I’ll have what she’s having.

The line is from the 1989 romantic comedy film *When Harry Met Sally...*, directed by Rob Reiner and written by Nora Ephron. It is delivered by a female diner patron (played by Estelle Reiner) immediately after Sally (Meg Ryan) convincingly fakes an orgasm at the table to prove to Harry (Billy Crystal) that men often cannot tell when women are faking. The moment occurs in Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City and became one of the film’s most famous comic beats, frequently cited as emblematic of Ephron’s frank, witty approach to sex and gender dynamics in mainstream romantic comedy.

On the surface, the line is a punchline: the bystander’s deadpan request turns an awkward, intimate display into a mundane act of consumer choice. Its humor comes from misdirection—she appears to be ordering food, but is really “ordering” the pleasure Sally just performed. More broadly, the line crystallizes the film’s themes about sexual performance, authenticity, and the gap between what men assume and what women experience. It also functions as a cultural shorthand for envy of someone else’s satisfaction—sexual or otherwise—making it one of the most widely repurposed lines associated with Ephron’s writing.

“I’ll have what she’s having.”