When Harry Met Sally... Crystal remembers saying, "'We need something for Sally to talk about,' and Nora said, 'Well, faking orgasm is a great one,' and right away we said, 'Well, the subject is good,' and then Meg came on board and we talked with her about the nature of the idea and she said, 'Well, why don't I just fake one, just do one?'" Ryan suggested that the scene take place in a restaurant, and it was Crystal who came up with the scene's classic punchline – "I'll have what she's having." In 2005, the quote was listed 33rd on the AFI's 100
Meg Stinks! episode is called 'Meg Stinks!' The title, at first, does not bode particularly well—the Meg hatred well has simply been exhausted too many times and in too obnoxious ways, concentrated most recently in this season’s terrible "A Fistful of Meg.” There are a bunch of garden-variety 'Meg is gross' jokes in this episode about her unattractiveness and 'stupidity,' but they feel perfunctory in a way that makes them boring and mildly distracting rather than straight-up irritating, and are mostly filtered through Peter's blinkered perspective rather than simply the show pronouncing her as horrible. Mostly, 'Meg Stinks!' is a vast improvement