--- title: Sesame Street Spoofs When Harry Met Sally description: The eighties film gets a kid-friendly makeover canonical: https://time.com/4021523/sesame-street-when-harry-met-sally/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-03T16:26:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:15.380Z og:title: Watch Sesame Street's Delightful Spoof of 'When Harry Met Sally' og:description: We'll all have what Cookie Monster is having og:url: https://time.com/4021523/sesame-street-when-harry-met-sally/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28caabb9c4a7bf0f/6988622f3c16390c6745991b/sesame-street-harry-sally.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sesame-Street-Harry-Sally og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Sesame Street's Delightful Spoof of 'When Harry Met Sally' twitter:description: We'll all have what Cookie Monster is having twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28caabb9c4a7bf0f/6988622f3c16390c6745991b/sesame-street-harry-sally.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch _Sesame Street'_s Delightful Spoof of _When Harry Met Sally_ by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Sep 3, 2015 4:26 PM UTC  PBS by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Sep 3, 2015 4:26 PM UTC Cookie Monster gets seriously greedy in the latest _Sesame Street_ video, which spoofs rom-com classic _When Harry Met Sally_. The dessert-loving Muppet takes on the Billy Crystal role, playing an impatient type who doesn’t want to wait in line at the fictional version of New York’s famous Katz’s Delicatessen. (You know, the place where [_that_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bsf2x-aeE) scene takes place.) The _Sesame Street_ version of Sally tries to get him to chill out by distracting him with games like “I Spy” and “Patty Cake,” but he struggles with learning to wait his turn. And while Cookie’s wardrobe consists mainly of a hat, Sally greatly resembles Meg Ryan, who played the role in the 1989 Nora Ephron film, with perfect eighties-era hair and blue eyeshadow. Once the two finally get to order and eat their meals, they devour — what else? — cookies, to which another customer responds with the perfect punchline: “I’ll have what they’re having.” _Read next:_ [_How the Internet Had Fun With_ ](http://time.com/3996234/sesame-street-hbo-jokes/?iid=time%5Freadnext)[Sesame Street _Moving to HBO_](http://time.com/3996234/sesame-street-hbo-jokes/?iid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4021523/sesame-street-when-harry-met-sally/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4021523/sesame-street-when-harry-met-sally/"},"headline":"Watch Sesame Street's Delightful Spoof of When Harry Met Sally","datePublished":"2015-09-03T16:26:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:15.380Z","description":"We'll all have what Cookie Monster is having","url":"https://time.com/4021523/sesame-street-when-harry-met-sally/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28caabb9c4a7bf0f/6988622f3c16390c6745991b/sesame-street-harry-sally.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28caabb9c4a7bf0f/6988622f3c16390c6745991b/sesame-street-harry-sally.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sesame-Street-Harry-Sally","caption":"","creditText":"PBS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4021523/sesame-street-when-harry-met-sally/","name":"Watch Sesame Street's Delightful Spoof of When Harry Met Sally"}}]}] ```