Prom couple goes viral for outfits impressed by ‘Dumb & Dumber’

“I was talking to my girlfriend and was like, ‘You know, it’s our senior prom. I want to make it memorable.’ Then a clip from the movie popped up on Instagram and I was like, ‘That would be such a good color scheme to pick from,’” he instructed The Post.

“I asked her about it and she was on board with it. And honestly, I think her mom was more on board with it than we were.”

“All of us moms that were teenagers in the ’90s were like, ‘Yes,’” stated Brennon’s mom, Brooke, who posted the now-viral clip of the inventive couple, which racked up greater than 2.3 million mixed views on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.

Brennon, a senior at Trinity Christian School, arrived at his promenade on April 18 sporting a shiny orange go well with, with King, who attends Atlanta High School, donning a pale blue gown.

The couple accessorized with matching prime hats — and even the canes Carrey and Daniels’ characters, Lloyd and Harry, use in the film to have a sparring match earlier than coming into the intellectual occasion.

Only a handful knew beforehand what the duo was carrying to the promenade — which was held at The Collins Home, a historic occasion house in Texarkana — so most of Brennon’s classmates reveled within the shock.

“When we walked in, we had the top hats and the canes, everybody was wanting to wear them and get the canes and fight with them. Everybody was so excited about it,” Brennon recalled.

Although the blockbuster — which made greater than $246 million on the field workplace — was launched 14 years earlier than Brennon was even born, he estimates he’s seen it not less than seven instances.

“We’re those parents that we’re like, ‘You’re going to watch all the classics,’” Brooke stated.

“She had to make sure I was raised right,” Brennon added.

Brooke had taken before-and-after promenade images of the kids, who’ve been relationship for greater than a yr, by no means pondering it might go so viral.

“I just told them, kind of on a whim, I was like, ‘Y’all hold hands and jump.’ And then, when I got to prom, I was like, ‘OK, do it again.’ And I didn’t know what I was gonna do with it,” Brooke stated.

“So I made the little video, posted it, didn’t think a thing about it. And then I just started getting all the notifications.”

The mother-son duo stated they’ve been having fun with studying all of the feedback — which have been so overwhelmingly constructive that Brooke made a follow-up video saying how pleasantly stunned she was by all of the love.

“I was so thrilled that everybody loved it so much,” she stated.

Brennon stated his favourite remark was a tackle a popular quote from the movie — when Lloyd trades a van for a motorcycle and Harry says, “Just when I think you couldn’t possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this … and totally redeem yourself!”

“People commented, ‘Just when I think, this generation couldn’t possibly be any dumber, they go and do something like this … aaaaand TOTALLY REDEEM THEMSELVES!!!’” he stated, laughing.

Others stated the pair ought to have received the titles of Prom King and Queen.

“How my school does it is you can’t win Homecoming King and Prom King, and I had already won Homecoming King. So I couldn’t be in the running for Prom King,” Brennon defined.

“Or he totally would have,” Brooke added.