A pink scallop shell wears a navy bow tie while resting on folded turquoise cloth.

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Harry Burns

Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you didn't have great sex with...Sheldon.

— When Harry Met Sally...  ·  1989

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a comic double take of disbelief. The speaker stumbles over a name, repeating it in rising alarm, as if saying it slowly might change what they just heard. The trailing pause before the name lands as the joke: the name itself is the surprise.

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