How I Met Your Mother : "Benefits"

"I love you."   Has a sitcom ever passed over that moment so quickly and so poignantly?  Barney impulsively blurts out his feelings to Robin, and without missing a beat, she interprets it as his expression of Ted's romantic side.  She doesn't hear him, and in fact, she tells him her belief that friends can't get involved -- that it never works out.  And poor Barney, standing there unable to step back over that threshold, left with only friendship.  It was painful, it was wrenching, and most importantly, it wasn't overplayed.  I think that moment is going to ... (link)