How I Met Your Mother (TV Series)

Do I Know You? (2008)

Sarah Chalke: Stella Zinman

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Quotes 

• Marshall : You hated it, didn't you?

  Stella Zinman : Uh, it was so stupid! Like, first of all, how do they understand that walking bear they hang around with all the time?

  Marshall : Wookie.

  Stella Zinman : Yeah. He goes...

  [makes a few weird sounds] 

  Stella Zinman : ... and they're all like: "Good point, bear. Let's try that."

  Marshall : Okay, he's a wookie, and his kind is actually more intelligent that they appear. Look, Stella, that is Ted's favorite movie of all time. He watches it when he's home sick with the flu. He watches it on rainy Sunday afternoons in the fall. He... he watches it on Christmas Eve! Ted watches Star Wars in sickness and in health, in good times and bad. Do you really think you can pretend to like a movie that you actually hate for the rest of your life?

  Stella Zinman : [pauses]  I do.

  Marshall : Well, then Ted's a lucky guy.

  [Stella smiles and walks out of the room. Marshall waits a couple of seconds] 

  Marshall : Bear...

• 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] 

  Stella Zinman : 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.