- I wanna get asked like this. This big--
this extra in front of the whole freaking school.
- My mom opened the garage and my girlfriend was outside
and my two friends were holding a sign that said,
"Will you swing over to homecoming with me?"
- ♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today, we are going to show you something that
we did with the teens last year and is becoming a tradition
here at FBE. - Okay.
That's pretty cool.
- Ooh, I don't know what this is.
- Aw, okay. I only started last year,
so I have no idea what this is.
- Aw, promposals.
- Oh, promposal.
- What is EXO? Is EXO a Korean boy band?
- Oh.
- Okay, he went the dance route. Okay.
- Oh my God. That's so cute.
- Oh, he like hit that hard.
- Girl, I hope she said yes.
- This is so extra. I love it.
- It really shows the girl who puts the extra effort in
when it comes to promposal season.
- (girl) [inaudible] - Aw.
- Aw, yay.
- I love promposals. I'm living for this [bleep].
- He wasn't an EXO fan, but she was?
Aw, so he did it for her?
- I asked my friend to homecoming with me
at a basketball game during half time.
- (Ulises) [inaudible] - (cheering)
- What?
- He got a police escort?
- Stop.
- Some people can get so extra with their prom proposals.
- Damn, dude. How did they hook all that up?
- Oh, he's playing You Are Special by Chance.
That's cute.
- I wanna get asked like this. This big--
this extra in front of the whole freaking school.
- Oh my gosh.
- So smooth.
- Yo, these low key be like, baby wedding proposals.
- Aw, these are adorable.
- That's finesse. Cop car, all your bros
in their tuxes and the caddy. Wow.
- In front of the whole class.
- I don't know if I have the balls to do all this.
- See, these are the ones I like.
These are fun, where you embarrass them.
- I don't think promposals were as huge 20 years ago,
but the internet has just made people go bigger and better.
- ♪ Wake me up before you go go ♪
- Aw, I would have loved to go to prom with him.
- She's like, "What the hell is he doing?"
- She's happy, but also kind of annoyed at the same time.
- (boy) Will you go to prom with me?
- Aw, she said yes.
- I like that one. That was funny.
- I feel like there's cliche promposals where you
dress up and stuff and okay. When you tailor it
to the person you're promposing to, those are the most heartfelt ones.
- I don't like promposals. I don't know.
I love the idea of them, but if anyone were to
ask me to prom in front of other people,
that just ruins it. That just kills it for me.
- Did the girl ask him?
- Aw, the girl's asked him. That's so cute.
- Aw, I love it when the girl asks the guy to prom.
- To be honest, I know a lot of feminists are probably
gonna hate me for saying this, but I actually don't like
when girls propose to guys. I'm just kinda old school.
- Girls should do more promposals for sure,
because it's always been the guy thing, but I mean,
dude, girls, you gotta shoot your shots, you know?
It's 2018, dude.
- "Looks like I'm swinging into prom with a marvelous date."
- Wow, all the lights. Oh, Spiderman.
- Oh my God.
- That was so unexpected.
- Oh my God, I would love that. I would say yes to that.
That's so funny.
- Oh, I love it! And I love the
"A marvelous date." Oh, that was good.
- I did my homecoming proposal as Spiderman.
I put a Spiderman mask on and did sort of almost
the same thing. I had my mom open
the garage and my girlfriend was outside and my two friends
were holding a sign that said, "Will you swing over
to homecoming with me?" She said yes.
I was very happy about it.
- (gasps)
- It's Drake Bell. Are you kidding me?
- No way.
- That's dope.
- Oh my gosh.
- How did he do that? That's what I wanna know.
I would have been like, "Can I go to prom with you?"
No, I'm playing.
- "Got the gayest date to prom, me."
- Wait, did he just ask himself?
- Oh my God, that's so funny.
- "Meguel."
- That's me. That's gonna be me.
- That's a great way to step into prom yourself
without a date, but feeling good about it
is getting friends that will do something cheesy
like that with you.
- "Fellas, don't lie and tell her you're not asking her anymore.
She won't respond to your texts for two days and block you
on Snapchat."
- She's like, "I'ma smile for this picture,
but this is serious."
- I'm glad he still asked her and I'm glad she forgave him.
- People take them a little more serious than they should be,
but for good reason, I guess? Sometimes you only get
one prom, so gotta make the one worth it.
- (FBE) So, those are a few promposals from 2018.
Are you planning to, or did you go to prom this year?
- I can't. I'm a Sophomore,
but maybe next year I will.
- My school doesn't have it for Juniors,
so next year, I'm going.
- I haven't gotten asked out yet, so I'm kinda like,
I don't know, should I go? I'm trying to find the perfect
dress, you know what I mean?
- Oh yeah, I'm gonna go to prom before I graduate.
Something I think every Senior has to do, even if you don't
have a date, you only get one.
- My Senior year and I don't have another one,
so I know I'm gonna regret it if I don't go.
- I'm going to two proms. I'm so excited.
I'm just going with my friends and we're going on a huge
party bus. It's gonna be really fun.
- Yes, I just went to prom on Friday with Xolo,
and he's the new Karate Kid on the Cobra Kai show.
- Yes, I'm going to prom with my friend.
Oh my gosh, that would be so funny if we did
promposals to each other. Maybe I'll get a Spiderman suit
and just be like-- 'cause she really likes Marvel.
- (FBE) Promposals seem to be a big deal on social media
with teens spending an increasing amount of time and money
on asking. There are even Twitter pages
for schools that promote promposals and post pictures
of all the students' promposals. - Oh my God.
- Schools are promoting it?
- That's pretty cool. I wish our school would do that.
- Yeah, my school is basically doing it, whoever has
the best promposal gets free prom tickets,
so that's a huge incentive, 'cause that's like $200.
- (FBE) Do you think if it weren't for social media
that people would get this invested into promposals?
- Yeah, I feel like after watching these, I feel like
I need to go ham.
- Oh, absolutely. If they weren't a thing on Twitter,
they wouldn't be as extravagant.
- Yeah, I definitely think social media puts pressure
on a promposal. I mean, it's definitely gonna
put pressure on me when I have to ask.
- If it weren't for social media, I think these would still
be relevant and promposals would still be popular,
but I don't think they would be as common.
- People obviously asked each other to prom in big ways,
but I don't think as big, because social media,
it shows you, you gotta top them.
- (FBE) So many teens consider prom to be one of the biggest
events of their high school career. - I feel like it is, too.
That, and college acceptances.
- (FBE) With other large student events like homecoming,
there's all the different formal dances.
Why do you think that people view prom as this pinnacle
at the end of high school? - Because prom is your last year,
so it's something to build up to.
- It's like the last dance of all of high school,
so people are so eager to go to it.
It's prom. The name itself is iconic.
- All your Senior buddies that you've grew up with,
this is the last time you guys are all gonna be together
in high school before you all move off.
- There's something so magical and beautiful about--
thinking about prom and thinking, "This is the last time."
It's the last hurrah that your friends, at least your high school
friends are all in one place, one big event
and you're all just out there having fun.
- (FBE) So finally, if someone gets asked to prom
without an elaborate promposal, do you think you should
still say yes? - Yeah, they should still say yes.
That person wants to go with you, they wanna go with you.
I don't think a sign should make a difference.
- Absolutely. If it's more intimate
and romantic, that makes it even more special.
Not everything is a freaking Instagram moment.
- You should definitely say yes. I don't think you need
anything crazy. Last year, when I had
a girlfriend, all we did was go to the beach
and I just gave her flowers and asked her to prom.
It wasn't anything crazy.
- It's prom. You should definitely go.
It's so much fun. You get to make yourself
look poppin, look so pretty, take pictures.
If you like him, go. Do it.
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