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T. Finn posted:I love this scene so much because Jerry has a mouthful of coffee cake and is also smirking when he delivers the line, and he holds it out at arms length and sort of showcases it, while Newman is slavering over it. yeah it's definitely one of my favorite exchanges in the whole series
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Max22 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MOauy4Bfyc Uncle Leo? The idea that Uncle Leo signs for the package as Uncle Leo cracks me up. Does he sign everything that way? Or only this time because it was a package for Jerry, so it wanted to make sure the postal guys knew he was Jerry's uncle. I like to think he signed everything that way.
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# ? Oct 8, 2010 20:01 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Uncle Leo? Me too! Uncle Leo is awesome!
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# ? Oct 8, 2010 20:23 |
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Cane Break posted:yeah it's definitely one of my favorite exchanges in the whole series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZU05h3U2Hw
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# ? Oct 8, 2010 20:24 |
"Nobody's ever cracked the fifty percent barrier!"
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# ? Oct 8, 2010 22:03 |
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"But you're a mailman. 'Neither rain nor sleet nor'... ITS THE FIRST ONE!" "I was never that big on creeds."
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# ? Oct 8, 2010 22:16 |
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That always bugged me because rain isn't the first one. It's "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"
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# ? Oct 8, 2010 22:53 |
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T. Finn posted:I love this scene so much because Jerry has a mouthful of coffee cake and is also smirking when he delivers the line, and he holds it out at arms length and sort of showcases it, while Newman is slavering over it. It's always made me want a Drake's coffee cake in a big way
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# ? Oct 9, 2010 01:20 |
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Kevyn posted:That always bugged me because rain isn't the first one. It's "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" Georges rising confusion and anger > accuracy
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# ? Oct 9, 2010 01:32 |
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Some clever person working for channel 13 in LA put a couple of great episodes back to back: the one where Jerry has to take care of Farfel the dog followed by the one where Kramer starts acting like a dog after taking dog medication for a cough.
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# ? Oct 9, 2010 06:51 |
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What the gently caress is up with Farfel's bark? It sounds like a demonic dog or something.
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# ? Oct 9, 2010 07:01 |
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Useless Rabbit posted:Some clever person working for channel 13 in LA put a couple of great episodes back to back: the one where Jerry has to take care of Farfel the dog followed by the one where Kramer starts acting like a dog after taking dog medication for a cough. I felt like this the other day. I asked my dad "what do these two eps have in common" and when he gave up I told him, they both feature George going out with girls who know/go out with guys who look exactly like George (The lip reader ep and the one with the girl whose roommate is Scott I believe). Doubt it was intentional but awesome if it was.
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# ? Oct 9, 2010 09:19 |
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Diabolik900 posted:This is something that I love, but never noticed while watching them out of order in syndication. It wasn't until watching them on dvd that I realized how much continuity and how many callbacks there are in the show. Especially season 4... I don't think I've ever watched the NBC pilot/Susan/Joe Devola arcs in order, it's amazing how much continuity there is here. The Joe Devola poo poo is really creeping me out And has there ever been a character like Susan before in a sitcom that's just been continually harassed and humiliated until one of the main characters kills her?
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# ? Oct 9, 2010 09:30 |
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Nobody killed her, she just had to die.
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# ? Oct 9, 2010 09:46 |
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Useless Rabbit posted:Some clever person working for channel 13 in LA put a couple of great episodes back to back: the one where Jerry has to take care of Farfel the dog followed by the one where Kramer starts acting like a dog after taking dog medication for a cough. What's that? There's trouble at the Old Mill? Also: right now the funniest thing in the series is the double-take Kramer does in The Note where George says he's a stall guy. I think I have seen it mentioned here before.
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Useless Rabbit posted:Some clever person working for channel 13 in LA put a couple of great episodes back to back: the one where Jerry has to take care of Farfel the dog followed by the one where Kramer starts acting like a dog after taking dog medication for a cough. It must've been a network feed, because FOX8 in NC played the same two episodes last night.
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Cane Break posted:NEWMAN: I don’t care much for the beach. I freckle. . . . Is that a,.. I don't really give out bites... *chew chew*
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# ? Oct 9, 2010 18:41 |
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Love the 12-gauge. My favorite shotgun. Makes the 11-gauge look like a cap pistol.
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 04:08 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Uncle Leo? "Oh, right, Uncle Leo. I forgot his first name." Konec Hry posted:Also: right now the funniest thing in the series is the double-take Kramer does in The Note where George says he's a stall guy. I think I have seen it mentioned here before. God I love that part. Does anyone have the gif?
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 05:13 |
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LesterGroans posted:"Oh, right, Uncle Leo. I forgot his first name."
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 05:20 |
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neoboman posted:Love the 12-gauge. My favorite shotgun. Makes the 11-gauge look like a cap pistol. I'm not a gun guy, you can check to see how often I post in TFR (never) but seeing idiotic musicians, television characters, comedians or writers confuse the gauge system always peeves me. The larger the number, the smaller the diameter. Hence, an 11 gauge (if there is such a thing) would be larger than a 12 gauge. IIRC, electrical wiring works the same way. I'm not a physicist either, but I think it's been pointed out that "Of course, absolute zero!" was a little off-putting as well.
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:I'm not a gun guy, you can check to see how often I post in TFR (never) but seeing idiotic musicians, television characters, comedians or writers confuse the gauge system always peeves me. The larger the number, the smaller the diameter. Hence, an 11 gauge (if there is such a thing) would be larger than a 12 gauge. IIRC, electrical wiring works the same way. The whole point of the joke was that they didn't know. They were bullshitting.
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 05:31 |
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LesterGroans posted:The whole point of the joke was that they didn't know. They were bullshitting. Jerry does that a lot really.
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 06:26 |
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LesterGroans posted:The whole point of the joke was that they didn't know. They were bullshitting. My favorite aspect of the joke is I always wonder how many people watching know what a 10/11/12 gauge is, they probably make the same assumption George did and thus don't even realize it's a joke.
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hope and vaseline posted:Especially season 4... I don't think I've ever watched the NBC pilot/Susan/Joe Devola arcs in order, it's amazing how much continuity there is here. The Joe Devola poo poo is really creeping me out And has there ever been a character like Susan before in a sitcom that's just been continually harassed and humiliated until one of the main characters kills her? To be fair, she tried her best to be a horrible person who screwed with other people's lives as well, she just didn't have the natural gifts of the main cast. A continuity callback I love is when George is - for some godawful reason - tasked with planning somebody else's wedding with absolutely zero financial limitations put on him. He goes back to the envelope place where he bought the poison envelopes that killed Susan and the lady tries to shift to the back, cheap pages, and he turns it right back to the front and the most expensive.
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:I'm not a physicist either, but I think it's been pointed out that "Of course, absolute zero!" was a little off-putting as well.
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Jerusalem posted:To be fair, she tried her best to be a horrible person who screwed with other people's lives as well, she just didn't have the natural gifts of the main cast. "How'd that all work out?" "No complaints."
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 12:33 |
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:I'm not a gun guy, you can check to see how often I post in TFR (never) but seeing idiotic musicians, television characters, comedians or writers confuse the gauge system always peeves me. The larger the number, the smaller the diameter. Hence, an 11 gauge (if there is such a thing) would be larger than a 12 gauge. IIRC, electrical wiring works the same way.
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 12:36 |
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neoboman posted:My favorite aspect of the joke is I always wonder how many people watching know what a 10/11/12 gauge is, they probably make the same assumption George did and thus don't even realize it's a joke. Anyone watching Seinfeld and seeing George and Jerry talk about shotgun sizes in a knowing tone is going to understand that they are bullshitting.
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hope and vaseline posted:Especially season 4... I don't think I've ever watched the NBC pilot/Susan/Joe Devola arcs in order, it's amazing how much continuity there is here. The Joe Devola poo poo is really creeping me out And has there ever been a character like Susan before in a sitcom that's just been continually harassed and humiliated until one of the main characters kills her?
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Dr_Amazing posted:What an awful system. What if someone wants to make something bigger than a 1 gauge. They'd have to start going into negative numbers and that just gets silly. Well, here it gets more confusing. First off, wire gauge isn't even measuring the same thing as shotgun gauge. A shotgun's (and in years past, rifles too, now they tend to use the actual diameter) gauge is, basically, how many solid lead balls of that diameter are in a pound. So, in other words, if you made a solid lead ball who's diameter was the same as a 12-gauge shotgun's bore, it would be 1/12 of a pound. A 10-gauge shotgun would have pellets that are 1/10 of a pound, so therefore a 10-gauge is bigger than a 12-gauge. If, in theory, you had a gun so big that a single pellet was larger than a pound (say two pounds,) most commonly in the case of cannons and whatnot, it would just be called a 2-pounder. I don't know much about wire gauges, but from the wikipedia article/chart, it looks like they just keep adding zeroes, so a 0000 is bigger than a 000 which is bigger than a 00 and so on.
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Dr_Amazing posted:What an awful system. What if someone wants to make something bigger than a 1 gauge. They'd have to start going into negative numbers and that just gets silly. They start piling up zeroes and its dumb as it looks. Four aught (0000 gauge) wire is like half an inch across and 1 gauge is 5/16ths. I guess someone didn't think they'd ever want wire bigger than that. I think paint brushes do it too.
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:I'm not a gun guy, you can check to see how often I post in TFR (never) but seeing idiotic musicians, television characters, comedians or writers confuse the gauge system always peeves me. The larger the number, the smaller the diameter. Hence, an 11 gauge (if there is such a thing) would be larger than a 12 gauge. IIRC, electrical wiring works the same way. DrBouvenstein posted:Well, here it gets more confusing. First off, wire gauge isn't even measuring the same thing as shotgun gauge. The joke is that people on this planet have actually devoted entire minutes to thinking about gun gauges.
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LividLiquid posted:Is Absolute Zero not a real thing? Because otherwise the joke works fine. George finally understands what it means because he stopped having sex. They never even say what it is. It absolutely is a real thing. However it's very hard to posit (as has been tried in this thread) what it could be an epiphanic answer to.
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 20:11 |
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Should I watch from the beginning, is there a certain season where it gets its legs, or should I just jump in totally at random?
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# ? Oct 11, 2010 00:40 |
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You could jump in anywhere you want really. I think it gets its legs early in Season 2, but Season 1 is only 5 eps long. The pilot is pretty weird as Elaine is absent from the main cast, and it feels like the whole dynamic between the characters is a little off. Mrs. O: Oh, the *passion*. The *forbidden pleasure*-- Elaine: You had an affair with Ghandhi? Mrs. O: He used to dip his bald head in oil and rub it all over my body.
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# ? Oct 11, 2010 00:53 |
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spe posted:Should I watch from the beginning, is there a certain season where it gets its legs, or should I just jump in totally at random? There is a point where it starts to hit its stride more, but I would watch from the beginning, if only to see the evolution happen and to catch all the references.
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# ? Oct 11, 2010 00:57 |
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spe posted:Should I watch from the beginning, is there a certain season where it gets its legs, or should I just jump in totally at random? Season 4, definitely.
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# ? Oct 11, 2010 01:32 |
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Does anyone actually eat the muffin like Elaine describes? The whole pop the top, toss the stump?
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Yakattak posted:Does anyone actually eat the muffin like Elaine describes? The whole pop the top, toss the stump? Top of the muffin TO YOU!
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