Seinfield Thread

Let’s cast the four least funny people and three not very attractive people, with terrible hair- one ok person who got much better with styling. Add Larry David’s anti humor, paranoia and navel gazing. Make the four characters pretty lousy human beings with nothing jobs who are spoiled, self centered adult brats.

It’s a miracle anyone liked this show.

I've never seen a complete episode and it sounds like the kind of show I would like.

The sea was angry that day, my friend...like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

The best thing about Seinfeld was that they were truly awful people and they never learned any lessons. I would have loved being friends with them.

GET OUT!!!!

Helllllooooooo Newman.

R1 Excluding that larry david part your post perfectly sums up Will and Grace.

In 9 seasons, it never jumped the shark by relying on the usual sitcom plots: nobody ever got married, nobody ever had a baby, and the one time they all went on vacation together ended up rather badly for them.

No post for YOU!

You're an anti-dentite!

R10 Oh yeah, well I had sex with your wife!

Moops Moors .....Moops Morrs

Michael Richards racist tirade killed Seinfeld for me and I can no longer watch it.

You're a bery bery bad man

Shut up, you old bag.

I like seinfeld because it is un-pc. The characters never apologized for their crude humor and behaviors. I still watch the show and laugh my butt off.

And now we come to the Festivus airing of grievances.

I gotta lotta problems with you damn people!

I know most people didn't like the last episode, but I really loved that it ended with the exact same inane conversation the series started with 9 seasons earlier. There was always a touch of Waiting for Godot about Seinfeld.

I recently watched the very first episode and it holds up so well.

IT’S SIGNALS, JERRY, SIGNALS!

It was the most well-written show on television while it ran. Every show had multiple seemingly unrelated threads which all got tied together in 24 minutes. I still laugh thinking about the storylines of The Puffy Shirt.

R18, NBC hyped the finale so much that not even the second coming of Christ would have lived up to the expectations.

The finale wouldn't be in the 10 worst episodes (which would be concentrated in the first two seasons), but it wouldn't make the 10 best episodes, either. Somewhere in the middle of the pack.

"Do women know about shrinkage?"

"They're real and they're spectacular!"

[quote] I still laugh thinking about the storylines of The Puffy Shirt.

YOU BASTARD!

[quote]Seinfield

Oh, dear.

Bump

Was never a Seinfeld fan.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, on the other hand, is a totally different story.

My favorite joke in Curb Your Enthusiasm is Larry's innocent surprise and indignant defense every time someone tells him George was insufferable.

But the doll's head storyline WAS great.

"Who told you to put on the balm?!?!"

On a side note, it seems like curb your enthusiasm is just a recycled version of Seinfeld. I like it. I have some younger friends that never watched Seinfeld (or at least they claim.) but love CYE. I frequently start laughing toward the beginning of the show and predict what is going to happen. In fact, I think they did the joke about getting a service worker fired because the main characters were trying to be a good Samaritan more than once. On the original show, it was the security guard getting a chair to sit in at the clothing store. In CYE, it was the people they tried to market a piss break service to. One guy was supposed to be minding a magazine store on the street and ended up getting cleaned out.

[quote]Michael Richards racist tirade

The was totally blown out of proportion.

R30, Michael Richards was one of the first people to be cancelled. That was even before that despicable behavior had a name.

r26=Moron

Mulva...??

My favorite episodes were the one with “The Jimmy” and the one they did backwards. The backwards episode was done so deftly, it would have been a disaster in lesser hands.

For some reason, the Pez dispenser ep has remained hysterical to me all these years. Maybe from growing up in church and getting tickled at inane things when we were supposed to be praying or quietly listening to the sermon. I could totally relate.

Beefarino!

Can anyone who didn't live in New York in the 1990s really really get Seinfeld?

Yes, the New Yorkers who moved to LA in the 80s who wrote it. .

"So what kind of a bubble, like an igloo?"

Yes, r38 I can see it's based in 1980s New York now that you point it out.

She's got man hands!

Giddy up!

Jerry, we don't like the Costanzas.

My only issues with Seinfeld was that they drove too much. Maybe it's just me, but I don't know any New Yorkers with a car. And George was always getting women out of his league. I could understand Jerry because he had some fame, but no way was George pulling the kind of women he was getting.

It’s Festivus for the rest of us!!!

We bought a condo at Del Boca Vista

I had only visited with family when it was on R37. But considering the number of TV shows and movies based in that New York, there was nothing about the show that was not relatable to the public at large.

What would make you think it was only relevant to New Yorkers of that particular era?

"Not that there's anything wrong with it."

What they really meant is that of course there's plenty of things wrong with it. And it's time to panic when you're accused of doing it.

Out of the regular cast, I only remember Jerry and Kramer having cars. Jerry was portrayed as a success who could afford it and Kramer's was a junker that he constantly had problems parking. The parents did have cars, but they lived in Queens and as such and were old and established. Not sure if it was Queens exactly,but you get my drift.

I take that back. George had Jon Voit's Chrysler for that one episode. But the joke really only worked if he was the owner.

Jerry's car had BBO (Beyond B.O.)

I think George had another car. It broke down on his way to picking up Jerry at the airport. They end up in someone else's limo with neo-nazis.

[quote]My only issues with Seinfeld was that they drove too much. Maybe it's just me, but I don't know any New Yorkers with a car. And George was always getting women out of his league. I could understand Jerry because he had some fame, but no way was George pulling the kind of women he was getting.

Did someone resurrect this thread? I could swear I wrote this exact post years ago!

Seinfeld and Golden Girls are the best TV shows of our generation. (i.e. not counting the "classic" TV era of the 50s/60s)

George had different cars throughout the series. The Jon Voight car was just one of them. Newman had a car (The White Whale Episode), Kramer had a car. Puddy had a car. Elaine was the only one who didn't.

I stand corrected, R53. George did go through some cars. I only remembered that one because it was central to the episode. You made me look it up and he also had the Crown Vic that he dragged the trophy around in the parking lot with. Also the contour he left parked at the stadium for a week. I also didn't think about Newman and Puddy because they weren't in every episode or part of the "good Samaritan" gang.

Thanks for correcting me. (I did mention Kramer though)

R47 there was nothing about the show that was not relatable to the public at large.

Uh okaaay.

How would you like like me to phrase it, r55?

There was nothing about the show that was only relatable to NYC residents from the 90s ?

I mean, I wasn't going to call you on it, but it is obvious that you are just trying to place yourself in some elite group that lived there in the 90s, right?

George: Listen to this. Marcy said her old boyfriend came over last night, and yada, yada, yada, she's really tired today.

Jerry: You think she'd yada yada sex?

Elaine: I've yada yada-ed sex!

George: Really?

Elaine: Yea, I went out with this lawyer, we had dinner, the lobster bisque was fantastic, we went over to his place, and yada, yada, yada I never saw him again.

Jerry: But you yada yada-ed over the best part.

Elaine: No, I mentioned the bisque.

You're the Queen of Confrontation!

Elaine and her weird obsession with exclamation points.

It's funny watching the show now, a lot of people who became famous now were on that show.

Off the top of my head, a partial list of Jerry's "girlfriends" who went on to bigger and better things: Terri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Amanda Peet, Jane Leeves, Kristin Davis, Courtney Cox, DL fave Deb Messing. Others?

Lauren Graham and Jennifer Coolidge

OP, are you a PR person trying to garner interest in Seinfeld’s new book?

Spongeworthy

Seinfeld is lucky he escaped #metoo for dating a 17 year old when he was 38

Boca Del Vista

R84 - "Sponges, for SEX!"

A whole case of them, R67!!!!

Unnnncle Leeeoooo?

The show was hilarious. It's great medicine for a bad mood.

R2, if you ever do decide to watch, just go ahead and start with season 4. This show really didn't get into its groove until then. The first three seasons have their moments, but it's a little slow/awkward and I think you'll give up if you start at the beginning. I would recommend watching 4-9 and then going back and watching 1-3.

You're not Chinese!

YA GOTTA SEE THE BAYBAY

Maybe the dingo ate yo baby, r72.

E: "I'll never understand people."

J: "They're the worst."

The odd time I see it now I find myself appreciating Elaine more than before.

People love Woody Allen's films the world over but do they really get everything if they haven't lived in New York? Do I really get Murakamis novels since I haven't lived in Japan?

There is the particular and there is the universal in every art form. Let's leave aside whether the sitcom is art.

^ for r56, sorry.

You could never do the Asian girlfriend or Cigar Store Indian episodes today or George pretends to be handicapped. There are lot of others, but those stand out right now.

It's not a lie if you believe it!

[quote]Off the top of my head, a partial list of Jerry's "girlfriends" who went on to bigger and better things: Terri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Amanda Peet, Jane Leeves, Kristin Davis, Courtney Cox, DL fave Deb Messing. Others?

Most of those people had already done "bigger and better things" before Seinfeld.

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

[quote]Boca Del Vista

Del Boca Vista

Although neither makes sense in Spanish.

Kathy Griffin was in it too.

You're killing independent George!

He took IT out!

I am going to let let that softball go, R77. I don't want to litter this thread with a flame war. You have a good weekend.

Pulp can move, baby!

Kathy had a funny standup bit about appearing on the show but I cannot find it on yt.

Used to love the show when i discovered it ten years ago. Watching it now I see how awful they all are and always root for their enemies. Especially seeing how arrogant Jerry is about how great the show was.

... you know about the cup sizes and all? They have different cups. You got the A... the B... the C... the D. That’s the biggest.

R54, remember that George was the assistant to the traveling secretary of the New York Yankees, so he probably made some coin. And Elaine was president of J. Peterman for a while. The only one whose money had no obvious source was Kramer.

I thought Kramer won some kind of settlement or something. I loved Kramer's sidekick Mickey. I also loved all of the Newman episodes.

"And Elaine was president of J. Peterman for a while."

And thanks to Elaine Benes for filling in for me while I was away. Congratulations, Elaine, on a job ..............done!

Denise Richards appeared as Russell Dalrymple's teenage daughter.

Mariska Hargitay as an auditioning actress for the show about nothing.

The show coincidentally got worse when Elaine's hair got straighter. The writing went tk shit.

Kramer used to work at H&H Bagels

Bosco

Can we get back to the new scenarios please? I'm enjoying them tremendously ☺

Bump

[quote] Can we get back to the new scenarios please? I'm enjoying them tremendously

Jery get iPad.

R96, that probably had less to do with her hair than Larry David's absence.

R79, of course you could still do George pretending to be disabled. The show makes no bones about George being a shithead of the first water. It's not like we're meant to love him or think what he's doing is cute.

Jerry and George would hate sjws.

They probably couldn't to the episode where Mel Torme thinks Kramer is mentally challenged.

Here is a video where millennials tell us what they think of Seinfeld.

Hint: They find it problematic.

R83 Ahem, I believe the Seinfelds lived in Del Boca Vista Phase III, or was that where the Costanzas wanted to move?

I don't get the Show about nothing thing. How is that different than any other sitcom? What was Friends about or Will and Grace?

I was in undergrad/grad school in Lawrence, Kansas during Seinfeld and everyone I knew watched it and loved it. I don't know what the poster is on about, "only people in NYC could understand it."

R107, Seinfeld never went anywhere. No marriages, meaningful relationships, babies, big careers, deaths, etc. And it had very few, if any, heavy and profound moments.

It basically started with the exact argument in the finale that it began with in the pilot episode.

She is just trying to be an elite New Yorker r108. The real accomplished people from the city don’t use that to prop themselves up

[quote]It basically started with the exact argument in the finale that it began with in the pilot episode.

Which is probably why the show was so good. The only thing that really changed about the show was that the plot lines got goofier and they screwed around with Jerry and George's ages in the final season.

[quote]The only one whose money had no obvious source was Kramer.

He was the Jack MacFarlane of the show.

KENNY COME BACK!

R99 There used to be a twitter that was all about writing short scenarios for what Seinfeld episodes would be like today called Modern Seinfeld, this was about 5 or 6 years ago. A lot of them seemed like they would fit.

There's a Subreddit called "Reddit Writes Seinfeld" that's pretty great.

Some of my favorites:

George gets his identity stolen. Instead of being upset he embraces it. He is enjoying not being George Costanza, until the thief tracks him down and begs him to take his identity back.

Jerry’s Australian girlfriend buys him a birthday dinner at a steakhouse, but didn’t tip (they don’t tip in Australia.) Now word spreads that Jerry is a tip-skipper. Kramer insists it’s a “dumpable offense,” but Elaine disagrees. George fakes an Australian accent at restaurants and stops tipping.

George wins a free coffee from Dunkin Donuts but becomes irate when he has to buy something to get it. Jerry's mom gets worried about Jerry's morals and tries to get him to go to adult Hebrew school. Kramer signs up for a drug study and gets addicted to the placebo.

R115 Oh I have to check that out. :)

There's also a great spec script for Seinfeld to address 9/11.

Cold open: You think they ever get backed up at the gates of Heaven? Too many people die at once, it just overwhelms the system? It’s gotta be like the DMV on a Friday. “Everyone take a number, you’ll be judged in the order you slipped the surly bonds of Earth.” God’s angry at St. Peter. “What’s going on? Keep the line moving!” “I’ve got three angels on vacation - what do you want?!” All these poor souls just standing around, reading old magazines. “This is taking an eternity. I could’ve been in Hell by now!”

He stopped short?? With MY wife?!?

Thanks R115, R117. I love those.

Elaine had no tits at all. She made an entire career about hiding her tits.

Girls today can't pull that off.

IMO, it went on two seasons too long, although the last two seasons do have some classic episodes. I think the show was missing some je ne sais quoi once Larry David left. I just watched "The Invitations" and it would have served as a perfect finale. Even death doesn't bother these people. How can you top that?

I had a pony!

Seinfeld's New York was a slight shade darker than Woody Allen's. Jackie Chiles, George's Yankees boss, the gay diner guy and Kramer's date and her family. Over 9 seasons.

Assman!

Serenity now, insanity later.

She was the weak link..

I think it could have gone on for many more years, if the woman had not started complaining.

R123, don't forget the black guy who would park guys, and comedian George Wallace who showed up as many different characters, Elaine's work friend and the in home healthcare woman who George fucked.

I'm OUT!

"Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake!"

Cedric and Bob.

She may have tried to shut it down, I haven’t heard that. But I thought the ones before she came didn’t get a lot of attention. Or did bad with the test audiences.

R131 What are you talking about?

r137 George Wallace was only in one episode, and played one character (a doctor.)

Oh, by the way, they're real and they're spectacular!!!!

Don't forget the Temples, the Black family who let George into their apartment to watch "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (and end up regretting it, natch). They reappear in a later episode when George is trying to recruit Black friends to impress his boss.

R134 God, Teri was hot in the 90s

Did Kenny Rogers sell a decent fish sandwich?

Blink. Blink.

Did kids tease me about my name in school? Of course they did. What do you expect when your name rhymes with a female body part.

Elaine mistakenly thinks she's in an interracial relationship.

Believe it or not George isn't at home

The in-laws meet for the first time and worlds collide.

[quote] This is a thread about nothing. Please bump it along until it has 600 posts. Thank you.

R26 and R100 are the only ones who understood the assignment.

I disagree the show was about nothing, it was a about a group of friends who are horrible people. Petty, shallow, neurotic, eccentric, obsessive, you name it. Hardly about "nothing". I don't think is a bad thing.

Well since OP didn't even spell the name of the show correctly, why should we follow directions, R142?

Remember when 40 year old Jerry Seinfeld dated a teenager?

Hilarious at its best. When I saw an episode recently I realised how much heavy lifting Elaine and George did.

The only thing funnier than the show are the bloopers. I watch them on YouTube when I need a good laugh. JLD has a fantastic laugh, IMO.

I loved George's dad, they did it right having him in small doses so he stayed funny