Blazing Ownager posted:

You know, I'd legitimately have watched Seinfeld: The prison year

Frostwerks posted:

do u remember the friends and seinfeld crossover special

hemophilia posted:

Hey pedants just for the record, the immutable truth is that a Live Studio Audience is just as loving annoying as canned laughter and people will always call studio audiences a laugh track, and there's nothing you can do about it.

opus111 posted:

are you like 12? there are hudreds of great old sitcoms with a laughtrack.

Bitter Mushroom posted:

seinfeld was filmed in front of an audience so it actually doesn't have a laughtrack you damnable retards. That's like saying you were annoyed by seeing As You Like It in a theatre because of the laughtrack. Baka

Lightanchor posted:

Are you insane. George was happy his fiancee died and Elaine drove the Soup Nazi out of town by blackmailing him with the recipes she found in the armoire he gave her as a gift.

It was funny that the cast were awful lovely people but it was great to draw attention to how awful they were in the final episode.

serious norman posted:

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

I also dont get when people say the show is "about nothing" because that describes nearly every sitcom ever too.

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

i mean they kinda are awful and lovely but people act like it was some whole new kind of sitcom character. Sam Malone for one is pretty much worse then any of them.

I also dont get when people say the show is "about nothing" because that describes nearly every sitcom ever too.

Don Tacorleone posted:

and it had a lot of "morality lesson" shows which I don't think Seinfeld ever had one of

Bug Bill Murray posted:

Finale and puerto rican day parade episodes are two of the only legit bad episodes in the show's run. There's maybe 3 other really bad ones and the rest are solid. That's drat impressive.

RideTheSpiral posted:

theres an episode where george turns blue

RideTheSpiral posted:

if you like series 8 & 9 of seinfeld i legit feel sorry for you because you are really dumb and dont get the show you think you like

JazzFlight posted:

season 9 got reallllly cartoony
like super over the top premises for episodes and george is yelling all the time

i was rewatching some of these episodes that i thought were still great back in the day and they dont hold up as much as the earlier seasons at all

Seinfeld posted:

The episode starts out as normal, with Jerry’s apartment, but the camera is much more steady. Jerry walks out as though he’s been drugged and remarks that all of his family and friends have been dying lately. His buzzer rings and it’s George. George runs up, half crying and tells Jerry he’s seen something terrible. He’s mumbling and stuttering for about five minutes until he can form a sentence. There are still pauses for humor, but there is no audience or laugh track. George informs Jerry that planes have crashed into the twin towers due to a terrorist attack on New York.

Jerry turns on the news and you can see modern footage of the 9/11 attacks, all pré-filmed several years beforehand. George says that isn't the worst part: Elaine and Kramer were in the towers at the time of the bombing. What proceeds is a graphic and explicit phone call of screaming and crying and Kramer saying that something terrible has happened, and Elaine is dead. Kramer screams there’s no air in the building, and he’s burning to death, and that he’s going to jump.

The camera cuts to live footage of a man falling from the twin towers. George genuinely looks upset and says “I’m sorry Larry, but I can’t go through with this” and he tries to walk off the set, but people stop him and push him towards the stage. He walks out Jerry’s prop window and you can hear him calling his agent. There’s a lot of mumbling, and you can see candles being lit behind the stage.

Jerry goes over to the bookcase and pulls it aside, revealing a ceremonial black table with candles, a dinner plate, and a strange box. There is a Masonic symbol against black cloth just outside where the fake stage window would be. Jerry says some weird things in a foreign dialect, and one cut of the camera shows a poster of Barack Obama (This episode originally aired in 1995). The scene ends with Jerry waking up in bed, as though it’s all a nightmare. Kramer comes in and asks if Jerry has seen a lizard. Jerry laughs and says “We are the lizards” and the camera zooms slightly. His eyes become slivered, like almonds.

The tape is only 7 minutes long, and what proceeds is just 20 minutes of dead air. If you continue watching to the end, it seems there are three more news reports tacked on. The first is about an outbreak of swine flu, the second about a train bombing, and the third...

a bone to pick posted:

You guys don't seem very educated on the subject of Seinfeld.

Larry David left after season 7 leaving Jerry Seinfeld as the main writer/director, that's why season 8 and especially 9 are so different. Season 9 was meant to highlight how mentally hosed up these individuals were (George's yelling and Jerry's increased OCD) which turned out a little over the top.

JazzFlight posted:

they also added unusual retcon quirks for characters in the later seasons
like george apparently always had a huge wallet even though he never did before
or he always takes his shirt off when taking a dump but in the vandelay industries ep we see he rushing outta the bathroom with his shirt on
or kramer shaved his chest and if you see it it should make you gasp in horror but weve seen him shirtless a lot before

Not An Irish Monk posted:

i used to hate the backwards episode but it grew on me over the years. seinfeld was a pretty great show and even the cartoonish later seasons still had some really funny moments. "the pothole" is an underrated one from the later seasons cause i like how the result of all the plots converging in that episode is newman and his mail truck full of frozen flounder getting engulfed in flames on the expressway in the middle of the night. yeah it's ridiculous as hell but who gives a poo poo if it's unexpected and funny?

opus111 posted:

people think they're bad characters but they're just repeating other idiots. those 4 always stuck up for each other - they were good peeps.

JazzFlight posted:

oh im not saying the last season isnt funny it definitely has some great moments
its just a different kind of funny that doesnt cleanly fit with the previous seasons
if they kept going after 9 it wouldnt be recognizable as the same show

Not An Irish Monk posted:

yeah all that is vey true. i'd rather watch the last couple seasons than the first couple seasons honestly. it's a weird show in that it doesn't start getting good until like season 3. or maybe those early seasons have just aged that poorly idk