Asking a woman to marry you on national television seems like it should be a low risk, big reward opportunity. I mean: What woman would turn you down in front of millions of people? At the very least, you’d expect that she’d say yes, even if she didn’t mean it, and change her mind while you’re standing at the altar, which is still less humiliating than being DENIED on national television. But that’s exactly what happened to a nice gentlemen who was STUPID enough to ask a question he didn’t know the answer to in front of a live studio audience millions of older women at home watching “Ellen.”
But wait? Why did they awkwardly cut away? The poor guy. He not only gets turned down in front of millions, but Ellen compounds his humiliation by ringing a bell and triggering a Pavlovian reaction in the audience, which starts madly clapping, oblivious to the guy right next to them picking up his broken heart like shattered glass. I’d feel for the guy if it weren’t so tremendously hilarious.
The real question is WHY? Why did she say no? Was it because he’s bald? Or is it that tacky sweater? Or is it BECAUSE HE ASKED HER ON “ELLEN”?
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You can actually pinpoint the second his heart rips in half!
Aaaand you can see the guy booking it up the stairs away from her when they cut back.
Saw this elsewhere and it was explained that apparently this is a “bit” that Ellen does (proving that she is HILARIOUS). The guy that did the proposing is the same guy that did it the previous year. Also explains why everyone is laughing and clapping.
(What? It’s a “bit”? Booo! Damn that woman. SHE’S RUINED CHRISTMAS. — DR)
I love how you see him run away up the stairs, ahah.
Although those day time talkshows are scary. Those people are way too hyped up for this time of the day.
Why won’t someone change the god damn battery in the smoke detector? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
This needs an animated GIF of a Dikembe Mutombo finger wag.
Blyleven, I saw this last night and then spent five minutes in the hallway with a 9-volt in my hand, trying to figure out which one of the detectors needed it.
If adding in that noise was intentional, it’s the greatest mass prank in the history of mankind.
You realize it’s fake right? During Ellen’s Christmas giveaway week they do something fake like this everyday right before the giveaway.
A bit?! Goddammit all to hell. I can’t get off to fake misery! I need that real, unprocessed shit to give the glow.
I hate seeing Trent Dilfer sad.
I mean did that guy walk around all day with a ring just to do this? thats like a $2500 bit. its not even that good.
“Blyleven, I saw this last night and then spent five minutes in the hallway with a 9-volt in my hand, trying to figure out which one of the detectors needed it.”
Otto, I hope you are not talking about your penis here.
Hope all you want, Smegga. It won’t change anything.
If nothing else, this video was worth posting just to force twoeightnine into confessing that he’s secretly an avid “Ellen” fan. Not sure any of us saw that coming.
@twoeightnine No, if it is a bit, I did not know it. Because I don’t watch “Ellen.” Because I don’t have a vagina
@Otto, 289 has bigger problems than being an Ellen fan. He’s also a Bills fan.
/fellow Bills fan
Fake or not, let us not forget that Ellen is a monster.
Oh, thank God. I was also getting ready to swap out all the smoke detector batteries until I read the comments.
Damn, son. Dustin had a lengthy and well-documented hetero (cough) crush on Ryan Reynolds, so if he is calling you a bitch, you’ve been shit on by a professional.
Mrs. HoC watches this while I make dinner every day. They do a bit like this everyday during Christmas.
On an unrelated note: watching this kills me a little every day
Very messed-up, in a “Japanese gameshow” kind of way. That dancing ornament might as well be a Battling Seizure Robot.
Everyone knows you’re supposed to propose in Aruba in case she says no.
Dustin, you’ve been Dyke’d!
A Bills fan *and* an Ellen fan? So he likes wings *and* thighs?
Why am I not surprised someone buttcamming the Ellen Show is too fucking lazy to replace the fucking battery on their smoke alarm.
I would’ve sworn that was the smoke detector in the hallway of my house. I’ve never heard anything so realistic coming from my laptop speakers before.
BTW – that was the only 2 minutes of Ellen I’ve ever watched in my life. That will never happen again.
as a balding man, i feel only empathy