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Video: <em>Sesame Street</em> Does <em>When Harry Met Sally</em>
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Sep 3, 2015
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When Harry Met Sally, one of the loveliest NYC-based romantic comedies, has gotten an equally lovely Sesame Street-treatment. Here, a puppet version of 1980s Meg Ryan teaches Cookie Monster how to wait on line, just as real 1980s Meg Ryan taught Billy Crystal how to ruin platonic male/female relationships for the rest of us. And the whole shebang takes place inside a much-cleaner Katz's Delicatessen, complete with a kid-friendly version of the film's most famous line:
This isn't the first time Cookie Monster's had to learn about waiting. In 2013, beautiful man creature Tom Hiddleston taught him all about sexual tension delayed gratification. Should we just watch that clip real quick? Yes, let's.
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