Unexpected Reunions (w/ Anthony Padilla) | Reading Reddit Stories 

“They only dated for 8 months” 8 months is forever when you are 15.

Anthony about to get the world record for Speedrunning every show Smosh has to offer

That Alt reception mom is actually giving her daughter one of the greatest gifts in the world: A list of the people in her life who OBJECTIVELY value getting drunk more than they do her.

I hope they never stop informing that they bought Smosh so eventually it's just part of the intro like "if you guys missed the past 400 episodes, me and Anthony actually bought Smosh two years ago."

Them reintroducing Anthony has big "your divorced parents sitting you down to tell you they're getting back together" energy

Not now babe, Anthony came back and they’re reading Reddit stories

can’t get over the pasta story and people commenting “well have you told him before that you don’t want him to call you bitch” ??? that’s like saying you have to tell everyone who comes to your house that you don’t want them to shit on the floor like it should not be necessary lmao

My parents and family were so pissed that my cousins wedding was dry because he’s IN RECOVERY. And then he went no contact with pretty much everyone. Good for her standing up for herself.

I know that Ian has had the running joke that he's the dull/deadpan one, but I need to point out just how energized he's been this week since Anthony's come back. I didn't realize til now that Ian hasn't had someone to bounce off of like Shayne/Courtney/Damian, Amanda/Tommy, etc, and having Anthony here is REALLY bringing out Ian's energy and humor in a big way. I dunno, it's good to see him crack jokes with a huge smile on his face.

"I respect my daughters choices." But not enough to not THROW A COMPETEING EVENT WITH HER FUCKING WEDDING RECEPTION.

I loved the woman’s response of “well I’m starting a little TikTok trend myself called Saucing where someone throws some sauce around at another person. You can't be mad, cause it's just a prank. Just a little jokey joke.” lmao What a legend.

Ian's epiphany of "Wait, it's at the same time!?!?" Was so well timed comedically. lol

Shayne finally using that degree to become a couples therapist

at this point, i want ian and anthony to say “if you don’t know we bought smosh” in every video, even if the video is like 3 years from now

The wedding story is a perfect example of people that are not use to being slightly inconvenienced. If only they experienced actual oppressions, they would be shocked.

She didn’t just want her boyfriend to move in, she wanted him to move in FOR FREE

The fact that the parent is *hosting* the alternative reception means that at least one of her parents is not attending their daughter's reception.

Angela’s fashion diss was so powerful Ian had to borrow that green flannel shirt from Shayne.

As someone who’s considering a dry wedding, I cannot believe how much resistance there is. Everyone I’ve told so far, especially of generation X, has taken it as a personal offence. The fact that I’m choosing this because of the difficult relationship that my family has with alcohol, seems to be an even bigger problem. Anyway, I’m not paying for an open bar so I can get verbally abused again.

It's so funny that the boyfriend in that pasta sauce story had enough time while studying for exams to scroll through tiktok and film one, and to send tons of texts and voice memos, yet he didnt have time to clean his own rug or cook himself a meal. Interesting priorities.

This is so refreshing listening to 3 guys have emotionally mature takes. No toxic vibes, we love to see it.

Let's not forget Anthony was the one that gave us "2 dudes chilling in a hot tub, 5 feet apart cause were not gay"

People are so unimaginative about vegan food though.. Imagine passing up wedding food! The possibilities are endless: A salad bar, pasta bar, rice and curries, soups, breads and dips and various accoutrements, grilled vegetables with toppings, lots of delicious fruit (perhaps even with some dark chocolate drizzle?), sorbet, fresh smoothies and juices, vegan cakes and the like. Still sounds mouth watering, doesn't it?

i love the woman who dropped the sauce when her "its just a prank bro" bf called her a bitch, love how she didnt tolerate that shit, got herself take out and went to a friends place, refused to clean up the day old sauce AND called him on the bad excuse, she carried herself like a queen thru that and is still open to being wrong ( she isnt) leave that bitch

I loved Ian’s god awful line about the boyfriend with allergies leaving because his girlfriend is nuts so much that I logged into RU-vid on my phone just to like the video

I'll say this as a high school teacher, 8 months for a teenage relationship is an eternity. It doesn't get an "only"

I went to a vegetarian/dry wedding and it was a religious thing. Definitely not a big deal to skip alcohol and meat for a few hours 😂

Anthony: my problem is the competing. Ian: well i don’t think it’s competing I just have an issue with the people choosing to go to the separate event instead of the main wedding. Kiana: well they’re at the same time. Ian: THEY’RE AT THE SAME TIME?! I felt that like why would y’all do that 😭

At my wedding, we didn’t serve alcohol out of respect for my husbands side. MY side quite likes a drink, especially my moms family. So my mom threw an AFTER-after party for her family that DID have alcohol. It’s not that hard to accommodate both, the mother of the bride is being RIDICULOUS.

Ian is RADIANT. He shines so much when he is paired with Anthony. Dad joke at 24:42 killed me 💀

Becoming the "Why Don't You Love Me??" guy is literally my worst nightmare

11:05 what’s wild to me about this is that everyone’s so worried about what they want at SOMEONE ELSE’S WEDDING. If it’s me I’m like “Oh you don’t like? Cool, don’t come.”

I'm so happy Michaelangelo and Raphael are back together. Also mad props to Leonardo and Donatello for being so supportive. 😁

Wait…. Ian and Anthony aren’t five feet apart 😳

On the allergy story, she dodged a bullet because they were planning on having a non paying roommate, the boyfriend, move in.

Last story about the camera in the woman's office has an UPDATE: "There's no HR but the camera was removed thanks to IT. So, as previously stated I still never said anything about the camera. I wasn't really comfortable with it, but I got used to being conscious of my actions so they weren't seeing anything I didn't want them to. There also isn't some sort of HR to talk to about this or anything like that. But our IT guy came in, and he asked my boss about it. I wasn't in the room, so I didn't hear entire conversation, but the first thing I heard was my boss saying that the camera was there before my office ever was. Something about using it to see the front door originally, I guess. That was a weird excuse to me, though, because I've been there for atleast two months at this point and there's no way they could've "accidentally" watched me as much as it felt like they had been. Hearing the conversation out loud also confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was a camera, and that I wasn't paranoid. The IT guy must've felt some type of way about it, because I didn't hear what HE said but I heard my boss say something about "well, it's not like I was just watching her in her office" in sorta a quieter, sheepishly defensive way. Nobody said anything to me while they were removing it (they took it from his side, not mine) but they instead put it where it would be facing the front door. This happened just over a week ago. I haven't posted an update until now because I was waiting to see if the camera would be put back. I really wanted to see if they were gonna put it back a few days after I.T. left, because THAT would've been wild. But it's been over a week now, the camera is still away from me. It'll take some time before I stop feeling like I'm being watched all the time, though. I'm really curious what the guy said to my boss, whether he said something about it not being allowed or if he called it flat out creepy haha. But I'm glad he did say something, as it got resolved without me ever having to say anything. I'd like to think he low-key had my back. I've still just been acting as if I've never known and haven't said anything about it, and work carries on. Also, it's so wild that this story got put in a Smosh video, holy shit. I heard the news back to back, first the "hey Smosh just bought their channel back" at the same time as "hey your post is in a new Smosh video". I made this post mostly to vent, because I couldn't tell if I had the right to feel so weird about this situation because everyone in my personal circle says it isn't that weird, so it's so nice that so many strangers are validating how I feel. To hear people talk about my experience on a public platform was a little surreal, I won't lie. This got so much more traction than I was ever expecting, but It makes me feel better, so thank you. Genuinely. My experience feels validated and it feels heard, and I feel better because of it. I'm still going to stay at this job, because I still like everyone here and I enjoy my field, but now I'll be doing it under a little less surveillance, lol. If the camera comes back, I'll let you know."

The look Anthony gave Shayne after he said "that was some quick math, " was absolutely hilarious 😂

My sister said she was gonna have no alcohol at here wedding because we have a lot of alcoholics in our family but we all respected her wishes because it WAS HER WEDDING

Shane reads these posts like he just got asked to read a scripture at church in front of the class. It is iconic

Them troubleshooting the way "BITCH" was pronounced was absolutely hilarious. "What's for dinner tonight, biiiiiiiiiitch?!" Edit for timestamp :) 34:06

I hope five years from now they’re both still like, “ for those of you who don’t know, we bought smosh”

It’s weird because I don’t even remember being THAT big of a smosh fan back in the day, but Anthony coming back has made me realize how much of a fan I actually was. Just seeing Anthony and Ian being friends again makes me so genuinely happy and I can’t get enough of these videos

8:06 made me smile so much, just the confusion at why Ian was booing, and Anthony just translating and understanding him 🖤 Also Anthony's reactions to Ian's jokes, he has someone that understands him again and it's so nice to see Ian relax

Ian sounds like a kid who is excited to have his favorite cousin over and wants to show him off to all of his friends. That's so sweet.

the alternate reception one was so weird to me because… the family can’t not drink or eat meat for like few hours? a day at most? what’s wrong with them???

I love how every single video he has done this week, Anthony says 18 years and Ian corrects to 17 and a half. So finally for this vid he says "almost 18" and they all make a face and let it slide. 😂

My mom actually had an alcohol free wedding and my grandmother secretly had an alternative reception in her backyard because according to my grandma “If you aren’t going to have alcohol at the wedding what are we even going to do?”. Me and my girlfriend are also planning to not serve alcohol at our wedding due to our beliefs and past alcohol related trauma, and my grandmother was genuinely frustrated when I told her this.

we need a video where Anthony watches a compilation of all the "where is Anthony" jokes

I want to point out that for the pasta sauce girl, her boyfriend was supposed to be studying for his exams, and he was instead filming a tiktok "prank" on his girlfriend, at the age of 30.

Ian's realization that the receptions in story 2 were competing was hilarious. Just have the "alternative reception" later that day, or even the next day. The girlfriend with the pasta sauce is my fucking hero.

Imagine thinking your beef will get lost in a subreddit just to find out it was hyper-analyzed on a smosh show by Ian and Anthony themselves.

Having a friendship repaired is so rare and heart-warming. Good on you guys for getting there.

I actually really love how mature Ian, Anthony and Shayne are. I havent been watching smosh for a while now, but i've grown up watching smosh. To come back and see the crew being funny, entertaining but also respectful is very reassuring. It's like i'm glad I grew up watching ppl who are wholesome and respectable.

2nd Story - The bride is trying to have a dry wedding because her family is a family of alcoholics and she wants ONE HECKING NIGHT without it. Poor girl can't even have that on her own wedding. Heartbreaking.

38:22 perfect point made. My fiance and i call each other derogatory names all the time but it's ALWAYS in a joking manner and we know each other's boundaries with it

The daughter of the wedding story should’ve then hosted an alternative party at the same time of her mom’s next birthday party, “so that her guests have more options”.

It’s crazy to think that Smosh probably gained some fans that had no idea Anthony co founded Smosh with Ian.

I was always impressed with how smart Anthony was before, but now he's got confidence from all the important conversations he's had. It's really fascinating seeing how strong his presence is

That first story hit me hard since my father's family tried to ruin my wedding by boycotting it, making me be out 1500 dollars since I paid per person for them to be there. Had me crying for an hour when I saw a third of my venue empty but my wedding was still beautiful and my stepdads family all showed up since I invited them. Guess it showed me who my real family was.

THANK YOU IAN for talking about credit card debt in such a mature way. That issue was complete messed up and OP wasn’t the Ahole.

Forget about Ian and Anthony for a second, Shayne is very entertaining, great narrator and gives good insights into how these stories

Ian remembering that Anthony brings protein bars to weddings before Anthony did is really cute.

I love how Ian is so much more happy now that Anthony is back. He has seemed pretty miserable since he originally left especially after Defy. He has been all smiles since they bought it back and that makes me so happy.

"I'm starting a trend called saucing" is such a perfect response

Love how there’s the classic Anthony humor mixed with the rationale and the wisdom he’s gained over the past 6 years.

Honestly amazing to see a Reddit stories video with both Shayne and Anthony, two of the most openly emotionally intelligent people in Smosh. And Ian‘s giggling and loud outbursts are the icing on the cake 😂

10:30 In Poland it is an actual tradition. We host a wedding reception and the next day we have a "poprawiny" - second day of reception. Prolonged party for every one to have a dinner and recover from hangover/get drunk again with all the family members. It is a great custom.

The last story was actually updated again 1&1/2 months ago, and in the update the OP says she heard that the guys bought back the channel and that her post made it into a video at the same time! She was pleasantly surprised and was happy to hear others agree with her and validate her opinions!

An 8 month relationship when you're a teenager is a long time. She never apologised and clearly didn't feel any remorse about it as she seemed to have almost forgotten about it. She's NTA for reaching out to her friend, but she is TA for completely dismissing the fact that she hurt her friend.

The allergy story. Insane behaviour of the boyfriend. Not controlling your girlfriend but your girlfriend's roommate? That's a new level lmao

I absolutely adore the woman who dropped the sauce on the floor. I was cheering her on as i listened to her story

These guys talking through these was actually super enlightening. Especially as someone on the spectrum who has trouble identifying social stuff. The b*tch story especially at first glance I kinda focused on the chilli like “Aw man you got that on the floor, the slur was not okay but you did kinda ruin his rug” then I realized, “oh wait anger typically is caused by trouble over time rather than one intense moment, there are probably wider problems in their relationship and she needs to leave him”

I wanted an alcohol free wedding when my parents were active alcoholics because I wanted them to remember the night. There is almost always a reason.

The guy who called his girlfriend a b*tch was too busy studying for exams to clean the sauce but had enough time to film a TikTok trend

‘i’m surprised he didnt have any reactions to her because she sounds kind of NUTS’ i’m howlinggggg that was hilarious

Regarding the second story. I can see there being a multitude of reasons they don't want alcohol at their wedding. I know for me personally I won't have alcohol at my future wedding because both my parents were alcoholics and I had a bad experience with my dad because of it.

How did I know Ian was gonna make the “because she sounds a little NUTS” joke after the allergy story 😂🤦🏽‍♀️

Seeing Ian and Anthony with Shayne reminds me how important Shayne is to this channel. Shayne and the rest of this crew are so important to this channel, and I hope they know how appreciated they are by all of us fans! Yes, it's super exciting that Anthony is back, but I can't see Smosh anymore without people like Shayne and the rest of this amazing crew!

Honestly it’s so nice seeing Anthony laughing so hard and enjoying being back! OG SMOSH LIVES ON BABY!

Who hurt that mom who threw the 2nd party, when she cared more about everybody staying drunk than her daughters feelings?

Still surreal seeing Anthony back in Smosh. ❤ the vibes are just immaculate.

Ian, Anthony, and Shayne have perfect on-screen chemistry. This was a GMM-tier vid. Great stuff.

That first story is funny because she’s like “I barely even remember it” but then mentions how long the couple had been together, that they had fallen out over it, and that the boyfriend had made the first move. That’s an awful lot of info you seem to have retained about something you “barely remember”

I love how Shayne literally gets along w everyone (at least on camera) and everyone on here always gets along and can make it interesting but give different perspectives and personalities making it unique :)

"Hey, I stole your boyfriend at a critical time in your development, want to be part of an audience that watches me ride off into the sunset with my new husband and be happy for me?" I hope she got roasted in the reddit comments. Hopefully the fiance is taking notes. Probably not the first red flag he's seen.

I like how Ian is slowly coming back to life 😁

I’m literally SCREAMING out loud to myself driving down the highway listening to the story about the insufferable alcoholic meat eating mother. I just can’t even believe she’s asking this. I’m going to pretend this is a fake troll story to bring my blood pressure down to a reasonable level.

loving how emotionally mature these conversations are

The allergy story is perhaps the greatest example of a mature and good roommate i've ever heard of. She worked with the boyfriends allergies to allow her roommate to be more comfortable inviting him over, she did well to establish boundaries without attacking anyone, and even when things fell apart she made sure that things went as smoothly as they could for both parties. The other roommate really missed out on the best shared living experience of her life, lol.

I'm liking this arc of doing an Anthony episode of every series. It's like he's doing a publicity tour of his own channels.

You guys always keep your content entertaining without being disrespectful and I can’t say the same for a ton of content creators. I also love how open-minded Anthony is to gather multiple perspectives from different kinds of people. I only wish I watched more of you guys growing up.

8:01 ian just started booing and everyone was confused until anthony translated for him lol

I haven’t seen Ian this happy and energized in years. I’m so happy to see how Anthony gives him something to bounce off of. I even see Anthony’s old comedy coming back with Ian beside him and it’s insane. I grew up watching Smosh and now I get to see my boys back together. Thank you RU-vid gods. Thank you

00:15 The way they IMMEDIATELY bounced off each other's humor. It's so organic and just feels right. I don't think I've ever seen Ian radiate this much positive vibes in a long, long time. Shayne+Damien and Noah+Keith are about to have some competition again!

In my 1st apartment, my roommate unexpectedly moved in his drug addict brother (he was nice enough, but still a shock and not consulted for it at all) then after about a month of him finally being gone, he moved in his friend (again, no consultation) who was creepy and constantly hit on me. They partied constantly, he fought with his girlfriend daily, neglected his poor dog THEN GOT ANOTHER ONE. I broke the least and left. Unfortunately I got into another roommate situation right after where I was sexually harassed for months before I could afford to break another lease. I was in college and didn’t have anywhere else to go. Since then I REFUSE to have any other roommates ever. I will do what I have to do to pay for my own place.

i love how ian and anthony’s laughs harmonize.

An 8-month relationship is a looong Ass time in school years. 😂 I dated my crush for 5 days and I still called him an ex and was so broken. 😂

Loving the recurring joke of Anthony saying “that’s it! I’m leaving again!” Or “not buying Smosh anymore!” I’m glad they can be lighthearted about it and not harbor bad feelings. Cute bff otp.

The awkward laughs for not knowing if the jokes about their separation were gonna go south are simply perfect

45:00 THEY ASSAULTED HIM AND GOT MAD HE DIDNT LOVE THEM?! Tf?!!