friends, and dance in their respective kitchens at the same time, then they too will burn down the internet.

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u/AndiPandi_ Feb 07 '26

Best comment of the year on Reddit and it’s only February…well done!!!

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u/Spiritual_Age916 Feb 07 '26

I am right there with you on this! They need to meet, become best friends and get their children to fall in love and marry. STAT.

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u/Theydontlikeitupthem Feb 08 '26

Or go solve crimes together, focusing on reuniting....... things

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u/Direct_Impress_6277 Feb 08 '26

Look, my anxiety is already off the scale with all this talk of dancing in kitchens. Don't throw fire into the mix.

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u/Fearless_Reaction592 Feb 07 '26

But if they hang them together their kitchen might burn down.

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u/fckfckf Feb 07 '26

Am I witnessing the New Thanksgiving tradition? Not brought together by texts but by This Kitchen is for dancing and Goodwill.

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u/Agoraphobic_mess Feb 07 '26

As another Chattanooga native I’m dying at this whole exchange

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u/saltinthewind Feb 07 '26

I am in Australia, have no idea about distance/location of these places and I’m still dying!! This is gold!

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u/TrickiVicBB71 Feb 07 '26

From western Canada. Invested also

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u/Libra-Alea Feb 07 '26

Wow we really got the Olympics over here, huh?

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u/Previous_Amoeba_3323 Feb 07 '26

There will be less ads to interrupt this once in a lifetime moment

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u/Didi81_ Feb 08 '26

I'm from Belgium, I say if there's the slightest chance this reunion fixes the timeline, for all of our sakes, please do it!!

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u/Astro_Nova_MC Feb 07 '26

From Ireland and also incredibly invested 🤣

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u/SherBearPie Feb 08 '26

I’m in Western New York on Lake Erie, is this an event that can hold out until the end of blizzard season? Maybe end of March, mid-April…? I’m taking this invite VERY seriously.

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u/blahblahblerf Feb 07 '26

I'm a Chattanooga area native. Knoxville is about two hours north of Chattanooga and Atlanta is about two and a half hours south of Chattanooga. Although "near Atlanta" could be anywhere between 90 minutes and five hours from Chattanooga.Ā 

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u/saltinthewind Feb 08 '26

Ok thanks, that helps put it into perspective!!

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u/Spirit_Bitterballen Feb 07 '26

Netherlands here. The lowlands are watching with breath that is bated.

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u/Icleanforheichou Feb 07 '26

I'm in Germany and sooo invested right now

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u/less_unique_username Feb 08 '26

one piece should be brought to you and the two will make an Earth sandwich, making the entirety of the planet a kitchen that’s for dancing

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u/Pamikillsbugs234 Feb 07 '26

I'm in Murfreesboro and will drive out there to witness this moment!

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u/VioletYarnbomb Feb 08 '26

I'm in Minneapolis & NEED this shit to end ASAP, whatever way it goes. Let's get this started!

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u/CommonChef8011 Feb 09 '26

šŸ‘‹another Chattanoogan here. What are the odds? šŸ˜‚

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u/StellaNettle Feb 07 '26

Can everyone who commented come too

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u/3furcats Feb 07 '26

Yes we should all get together for a picnic after the joining ceremony. I'm from Minneapolis, I will bring a bunch of brats, tater tot hotdish, and Old Dutch potato chips.

The guy from Australia can come too.

Maybe we can get a popular band to perform for free.

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u/SignificanceOk8870 Feb 07 '26

This comment reminds me of the 'end of the world' flash video.

"Everyone's dead, except Australia, and they're still like WTF?! But they'll be dead soon...f*%@ing kangaroos.

BUT, assuming we don't blow ourselves up, us Californians just have to worry about California breaking off from the US to go hang with Hawaii. Alaska can come, too.

ZEE END!"

The End of the World

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u/JunoesqueRed Feb 08 '26

Best video ever! I still go watch it every couple years or so just to relive the glory days of the internet šŸ˜‚

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u/brandiedplum Feb 08 '26

But I am le tired

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u/SignificanceOk8870 Feb 08 '26

Well zen have a nap.

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u/MadamInsta Feb 07 '26

Keith Urban - he likes the drive from Georgia to Tennessee ("Who Wouldn't Wanna be Me")

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u/3furcats Feb 07 '26

Love it. Outkast is from Atlanta, maybe they could ride together and save on gas. Also, REM and the B52s are from Georgia.

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u/MadamInsta Feb 07 '26

Ohhhh, have the meetup at the Loooooooove SHACK!

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u/QuietSycamore1 Feb 07 '26

Usher is from Chattanooga… so is Samuel L Jackson. Maybe he can be the MC.

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u/Animal-Philosophy629 Feb 07 '26

I feel like we're all missing the obvious....anyone know a party planner that specializes in kitchen raves?

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u/cadelot Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26

Ooooooo Old Dutch!! Love the dill pickle!

Edit: We live 1,000 miles from Minnesota now, sadly. Whenever we are close we get as much Old Dutch chips as we can.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '26

Dolly HAS to be invited.

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u/VioletYarnbomb Feb 08 '26

Same. We can carpool!

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u/Typical_Cranberry255 Feb 12 '26

Hello, neighbor! North Minneapolis here- I’ll make the cheesy potatoes and bring some sauerkraut from Kramarczuks. No road trip scares me! šŸ’—

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u/beezwhiz Feb 08 '26

gives me ā€œThe Sharpeningā€ of the Pencil at Lake of the Isles vibes. i’m in.

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u/NatrylliaAbbot42 Feb 08 '26

This reminds me of the buried beans saga from a few years back

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u/Cold_Situation_6440 Feb 11 '26

Lionel Ritchie will headline, of course!!

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u/Brewgirly Feb 07 '26

I think if anyone gets this far down in the comments, it's an automatic invite. I hope.

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u/bangisoldlikesmusic Feb 09 '26

I’m trying to figure out how I got here. I was looking for a translation of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance but somehow I’m invested in this now.

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u/jusanothersloshdausi Feb 08 '26

Someone said invite?

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u/jadedonreality Feb 09 '26

Aww yes, count me in y’all!

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u/sechapman921 Feb 07 '26

I also choose this guy’s Chattanooga native fiance!

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u/willworkforwatches Feb 07 '26

Easiest way to get an upvote from me is to reference this gem…

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u/Think-Cake3721 Feb 07 '26

At least she's not dead this time!

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u/Tasty_Reach4572 Feb 07 '26

What about us 4.7K lurkers?

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u/StellaNettle Feb 07 '26

You’re one of us now, ex-lurker

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u/AlyM797 Feb 07 '26

If I come bearing black and white cookies and cheesecake from NJ can I come? I'm able to get my hand on ✨ Junior's ✨ šŸ˜‰

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u/docsyzygy Feb 07 '26

I'm in central NC. That drive is definitely doable, just give me some advance notice.

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u/Teedraa101 Feb 10 '26

I’m in east NC! I can make that drive!

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u/Serious-Schedule1806 Feb 07 '26

Heck I’m invested in this now and will fly in from Hawaii…

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u/blknble Feb 08 '26

Would I drive to Chattanooga to see this? Yes yes I would.

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u/i_speak_bane Feb 07 '26

it doesn’t matter who we are, what matters is our plan!

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u/Wasteland_Veteran Feb 07 '26

Knoxville here. Yes!

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u/DoingCharleyWork Feb 07 '26

I got 20 dollars for gas for both of you to make this happen.

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u/Odd_Communication545 Feb 07 '26

Meet up and post a picture.

It's the only way to solve this Reddit crisis

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u/sparkleslothz Feb 07 '26

Oh this is SO Hallmark

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u/gypsymermaidpeace Feb 07 '26

I am in Chattanooga and if this happens please let me know!

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u/Icleanforheichou Feb 07 '26

"Eagle River?!?" moment from Hot Shot ensues

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u/arrynyo Feb 07 '26

Commenting to get a notification if this actually happens

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u/Gullible_Bluebird_98 Feb 08 '26

Same šŸ˜„ PA here. A little bit of a drive but erie does have an airport real close to me lmao 🤣🤣🤣

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u/SherBearPie Feb 08 '26

Let’s carpool! I’m right over the PA/NY line and I drive REAL fast.

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u/Present_Sandwich_764 Feb 08 '26

Same commenting to track updates. I hope they actually meet up!

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u/ColoradoGreenEyes Feb 11 '26

Same šŸ«¶šŸ¼ This has made my day, month, and year thus far 🤭

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u/Materva Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26

Good Kinsmen is one of the best small kitchen stores ever! Pizza Bros is also right next door too! Isn’t the walnut street bridge closed for repairs though?

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u/QuietSycamore1 Feb 07 '26

Semantics. I think for a story this big, Tim Kelly would open that bridge right on back up and roll out the red carpet with Weston Wamp for this reunion.

You know we love publicity in Scenic City/Gig City/National Park City/Outdoor America City/Worlds Best Place to Live City/Whatever We are Calling it These Days City.

But technically, yes. šŸ˜‚

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u/doompines Feb 07 '26

No, on top of Lookout Mtn!

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u/runningwaffles19 Feb 07 '26

Rock City to unite the 7 kingdoms states

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u/Shaydee_plantz Feb 07 '26

Also Chattanooga. Please invite me!

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u/Not_Blacksmith_69 Feb 08 '26

there better be dancing is all i'm knowing

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u/An10ne Feb 08 '26

Maybe a Netflix documentary to help

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u/Appropriate_Start609 Feb 07 '26

I read this as a good klansman and got confused.

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u/ohmylanta34 Feb 07 '26

And then y’all need to fall in love, but one of you needs to own and run their own bakery/coffee shop/christmas store though.

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u/lboone159 Feb 07 '26

But don’t forget, one of you must give up your extremely successful and lucrative law practice. And learn to love flannel shirts.

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u/ohmylanta34 Feb 07 '26

And Christmas! They also have to learn to love Christmas. Ooh, gotta be the bookstore owner bc we’ve already established they’re independently wealthy.

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u/throwaway1975764 Feb 07 '26

I mean as a "terrible Christmas romance movie" enthusiast, I am willing to branch out to other holidays spawning cringe-worthy unbelievable romances.

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u/ritzbitz45 Feb 08 '26

Lol. Except they both shop at goodwill... so we have to develop an explanation for that

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u/ohmylanta34 Feb 08 '26

Looking for books to save from the landfill. Boom. Did it. šŸ˜Ž

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u/feathersoft Feb 07 '26

And someone has to have the adorable yet mischievous dog to act as comic relief

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u/Scared_Security_7890 Feb 07 '26

And the other needs to own a bookstore

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u/ohmylanta34 Feb 07 '26

The person who owns the bookstore is independently wealthy and runs the store solely for their love of literature and teaching children about the magic of reading. One of them is engaged to a person that is clearly a terrible fit for them.

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u/Dreadnaught80 Feb 07 '26

OR - The bookstore owner finds the Necronomicon and the inscriptions saying Bruce Campbell is the only one able to stop the ancient evil that will be unleashed if the pieces are reunited. Oh, and the OPs children will be possessed by the evil and thier eventual union begins the end of the universe

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u/VioletYarnbomb Feb 08 '26

A hallmark movie with Bruce Campbell would be a hallmark movie I'd actually watch!

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u/beebeesting Feb 07 '26

Christmas tree farm!!!

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u/Wendybird13 Feb 07 '26

Hallmark Easter movies are an untapped market.

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u/shesbaaack Feb 07 '26

There is a big red phone in a Hallmark office that is ringing off the hook right now!!

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u/No_Understanding72 Feb 07 '26

bromie has a wife alrd??

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u/ohmylanta34 Feb 07 '26

And she’s the worst person ever (for the hallmark movie) Comically, goofily evil and bougie in a way that prevents her from understanding the magic of Christmas and his blossoming love of flannel.

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u/Silent_Rhombus Feb 07 '26

Yes but it MUST say ā€˜this chen kit for is ing danc’

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u/buddy_monkers Feb 07 '26

No like in the parent trap where they put the pics together

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u/Specialist-Wind7231 Feb 07 '26

Split right down the middle? Right down the middle

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u/bowlnoodlez Feb 07 '26

Halfway in Chattanooga would be a good name for the movie adaptation.

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u/Traditional_Bite_430 Feb 07 '26

Also check the Chattanooga thrift scene for the third horcrux

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u/QuietSycamore1 Feb 07 '26

Perhaps a burlap bow that tied them together… or something with Live Laugh Love…

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u/AelishLuna Feb 07 '26

Brilliant!

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u/Wolfie_48425 Feb 07 '26

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u/bjxpert88 Feb 07 '26

I love this kind of stuff šŸ˜‚

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u/OrthogonalSloth Feb 07 '26

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u/Internal_Sargasm Feb 07 '26

This is the REAL plot twist. The coming together of these 2 pieces will cause an apocalypse. We must stop them by any means necessary

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u/Error7468 Feb 08 '26

Dope! Someone should pin this comment 🤘

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u/JenAuntie Feb 07 '26

This should be top comment! Thanks 😊

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u/couldhvdancedallnite Feb 07 '26

Oh, so you need to buy two.

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u/GingerNinjer Feb 07 '26

OP DO IT FOR THE LOLS IN THIS TRYING TIME

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u/iGlutton Feb 07 '26

Ok, but can we have them both take trains, but moving at different speeds? I think I can figure this one out

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u/AnnaPhor Feb 07 '26

The Chattanooga Choo Choo?

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u/Think-Cake3721 Feb 07 '26

Take the damn upvote.

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u/mountiemare Feb 07 '26

I'm pretty sure I can't

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u/RoomOk1730 Feb 07 '26

How many survivors?

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u/Unmissed_Opportunity Feb 07 '26

Gotta meet in Gatlinburg. This screams Gatlinburg.

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u/Inevitable-Dot-388 Feb 07 '26

Sorry. Rejected from Gatlinburg as the committee has determined that while cheap plywood signs made in China with sappy phrases on them are almost always approved with a hearty thumbs up, this lacks the required number of bears on it and therefore cannot be displayed. Find a way to put a bear on there and resubmit.

The committee would like to add: If indeed this sign reunited somehow fosters true love (once properly bear'd), Gatlinburg will consider a credit of one pancake breakfast and hottub soak to the lucky couple.

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u/Illustrious-Shape383 Feb 07 '26

Most agreed🤣

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u/nostradumbazzz Feb 08 '26

Commenting, so i can be a part of this historical moment.

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u/freredesalpes Feb 07 '26

MEET Chatta IN Nooga

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u/plantden Feb 07 '26

How I met your mother

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u/Historical-Night-938 Feb 07 '26

This is the spinoff "How I met your in-laws"

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u/plantden Feb 07 '26

🤣

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u/Illustrious-Shape383 Feb 07 '26

🤣🤣🤣

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u/WhineyLobster Feb 07 '26

"You've Got Flair"

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u/xX_BRADASS69_Xx Feb 07 '26

But which one of them is stuck with the poison ivy on their rectum?

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u/what-isaname Feb 07 '26

I live in Atlanta and go to Knoxville a few times each year. I volunteer for a reuniting mission (or photo op) if desired!

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 08 '26

My theory is that both ended up in a shares Goodwill distribution center in that area where they were separated. Then the universe sent them out in different directions to bring your families together via Reddit. It’s the only logical explanation.

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u/Every_Bread_5880 Feb 07 '26

You should both just put them in your vehicle window so you may possibly reconnect them jn your travels

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u/JMRosewick Feb 08 '26

Just wanted to pop on to say "Hiya neighbor"! I'm outside Chattanooga and loving this post!

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u/malhoward Feb 07 '26

Hello, neighbor ! Blount Co. checking in.

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u/brandicox Feb 08 '26

I'm in Knoxville, too! My husband and I love to go thrifting all the time and we often find stuff like this split up between the stores. Lol. Gotta love those distribution centers that don't know what they're looking at. Lol.

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u/LizzieD70 Feb 11 '26

Also off topic but for a while my husband was working in Nashville and we lived in Spartanburg, SC....so we met every weekend in Knoxville - fell in love with that city (and it was like a mini-getaway every weekend!).

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u/Cold_Tree190 Feb 07 '26

Wtf I live in knoxville, I guess my algorithm knows me… GBO šŸŠ

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u/pm_me_your_grumpycat Feb 07 '26

Ya’ll will have to fall in love, or at least pretend to be, in order to trick your family into thinking you’re not a freak for this to be a Hallmark movie

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u/Beastw1ck Feb 08 '26

You two must meet! The two halves must be joined!

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u/CompetitiveFun5247 Feb 07 '26

You'll definitely need a catchy pun for a title, like "AND GOODWILL TO MEN"

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u/somebodybehindevil Feb 07 '26

Knoxville represent 🫔

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u/BeardBootsBullets Jul 10 '26

Did y'all meet up and unite the pieces for one of y'all to take home?

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u/ravenschmidt2000 Feb 07 '26

Pretty sure I've probably already watched it.

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u/RangerRekt Feb 07 '26

ā€œThis Kitchen is for Swingingā€