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I love Seinfeld. One of the best shows that ever was. The only episode(s) I didn't like was the entire NBC wants Jerry to write a show story arc. It was way too meta for my tastes. Anyhow, thought you'd all find this funny: http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=274
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Has Michael Richards done anything besides curb since his outburst?
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Apr 24, 2010 02:21
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Evil Agita posted:Has Michael Richards done anything besides curb since his outburst? Bee Movie, apparently. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724245/ 
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Apr 24, 2010 02:37
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Evil Agita posted:Has Michael Richards done anything besides curb since his outburst? "I'm so angry I could shove this hat up your rear end!" Now that's meta!
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Apr 24, 2010 02:58
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Dr_Amazing posted:Mulva? Hest? IS IT HEST!?
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Apr 24, 2010 03:00
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KRAAAAAAMERRRRRRRRRRRR! STOOPPPPPP THE FIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT! ... TAMAAAAALLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! *nods* My dad, almost regularly for the past 13 or so years, will ask me what I've been up to lately/that day and respond at my first pause with "There you go, that's a show." Also, each of our dogs are named Soda and Seven, respectively. Cuban Chowder Factory fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Apr 24, 2010 |
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Apr 24, 2010 03:22
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When I watched the show in its first run, I didn't pick up on it (either because it was week-to-week or my undeveloped teenage mind), but when I marathoned some episodes on DVD I realized I never noticed how much subtle continuity some of the older seasons had. Jerry calling George "Biff" (Loman) for a few episodes stands out in my mind, and there are other examples of them referring to events in a previous episode that I can't remember right now. Another subtle gag I didn't pick up on until years later: In the episode where George goes to that family's apartment to watch Breakfast at Tiffany's to cheat in his book club and spills grape juice on their sofa, and Poppy pees on Jerry's couch. Elaine asks Jerry what he's going to do with the couch and Jerry says something like "Oh, George is taking it, he said he'll just flip the cushion over". I just always thought this was George being cheap -- it only hit me later that it was implied that he was going to replace that family's juice-stained couch with the pee-stained one. Hell, I didn't notice until several repeat viewings later that the whole Kramer/Poppy pizza argument ("It's not a pizza until it comes out of the oven!"/"It's a pizza the minute you put your fists in the dough!") was an allegory for the abortion debate that was in that same episode. From writing this post, apparently I was incredibly unobservant  But that's what made Seinfeld great -- every episode had so many layers. Few sitcoms have pulled that off since then.
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Apr 24, 2010 03:58
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TMMadman posted:Bob Sacamano. I'd love to see more clips of actors on shows exchanging parts. Kramer does a fair Jerry but Jerry's Kramer is really jarring. HoveringCheesecake posted:I just assumed everyone liked Seinfeld by default. I think it takes a hit because people hate being able to laugh at something their parents can also laugh at. I'm curious how many/which episodes I haven't seen. I watched some of the later seasons during their original run, but I wasn't a really dedicated viewer. The show is pretty common in syndication and I've seen a lot of it, but it's entirely possible there are episodes that slipped through the cracks. The possibility of a "new" Seinfeld episode I haven't seen is pretty cool 
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Apr 24, 2010 05:07
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HoveringCheesecake posted:I just assumed everyone liked Seinfeld by default. 
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Apr 24, 2010 05:13
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Dan a man posted:I don't trust people who don't like Seinfeld. I don't even like them.
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Apr 24, 2010 05:20
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Cheeseball IV posted:Then shouldn't the bucket be on your head? Oh no, you said a mailam I know, you're you're a mailman I know! Speaking of, Jerry as a mailman was hilarious. Giving mail to a bum, "Mail on a Sunday? "Oops!" and "Too many people got their mail...80%! No one at the post office has ever broken the 50% mark! It's like the four minute mile!"
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Apr 24, 2010 05:26
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DrBouvenstein posted:Oh no, you said a mailam I know, you're you're a mailman I know! And yet Jerry got all of those checks from his grandma. Someone contact the postmaster General (Wilford Brimley).
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Apr 24, 2010 05:36
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:And yet Jerry got all of those checks from his grandma. Someone contact the postmaster General (Wilford Brimley). AND the Super Terrific Happy Fun Hour!
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Apr 24, 2010 05:41
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Flobbster posted:
I never caught this either. The one for me that I got years later is when Jerry is dating an actress that freaks out over everything. The lead is injured (by George) and she stops the play to tie her shoe. The whole thing was making fun on Tonya Harding. I only got it because the rerun was on soon after she was on celebrity boxing.
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Apr 24, 2010 05:43
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What about after George finds out Susan's parents are starting a foundation in her name based on what Jerry said during the funeral (which he just ripped off from Wrath of Khan). "That's it...." *squirts mustard into Jerry's coffee and stirs it* "...that's the line that ruined my life."
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Apr 24, 2010 13:42
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haljordan posted:What about after George finds out Susan's parents are starting a foundation in her name based on what Jerry said during the funeral (which he just ripped off from Wrath of Khan). And then he gets beat up because he didn't give the scholarship to the kid who then joins the Van Buren Boys. Edit: Nd speaking of watching it with parents...I was watching the one where Jerry tries to do the roommate switch, and George comes up with the menage a trois. I had to ask my parents what that was cause I was too young to know yet.
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Apr 24, 2010 15:34
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DrBouvenstein posted:And then he gets beat up because he didn't give the scholarship to the kid who then joins the Van Buren Boys. Haha but first he tries to take Mrs. Seinfeld's purse and fails miserably.
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Apr 24, 2010 15:36
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haljordan posted:What about after George finds out Susan's parents are starting a foundation in her name based on what Jerry said during the funeral (which he just ripped off from Wrath of Khan). Watching this on Youtube now, man, Jason Alexander is just so on top of that character all the time. I love when he talks about George in the third person. Edit: He's so loving intense, I love it. Pompous Rhombus fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Apr 24, 2010 |
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Apr 24, 2010 15:49
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haljordan posted:Haha but first he tries to take Mrs. Seinfeld's purse and fails miserably. I just love Morty at the end after George and Helen are fighting, happy as a clam "Bye, George!"
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Apr 24, 2010 16:08
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Watching this on Youtube now, man, Jason Alexander is just so on top of that character all the time. I love when he talks about George in the third person. "Before we go any further, I just want to point out how disturbing it is that you equate biting into a large block of cheese with some kind of bachelor paradise."
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Apr 24, 2010 16:15
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I was always very fond of "The Maid," which included: (1) G-Bone/Koko The Monkey; (2) the counter bit about Newman dying; (3) nexus of the universe; and (4) Kramer telling Jerry that he'd never be like him, paying scrubwomen for sexual favors.
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Apr 24, 2010 16:49
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Anyone have the clip where Kramer's car fails to start at the end of the episode where they get lost in that parking lot? I understand that that scene was completely improved, since the car really did fail to start. You can see everyone visibly lose their poo poo when Kramer gets out of the car.
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Apr 24, 2010 16:54
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Calaveron posted:Anyone have the clip where Kramer's car fails to start at the end of the episode where they get lost in that parking lot? I understand that that scene was completely improved, since the car really did fail to start. You can see everyone visibly lose their poo poo when Kramer gets out of the car. That's one of the best DVD extras. The entire shoot was really hard, they had to build the parking lot set from scratch, it was after midnight, etc. Just watch. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vJI5kU-q4RM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vJI5kU-q4RM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
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Apr 24, 2010 16:57
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I really like Seinfeld but I really don't understand the "It's about nothing" tag it gets, it's about a comedian and his friends lives I really don't see how it's that different from something like Friends in that respect, great show though. "Well I had sex with your wife!"
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Apr 24, 2010 17:05
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Wasco Jr. posted:I really like Seinfeld but I really don't understand the "It's about nothing" tag it gets, it's about a comedian and his friends lives I really don't see how it's that different from something like Friends in that respect, great show though. I'd say it was more about the plot than the characters. The whole point of a lot of shows at the time was to stick everyone in crazy situations. Instead we had a lot of everyday stuff like waiting in a restaurant.
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Apr 24, 2010 17:28
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I always thought that it was "about nothing" because the characters were so petty that the plots mostly revolved around minutiae that most people would ignore or just let pass by, i.e. it's nothing to them, but to the characters it's very important. Like the "The ocean called" thing was just something most people would forget about soon after, but to George it became a huge deal. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Apr 24, 2010 |
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Apr 24, 2010 17:34
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Watching this on Youtube now, man, Jason Alexander is just so on top of that character all the time. I love when he talks about George in the third person. Susan was only 32 when she died? Bullshit, that woman was like 40.
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Apr 24, 2010 18:06
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Watching this on Youtube now, man, Jason Alexander is just so on top of that character all the time. I love when he talks about George in the third person. haljordan posted:"Before we go any further, I just want to point out how disturbing it is that you equate biting into a large block of cheese with some kind of bachelor paradise." George: (inhales deeply) I tell you, Jerry, I'm feeling something. Something I haven't felt in a long time. Jerry: Pride? George: No. Autonomy, complete and total autonomy. Jerry: Well, you're your own boss now. George: I wanna go to a tractor pull. Jerry: Go ahead. George: I am staying out all night! Jerry: Who's stopping you? George: I wanna bite into a big hunk of cheese, just bite into it like it's an apple. Jerry: ...Whatever. One of my favorite/random lines was, "Whoa, that's a lot of potatoes!" Am I forgetting the episode where they explain the potato man? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcFZIj96LwY
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Apr 24, 2010 20:29
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kolby posted:One of my favorite/random lines was, "Whoa, that's a lot of potatoes!" Am I forgetting the episode where they explain the potato man?
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Apr 24, 2010 20:40
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Now this is what the holidays are all about: three buddies, sitting around, chewin' some gum.
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Apr 24, 2010 20:51
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hall n oates mom posted:Kramer stumbling into the potato man's apartment after he gets shocked via an electrical outlet is in "The Slicer". In a previous episode it's mentioned that Elaine's floor always smells like potatoes, but it's never particularly explained in either episode iirc. It wasn't a previous episode. It gets mentioned towards the beginning, but I don't remember the context. Another great moment like that is in "The Kiss Hello" when at the beginning Jerry tells George that he admires his hearing abilities, and then towards the end he overhears a conversation in a different room. I just love the way he says "I hear everything!" as he snaps his fingers.
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Apr 24, 2010 22:16
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Slvbarek posted:It wasn't a previous episode. It gets mentioned towards the beginning, but I don't remember the context.
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Apr 25, 2010 00:17
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One of my favorite George moments was when he ties the World Series trophy to his car and drags it around the parking lot while screaming through a megaphone. Most of the Seinfeld fans I know like Kramer the best. For me, it's all about George.
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Apr 25, 2010 00:26
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hall n oates mom posted:Are you sure? I feel confident it was foreshadowed at least once. On the other hand, we do hardly ever see the Elaine's apartment set throughout the series. It's the same episode. Elaine: You remember that next door neighbor of mine, the apartment that always smells like potatoes? Jerry: Your whole building smells like potatoes.
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Apr 25, 2010 00:37
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On the first page someone mentioned the finale. It's not my favorite episode and I had some problems with it, however, it was a very forward thinking way to end the show. Most sitcoms end (if they get a finale) with a major character leaving or moving on in some way. I'm thinking of finales for Family Ties, Friends, and Frasier. I'm sure you can think of others. In a totally non sitcom way, Seinfeld ends with every bad thing they've done coming back to bite them in the rear end. They're paying for their sins, but even at that point, they don't learn their lesson. When we see them in the jail cell, they are still the same people we've observed for all those years. Even though that's the case, plot threads are sort of resolved by these people coming back to testify and get some sort of payback. Endings of that sort are typically found in most dramas we've all seen. Questions and events from the very first episode are often resolved in the final one. Plot threads are resolved and everyone pays for what they may have done. That's a lot of words about a sitcom, but it's something I find interesting.
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Apr 25, 2010 01:23
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Ehud posted:It's the same episode.
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Apr 25, 2010 01:25
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The Seinfeld D&D comic is excellent, but what really sells it to me is...
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Apr 25, 2010 01:34
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HateTheInternet posted:Most of the Seinfeld fans I know like Kramer the best. For me, it's all about George. TWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIX
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Apr 25, 2010 01:44
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HateTheInternet posted:Most of the Seinfeld fans I know like Kramer the best. For me, it's all about George. As far as I'm concerned the best George (related) moment came from Elaine. George's girlfriend (I think it may have been Susan) asked if Elaine and George were having an affair and she just starts laughing her rear end off. "Who would want to sleep with Georg- Oh."
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Apr 25, 2010 02:01
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Didn't George try to break up with Susan because Marisa Tomei liked short, stocky, bald* men. I was so desperately rooting for him. But I think I liked Kramer better, all in all, because I have this theory he was a total head. Could be wrong, but it fits. *I think George added this part
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