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This scene kills me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekEqEplAzDw&feature=player_embedded The part where Newman rants about junk mail, and Kramer repeats it for awhile before he realizes what is going on.
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There's 4 or 5 times throughout the series where Newman segues into an increasingly agitated tirade about a peeve in his life and someone (Jerry, Kramer, postal employee of superior rank) has to jolt him out of it.
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Jun 23, 2010 22:09
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Cane Break posted:what in the gently caress is he talking about with that pocket stuff I have no idea, the only thing I can think of is Back to the Future II.
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Jun 23, 2010 22:33
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For a little while in the early 90's it was fashionable to have your pockets turned out. Also backward pants. Good times.OldSenileGuy posted:Man, if you made it to the top 10, and then went on to NOT win, you would have been better of not even playing.
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Jun 23, 2010 23:37
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80k posted:This scene kills me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hox-ni8geIw I couldn't find the clip from the episode I'm thinking of, but this one will do. I think it's called "The Betrayal" - Newman pulls up in a car, chatting up some girl with him - right in the middle of telling her how "all certified mail is registered... but registered mail is not necessarily certified." Oh, and zip codes? They're meaningless.
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Jun 23, 2010 23:55
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mints posted:I think it's supposed to be the same guy though, isn't he wearing a Jiffy Park shirt in both occasions? hall n oates mom posted:It is the same guy, I wasn't implying that either of them were recast. Simply changed jobs for a quick, precise gag. This episode was just on MyNetworkTV and I noticed that since it's the same guy, there's a sign in the background indicating that he works at "Jiffy Dump" 
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Jun 23, 2010 23:55
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I always liked "The Reverse Peephole" episode. Just the idea of reversing a peephole so Kramer could see if anyone was waiting to jump him cracks me up. Plus the 8-Ball jacket was in that episode.80k posted:This scene kills me: That scene was funny, but how many TV shows and movies are going to use the "Friend A feeds lines to Friend B who is talking to a girl" gag? edit: I've always wondered, are zip codes really meaningless?
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Jun 24, 2010 00:05
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From that lady gaga article. quote:"I'm not one of these all-publicity-is-good people. People talk about you need exposure -- you could die of exposure." That's pretty clever if it's an off-the-cuff remark and not a bit.
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Jun 24, 2010 00:10
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wa27 posted:That scene was funny, but how many TV shows and movies are going to use the "Friend A feeds lines to Friend B who is talking to a girl" gag? It's Cyrano de Bergerac, so it's pretty much just a public domain comedy bit at this point.
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Jun 24, 2010 00:39
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wa27 posted:I always liked "The Reverse Peephole" episode. Just the idea of reversing a peephole so Kramer could see if anyone was waiting to jump him cracks me up. Plus the 8-Ball jacket was in that episode. I might have mentioned this, but me and a friend of mine reversed our peepholes in our freshman dorm. I mean...what if someone was waiting to ambush us with a sock full of pennies?!
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Jun 24, 2010 01:31
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DrBouvenstein posted:I might have mentioned this, but me and a friend of mine reversed our peepholes in our freshman dorm. Is your name Gack?
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Jun 24, 2010 02:31
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neoboman posted:I would say the backwards episode is up there (or down there). That episode had one of my favorite George/Jerry moments. GEORGE: Not me! Him! His fault! He betrayed me! JERRY: (Pleading) George, I'm sorry.. GEORGE: You can stuff your sorries in a sack, Mister! JERRY: I don't know what that means. Also, when George is pissed and walks up to Jerry during the flight. GEORGE: Hello, friend. Enjoying the flight? JERRY: Coach to India - The only way to go. GEORGE: Good one. Very funny. You're very funny, Jerry. That's what I always tell people. (Yelling out) Jerry Seinfeld's a funny guy! JERRY: You all right? GEORGE: Of course I'm all right. I'm here with my girl. Nina. And what better way to pass the time than gabbing with my best friend.. with whom there are no secrets. (Flashes two intertwined fingers) Like this. Since the fourth grade. JERRY: Hey, didn't I beat you up in the fourth grade? GEORGE: Funny guy! (Points to Jerry) Right here!
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wa27 posted:edit: I've always wondered, are zip codes really meaningless? No, ZIP codes are not meaningless at all. Postal zones for large cities had been around since the 1940's, but a more general system was needed by the 1960s. The 'father' of the ZIP code (it should be capitalized since it stands for Zone Improvement Plan), Robert Moon, actually submitted the idea for ZIP codes back in 1944, but it wasn't implemented until 1963 and even then ZIP codes weren't mandatory until 1967. Also, the USPS only used the first 3 numbers of Moons plan. The first 3 numbers of a ZIP code represent the sectional center facility, which it just a large processing center. All the mail for the area goes there first and then it is sorted again by the last two numbers in the zip code. From there the mail is sent out to correct local post office which then sorts the local mail into the delivery routes.
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Jun 24, 2010 02:56
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mojo1701a posted:Is your name Gack?
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Jun 24, 2010 03:44
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Kramer kicking the guys counter top at the calzone place is great.
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I love 'The Muffin Tops' episode. First of all you have Kramer giving a reality tour (The last thing this guy is qualified to give a tour of is reality), then you have George being a tourist (No offense, but this city would eat you alive George), then you have Jerry shaving his chest (it's an old wives tale. Is it? IS IT REALLY?) and finally you have the titular muffin tops and the problems disposing the stumps. It is just all woven together so loving well that I can't stop laughing during the entire episode. Anyone who says the last two seasons were the low seasons is just not right in the head.
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TMMadman posted:I love 'The Muffin Tops' episode. First of all you have Kramer giving a reality tour (The last thing this guy is qualified to give a tour of is reality), then you have George being a tourist (No offense, but this city would eat you alive George), then you have Jerry shaving his chest (it's an old wives tale. Is it? IS IT REALLY?) and finally you have the titular muffin tops and the problems disposing the stumps. I thought the Wolf parody at the end was funny. 
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TMMadman posted:I love 'The Muffin Tops' episode. First of all you have Kramer giving a reality tour (The last thing this guy is qualified to give a tour of is reality), then you have George being a tourist (No offense, but this city would eat you alive George), then you have Jerry shaving his chest (it's an old wives tale. Is it? IS IT REALLY?) and finally you have the titular muffin tops and the problems disposing the stumps. Several stores now sell muffin tops...but the problem is, they didn't learn anything from the episode! They back a whole top! They need to back a whole muffin and pop the top! (Now I KNOW I've posted this before...right?)
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Jun 24, 2010 04:28
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Stare-Out posted:I thought the Wolf parody at the end was funny. Ooooooooooooooooh that feels good!
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LividLiquid posted:Sounds... made up to me. That's Joe Mayo.
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Jun 24, 2010 05:01
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Yeah. Gack sounds Dutch.
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TMMadman posted:No, ZIP codes are not meaningless at all. That's all well and good, but I just KNOW these extra 4 numbers I'm starting to see at the end of zipcodes are pure bullshit. Just like sheep cloning.
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OldSenileGuy posted:That's all well and good, but I just KNOW these extra 4 numbers I'm starting to see at the end of zipcodes are pure bullshit. Just like sheep cloning. I always wondered about zip codes myself, as I had always been pretty reasonably sure that there were more than 99,999 addresses in the USA. The sorting facility thing makese sense, though I'm still suprised that there's less than 999 of them. You learn something new every day. What a great thread this is.
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TMMadman posted:It is just all woven together so loving well that I can't stop laughing during the entire episode. Anyone who says the last two seasons were the low seasons is just not right in the head. I also love Jerry's bewilderment at trying to figure out if his girlfriend likes hairless or hairy men, using her happiness at seeing dogs as his barometer. That's the same episode, right? "Mmmm hairless, that's the way to go!"
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A few pages back, someone was asking what our least favorite episodes were. Mine was on today. The Suicide The entire episode just feels so... off. I feel the same way about The Parking Garage. There is something missing in those two episodes. I wish I could put my finger on it.
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kolby posted:That episode had one of my favorite George/Jerry moments. I laughed out loud a couple times reading this, and it made me realize that most of the really good sitcoms since Seinfeld (The Office, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Always Sunny), as funny as they may be, still don't hold a candle to Seinfeld in terms of pure, hilarious writing. I guess what I'm saying is that with Seinfeld the scripts elicit more actual laughter and less "oh I see what they did there, that is humorous" from me.
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Just imagine how different the show would be if any of the main characters were casted differently. I don't think it would be possible for anyone to pull off George as well as Jason Alexander did.
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Jingleheimer posted:Just imagine how different the show would be if any of the main characters were casted differently. I don't think it would be possible for anyone to pull off George as well as Jason Alexander did. You can see how Larry David would have done it on this season of Curb. Prettay, prettay bad.
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robot roll call posted:You can see how Larry David would have done it on this season of Curb. Prettay, prettay bad. That was more LD doing a george impression. I think if he had been cast from the start, he would have more or less played himself.
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Jun 24, 2010 07:11
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A big, juicy van.
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Jun 24, 2010 07:32
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Where else have I seen the cop in the diner that Jerry asks to protect him from Crazy Joe Davola? He looks so familiar and I can't put my finger on it.
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Jun 24, 2010 07:42
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Klaus Kinski posted:A big, juicy van.
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regulargonzalez posted:Where else have I seen the cop in the diner that Jerry asks to protect him from Crazy Joe Davola? He looks so familiar and I can't put my finger on it. It's Tackleberry from Police Academy, isn't it?
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My favorite part of Festivus is poor man's Jack Black sheepishly parroting "I'm a m-"
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Jerusalem posted:It's Tackleberry from Police Academy, isn't it? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333701/ It is. I looked at the first 50 entries and saw nothing I could even remember watching, turns out I had to scroll down.
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Jerusalem posted:It's Tackleberry from Police Academy, isn't it? Aha, that's it, thanks!
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Jun 24, 2010 08:55
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Oh gently caress he's been dead nearly 10 years? 
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TMMadman posted:No, ZIP codes are not meaningless at all. Sorry to call you out on this as it is very pedantic. However, what I've bolded is somewhat incorrect. In most every publication house's style guide you'll see that acronyms, such as Zip, Laser, Fifa, Nato, etc. only have the first letter capitalized (being proper nouns) since the abbreviation is pronounced as a word. You would only capitalize every letter with an initialism, where every letter is said such as USA (which is not pronounced Oh-sa). Sorry for the newspaper geek coming out of me, I'll continue the Seinfeld dissection. I remember the closest we ever came to meeting any of Kramer's unseen friends (Bob Sacameno, Gomez) was in one late season episode where one of them is in a porto-john with Kramer outside. Anyone remember the episode?
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I believe that's the very Zip-code-related episode the other guy was talking about: "The Betrayal", the backwards episode. Kramer bangs on the john, says, "Come on, Lomez, we're gonna miss the movie!" Then Newman pulls up beside him in the street, chatting up the hot supermodel about Zip codes.
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DJ from Roseanne is in "The Apology" as a kid bothering Jason (James Spader) at Baskin Robins. Edit: Worlds collide!
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