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Packers-Bears parody channels 'When Harry Met Sally'

Kendra Meinert
USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
"When the Bears Met the Packers" is a parody of the famous deli scene in "When Harry Met Sally." It stars Katherine Biskupic, who graduated from high school in Appleton and whose grandfather played for the Green Bay Packers.

It’s Packers-Bears week, and that means nothing is off limits, including the famous deli scene in “When Harry Met Sally.”

“I’ll have what she’s having” is still the punchline in the new parody titled “When the Bears Met the Packers,” but instead of Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal talking about sex over lunch, it’s a Green Bay Packers fan (woman) and a Chicago Bears fan (man) discussing who has the advantage in Thursday’s game at Lambeau Field.

The topic comes up of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ dummy calls to confuse the opposing team.

“How do you know what’s real and what’s fake? … Sixty-five percent of his calls are dummy calls. You don’t know what’s real,” the woman says. “… I forgot. You’re a man. All men think they know what’s going on in the pocket, and they don’t.”

Um, you see where this is going, right?

Next thing you know she’s pounding the table, hollering “319! 319!” and then throwing her head back and yelling, "Hut, hut, hut, hut!”

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It’s the latest Packers vs. Bears parody from Chicago actress and comedy writer Katherine Biskupic, and it’s no coincidence she’s the one wearing the Packers jersey in the sketch. The Appleton North High School graduate is the granddaughter of Ron Kostelnik, a defensive lineman for the Packers from 1961 to 1968. (That’s his jersey in the opening scene of the parody with the couple on the couch.)

For the last few years, Biskupic’s Pure & Weary sketch comedy duo with Leah Frires has released a Packers-Bears-themed parody. The ones in 2014 and 2015 both played off Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”

— kmeinert@pressgazettemedia.com and follow her on Instagram and Twitter @KendraMeinert.