Seinfeld

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Ah the wisdom of Elaine…

“Naked is not a good look for a man.”

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MORTY: (noticing Kramer’s coat) Look at that, Helen do you see what he’s wearing? That’s the Executive!
 
How about Jerry’s date with the beautiful woman
with MAN-hands ??

Or the time they all agreed to do volunteer work, and Elaine got stuck visiting an old lady with a GOITER on her neck the size of a football, and the old lady told Elaine that she had had an affair with Mohandas (The Mahatma) Gandhi, and
that Gandhi used to “dip his bald head in oil
and a-rub it all OVER mah body”. LOL
 
I always thought they could’ve spun a good show out of George’s parents, the Constanza’s.

Jim
 
Remember the episode with the DOLL
that looked just like George’s loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Costanza?? George thought the doll was screaming at him and bossing him around.
 
The episode I liked really good too was the one where George does the complete opposite of what his instincts tell him and his life goes way up. On the other hand Elaine’s life was falling apart and in the last scene she said to Jerry:

Elaine: You know what is happening to me? I’m George!!!
Jerry: Don’t say that!!
Elaine: It’s true. I’m George…I’M GEORGE!!!
😛 😛 😛
 
Why would you leave a country with ponies to come to a non-pony country?
 
Why would you leave a country with ponies to come to a non-pony country?
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:rotfl:

“Who figures an immigrant is going to have a pony? It’s unheard of!”
 
The Red Sox had brought up this light hitting 2A infielder called Niuman Romero. His second or third day on the roster Kevin Youkilis keels over in the on-deck batting circle grabbing his ankle. Out he goes and on comes the only infielder available, young Niuman (Yes, pronounced Newman.) He goes 0 for four and leaves 6 runners on base. Everytime John Madden, the Rays manager comes to David Ortiz in the lineup, he intentionally walks him to get to Niuman. By the end of the game all I can hear is Jerry Seinfeld saying “Newman…” when he comes up with runners on base…
 
One of the worst TV shows of all time. It was not about nothing. It was about self-centered, selfish, narcissistic and incredibly dysfunctional people. In the last episode, they are sent to jail for their utter failure to imitate real human beings. The incident that sparked their court appearance was the main characters laughing as they watch a man being mugged.

Jerry steals a marble rye from the hands of an old woman.

This show marked a trend of showing the new character template that endures to this day: The Dysfunctionals. Like Family Guy, it just spit on “those values on which we used to rely.”

Hard work? George sleeping on the job.

Romance? Elaine and her boyfriend breaking up and getting back together during the same plane flight.

Kramer was funny because he was so manic and off-beat. The other characters? Barely alive.

God bless,
Ed
 
I loved the show but I find the characters to inhabit a morally blank universe. It seemed like the point of the show was to focus a critical spotlight on social gestures and boundaries, which once examined appeared empty of meaning or hypocritical. It was very different from any show I’ve ever seen on television, although I wouldn’t say (because of the statement above) that I’d want the main characters’ behavior to be emulated in any way, shape, or form. Hopefully nobody watching the show wants to be Jerry, George, Elaine or Kramer.
 
childofmary1143 said:
The episode I liked really good too was the one where George does the complete opposite of what his instincts tell him and his life goes way up.
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I’ve actually used George’s pick up in real life. No joke.

“Excuse me ma’am, I’m unemployed, live with my parents and have a fear of escalators. Would you like to get dinner some time?”

It almost worked! 😛
 
edwest2 said:
One of the worst TV shows of all time. It was not about nothing. It was about self-centered, selfish, narcissistic and incredibly dysfunctional people. In the last episode, they are sent to jail for their utter failure to imitate real human beings. The incident that sparked their court appearance was the main characters laughing as they watch a man being mugged.

Jerry steals a marble rye from the hands of an old woman.

This show marked a trend of showing the new character template that endures to this day: The Dysfunctionals. Like Family Guy, it just spit on “those values on which we used to rely.”

Hard work? George sleeping on the job.

Romance? Elaine and her boyfriend breaking up and getting back together during the same plane flight.

Kramer was funny because he was so manic and off-beat. The other characters? Barely alive.

God bless,
Ed
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You’re either a troll or one of the most miserable people around.
 
George Costanza: I just don’t see what purpose is it going to serve your going? I mean, you think dead people care who’s at the funeral? They don’t even know they’re having a funeral. It’s not like she’s hanging out in the back going, “I can’t believe Jerry didn’t show up”.

Elaine: Maybe she’s there in spirit. How about that?

George Costanza: If you’re a spirit, and you can travel to other dimensions and galaxies, and find out the mysteries of the universe, you think she’s going to want to hang around Drexler’s funeral home on Ocean Parkway?
 
George Costanza: Guys, hitting is not about muscle. It’s simple physics. Calculate the velocity, v, in relation to the trajectory, t, in which g, gravity, of course remains a constant.
[Hits a home run]

George Costanza: It’s not complicated.

Derek Jeter: Now, who are you again?

George Costanza: George Costanza, assistant to the traveling secretary.

Bernie Williams: Are you the guy who put us in that Ramada in Milwaukee?

George Costanza: Do you wanna talk about hotels, or do you wanna win some ball games?

Derek Jeter: We won the World Series.

George Costanza: In six games.
 
edwest2 said:
One of the worst TV shows of all time. It was not about nothing. It was about self-centered, selfish, narcissistic and incredibly dysfunctional people. In the last episode, they are sent to jail for their utter failure to imitate real human beings. The incident that sparked their court appearance was the main characters laughing as they watch a man being mugged.

Jerry steals a marble rye from the hands of an old woman.

This show marked a trend of showing the new character template that endures to this day: The Dysfunctionals. Like Family Guy, it just spit on “those values on which we used to rely.”

Hard work? George sleeping on the job.

Romance? Elaine and her boyfriend breaking up and getting back together during the same plane flight.

Kramer was funny because he was so manic and off-beat. The other characters? Barely alive.

God bless,
Ed
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I think that’s the reason why Seinfeld was so funny… It was about self-centered, selfish, narcissistic and incredibly dysfunctional people. Having heard his comedy before, it is not what Seinfeld is really like at all, even though he appears to be playing himself. The show took his stand up to the extreme ends of it.

The show was about laughing at how selfish these people really are, and how stereotypical and “New Yorker” the characters are, and in alot of ways, are not. To me, living in australia, that is what New Yorkers seem like to me in a funny stereotypical manner, just like how they would picture aussies as like Paul Hogan or Steve Urwin.

It was kind of like how they were a product of their surroundings and their surroundings were a product of them.
 
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