NEW YORK, April 2 — The accusatory looks. The firm resolve. The exasperation. The sudden doubts. The capitulation.
Watch this almost-too-realistic comedy sketch and tell us whether it looks familiar to you.
The video by director and writer John Wikstrom shows a couple trying to assemble their Ikea bed frame.
Their struggle soon gives way to an internal monologue that reveals doubts about their relationship and whether they both want the same things in life.
“I followed the instructions,” the man tells his partner, before he thinks to himself: “I don’t even like this bed. She doesn’t trust me about anything. Do we want the same life?”
Tell us this doesn’t sound familiar to you. — Screen grab from YouTube
Wikstrom revealed to Huffington Post that he came up with the idea for the sketch after going through the nightmare of building Ikea furniture with his SO (or Significant Other in millennial-speak).
“The furniture piece in the video is actually a ‘Hemnes’ bed frame, which I had originally put together with my wife about two years ago,” he told the website.
“Our assembly went better than the one in the clip, but we still had to go back to the store mid-assembly to buy the slats we forgot. That was a hit to our morale.”
So is the moral of this #RelationshipGoals story: The couple that manages to assemble Ikea furniture together are destined to stay together?
Click on the clip at the top if you dare — and laugh, and then cry, and then laugh again.
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