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When Harry Met Sally... · 1989 — 第 2 / 20 章 · 2'15" · B2

Sally Explains the Weekday Underpants, Explained：strong suit

Lunch becomes a cross-examination: Harry wants to know which man gave Sally that famous great sex, then why she and Sheldon broke up. She stonewalls with “it is none of your business,” then surrenders the real reason — and it is underpants. Harry's only verdict: “I need a judge's ruling on this.”

あらすじ

At a diner, Harry presses Sally about the great sex she mentioned and then about why she broke up with Sheldon. She tells him to drop it, but eventually admits the cause: her “days of the week” underpants, and Sheldon's suspicion that she never wore Sunday. The same meal includes Sally's notoriously picky order, which Harry watches with delight.

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strong suitroot canalout of a canthe Wonder Schlong

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このシーンの表現

strong suit

what one is good at

Sally claims great sex with Sheldon, and Harry mocks the idea by listing what Sheldon is actually good at.

Cooking has never been my strong suit, so I order in.

このシーンの他の表現

  • root canal

    a dental treatment

  • out of a can

    from a tin or can

  • the Wonder Schlong

    a vulgar nickname

  • none of your business

    not your concern

  • a judge's ruling

    a mock call for a verdict

このシーンのメモ一覧

43 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

文法 · B2With whom did you have

fronted preposition: Fronting with whom makes the question sound formal and mock-serious.

With whom did you have this great sex?
発音did you

In fast speech did you can blur into didja.

With whom did you have this great sex?
表現 · B1have sex with someone

sleep with someone

No. No, you did not have great sex with Sheldon.
表現 · B2do someone's income taxes

file someone's taxes

Sheldon can do your income taxes.
表現 · B1need a root canal

a dental treatment

Harry lists Sheldon's useful skills, from taxes all the way to the dentist's root canal.

If you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man.
表現 · B2someone's strong suit

what one is good at

Sally claims great sex with Sheldon, and Harry mocks the idea by listing what Sheldon is actually good at.

But humping and pumping is not Sheldon's strong suit.
スラング · C1humping and pumping

sex, crudely — Crude slang for sex; keep it private.

But humping and pumping is not Sheldon's strong suit.
表現 · A2it doesn't work

it fails

It doesn't work.
表現 · B1something on the side

served separately

I'd like the chef's salad, please, with the oil and vinegar on the side...
表現 · B2à la mode

with ice cream

and the apple pie à la mode.
表現 · A2X instead of Y

in place of

And I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla, if you have it.
発音if it's

If it's runs together and can sound like ifits.

If not, then no ice cream, just whipped cream, but only if it's real.
表現 · B1out of a can

from a tin or can

Sally's salad order is absurdly fussy, and she refuses even the cream if it comes out of a can.

- If it's out of a can, then nothing. - Not even the pie?
表現 · A2break up with someone

end a relationship

If you didn't break up, you wouldn't be here with me.
文法 · B2If you didn't break up, you wouldn't

unreal conditional: A past-tense if-clause with would marks a condition that is not true now.

If you didn't break up, you wouldn't be here with me.
スラング · C1Schlong

penis, vulgar — Very vulgar; never in polite speech.

You'd be with Sheldon, the Wonder Schlong.
表現 · B1none of someone's business

not your concern

After Harry keeps digging into the breakup, Sally draws a hard line and tells him it is not his concern.

Second of all, it is none of your business why we broke up.
表現 · B2a judge's ruling on something

a mock call for a verdict

As Sally tells the absurd underwear story, Harry deadpans that a judge should rule on it.

I'm sorry. I need a judge's ruling on this.
発音says to me

To is reduced almost to a t sound after says.

One day, Sheldon says to me, "You never wear Sunday."
文法 · B2Where had I left it

past perfect question: The past perfect shows the leaving happened before another past moment.

He's all suspicious. Where was Sunday? Where had I left it?
スラング · B1all suspicious

totally suspicious — Casual all meaning completely or totally.

He's all suspicious. Where was Sunday? Where had I left it?
表現 · A2because of someone or something

due to

- Why not? - Because of God.

「Sally Explains the Weekday Underpants」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene looks like two friends trading gossip, but it is really Harry gathering evidence. He already has a theory about men and women, and every answer Sally gives becomes proof: she breaks up over something small, she keeps a secret, she treats his questions as an intrusion. Her “it is none of your business” is the wall he keeps testing. What makes the scene affectionate rather than cruel is that she lets him in anyway, and the revelation is absurd — “days of the week” underpants and the missing Sunday. Harry's mock-solemn “I need a judge's ruling on this” turns the confession into a joke they can share, which is exactly how these two become close: by making each other's worst habits funny.

Theme

FriendshipThe teasing and the traded embarrassments are how these two grow closer.
RomanceHarry's need to know everything about Sally's past hints at feelings neither will name yet.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A boundary can be drawn with one calm sentence.
  • The fussy order is a character sketch in itself.
  • Harry turns a private story into a joke.
  • Sheldon is mocked through his useful skills.

発音のポイント

  • did you — In fast speech did you can blur into didja.
  • if it's — If it's runs together and can sound like ifits.
  • says to me — To is reduced almost to a t sound after says.
If you didn't break up, you wouldn't be here with me.

Harry's logic: the only reason Sally is sitting across from him is that Sheldon is gone, which is his way of flirting through deduction.

Second of all, it is none of your business why we broke up.

Sally draws a line: she will discuss almost anything with Harry, but not the private reasons she ended things.

One day, Sheldon says to me, "You never wear Sunday."

The punchline of her story: Sheldon read a missing day on her underwear as proof of betrayal, which is why the relationship ended.

I'm sorry. I need a judge's ruling on this.

Harry's mock-legal verdict on the underpants story — too ridiculous for either of them to settle alone.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Sheldon get suspicious about Sally's underpants?

Each pair has a day of the week printed on it, and Sally never wore Sunday. Sheldon read the missing day as proof she had been somewhere else with someone.

Why did Sally and Sheldon break up?

Sally says Sheldon was jealous, and the underpants sealed it: he refused to believe her explanation that the Sunday pair simply was not made.

Is Harry right that they would not be together if Sally had not broken up?

It is his logic, and it is the film's running idea: their friendship keeps depending on bad timing and other people's exits.

Why does Harry say he needs a judge's ruling?

Because the underpants story is so absurd that he treats it as a case too ridiculous for the two of them to settle, turning Sally's confession into a shared joke.

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