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Fake Orgasm Flash Mob Takes Over Katz's Because When Harry Met Sally
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Jen Carlson
Published Nov 12, 2013
Modified Nov 12, 2013
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It's not like anyone needed to revisit the fake orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally again, but here we are! Improv Everywhere recently situated twenty women inside Katz's Deli to recreate the scene—it starts with just one brave woman, but soon others follow and eventually the restaurant is filled with a cacophonous chorus of fake orgasms. The troupe says they staged the prank without letting the restaurant know, so the employees reactions are pretty good and surprisingly not at all "oh, this again":
This is for IE's new series Movies in Real Life, where they'll recreate iconic scenes once a week.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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