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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #120 on: March 30, 2007, 07:17:20 am »
I've never seen an episode. I don't know why.
I highly recommend it. It was a brilliant show, funny as.

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #121 on: March 30, 2007, 09:50:52 am »
I've never seen an episode. I don't know why.

You really have to watch it from the start, I used my tivo do grab every single episode from start to finale.

The reason for this is that there are many 'in jokes' scattered around the whole series and if you don't understand why a character is doing something then you sort of miss out on the whole joke.

It's a little like going out for a beer with a load of people who have known each other for years and years. They have 'in jokes' and you just feel out of it.

My mate who has a very similar humour to me does not like it at all, I think it's purely down to him not knowing the characters or the 'in jokes' I haven't the time to drop them all onto DVD and have him watch them.

However it is really worth it, it is one of the funniest tv shows I have ever seen. I've recently used my sky+ to get all of the frasier shows from the start and I'm also now hooked on that after previously hating it.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #122 on: March 30, 2007, 11:16:30 am »
You really have to watch it from the start, I used my tivo do grab every single episode from start to finale.

That exactly what I always tell people who I try to get into it. I will lend them the DVD box sets from the start because if you miss even one episode you can miss a hilarious reference in an episode a couple of seasons later. I mean it is still funny if you watch one off episodes here and there, but it is so much funnier to get it properly.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #123 on: March 30, 2007, 02:02:07 pm »
Jerry trying to get Uncle Leo to move back into his apartment so he can get his parents out of there and back to Florida:

Uncle Leo: It's about time you called your uncle. We've got to do this once a week.
Jerry (to himself): Once a week? So how's Lydia?
Uncle Leo: Ah, she's a real tiger.
Jerry: I don't know how you do it.
Uncle Leo: What?
Jerry: A man like you, limiting yourself to one woman, I don't know. But it's none of my business.
Uncle Leo: What are you talking about?
Jerry: Well...
Uncle Leo: Look at this, I told them medium rare, it's medium.
Jerry: Hey, it happens.
Uncle Leo: I bet that cook is an anti-Semite.
Jerry: He has no idea who you are.
Uncle Leo: They don't just overcook a hamburger, Jerry.
Jerry: All right. Anyway, the point I was making before Goebbels made your hamburger is a man like you could be dating women twenty years younger. C'mon Uncle Leo, I've seen the way women look at you. When's the last time you looked in a mirror? You're an Adonis! You've got beautiful features, lovely skin, you're in the prime of your life here, you should be swinging. If I were you I'd tell this Lydia character, "It's been real," move back into that bachelor pad and put out a sign; Open for business.
Uncle Leo: Believe me, I thought about it. But she is so perfect in every way, I can't see a flaw.
Jerry: Well, keep looking.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #124 on: March 30, 2007, 02:09:37 pm »
...later the same episode when Jerry's needs Leo out of his apartment again so his parents can move back there and out of Jerry's apartment:

Leo: Move back with Lydia?
Jerry: C'mon, you're lucky to have anybody.
Leo: Last week you told me I was in my prime, I should be swinging.
Jerry: Swinging? What are you, out of your mind? Look at you, you're disgusting. You're bald, you're paunchy, all kinds of sounds are emanating from your body twenty-four hours a day. If there's a woman that can take your presence for more than ten consecutive seconds, you should hang on to her like grim death. Which is not far off, by the way.
Leo: But she's an anti-Semite.
Jerry: Can you blame her?

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #125 on: April 3, 2007, 08:51:55 am »
"My name is George. I'm unemployed and I live with my parents."

from 'The Opposite' - one of my favourite episodes

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #126 on: April 3, 2007, 09:21:12 am »

from 'The Opposite' - one of my favourite episodes

yeah mine too, its a class one!
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #127 on: April 3, 2007, 10:43:29 am »
...later the same episode when Jerry's needs Leo out of his apartment again so his parents can move back there and out of Jerry's apartment:

Leo: Move back with Lydia?
Jerry: C'mon, you're lucky to have anybody.
Leo: Last week you told me I was in my prime, I should be swinging.
Jerry: Swinging? What are you, out of your mind? Look at you, you're disgusting. You're bald, you're paunchy, all kinds of sounds are emanating from your body twenty-four hours a day. If there's a woman that can take your presence for more than ten consecutive seconds, you should hang on to her like grim death. Which is not far off, by the way.
Leo: But she's an anti-Semite.
Jerry: Can you blame her?

;D Thats fantastic

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #128 on: April 3, 2007, 10:52:25 am »
[George collides with an Andrea Doria survivor]
Cosmo Kramer: The Andrea Doria collided with the Stockholm 20 miles off the cost of Nantucket.
George Costanza: How do you know?
Cosmo Kramer: It's in my book, "Astonishing Tales Of The Sea". 51 people died.
George Costanza: 51 people? I thought it was more like 1000.
Cosmo Kramer: There were 1,560 survivors.
George Costanza: That's no tragedy. How many people do you lose on a normal cruise? 30?

Elaine: [after seeing an employee remove a "Vincent" picks sign from the movie store] What are you doing?
Video store employee: Vincent stopped making picks.
Elaine: Well, how am I gonna know what movies to see?
Video store employee: We have a wide variety of Gene Picks.
Elaine: Gene's trash.
Video store employee: I'm Gene.

Jerry: This woman's completely ignoring me.
Cosmo Kramer: Look at her. This is a lonely woman looking for companionship. A spinster... Maybe a virgin. Maybe she got hurt a long time ago. She's a schoolgirl, there was a boy, it didn't work out. So now she needs a little tenderness. She needs a little understanding. Needs a little Kramer.
Jerry: Then she'll need a little shot of penicillin.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #129 on: April 3, 2007, 11:19:03 am »
Jerry: See now, to me, that button is in the worst possible spot.

George: Really?

Jerry: Oh yeah. The second button is the key button. It literally makes or breaks the shirt. Look at it, it's too high, it's in no-man's land.

George: Haven't we had this conversation before?
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #130 on: June 5, 2007, 12:30:01 pm »
Had to 'bump' this. Not only am I a huge fan, but my sister who works with Aer Lingus phoned me today to say she had Jason Alexander on flight Boston/Dublin.....

Not that theres anything wrong with that!

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #131 on: June 5, 2007, 01:19:15 pm »
right I'm leaving work to go steak out his work....I'm an architect you know?
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #132 on: June 5, 2007, 02:26:40 pm »
The greatest sitcom in the history of television, nay, the greatest programme. Its a barometer of quality for anything that has ever existed since or before Seinfeld.

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #133 on: June 5, 2007, 08:10:13 pm »
Kramer, listen to me. I'm never gonna have a child. If I lose this Frogger high score, that's it for me.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #134 on: June 5, 2007, 08:32:31 pm »
Had to 'bump' this. Not only am I a huge fan, but my sister who works with Aer Lingus phoned me today to say she had Jason Alexander on flight Boston/Dublin.....

Not that theres anything wrong with that!

Wish I was on the flight, I would hit him with some snappy line...

"YES... That's what I should have said..."

Good time to resurrect the thread, as season 8 was released yesterday. I am getting it tomorrow hopefully.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #135 on: June 7, 2007, 08:24:18 pm »
JERRY: Oh, hello...

GEORGE: Art.

JERRY: Mr. Vandelay, of course.

SALES WOMAN: You two know each other?

Kramer bursts through the door.

SALES WOMAN: Mr. Pennypacker!

KRAMER: Uh, yes, uh, I--I wanted to, uh, stop by and make sure that my shark tank fits-- uh, hello.

SALES WOMAN: Mr. Pennypacker, this is Mr. Vandelay, And you know Mr. Varnsen

KRAMER: Uh, Varnsen.

JERRY: Pennypacker.

KRAMER: Vandelay.

GEORGE: Pennypacker. Varnsen.

JERRY: Vandelay. Wait a second. Mr. Pennypacker, if you're here, and Mr. Vandelay is also here, then who's watching the factory?

KRAMER: The factory?

JERRY: The Saab factory?

KRAMER: Jerry, that's in Sweden.

George turns on the TV as Jerry runs to the window just in time to see a mob attacking his car.

JERRY: My car!

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #136 on: June 7, 2007, 09:30:12 pm »
 :wave

KRAMER: Jerry, that's in Sweden.
That line always kills me.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #137 on: June 7, 2007, 10:10:11 pm »
Frank Costanza: I got no leg room back here. Move your seat forward.
Estelle: That's as far as it goes.
Frank: There's a mechanism. You just pull it, and throw your body weight.
Estelle: I pulled it. It doesn't go.
Frank: If you want the leg room, say you want the leg room! Don't blame the mechanism!
George: All right, Dad, we're five blocks from the house. Sit sideways.
Frank: Like an animal. Because of her, I have to sit here like an animal! Serenity now! Serenity now!
George: What is that?
Frank: Doctor gave me a relaxation cassette. When my blood pressure gets too high, the man on the tape tells me to say, 'Serenity now!'
George: Are you supposed to yell it?
Frank: The man on the tape wasn't specific.


;D The 'Serenity Now!' episode was one of my favourites as well, along with the whole 'Independent George vs Relationship George'

George: You have no idea of the magnitude of this thing. If she is allowed to infiltrate this world then George Costanza as you know him ceases to exist. You see, right now I have Relationship George. But there is also Independent George. That's the George you know, the George you grew up with... Movie George, Coffee Shop George, Liar George, Bawdy George.

Jerry: I love that George.

George: Me too, and he's dying. If Relationship George walks through this door, he will kill Independent George. A George divided against itself cannot stand!

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #138 on: June 8, 2007, 01:27:48 pm »
Bought seasons 1&2 and I've just been watching a few episodes. You can see a lot of Larry David in it. Especially in George. Pinickity, has strange views on things etc. Good viewing so far. Me rikey.

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #139 on: June 8, 2007, 01:30:26 pm »
Bought seasons 1&2 and I've just been watching a few episodes. You can see a lot of Larry David in it. Especially in George. Pinickity, has strange views on things etc. Good viewing so far. Me rikey.

I fucking love Curb your enthusiasm when everyone especially David Alexander keeps describing George as a complete dick and Larry gets well fucked off.
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« Reply #140 on: June 8, 2007, 11:31:28 pm »
As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #141 on: June 11, 2007, 12:10:53 pm »
Fast seeing what all the fuss is about now. Watched the first two series now and looking forward to watching more. Love the little cameo appearances from Larry David in 'The Heart Attack'. Does George appear more as it goes on? He's fucking ace.

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #142 on: June 11, 2007, 02:27:47 pm »
Fast seeing what all the fuss is about now. Watched the first two series now and looking forward to watching more. Love the little cameo appearances from Larry David in 'The Heart Attack'. Does George appear more as it goes on? He's fucking ace.

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Ahhhhh can't get it out of my head


And yes some episodes are pretty much about his entire idiocy, you got to the contest yet? or the one where he wants to date Marissa Tomei?
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #143 on: June 11, 2007, 03:35:59 pm »
Love the little cameo appearances from Larry David in 'The Heart Attack'.



He's in it way mroe than you think, he's the orginal Newman ;)

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #144 on: June 11, 2007, 03:44:11 pm »

He's in it way mroe than you think, he's the orginal Newman ;)

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Nope, didn't get past me. It was his voice from upstairs. I know Wayne Knight played him later on. He played Don in Third Rock from the Sun too. I think he's a good comic actor.

Ahhhhh can't get it out of my head


And yes some episodes are pretty much about his entire idiocy, you got to the contest yet? or the one where he wants to date Marissa Tomei?

No. I've just looked on wiki - The Contest in season 4 and I wouldn't know about the latter. All I know is James Alexander makes that role. He's purfick.

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #145 on: June 11, 2007, 03:45:50 pm »
Jason
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #146 on: June 11, 2007, 03:46:30 pm »
Beg your pardon.

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #147 on: June 11, 2007, 05:47:13 pm »
Nope, didn't get past me. It was his voice from upstairs. I know Wayne Knight played him later on. He played Don in Third Rock from the Sun too. I think he's a good comic actor.

No. I've just looked on wiki - The Contest in season 4 and I wouldn't know about the latter. All I know is James Alexander makes that role. He's purfick.

he is , which makes curb all the more brilliant when he's this great cerebral actor who hates that complete fuckwitt
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #148 on: June 11, 2007, 06:10:22 pm »
you got to the contest yet?

But are you still master of your domain?

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #149 on: June 11, 2007, 06:28:01 pm »
Bought seasons 1&2 and I've just been watching a few episodes. You can see a lot of Larry David in it. Especially in George. Pinickity, has strange views on things etc. Good viewing so far. Me rikey.

The George character is based on Larry David.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #150 on: June 11, 2007, 08:11:04 pm »
The George character is based on Larry David.

Althopugh the real George Costanza did sue Jerry. Dunno if he won or not.
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« Reply #151 on: June 11, 2007, 08:30:19 pm »
Althopugh the real George Costanza did sue Jerry. Dunno if he won or not.

Yeah he was called Michael Costanza. I don't think he won, think it got settled out of court.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #152 on: June 11, 2007, 08:59:30 pm »
But are you still master of your domain?

I am king of the county. You?

Lord of the manor.


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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #153 on: June 11, 2007, 09:00:19 pm »
The George character is based on Larry David.

Yep - after watching a few more episodes, plus the extras, that much is clear.

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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #154 on: June 11, 2007, 10:29:47 pm »
YO-YO MA!
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« Reply #155 on: June 11, 2007, 10:36:19 pm »
Yep - after watching a few more episodes, plus the extras, that much is clear.

If you have the DVD's, watch the Seinfeld documentary on one of them. It has a story of how the created the show, and Jason Alexander basically said that because he knew the character was based on Larry David, he played him like Larry David crossed with Woody Allen.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #156 on: June 12, 2007, 01:24:52 pm »
Just had a thought. Femme Jerry.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #157 on: June 13, 2007, 09:59:27 am »
Season 8 release date: 14/06/2007  :wave

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« Reply #158 on: June 13, 2007, 06:26:18 pm »
Season 8 release date: 14/06/2007  :wave

It is already out.
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Re: Seinfeld
« Reply #159 on: June 13, 2007, 08:12:34 pm »
MOOPS!!!
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