How I Met Your Mother2005

Narrator:
Kids, here's something I wish my dad had told me. The longest pause you will ever experience in your life is the one that follows asking the question...

Ted:
[to Stella] Will you marry me?

Narrator:
Your brain goes into overdrive, imagining every possible response. [Flashbacks to every possible response]

Stella Zinman:
No.

Stella Zinman:
[Next response] Oh, god no!

Stella Zinman:
[Next response] [ Stella bursts into laughter] You want me to marry... No.

Stella Zinman:
[Next response] Awww I'm sorry Ted, I can't. Mark Johnson, the quarterback from the high school football team, already asked me.

Mark Johnson:
What's up, turd?

Ted:
It's TED!

Narrator:
[Back to present time] But if you're lucky, she might answer with the single greatest word in the English language...

Stella Zinman:
Yes.