Favorite lines from Seinfeld?

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"Oh yeah, well the jerk store called and they're all out of you!" - George

Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

"You're a raving anti-dentite!"

Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I'm gone for a week and you turn my house into Bourbon Street! Your grounded!" - Frank Costanza

Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

"SERENITY NOW!!!!!"

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's funny Chris, cause I always thought you were their all-time best-seller!

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh yeah, well I had sex with your wife!

Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Elaine) "Why is it that me who always has to do these things?"

(Jerry) "Because that's your thing!"

(Elaine) "What, calling up people I hardly know and demanding that they return expensive gifts? That's my thing?"

(Jerry) "Yeah, that's your thing."

N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

And now for the feats of strength!

Aaron W, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Astroturf? You know who's responsible for that, don't you? The
Jews! The Jews hate grass. Always have, always will.

N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Putty (answering a question by pointing to the ridiculous 8-ball on the back of his jacket) -
"All signs point to yes"

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elaine: you'd like him.
Jerry: Why do people always that? I hate everybody!

naked as sin (naked as sin), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I'm not gay, I'm an out of work porn star named Buck Naked!"

Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

(George) Do you ever just get down on your knees and thank God that you know me and have access to my dementia?

luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Whatley : "Come on Jerry its our sense of humor that sustained us as a people for 3000 years."

Jerry : "Five thousand."

Whatley : "Whatever."

Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

i would bet that mark s dislikes seinfeld. it would be for the same reason that i imagine he would dislike the prisoner and the aphex twin, but i'm not entirely sure what the reason is. its tangentially related to his dislike of hornby i think? and, inversely, the fact that i imagine he does not dislike starbucks. mark?

gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

seinfeld/aphex twin/prisoner = the currency of those who think they are in the know.

N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

And now for the feats of strength!

This episode was on last night. Frank calls Georges boss Kruegar, Cougar throughout the whole dinner scene.

Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

the only time i ever laughed at seinfeld is when they invented "the bro"

bob zemko (bob), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

aka "the manzier"

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:06 (twenty-one years ago) link


Gareth, have a latte.

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am glad this isn't on any more. I'd watch one, find it tedious rubbish, and abandon the show. Then loads of seemingly sensible, intelligent people would go on and on about how great it was, and I'd try it again. And it was still an utter bore. (This happened with perhaps slightly less intelligent people and the X-Files too.)

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

The sea was mad that day, like an old man trying to send back soup at a coffee shop.

A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can see where you're coming from, Martin (even though I did enjoy the show), but honestly the Elaine dance is one of the funniest things ever captured on television.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

If anyone in the UK wishes to highlight when that episode comes on again, if ever, I shall take a look, Dan, just for you. I don't believe that it is as funny as Tommy Cooper losing his place in a dramatic recitation though. Or Eric Morecambe attempting to play Grieg's Concerto.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

"What's wrong with Loni Anderson?"

mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

martin UR crazy.

RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

These pretzels are making me thirsty

webber (webber), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 23:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

these pretzels are making me...thirsty!

RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 23:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

"If this wasn't my son's wedding day I'd knock your teeth out you anti-dentite bastard."

rat, Thursday, 19 December 2002 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

i was about to go on about how this thread = proof that seinfeld is great... yet martin wasn't moved at all! i'm not sure i will ever fully understand these anti-seinfeld sentiments. when i think of tepid sitcoms i think of 'something about raymond' or 'frasier' or pretty much any other sitcom ever. seinfeld towers above.

minna (minna), Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

"And you wanna be my latex salesman."

Damian (Damian), Thursday, 19 December 2002 09:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Pennepacker!" "Varnsen!" "Vanderlay!" etc

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 December 2002 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Get OUT" (shove)

any number of times

Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 December 2002 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Well, there's nothing more sophisticated than diddling the maid, and then chewing some gum."

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 19 December 2002 09:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

they fooled me, Jerry

v

they fooled me, Jerry

Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 December 2002 10:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Announcer: We regret we will not be able to show the rest of this episode due to a fault. Instead, here's a brand new episode of What Not To Wear.

Me: Yay! No more crappy base interludes!

Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 19 December 2002 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

and also bass interludes.

Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 19 December 2002 10:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

"he took... [breathes on glasses] ... IT out" Elaine

Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 December 2002 10:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

there were none. seinfeld was unfunnier than friends. it was the piss that sinks to the bottom of the bowl. snide remarks at other's excuses masqueraded as edginess. fuck that.

Queen G (Queeng), Thursday, 19 December 2002 11:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

do you hate fun?

Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 December 2002 11:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Ah machu pichu!" - Kramer

Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 19 December 2002 12:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Taking sides: base interludes v. Ma$e interludes

Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 19 December 2002 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elaine: "Maybe the dingo ate your baby!"

mms (mms), Thursday, 19 December 2002 14:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

One from an episode I saw today that tickled me:

Elaine: My roommate has Lyme disease.
Jerry: Lyme disease? I thought she had Epstein-Barr Syndrome?
Elaine: She has this in addition to Epstein-Barr. It's like Epstein-Barr with a twist of Lyme disease.

edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 19 December 2002 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

"There was shrinkage! Women know about shrinkage, right?"

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 December 2002 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I've always wanted to pretend I was an architect" (george)

lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 19 December 2002 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Has anyone ever noticed that the last episode of Seinfeld has more or less the same plot as Camus's L'Etranger?

Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 December 2002 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah but when they called it a manzier then it was instantly unfunny again

oh yeah also when george sez he "coined the phrase" pardon my french

bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

note the funny part is him saying he "coined" it

bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have read every post on this thread, Minna, and I can't say that any of the quotes seem funny at all, but it may be that they would be if I had the context. I am interested in why something so liked by so many people who are obviously intelligent and generally have good taste should strike me as so tepid, unconvincing, strained and unfunny. And I really hated the standup bits.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Right now I am pondering pulling up the Simpsons quote thread and posting all over it how I think the Simpsons are mostly unfunny and overrated...??? ANYWAY FAVORITE LINES PEOPLE, I NEED TO READ MORE!

"Am I insane, Jerry? Or am I so sane that I just blew your mind?!"

"This! This! I don't LIKE this! And THIS is what I'm going to do with it!"

ALSO what was the name of the whiskey that Kramer drinks that has no odor? Henneseys? Cos he had that great song about it.

Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

fair enuff about the stand-up bits martin

minna (minna), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Snapple?

webber (webber), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"street toughs took my armoire?!"

minna (minna), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Oh, it's got cache baybay, it's got cache COMING OUT ITS EARS!"

nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

This isn't my 'favourite' but 'She's like one of those creatures out of Greek mythology - half woman, half horrible monster'

maryann (maryann), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

George: "But...I have hand."
Just-ex girlfriend: "And you're gonna need it."

"I'm a man. You know who else is a man? Charlie's a man."

nickn (nickn), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

cache up the yin-yang!

minna (minna), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elaine :"I think we should bring a dessert for the party."
George: "Why can't we pick up some Ring-Dings in the liquor store."

Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 20 December 2002 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elaine- "Could we lose the exclamation point? Cause it's not "Top o'the Muffin TO YOU!!!!"
Her Old Boss- "No, it is!"

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 December 2002 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

gareth i'm afraid i think it's just very very funny

mind you i also think friends is pretty funny even though i also hate it

mark s (mark s), Friday, 20 December 2002 13:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

me too. it's a weird feeling, hating it while liking it.

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 December 2002 13:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...
George: "Anyway... Onward and upward!"

Aaron A., Monday, 17 February 2003 05:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

"My boys need a house"

weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 17 February 2003 06:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

The episode where George is on a "date" with the waitress and he starts talking about how much he likes the word manure (because it's "Ma" + "newah"!) and she abruptly says "That's a nice watch, George...my boyfriend's a real watch nut" always kills me.

Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 February 2003 07:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am glad this isn't on any more. I'd watch one, find it tedious rubbish, and abandon the show. Then loads of seemingly sensible, intelligent people would go on and on about how great it was, and I'd try it again. Martin Skidmore

True, it's like an insidious drug that doesn't get you high until you're addicted...."I smoked it once and didn't feel anything..." It may be that Seinfeld isn't funny in one dose but has an intertexuatlity requirement for appreciation. You don't laugh at what was said today, but because what was said today comments on what was said in all the previous episodes (which, as an addict, you have naturally seen). This effect continues unbroken through Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm which is utterly cruel and unfunny until you realize that it's from the Seinfeld creator and he's doing Seinfeld over again with a harder edge. Seinfeld hardly needs Jerry, he's never funny. Larry David is funny...or not.

Skottie, Monday, 17 February 2003 07:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

intertextuality, sigh.

Skottie, Monday, 17 February 2003 07:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Interesting phenomenon: as with most shows named after their "star" character, Jerry was easily the LEAST essential person on Seinfeld.

Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 February 2003 07:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

"all laid out like your mothers panties"
been chuckling over this all week

geoff, Monday, 17 February 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

George: "The sea was angry that day, my friend."

frank p. jones (frank p. jones), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Has anyone ever noticed that the last episode of Seinfeld has more or less the same plot as Camus's L'Etranger?

I dunno about that, but the last episode sort of made more explicit what the whole show had been about.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Interesting phenomenon: as with most shows named after their "star" character, Jerry was easily the LEAST essential person on Seinfeld.

I think this was mentioned on the xander/bez threads

Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

six months pass...
Top of the Muffin to ya!

jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:04 (twenty years ago) link

"who'd come from a country packed with ponies to move to a non-pony country?"

jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:05 (twenty years ago) link

haha!

nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:27 (twenty years ago) link

I love the way Kramer is periodically as a 'hipster doofus'. That is perfect.

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:58 (twenty years ago) link

"a tall hipster doofus with a bird face and hair like the bride of frankenstein?"

colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Friday, 22 August 2003 01:01 (twenty years ago) link

seinfeld: "I cant believe we're going dancing"
girlfriend: "you dont go that often?"
seinfeld: "no, because it's so stupid"

ryan (ryan), Friday, 22 August 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link

"a tall hipster doofus with a bird face and hair like the bride of frankenstein?"

yes! i love all the descriptions that happen in that episode

"A guy who's about five foot eleven, he's got uh, a big head and flared nostrils."
- Kramer, describing Jerry

"Like, a horse face, big teeth, and a pointed nose."
- George, describing Jerry

"A short guy with glasses, looked like Humpty Dumpty with a melon head."
- The ticket lady, describing George

"A pretty woman, you know, kinda short, big wall of hair, face like a frying pan."
- George, describing Elaine

minna (minna), Friday, 22 August 2003 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

face like a frying pan!

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 22 August 2003 03:39 (twenty years ago) link

"You're killing independent George!"

"WORLD'S ARE COLLIDING!"

nickaliciousalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 22 August 2003 04:26 (twenty years ago) link

His buttocks are sublime

oops (Oops), Friday, 22 August 2003 04:30 (twenty years ago) link

i had to stifle my out loud laughter at "street toughs took my armoire?!" cos i'm alone in this computer room and then i might have to explain to ppl in the surrounding rooms what i was laughing at.

mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 22 August 2003 08:21 (twenty years ago) link

Jerry (after meeting Elaine's new shaven-headed boyfriend): "Is he from the future?"

Woman on plane: "Oh David, you're so funny."
Putty: "Yeah, I know."


Also, reading this thread it struck me that Seinfeld isn't nearly as funny when you read the lines, you have to hear the characters saying them.

Nick H, Friday, 22 August 2003 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

The buttocks are sublime episode kills me. Kramer is hilarious.

Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

Elaine - "Is it possible that i'm not as attractive as i think i am...?"

jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 22 August 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link

Jerry: "Ah, you're crazy."
Kramer: "Am I? Or am I so sane that I just turned your whole world upside-down?"
(There's a whole string of these)

Also, everything that Philip Baker Hall says as the Library Cop.

NA (Nick A.), Friday, 22 August 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link

Pretty much everything that Jerry Stiller says makes me laugh.

Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 22 August 2003 11:36 (twenty years ago) link

My favorite bit is still the one where Putty decided Elaine was going to hell for not being his religion and every time they'd argue, he'd just reply, "Yeah, well, at least I'm not going to Hell."

Ally-zay (mlescaut), Friday, 22 August 2003 12:40 (twenty years ago) link

when i think of tepid sitcoms i think of 'something about raymond' or 'frasier' or pretty much any other sitcom ever.

1. "Something about Raymond" = !!
2. Frasier is the smartest sitcom on tv, e.g. "Frasier, you're so corpulent that when you sit around a fabulously furnished Tuscan villa, you sit *around* the fabulously furnished Tuscan villa."

Leee (Leee), Friday, 22 August 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

"I'd like to have SHOEHORN hands!"

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 22 August 2003 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

2. Frasier is the smartest sitcom on tv, e.g. "Frasier, you're so corpulent that when you sit around a fabulously furnished Tuscan villa, you sit *around* the fabulously furnished Tuscan villa.

aka the nerdiest :-p

minna (minna), Saturday, 23 August 2003 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

" i always get the feeling when Lesbians look at me they're thinking - thats why im not a heterosexual"

colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Saturday, 23 August 2003 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

I kind of like Raymond.

Ally-zay (mlescaut), Saturday, 23 August 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

but do you love him?

minna (minna), Saturday, 23 August 2003 01:12 (twenty years ago) link

Honestly, no.

Ally-zay (mlescaut), Saturday, 23 August 2003 06:01 (twenty years ago) link

Fraser is just so shit. It causes no emotion other than irritation,I have no sympathy for characters whatsoever, and they are all convinced they are decent people and deserve empathy.
Whereas Seinfeld never asks you to like any of their characters and consistently point out that they are shallow/arrogant etc etc so when they get their comeuppance no-one ever denies that they deserve it. Hence George running out of the bathroom with his underpants round his ankles screaming 'Vanderlay Industries!'= hilarity

Nellie (nellskies), Saturday, 23 August 2003 07:30 (twenty years ago) link

I keep reading this thread title as "Favorite lies from Seinfeld?" and then the tiny devil perched on my left shoulder sez "That he's funny?"

Then I think "Great. That's highly entertaining brain, thanks. You can stop now." lather, rinse, repeat.

Kim (Kim), Saturday, 23 August 2003 07:52 (twenty years ago) link

I heart Kim.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 August 2003 13:41 (twenty years ago) link

GEORGE: Well, it worked when I met George Peppard last week.

JERRY: George Peppard has been dead for years.

GEORGE: Well, whoever he was, he knew a lot about The A-Team.

Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 23 August 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

The posts immediately preceding Ally C's are exactly why I don't want to read this board anymore. That and the fact that it's apparently ok for another person on this board to be nasty to me nonstop without impunity. Ciao.

Ally-zay (mlescaut), Saturday, 23 August 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

(Who is nasty to you Ally? Who is nasty to Ally? I think I might know, but he's joking?)

GEORGE: What are you gunna say to her?
JERRY: Ur, 'hello'?
GEORGE: You're not going across THE LINE with 'hello'!!!!

David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

Things I like about Seinfeld:

1. interpersonal relationships are too good to be a game so let's reduce it to one
2. every episode always resets the characters: if they have something at the start it will be gone by the end, sure they'll have learned but they always seem to lose
3. the deliveries
4. he knows the stand-up bits are rubbish - ts: reading an essay & comment about the painful idiosyncrasy of unrequited love vs Spike-Buffy acting it out for you, hullo?! Hm?
5. so funny, so so funny
6. &c. or "I have run out of things to say right now, really, so I should stop 'saying', full stop".

David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link

George's answering Machine

sung along to a synth pop jingle type background:

"believe it or not George isn't at home
please leave a messaaaaage at the beep
i cant be here or id pick up the phone
where could i beeeee.......?

pah pah pah

Believe it or not - im not ho-o-o-ome!"

colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

4b. the rest of the show, this is why the stand-up bits are bookends, most always is about the things that fill these segments but they're so much funnier when acted out - life contains more possibility for comedy momentums and towel-whips in its various wonderful vagaries than you can possibly capture in the out-dated 'form' Stand-Up Comedy
4c. I don't know if this is Jerry's intent, actually, but it's the way I take it
4d. from here on in
4e. I'm thinking on my feet
4f. ilx: thinking on yr feet while sitting on yr ass

David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

7. they talk about ideas (TM Kogan) and then bang or debang them by giving them names - which we can all then talk about and refine and re-read into and then out of
8. 'the bro'
9. everyone likes a bit of etiquette talk
10. I mean, what do you talk about, then?
11. which means, I'm a ditz and am genuinely interested in all these minutely detailed reliable maps of relationships
12. which can be boiling hell
13. and who goes to boiling hell without a map?

David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

>sung along to a synth pop jingle type background:

Its a parody of the song "Walking on Air", which I wouldn't ever describe as synthpop.

The deal with the stand-up bits is that the show debutted during the early 90s standup fad, and the gimmick was the "its part stand up comedy, part sit-com!" They gradually phased out the standup bits, and with good cause.

fletrejet, Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:16 (twenty years ago) link

it sounds pretty cheap synthy.... and pretty poppy.... perhaps because it's a parody?

jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

Fletrejet is probably otm but I prefer my reading. Because I'm self-obsessed and a bad listener.

David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

"The whole reason you watch a t.v. show is because it ends - if i wanted a long boring story with no point to it i have my life"

jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:42 (twenty years ago) link

high-five.

RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 August 2003 02:45 (twenty years ago) link

"Am I really insane, or am I so sane I just blew your mind?"

m.s (m .s), Sunday, 24 August 2003 04:32 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, someone else loves this line too and already wrote it, but a bit differently! Good, I was hoping it would stick in someone elses mind too. And I loved that line about leaving the pony country to come to the non-pony country. That whole pony thing was so great.

m.s (m .s), Sunday, 24 August 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link

Guess what I am watching tonight if I can stay up for it - the movie 'Sour Grapes'. If anyone has seen this and can tell me something about it please do. I know it's supposed to be terrible but I don't believe it.

m.s (m .s), Sunday, 24 August 2003 04:39 (twenty years ago) link

Pot, shake hands with kettle.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 24 August 2003 19:23 (twenty years ago) link

high-five.

That chimp's all right.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 August 2003 04:09 (twenty years ago) link

Putty: Why does dip have to be a snack? Why can't it be a meal? I don't get stuff like that.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 August 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

(Nick H is probably right about having to hear the characters say these lines, because that one is all about Warburton's delivery.)

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 August 2003 04:12 (twenty years ago) link

George's parents at the diner:

ESTELLE: I feel a draft. Let's change tables.
FRANK: Get outta here! We have a booth.
ESTELLE: Frank, I'm cold!
FRANK: Order a hot dish.

weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 25 August 2003 04:18 (twenty years ago) link

"A Festivus for the rest of us!"

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 25 August 2003 04:21 (twenty years ago) link

I've seen Sour Grapes. I remember it being amusing, but very cynical, enough so to be disturbing. OK, but not great.

NA (Nick A.), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:38 (twenty years ago) link

It's a Junior Mint. They're very refreshing.

anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 25 August 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

"Oh Jerry the air is cold the tub is warm...its like Sweden Jerry. Sweeeeeeden."

Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 25 August 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

"Ooh, how luxurious!"

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 August 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

GLAMOUR magazine...?

jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 25 August 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

"Oh I SPEND BABY!"

Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 25 August 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

Puddy: "Don't mess with the Devils, buddy. We're number one, we beat anybody! We're the Devils! THE DEVILS!! HAAAAAA!!!"

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 25 August 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

newman, after eating a piece of broccoli and spitting it out in the kenny roger's roasters chicken episode: "out, vile weed!"

Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...
George: "She scooped the niblets?"
Jerry: "Yes! That's what was so vexing."

Aaron A., Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

Soup is not a meal.

Allyzay, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

Elaine - "It's ironic."

Woman - "What's ironic?"

Elaine - "This. That we've come all this way, we made all this progress, but, you know, we lost the little things, the niceties."

Woman - "No, I mean, what does `ironic' mean?

jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

I think the whole segment where Elaine is on her way to a "lesbian wedding"(much to one lady's disgust) and the tram stops is just about as funny as sitcoms can get.
MOVE!

Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

George: He speaks to me, Jerry. He's the voice of my generation.

Jerry: We're four months apart!

George: Nevertheless.

(possibly botched from memory)

lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

I think Seinfeld doesn't really translate well to the fave lines format. Most of the jokes are only funny in context of the situation. While Simpsons is all just clever verbal humor, I find Seinfeld funny because of the plot and the situations.

"I've always wanted to pretend to be an architect."

sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm sorry but I'm not at home,
Please leave a message, after the tone,
I'm not here or I'd answer the phone,
Where could I beeeee???"

Absolutely my favourite bit ever. Or at least in the top 10.

pete s, Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

Elaine: "It's a tale of greed, lust, and... unbridled enthusiasm."

Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago) link

anyone else think the indian wedding episode was the nadir of the whole show? apart from the very last one, obviously.

pete s, Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

Also, the whole bit about the Post Office and the "writeoffs" between Kramer and Jerry:

Jerry: So were going to make the Post Office pay for my new stereo?

Kramer: It's just a writeoff for them.

Jerry: How is it a writeoff?

Kramer: They just write it off.

Jerry: Write it off what?

Kramer: Jerry, all these big companies, they write off everything.

Jerry: You don't even know what a writeoff is.

Kramer: Do you?

Jerry: No. I don't.

Kramer: But they do, and they are the ones writing it off.

(Kramer leaves.)

Jerry: I wish I just had the last twenty seconds of my life back.

Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

i loved that Indian wedding episode - the backwards one?

-You look taller
-Timberlands

jed_ (jed), Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago) link

Pete, I actually thought the Indian wedding episode was one of the better ones in the last season or two!

George: "You can stick your 'sorry's in a sock!"

__

Elaine: "Don't worry, Jerry, it's in the vault."

Jerry: "No good. Too many people know the combination." (makes alcohol swigging motion)

__

Kramer with the lollypop getting bigger throughout the episode, too, was a nice touch. "FDR wants me dead."

Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

it just seemed really desperate and tired...

pete s, Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...
estelle - "WHADDYA MEAN I AIN'T GO NO EYE FOR FASHION?"

saza bob, Monday, 14 June 2004 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...
Wilford Brimley as Postmaster General......

"Well, it's my job and I'm pretty damn serious about it. In addition to being a postmaster, I'm also a general. And we both know, it's the job of a general to, by God, get things done. So maybe you can understand why I get a little irritated when someone calls me away from my golf."

kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Monday, 10 January 2005 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link

every episode always resets the characters: if they have something at the start it will be gone by the end, sure they'll have learned but they always seem to lose

This is just plain wrong. I recently watched the whole series from start to finish over a period of two weeks and there is definite, if subtle, character development.

Andrew (enneff), Monday, 10 January 2005 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Y'know, it's good to see there is some Seinfeld hate up there, sacred cows like this need a bit of criticism OMG WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE PEOPLE ON HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE THIS SHOW FOR CRISSAKES er i mean what a wonderfully diverse world where such things can be both praised and criicised

Frogman Henry, Monday, 10 January 2005 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link

george: "big brokerage houses killed my father".

woman on subway: "really?"

george: "well, they hurt him bad. really... hurt his feelings".

*****************

kramer: "i mean, isn't there like statue of limitations on that?

jerry: "statute."

kramer: "what?"

jerry: "statute of limitations. It's not a statue."

kramer: "no, it's statue."

jerry: "fine, it's a sculpture of limitations."

kramer: "just wait a minute...elaine, elaine! now you're smart, is it statue or statute of limitations?"

elaine: "statuTE."

kramer: "oh, I really think you're wrong."

m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 10 January 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

"I'm like a Phoenix...rising from Arizona"

peepee (peepee), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

That whole thing about that guy Poppy and the couch he peed on, that was funny.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

In seasons 2-3 there's a surprising amount of continuity, i.e. dropping little references to something that happened three episodes ago, which I never noticed until watching the dvds.

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

(George, cheating on the IQ test) (paraphrasing)

Girlfriend: There's food all over this test, where'd you get it?
George: From my pocket.
Girlfriend: And there's coffee on it, where'd you get that?
George: From the coffee shop
Girlfriend: But I didn't see you leave. I was by the door the entire time.
George: The door? Why would I use the door when there's a perfectly good window right here?

laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Kramer: Yeah, well, Joe Pepitone or not, I own the inside of that plate. So I
throw one, you know, inside, you know, a little chin music, put him right on his
pants. Cause I gotta intimidate when I'm on the mound. Well the next pitch,
he's right back in the same place. So, I had to plunk him.

keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle ... Costanza?

keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Jerry: So, you're on a desert island. What three books would you bring?
George: I gotta read three books?
Jerry: OK, one.
George: The Three Musketeers.
Jerry: You've read that?
George: No, I'm saving it for the island.

Richard C (avoid80), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"Just getting some fruit ... for myself."

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"Art Vandelay? This is my boyfriend?"
"That's your boyfriend."
"What does he do?"
"He's an importer."
"Just imports? No exports?"
"He's an importer-exporter. Okay?"

kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

"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."

kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Ping (Chinese Delivery Guy): Head hurts. Head really hurts.
Jerry: What happened?
Elaine: Marla and I went out for coffee and afterwards I was crossing the street and he was biking right towards me. So I got out of the way just in time, but then he ran into a parked car. He hit his head and everything went flying.
George: Something happened to the food!?

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

E:"Bizarro Jerry?"

J:"Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives."

E:"Shouldn't he say badbye? Isn't that the opposite of goodbye?"

J:"No, it's still goodbye."

E:"Does he live underwater?"

J:"No."

E:"Is he black?"

J:"Look, just forget the whole thing."

Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

E:"So, what you are saying is that ninety to ninety-five percent of the population is undateable?"

J:"Undateable!"

E:"But people meet all the time. How do you explain that?"

J:"Alcohol."

Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Kramer: "Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you're looking for?"

eddie hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

newman 'south america! what kind of snowblower did you get us involved with!'

keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Elaine: I will never understand people.
Jerry: They're the worst!

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

the george IQ test excuse quoted above is all abt the exquisite timing.

does zemko still not like seinfeld?

m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

YOU CAN ALWAYS TRUST SLIPPERY PETE

Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm speechless. I have no speech.

Mog, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

It's like some sort of Bermuda triangle of retail.

Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"What do you think, junior? You think these hands have been soakin' in Ivory liquid?"

earlnash, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

"Cartwright!"

nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...
TWWWWWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 24 March 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

SALES WOMAN: Did the broker send you over?

KRAMER: Uh, yes, most likely, yes. I'm, uh, H.E. Pennypacker. I'm a wealthy industrialist and philanthropist and, uh, a bicyclist. And, um, yes, I'm looking for a place where I can settle down with my, uh, peculiar habits, and, uh, the women that I frequent with. (sniffing wall) Mmm. Mombassa, hmm?

SALES WOMAN: The asking price is $1.5 million.

KRAMER: Oh, I spend that much on after shave. Yes, I buy and sell men like myself every day. Now, I assume that there's a waterfall grotto?

Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 24 March 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

"THATS why you didnt get the BABY!"

and "Tomato sauce"

AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The rabbi said i was a man!

AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Chris 'The Nuts' V's Mr. Pennypacker bit has me in tears.

AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

George: Do you ever get down on your knees and thank G-d that you know me and have access to my dementia?

Jerry: What are you talking about? I'm not gonna do it!

George: Not gonna do it? What are you crazy! This is like discovering plutonium, BY ACCIDENT!!!

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to make pizza bagels with raisin bagels.

I'm also pretty sure you're not supposed to use a dOnut.

dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Barney Martin, actor who played Jerry’s dad on Seinfeld, dead at 82
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barney Martin, a former New York City detective who went into show business and became best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld’s father Morty on the comedian’s hit television series, has died. He was 82.
Martin died of cancer Monday at his Studio City home, according to his publicist, Jennifer Glassman.
Born March 3, 1923, in the New York City borough of Queens, Martin served as a navigator in the Air Force during the Second World War before starting a 20-year career as a New York City police detective.
Martin showed a talent for making deputy police commissioners laugh during presentations. In the 1950s, he began writing on the side for comedy shows such as Name That Tune and The Steve Allen Show.
Martin got his start in film when Mel Brooks featured him in The Producers in 1968. That role launched Martin into Broadway theatre, where he appeared in several musicals, including South Pacific, The Fantasticks, All American and How Now Dow Jones.
He is credited with creating the role of Roxy’s unappreciated husband, Amos Hart, in the musical Chicago.
Martin also appeared in several television series in the 1990s, including The Tony Randall Show, US, Sydney and Zorro and Son.
In Seinfeld, Martin was the third actor to play the part of Seinfeld’s father and became the one most identified with the role of the Florida retiree.
He said at the show’s wrap party in 1998: “Playing Jerry’s dad was like having whipped cream on top of a mountain of ice cream.”
He is survived by his wife and son. A daughter died in 2002 of cancer.

Huk-L, Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

:-( rip

latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link


Jerry: "Oh, right. You can't run for condo president because you were impeached at the other condo."

Morty: "I was never impeached! I resigned!"

Helen: "Even so, the press would bury him!"

Jerry: "What press?"

Helen: "The condo newsletter, the Boca Breeze."

Morty: "Pinko Commie rag."


kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

eight months pass...
george: who goes to the super bowl with their mailman?

jerry: who goes anywhere with newman?

george: well...he's merry.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 22 December 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link

"I find pastrami to be the most sensuous of all the salted cured meats"

tres letraj (tehresa), Thursday, 22 December 2005 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"DOLORES!!"

phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 22 December 2005 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I like the kind of stuff that's just observant, which isn't really funny, I don't guess, and not really quotable, but... for instance, I love the fake movies they come up with. They're so possible. "A young girl's strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk." Or this:

George: Ponce de Leon? But that was great!

Elaine: Oh, come one. That fountain of youth scene at the end, where they're all splashing around, and then they go running over to the mirror to see if it really worked? I mean, come on!

George: Lemme tell you something. When Ponce looked in that mirror and saw that he hadn't changed, and that tear started to roll down his cheek? I lost it.

Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 22 December 2005 08:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, well, at least I'm not going to Hell.

Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i dont even remember that Ponce one.

ryan (ryan), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

the one where kramer gets a job/bizarro jerry/and man hands was on last night.

Jerry: whats in the briefcase?
Kramer: Crackers

slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 23 December 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, caught that. one fave, approximately:

boss: kramer, i've been looking over these reports you turned in, and frankly, your work stinks.
kramer: just trying to get ahead, sir.
boss: it's almost as if you have no business training at all.
kramer: i'll work harder. nights. weekends.
boss: that's not good enough. i'm afraid i'm gonna have to let you go.
kramer: i don't even really work here.
boss: i know. that's why this is so difficult.

and the whole "we never talk any more" scene between jerry and kramer is pretty golden.

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

the 'we never talk anymore' scene is awesome!

[Jerry's house, it's dark, JERRY is sitting at the table waiting up as KRAMER comes in and turns on the light.]

KRAMER
Jerry. Hey Jerry?

JERRY
I'm right here. [note: he has an athletic bandage on his right hand]

You're late.

KRAMER
Yeah, well, I got held up, you know. What happened to your hand?

JERRY
Like you care.

KRAMER
The work piled up, I lost track of time--

JERRY
[calmly getting up with plate of chicken] Oh! Sure! Sure! You an' your work! Elaine's off in the Bizarro World, George only calls when he wants something, an' I'm left sitting here like this plate of cold chicken, which, by the way, [drops chicken into sink] was, for two.

KRAMER
You cooked?

JERRY
[calm] I ordered in. It's still effort.

KRAMER
[in pain] Ow! Jeez!

JERRY
What's wrong?

KRAMER
{Ow!} It's my stomach.

JERRY
You're probably gettin' an ulcer. This job is killing you! It's killing Us.

tres letraj (tehresa), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

this is probably the one you were referencing, but i like the one above a lot too
JERRY
Kramer, put the paper down! You never listen to me anymore! We hardly even talk!

KRAMER
Well, we're, talkin' now, aren't we?--

JERRY
I sit here for twenty lousy minutes in the morning--

KRAMER
Oh here we go--

JERRY
An' then when you come home at night, you're always exhausted--we never do anything anymore!

KRAMER
What are you starting with me for? You know this is my crazy time o' year?!

JERRY
[pause] It's your third day..

KRAMER
[grabs briefcase to leave] I gotta go to work. We'll talk about this later. [leaves]

JERRY
Well.
[calling down the hall] Call if you're gonna be late!

tres letraj (tehresa), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

it's like the hundredth time i've caught this episode (or parts of it) and it was the first time i noticed that during the final bit, when the bizarro men, kevin, gene, and feldman are having a group hug, kevin says "me so happy, me could cry." like bizarro superman!

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I have never seen the Bizarro episode! It sounds so great! I've been wanting to see it for like eight years now!

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Costanza: I am psychic, How did I know I was going to be bald?

Seinfeld: Because your fathers bald!

Costanza: Baldness is inherited from the mothers side, Jerry.

Seinfeld: But your mothers bald too!

James Bristow, Friday, 30 December 2005 06:01 (eighteen years ago) link

The 2 best scenes of Seinfeld:

The Race.. Jerry gets the headstart because of Kramers car. You just see Duncans face while hes running..

Also, at the end of the mom and pop store where Jerry and Kramer are in the bus.. Kramers nose starts bleeding and he goes " Jerry, I'm falling apart here " and the music comes on with Jerry comforting Kramer.

Priceless

James Bristow, Friday, 30 December 2005 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link

in first class on plane
stewardess " More of anything?"
Jerry (euphorically )" More of everything!"

"WHat have you done to yourself!!"
kramer noticing Jerry has shazed his chest

Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Friday, 30 December 2005 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link

The best episode I've seen is The Note where George gets the massage from the man.

"It... it moved."

Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Kramer: "Everybody's screaming because the driver, he's passed out because of all the commotion. The bus is out of control! So I grab him by the collar, I take him out of the seat, I get behind the wheel... Now I'm driving the bus!"
Jerry: "You're Batman."
Kramer: "Yeah, I am Batman. Then the mugger, he comes to and he starts choking me. So, I'm fighting him off with one hand and I kept driving the bus with the other. Then I managed to open up the door and I kicked him out the door with my foot at the next stop."
Jerry: "You kept making all the stops?"
Kramer: "Well, people kept ringing the bell!"

Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

kramer: what do you want to move back in with your parents for?
george: i DON'T want to!
kramer: why don't you just move in with jerry?
jerry: hey, wait a minute...
george: oh, like i'm gonna move in with him. he doesn't even let you use the bathroom.
kramer: well, you can move in with me!
george: (20 second pause) i appreciate that. (pause) that might not work.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 31 December 2005 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link

one of the seinfeld fake films is referred to obliquely in an episode of Father Ted

Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Best callback:

In one episode there's a scene with George visiting his mother in the hospital. (This must be "The Contest." She comes home unexpectedly to find him masturbating and falls down in shock. George relating this story leads to the bet.) After the bet he's visiting his mother and in the next bed a beautiful female patient is being given a sponge bath by a beautiful nurse. George has already made the bet so it's killing him, but he can't ignore it. In a later episode (probably the one mentioned above where he gets a massage from the masseur and is wondering if he's gay), he visits his mom again in a similar hospital room but this time a hunky male patient is getting a sponge bath from a hunky male nurse, and he again can't ignore it, though it's giving him all sorts of inner conflict.

nickn (nickn), Saturday, 31 December 2005 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link

No, that's in the episode where the NYU journalist thinks they're gay. The one with the great bit about the two-line phone.

Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 31 December 2005 06:31 (eighteen years ago) link


Ah yes, "Not that there's anything wrong with it. If that's who you are."

nickn (nickn), Saturday, 31 December 2005 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Exactly my fave:

"Not that there's anything wrong with that!" - and moving your hands apart in a flat gesture at the same time.

Also:
George when being fired because he selpt with the cleaning lady:
"Was that ... wrong?"

Seinfeld is often praised for its dialogue, but I also think that the acting and the little schticks are a very important reason why the series is so lovable. E.g. George and Jerry's "tolerant" gay hand gesture, Jerrys near-inability to actually act, his high-pitched voice, the bit where Elaine cringes and almost breaks down because John-John is not at the gym, George's pauses, Kramer's clumsiness etc. I never fancied Kramer's door entrée much, though. Too staged.

Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Saturday, 31 December 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Also:
George when being fired because he selpt with the cleaning lady:
"Was that ... wrong?"

on his office desk, that was.

Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Saturday, 31 December 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Jerry: Marriage is a big step though! It will change your entire life forever!
Elaine: It's 3:30 in the morning and I'm at a cockfight. What am I clinging to?

Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I WAS GOING TO POST THAT

TOMBOT, Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Just saw that one last night!

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 31 December 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I know!

TOMBOT, Saturday, 31 December 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...
I can't stop watching this, I only discovered it early this year and I'm hooked. I now have the first 6 seasons on dvd and they're never off my telly.

Does anyone know when the next one will be released?

"Maria, poquendo los scientos de estes con gleam!"

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link

you only discovered this now? You lucky cunt! :-)

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link

when kramer tells elaine that he's used his slicer to slice pieces of meat so thin he couldn't even see them and she asks how, then, he knew he'd sliced them and he says "I guess I...just assumed!!!"

RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

George: I'm sorry the card says "Moops."

JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't remember the Kramer slicer assumption, but it sounds like it was borrowing from The Third Policeman.

Alba (Alba), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

From the cockfighting episode (which is brilliant all the way): Jerry used a clown-cheque in a bodega, which was so old it bounced. The owner of the bodega then put it up the register, to shame Jerry.

Jerry: "Come on Marcelino, I paid you fifty dollar already. Can't you take down the cheque?"
Marcelino: "Ehno, sorry, estore-policy."
Jerry: "But it's *your* store!"
Marcelino: "Even I am not above estore-policy."

Gerard (Gerard), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

From the last episode, some Kramer gold:

Jerry: Hey - how was the beach?
Kramer: Oh, you missed it, buddy - lot of femininas - some major femininas!

Kramer: You're moving to California?
Jerry: Yeah, only for a while.
Kramer: Yeah, but Jerry, what happens if the show's a hit? You could be out there for years! You might never come back.
Jerry: No, I'll be back.
Kramer: Jerry. It's L.A, nobody leaves. She's a seductress, she's a siren, she's a virgin, she's a who-ooorreeee!

Gerard (Gerard), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"Or is that how you get your kicks? you and yer good-time buddies"

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

and i haven't seen the bizarro jerry either, but looking at the script it sounds incredible...

JERRY

All right. How 'bout this one: let's say you're abducted by aliens.

GEORGE

Fine.

JERRY

They haul you aboard the mother ship, take you back to their planet as a curiosity. Now: would you rather be in their zoo, or their circus?

GEORGE

I gotta go zoo. I feel like I could set more of my own schedule.

JERRY

But in the circus you get to ride around in the train, see the whole planet!

GEORGE

I'm wearin' a little hat, I'm jumpin' through fire.. They're puttin' their little alien heads in my mouth..

JERRY

[resigned] At least it's show business..

GEORGE

But in the zoo, you know, they might, put a woman in there with me to uh.. you know, get me to mate.

JERRY

What if she's got no interest in you?

GEORGE

Then I'm pretty much where I am now. At least I got to take a ride on a spaceship.

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice game, Pretty Boy.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Ohhh, you've got sooo much good stuff coming to you in the last three seasons, Ste!

Gerard (Gerard), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

this is my favorite show

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i know i can't wait! xp

Do we know when the next season dvd is coming out?

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

"Can I say one thing to you? And I say this with an unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality..........It's fabulous"

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

and one more before I go home, from The Fire episode:

GEORGE (voice is hoarse from screaming): I...was trying to lead the way. We needed a leader! Someone to lead the way to safety.

ROBIN: But you yelled "get out of my way"!

GEORGE: Because! Because, as the leader...if I die...then all hope is lost! Who would lead? The clown? Instead of castigating me, you should all be thanking me. What kind of a topsy-turvy world do we live in, where heroes are cast as villains? Brave men as cowards?

ROBIN: But I saw you push the women and children out of the way in a mad panic! I saw you knock them down! And when you ran out, you left everyone behind!

GEORGE: Seemingly. Seemingly, to the untrained eye, I can fully understand how you got that impression. What looked like pushing...what looked like knocking down...was a safety precaution! In a fire, you stay close to the ground, am I right? And when I ran out that door, I was not leaving anyone behind! Oh, quite the contrary! I risked my life making sure that exit was clear. Any other questions?

FIREMAN: How do you live with yourself?

GEORGE: Its not easy.

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

six months pass...
Woops.

http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape/

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I was looking for a thread to post that in.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i always hated michael richards

anticon jemima (ooo), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a feeling that Michael Richard's Apocalyptica will not make it to theaters now.

I never liked Seinfeld in general.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

u suck

jerry seinfeld is a legend in the hood

anticon jemima (ooo), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Good for Jerry Seinfeld. I hope he can parlay that into a career somehow.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Seinfeld's great but man talk about a wtf.

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApgLmHh_gI

anticon jemima (ooo), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

So he's either 1) on drugs or alcohol, and that finally let his real feelings slip out, or 2) people have been covering for him for a looooong time.

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

holy crap. That's a tirade, alright.

Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Yikes. I saw him at a cafe a few months ago, and he seemed cordial, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he was a giant asshole.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

that's a shame

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I think this video pretty much proves without a doubt that he's a giant asshole.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

haha yeah that about sums it up!

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a crazy disservice to giant assholes who don't happen to be rampantly racist.

Pamplaxico Polancobon (Andy_K), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"Bob Patterson" = no longer the worst thing to come out post-Seinfeld

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

He's pretty obviously an asshole in the documentary material on the Seinfeld DVDs, too. There's all kinds of stores about him blowing up and throwing vitriolic fits of rage, like almost on a daily basis, at the other actors for cracking up in the middle of scenes.

antexit (antexit), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

anticon jemima

hahahahahahahaha, great screen names throughout history

stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been watching so much fucking Seinfeld lately. One of the best I had forgotten = the one where Jerry/Elaine see George's dad on the street talking to a man (Larry David!) in a cape.

stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Michael Richards, the Ty Cobb of comedy.

M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

About 12 years ago, I was on the same flight as Michael Richards. He was a total ass and argued with the staff at both the ticket counter on board. I had a really hard time liking him after witnessing that.

ENBB (expatrica), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't begin to say how much that sucks about Michael Richards. As Kramer he had me on the floor all the time, but this is certainly going to poison that well from now on. What a fucking dick.

Not that I'm in much a funny mood now, here's one of my favourite lines from the show:

Sometimes when I think you're the shallowest man I've ever met, you somehow manage to drain a little more out of the pool. (Elaine to Jerry)

shorty (shorty), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Richards a racist?
Yes 60%
No 40%
Total Votes: 32,983


...

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

THIS COUNTRY

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

8. As ignorant as Richards' comments were, TMZ is equally as ignorant to call these two men "African Americans" Did TMZ actually get these two men’s heritage?
Is it possible that there are black people who come from other places then Africa?

Would you call an African born male who has American citizenship that is white, an African American? No even though that is exactly what he is.

The whole "African American" moniker is a F-ing joke, and should stop being used.

Posted at 8:51AM on Nov 20th 2006 by craig

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

4. When they were calling him a dumb cracker they opened the door for the comments.

Posted at 8:45AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Think about it

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

12. Oh please! Blacks say worse about whites when they're up on the stage but let a white person say something and it's news. Ever listen to Chris Rock or whatever his stupid name is? What this guy say was nothing in comparison.

Posted at 8:58AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Alice

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

There was an op-ed in the paper just the other day, something like, "N Word Still Offensive." At the time I was like, "No shit? That's some piece of investigative journalism there." But maybe more people need to be reminded of this fact than I thought.

Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

14. Guys, that's NOT Michael Richards. The guy that was yelling back at him thought he was on Seinfeld for some reason. Its NOT him.

Posted at 9:02AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Rob

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

(~13,193 people say no)

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

better link here:

http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolentertainment/30mz/2006_11/1120_richards_2_dl.mov

^@^ (map), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tmz.com/media/2006/11/photo_gallery_200x200.jpg
See other predjudiced stars!

anticon jemima (ooo), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah i lol'd at that.

But wow, though. He clearly gets a little nervous and tries to play it off at the end with, "See? Still, these words! These words!" The initial "50 years ago" bit kind of seals the deal though. These are probably his actual feelings.

Now I know why Kramer never had any black friends.

Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my favorite Kramer lines (when switched to boxers for sperm count issues): "I'M FLIPPIN AND I'M FLOPPIN".

stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I know why Kramer never had any black friends.

What about Jackie Chiles?

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

This has its own thread now:

WTF?: "Seinfeld"'s Michael 'Kramer' Richards in Weird-o-Rama Onstage Meltdown

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it too soon to start quoting from Seinfeld again after the Richards Rant? ;)

Just saw this one:

Cinnamon takes a back seat to no babka!

shorty (shorty), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

"George, his wife's in a coma."

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

KRAMER: Jerry. Uh, can we talk?

GEORGE: Kinda busy here.

KRAMER: I'd like to talk to Jerry in private.

GEORGE: Why can't I stay?

KRAMER: Because it doesn't concern you.

GEORGE: Well, if it doesn't concern me, then I can stay.
(Kramer then grabs the back of George's chair, drags him out into the hallway and closes the door.)

Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

George: "Instead of an apology, he was beboppin' and scattin' all over me."

Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link

PETERMAN:"Elaine, up until a moment ago, I was convinced that I was on the receiving end of one of the oldest baker's grift in the books--The Entenmann's shim-sham."

Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

[Setting: Puddy’s office]

(Jerry and George are in conference)

JERRY: (Threatening tone) So, listen, Puddy. When we first started this deal, I thought things were gonna be different. Now, if you want to play hard ball, I got my friend, George, here, and he can play pretty hard.. ball. (Leaving the negotiation to George) George, vein it up.

GEORGE: Alright, Puddy, listen, and listen good: I need to know the name of that mechanic that walks around here. Big guy, a liar. Short name. Sam? Moe? Sol?!

JERRY: George! Can we focus on the car, here?

GEORGE: I’m starving! I can feel my stomach sucking up against my spine.

PUDDY: (Handing a sheet of paper to Jerry) Jerry, I just need your signature, here, and we’ll get you that yellow car ready to go.

JERRY: Yellow? I wanted black.

PUDDY: I can’t give you black at that price.

JERRY: (Pleading) George, could you help me, please?

GEORGE: (Standing up) Yes. This is wrong!

JERRY: Sing it, sister!

GEORGE: Just because a candy bar fails to fall from its perch..!

JERRY: (Exasperated) Uhhh..

GEORGE: (Losing it) ..does not imply transfer of ownership. Moe, Sol, or… Lem is not gonna get away with this!

Mr. Que, Monday, 3 November 2008 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link

George: I can't believe you're hoarding sex moves. I'm out there rubbing two sticks together. You walk around with a zippo.

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 3 November 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Fusilli Jerry is one of my favourite episodes...

Geroge's mum: I'm out there, George.
George: You're not out there.
Mum:I am too.
George: You're not out there. You can't be because I am out there. And if I see you out there there's not enough voltage in this world to electro-shock me back into coherence.

Kramer: It's Fusilli Jerry! It's made from fusilli pasta. See the microphone?
Jerry: When did you do this?
Kramer:In my spare time. You know, I'm working on one of you George. I'm using ravioli. See, the hard part is to find a pasta that captures the individual.
Jerry: Why fusilli?
Kramer: Because you're silly. Get it?

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 3 November 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link

This contains many of my favourite lines.

20th episode in series 9 and still hilarious.

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 3 November 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link

"....Mulva?"

rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link

"DELORIS!"

rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link

when i think of tepid sitcoms i think of 'something about raymond'

why does this make me LOL so much?

YOUR FACE IS UNTHINKABLE!!! (sunny successor), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link

hahaha

☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link

George: It was a hell of a thing when Spock died.
Jerry: Yeah...

what U cry 4 (jim), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

haha "in that big sunglasses case"

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Two from Frank, both from the same episode:

"As I rained blows upon him, I knew there had to be a better way."

"I gotta lotta problems with you people. And tonight you're gonna hear about it."

m the g, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link

omar little, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Frank: You sayin' you want a piece of me?

Elaine: I could drop you like a bag of dirt.

Frank: You wanna piece of me? Yoouuuuu got iiiiittttt!!

the sir weeze, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Jerry: (to George) I don't even want to talk about it anymore. What were you thinking? What was going on in your mind? Artistic integrity. Where, where did you come up with that? You're not artistic and you have no integrity. You know, you really need some help, and a regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you. You need to go to, like, Vienna or something. You know what I mean? You need to get involved at the University level, like where Freud studied, and have all those people looking at you and checking up on you. That's the kind of help you need. Not the once a week for eighty bucks, no. You need a team, a team of psychiatrists working around the clock, thinking about you, having conferences, observing you, like the way they did with the Elephant Man. That's what I'm talkin about, 'cause that's the only way you're gonna get better.

also biting into a hunk of cheese like it's an apple.

schlump, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

it was an onion!

some dude, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link

mandelbaum! mandelbaum! mandelbaum!

m the g, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Well, let me tell you something, funny boy. Y'know that little stamp, the one that says "New York Public Library"? Well that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole hell of a lot. Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before: Flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. What's this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or: maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld; maybe that's how y'get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time is over. Y'got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!

Øystein, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

^^^^gold

a country packed with ponies (sunny successor), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link

joy boy

and jerry's face throughout the whole spiel

a country packed with ponies (sunny successor), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Jerry: Ah, you're crazy.
Cosmo Kramer: Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
Jerry: It's impossible.
Cosmo Kramer: Is it? Or is it so possible that your head is spinning like a top?
Jerry: It can't be.
Cosmo Kramer: Can't it? Or is your entire world just crashing down all around you?
Jerry: All right, that's enough.

metametadata (n/a), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link

That Philip Baker Hall speech was the high point of the entire SERIES, practically. (Along with Elaine's frenzied attempt to pack a suitcase and get to the airport in 20 minutes.)

Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link

George Costanza: Someday, before I die, mark my words... I'm gonna tell that woman exactly what I think of her. I'll never be able to forgive myself until I do.
Jerry: And if you do?
George Costanza: Well, I still won't be able to forgive myself, but at least it won't be about this

and what, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Cosmo Kramer: You're wasting your life.
George Costanza: I am not. What you call wasting, I call living. I'm living my life.
Cosmo Kramer: OK, like what? No, tell me. Do you have a job?
George Costanza: No.
Cosmo Kramer: You got money?
George Costanza: No.
Cosmo Kramer: Do you have a woman?
George Costanza: No.
Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any prospects?
George Costanza: No.
Cosmo Kramer: You got anything on the horizon?
George Costanza: Uh, no.
Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any action at all?
George Costanza: No.
Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any conceivable reason for even getting up in the morning?
George Costanza: I like to get the Daily News.

and what, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link

George Costanza: So I'm the bad boy. I've never been the bad boy before.
Jerry: Why not? You've been the bad employee, the bad son, the bad friend...
George Costanza: Yes, yes, yes...
Jerry: The bad fiancé, the bad dinner guest, the bad credit risk...
George Costanza: OK, the point is made.
Jerry: The bad date, the bad sport, the bad citizen...
[George leaves]
Jerry: The bad tipper.

and what, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link

George Costanza: A beautiful, successful, intelligent woman is in love with me and I throw it all away. Now I will spend the rest of my life living alone. I'll sit in my disgusting little apartment, watching basketball games, eating Chinese takeout, walking around with no underwear because I'm too lazy to do the laundry.
Jerry: You walk around with no underwear.
George Costanza: Yeah, what do you do when you run out of laundry?
Jerry: I do a wash.

and what, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link

haha yes that was a goodun

You and your good-time buddies

I just love that part of the library cop speech, but the whole things dynamite especially with Baker-Halls hand motions.

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link

George: I'm sorry. I can't live knowing Ted Danson makes that much more than me. Who is he?

Jerry: He's somebody.

George: What about me?

Jerry: You're nobody.

George: Why him? Why not me?

Jerry: He's good, you're not.

George: I'm better than him.

Jerry: You're worse, much much worse.

aaron d.g., Tuesday, 4 November 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link

That first episode (The Engagement) on season 7 is amazing, Jerry's seething reaction to his girlfriend eating peas one at a time is classic.

George dumping his girlfriend because she beat him at chess.

Georges mother on the telephone to george after he's told her about the engagement,

Estelle: Oh, I can't believe it. Frank Come here!
Frank: You come here

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 13 November 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link

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burt_stanton, Thursday, 13 November 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i just noticed in the Wizard episode. When Kramer runs for president at the Florida retirement place a selection of 'spinning' newspaper headlines come up on screen.
If you look in the bottom corner of each newspaper you can see:

"Larry David get hole in one!"
"Larry David hurts elbow"
"Larry David never to play golf again"

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 8 December 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link

aww larry <3

RADNESS UNLIMITED! (sunny successor), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link

My favourite George moment, when he claims that he could never have sex with a virgin because "it's their first time - they'll remember the first time! I don't want to be remembered. I want to be forgotten!"

Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link

heard an absolute belter from George last night

Jerry: "So, maybe they had Chinese food?"
George: "After dark? Please. At their age, that's like swallowing stun
grenades."

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link

STELLA! STELLA!

Same episode: "You got a lotta nerve takin' that kid's pen!"

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link

JERRY: Oh hey, there's Ramon. Pretend we're talking.

KRAMER: We are talking.

JERRY: Pretend it's interesting.

KRAMER: So, ah then, I ah had to kill him and ah, well the police are
still looking for me.

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link

"all laid out like your mothers panties"
been chuckling over this all week

― geoff

I know I'm late to the game on this one but was watching this episode again today and the line is "the panties your mother laid out for you".

what U cry 4 (jim), Monday, 15 December 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link

and is hilarious.

what U cry 4 (jim), Monday, 15 December 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link

You'd think a guy as focused on social rules as Jerry would recognize that "don't introduce people's mothers into dirty talk" is definitely one of them.

nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link

And that's without even starting on the infantilizing/pedophilic aspect

nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link

John Cheever's letter in that episode is funny too:

"Dear Henry, last night with you was bliss. I fear my orgasm has left me a cripple. I don't know how I shall ever get back to work. I love you madly, John. PS. Love the cabin."

what U cry 4 (jim), Monday, 15 December 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link

oh and the comparison of the cabin with Superman's Fortress of Solitude.

what U cry 4 (jim), Monday, 15 December 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Jerry: Because I killed first and warmed up the crowd. He's like that fish
that attaches himself to the shark.

George: And you're the shark?

Jerry: Yeah, I'm the shark and he's the fish eating my laughs.

George: I don't know how a fish could eat laughs.

Jerry: Well, I'm glad I brought it up.

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link

George: I want you to have this job. Of course...

Jerry: Yeah?

George: That's it.

Jerry: What do you mean that's it?

George: He never finished the sentence. He got a call, that was the end of the interview.

Jerry: "Of course" was the last thing he said?

George: Maybe he was going to say "Of course I have to check with my associates."

Elaine: "I want you to have this job, of course the Board of Directors is under indictment and will be

serving time."

Jerry: "I want you to have this job, of course sodomy is a prerequisite."

James Morrison, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link

what's the deal with what's the deal with

burt_stanton, Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link

i love how the "seinfeld isn't funny" jibes on this thread are unfunnier than anything that was ever on seinfeld, viz a viz:

I keep reading this thread title as "Favorite lies from Seinfeld?" and then the tiny devil perched on my left shoulder sez "That he's funny?"

Then I think "Great. That's highly entertaining brain, thanks. You can stop now." lather, rinse, repeat.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:52 AM (5 years ago)

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link

George, at Monk's with Jerry: "When are they gonna learn that any news about
China is an instant page-turner?"

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 13 February 2009 12:43 (fifteen years ago) link

"you know why dogs don't have money? no pockets"

Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 February 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link

on a sidenote...

wale recently released his 'mixtape about nothing,' a hip-hop mixtape with a seinfeld theme. and a cameo from julia louis-dreyfus! it's a free download here: <http://10deep.com/WALEMIXTAPE/>;. and also pretty damn good.

art hums, Friday, 13 February 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link

argh.

http://10deep.com/WALEMIXTAPE/

art hums, Friday, 13 February 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link

I had it. I was there.. and then.. I hit the Van Wyck.

double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link

ahaha classic episode, elaine rampaging through her bedroom is so great

suggban stevens (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link

George, in his apartment with Maura: "And so, for all these reasons, we are officially broken up. Thank you, and good night."

Maura: "No, George, we're not."

George: "But I proved it!"

Maura: "I refuse to give up on this relationship. It's like launching
missiles from a submarine. Both of use have to turn our keys."

George: "Well, then, I am gonna have to ask you to turn your key."

Maura: "I'm sorry, George, I can't do that."

George: "Turn your key, Maura. Turn your key!"

---------------

Maura, coming in George's apartment: "Hey, Honey."

George: "What? M-Maura, what are you doin' here? I ended this relationship,
twice."

Maura: "George, you didn't mean that. That was just a fight."

George: "Why does it only seem like I'm the only one working at this breakup?"

Maura: "George, I listened to your arguments, and they were rambling and flimsy. I'm not convinced. Come on, get dressed and let's get some dinner."

George: "All right."

http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_62/1863000/1863652/1/preview/320_1863652.jpg

its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry hoos

f f murray abraham (G00blar), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link

"Whatever happened to 'my what a lovely dress you have on MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE'"

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Well generally you don't need any extra incentive to murder a dry cleaner.

loaded forbear (gabbneb), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Imagine. Her taking credit for your big salad.

aaron d.g., Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link

roommates and i str8 up dying @ the big salad ep atm

zone 6 polar bear (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Caught one of my favorite episodes tonight:
"As far as I can tell, your entire enterprise is more than a solitary man with a messy apartment which may or may not contain a chicken."

Telephone thing, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 06:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Er, NOTHING more. That's what I get for Googling to get the right phrasing and just ctrl-v'ing without reading it first.

Telephone thing, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link

..and over there son, is Brooklyn. That's where Spike Lee lives.

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link

"....Mulva?"

OTM.

James Mitchell, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link

erry: Elaine, see this T-shirts, six years I've had this T-shirts, it's my

best one, I call him...Golden Boy

Elaine: I'm on the phone here.

Jerry: Golden Boy is always the first shirt I wear out of the laundry, here

touch Golden Boy!

Elaine: No thanks. (to the phone)Yeah, Yeah I'll hold.

Jerry: But see look at the collar, see it's fraying. Golden Boy is slowly

dying. Each wash is brings him one step closer, that's what makes

the T-shirts such a tragic figure.

Elaine: Why don't you just let Golden Boy soak in the sink with some

Woolight?

Jerry: No!!! The reason he's iron man is because he goes out there and plays

every game. Wash!!! Spin!!! Rinse!!! Spin!!! You take that away

from him, you break his spirit!

Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link

lol "this t-shirts".

Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link

you get the gist.

Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link

the entire series, pretty much

I need to start renting Curb Your Enthusiasm DVD sets pronto

Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link

the ukraine is weak!

slow lorax (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link

woah. that's a lot of potatoes

andrew m., Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link

Hey could you do me a favour?
What?
Could yer shut up?

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link

Golden Boy was funnier to read than to watch

loaded forbear (gabbneb), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link

Seinfeld Scripts

SongOfSam, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link

"No, George, I.....am breaking up with you"

"You can't break up with me! I've got hand!"

"And you're gonna need it!"

Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link

George: Hey.

Jerry: Where have you been? You know, you're on next.

George: I got lost on the way over.

Jerry: Got lost? We went to school here for three years.

George: What are these? (Holds test tubes to his head like antennae) Take me to your leader.

Jerry: Oh my God. You had sex. You had sex with Louise!

George: No, the Portuguese waitress.

Jerry: The Portuguese waitress?

George: I calculated my odds of ever getting together with a Portuguese waitress. Mathematically, I had to do it, Jerry.

Katie: George, George, you're on.

George: No, no. I'm not going on.

Jerry: Then what'd you come down here for?

George: To tell you about the Portuguese waitress.

Krapp's lesser-known First Tape (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link

"You know how the big toe is the captain of the toes, but sometimes the toe next to the big toe gets so big that there's a power struggle and the second toe assumes control of the foot?"

"The coup de toe."

James Mitchell, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link

the funny part is how he says he used it & the joke fell flat

autogucci cru (deej), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link

well its all funny parts really

autogucci cru (deej), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link

what series is the ones that they make the sitcom called Jerry?

jed_, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Season 4.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link

cheers jim.

jed_, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link

i knew that straight away because i'm watching season 5 on dvd at the moment and in the box there is the first draft script to "the pilot" "season 4".

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link

just watched the episode "the masseuse":

KRAMER: You know why Rifkin was a serial killer? Because he was adopted. Just like Son of Sam was adopted. So apparently adoption leads to serial killing.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Just got through watching all of it. Great stuff. It's not a line, so it may not count, but I love that bit where Jerry comes home and there's this... LASER of red light coming from Kramer's spyhole, and then he opens the door to this hell induced by the huge red neon chicken sign. I did NOT describe that well.

James Morrison, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link

JERRY: Explain to me how this baby shower thing works.

ELAINE: What do you wanna know?

JERRY: Well, I mean, does it ever erupt into a drunken orgy of violence?

James Morrison, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link

the one at the car dealership where george thinks the mechanic stole his twix. the way george's frustration slowly builds until by the end he's virtually a frothing lunatic is perfectly timed and acted.

"IT'S A TWIX! THEY'RE AAAAAAALL TWIX! IT WAS A SETUP! A SETUP, I TELL YA!"

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link

good episode, when he accuses the bloke of having a dollar bill in his wallet

"You're. Incorrect"

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Watching the one where Elaine gets bitten by a dog and she attacks Kramer, calling him a "Stupid hipster doofus"!

Kramer turns to George, who is eating pretzels, and asks "May I have one of those, madam" cos he's wearing ladies glasses.

Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 14 May 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link

haha that's the one where george turns up wearing swimming goggles, and Jerry says something like "so you're tunneling to the centre of the Earth?"

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 14 May 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link

"Gonna need some water here!!"

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 14 May 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link

"It shrinks?"

the insane Dr. Morbius and his HOOSical steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 14 May 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link

"like a frightened turtle!"

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, 14 May 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link

when they're trying to find out if the yogurt has fat in or not and jerry gets the results and after kramer asks what the results are and jerry gets right in his face and goes "FAT!"

man, i love collages (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 May 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link

"Of course! My... cousin... was in a bubble."

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 14 May 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link

the whole pinky toe story is one of my favorites. especially the cracker jack/prize exchange.

Kramer: Yeah, and after the ambulance left I found the toe. So I put it in a Cracker Jack box, filled it with ice and took off for the hospital.
George: You ran!?
Kramer: No I jumped on the bus. I told the driver "I got a toe here buddy, step on it!"
George: Holy cow!
Kramer: Yeah, yeah, then all of a sudden, this guy pulls out a gun. Well, I knew any delay is gonna cost her her pinky toe, so I got out of the seat and I started walking towards him. He says, "Where do you think you're going, Cracker Jack?" I said, "Well, I got a little prize for ya, buddy - " <Kramer throws two quick punches and a massive uppercut> - knocked him out cold!

circa1916, Thursday, 14 May 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link

You kept making the stops??

Adam Bruneau, Friday, 15 May 2009 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link

It's so weird that they made a backwards episode, I saw it and thought it was kind of pointless at the time. Now it seems pretty damn cool.

Adam Bruneau, Friday, 15 May 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link

hahahaha yes xp

u have a new mistress my friend and her name is little debbie (omar little), Friday, 15 May 2009 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link

I had an idea for a thread inspired by the Dirty Lyrics/Double Entendres you didn't get as a kid, but understand as an adult thread but I'll just put it here:

Seinfeld lines/references that you didn't get as a kid but now understand. I watched the show from a young age and there are often some pretty highbrow/obscure references, but most of the ones I didn't get aren't so highbrow, but rather outdated/NY-based/Jewish stuff that was unknown to me growing up in Northern CA.
Por ejemplo:
The "hair in my farina" traumatic experience that Jerry remembers freaking out about when they're waiting for the babka (Still not sure exactly what a babka is). I remember thinking it was maybe some dirty reference I didn't get, but Farina is like a Cream of Wheat-type breakfast cereal.
I also remember not knowing WTF they were talking about in the Frogger episode-I missed the beginning and I was like "What's a fraga??"

DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 15 May 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link

i watched the sponge worthy episode when i was 11, I didn't get it.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Friday, 15 May 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link

and understanding about the pill and condoms it really put my head in a wtf position, where and how did a sponge come in to this?

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Friday, 15 May 2009 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link

^otm. forgot about that one.

DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 15 May 2009 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babka

"Not to be confused with vodka"

DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 15 May 2009 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link

KRAMER: "You know you really shouldn't brush 24 hours before seeing the dentist."

JERRY: "I think that's eat 24 hours before surgery."

KRAMER: "Oh no, you got to eat before surgery, you need your strength."

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, 21 May 2009 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link

funny one where George and Jerry are discussing the term 'Manslaughter' and how it sounds too vicious for it's definition. They try and come up with alternative names and Jerry's was "I can't believe it's not murder"

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 21 May 2009 11:54 (fourteen years ago) link

the whole riff about gay guys and "equipment"

oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Friday, 22 May 2009 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Jerry's women are always smokin'

Adam Bruneau, Friday, 22 May 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link

"Sweet fancy Moses!"

James Morrison, Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link

it's amazing that I have probably seen every single episode of Seinfeld but I can't recite a single direct quote from it.

ti's girl on the outside (musically), Sunday, 24 May 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link

[George's parents having dinner with Susan's parents]

FRANK: Let me understand, you got the hen, the chicken and the rooster. The
rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?
GEORGE: Why don't we talk about it another time.
FRANK: But you see my point here? You only hear of a hen, a rooster and a
chicken. Something's missing!
MRS. ROSS: Something's missing all right.
MR. ROSS: They're all chickens. The rooster has sex with all of them.
FRANK: That's perverse!

franny glass, Sunday, 24 May 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link

[after the nyu story about jerry & george being gay gets picked up by the AP]

jerry: "i've been outed! and i wasn't even in!"

some people wait a lifetime for a momus like this (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 24 May 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link

chain-smoking stenographer from staten island

❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Sunday, 24 May 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link

"I'm gonna make people feel my gonorrhea!"

warmsherry, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Also from that episode:

"It's like those hip musicians with their complicated shoes!"

Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 20 June 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Jerry: Hey, Puddy's here
Elaine: My Puddy? But we broke up?
Jerry: And yet he continues to live

III IV V (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Sunday, 21 June 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link

From The Little Jerry:

GEORGE (sadly): It's over, Jerry. She's gettin' out.
JERRY: Ah, I'm so sorry.
GEORGE: She's been locked up for two years. She's gonna want to make up for lost time. Dinners. Movies. <Rubs his forehead.> Talking...
JERRY: In other words, a normal relationship.
GEORGE: And that's no good. I've tried it straight, Jerry. We've all seen the results. For me, sick is the only way to go.
JERRY: Well, she'll still be an ex-con.
GEORGE: It's not the same.
JERRY: Hey, if you two are meant to be together...I'm sure the cops'll pick her up on something.

Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link

I just wrote this on the 'king of research' thread:

Hey here's the final question.

In the film 'City Slickers', there's a guy who looks like Newman (from Seinfeld)

What's the episode where he's in Seinfeld and light is made of his resemblance to Newman?

― ambience chaser (S-), Friday, 19 June 2009 14:46 (4 days ago) Permalink

"The Big Salad"

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 19 June 2009 14:54 (4 days ago)

and JAYMC IS WRONG!

Can anybody help me?

ambience chaser (S-), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link

label maker?

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link

a total guess btw, just because newman features in it as one of the other superbowl ticket holders.

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link

nah, watched that recently also. Perhaps it never occurred? Is there any episode with a Newman lookalike?

ambience chaser (S-), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link

i must admit, i've watched Seinfeld so many times and don't recall anything on this. There's bizarro jerry episode with the bizarro newman.

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link

what's the guys name in city slicker anyway ?

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link

also, there's the Bottle Deposit episode where Newman finds himself at the farm house. When he leaves the woman shouts out "i love you Norman"

wasn't there an animal called Norman in City Slickers

Yeah I know, reeeeach.

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link

celebrate the Neumanium!

You can watch most of the show here: http://tv.blinkx.com/show/seinfeld/gJRwRbfED2DPE4RN and it is indeed a wild ride!

Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link

The one where Kramer is a communist Santa Claus is a very funny episode with a feel-good ending.

Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link

this is bizarro Newman: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0489052/

have no idea who from City Slickers looked like Newman...thought maybe one of the Ben & Jerry-type characters but neither of them were on Seinfeld.

The bigman from the hilarious 'rip' threads (some dude), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Josh Mostel

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

it's like the hundredth time i've caught this episode (or parts of it) and it was the first time i noticed that during the final bit, when the bizarro men, kevin, gene, and feldman are having a group hug, kevin says "me so happy, me could cry." like bizarro superman!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, December 23, 2005 12:51 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i just came here to post "me so happy, me want to cry." that line always gets stuck in my head.

some dude, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link

What's weird is that these lines, when I read them, all sound pretty funny, but when I actually watch the show I don't laugh.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Seinfeld lines/references that you didn't get as a kid but now understand. I watched the show from a young age and there are often some pretty highbrow/obscure references, but most of the ones I didn't get aren't so highbrow, but rather outdated/NY-based/Jewish stuff that was unknown to me growing up in Northern CA...

― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:19 PM (3 months ago)

In the episode where George doesn't want to give susan his atm code, first off I had never heard of BOSCO but they explained it. But more importantly, what kind of a bank card has words insted of a 4 digit pin?

send a hilarious message or make a "wild" statement (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 06:37 (fourteen years ago) link

*passwords that is

send a hilarious message or make a "wild" statement (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link

"The Rogue's Wallet. That's where he kept his card, his dirty little secret. Short, devious, balding. His name was Costanza. He killed my mother."

velko, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

George, George, this is a little bit too much for me, escaped convicts, fugitive sex...I got a cockfight to focus on.

Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link

Just the way Robert Wagner says "Hey Kramer" when he passes him at Mickey's wedding (the anti-dentite episode). I have no idea why. If the laugh track's legitimate, it seems to have cracked up the audience, too.

clemenza, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link

"all i want is my seventy-five cents back, an apology, and for him to be fired."

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

one of my favourite observations from Seinfeld was his office colleagues greetings bit, and how after you've greeted the same person several times in one day you're eventually running out of ways of saying hello, so you end up greeting them with funny nicknames.

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Sunday, 4 October 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link

It's a hot night. The mind races. You think about your knife, the only friend who hasn't betrayed you, the only friend who won't be dead by sunup. Sleep tight, mates, in your quilted chambray nightshirts.

why does deezy claim nuts (some dude), Sunday, 4 October 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link

GEORGE: I know. I can tell. It's one of my powers. Why, did you ever fake?

ELAINE: Of course.

JERRY: Really?

GEORGE: You faked?

ELAINE: On occasion.

JERRY: And the guy never knows?

ELAINE: No.

JERRY: How can he not know that?

ELAINE: Because I was gooood.

JERRY: I guess after that many beers he's probably a little groggy anyway.

(Jerry and George laugh)

ELAINE: You didn't know.

^^^ last one is the single best line reading on the show

gore vitalic (s1ocki), Sunday, 4 October 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link

"The very pants I was returning. That's perfect irony!"

Pedro Paramore (jim), Sunday, 4 October 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Well let's start the insanity.

Niles Caulder, Sunday, 4 October 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link

"Hi. Would you be interested in switching over to TMI Long Distance service?"
"Oh, gee, I can't talk right now. Why don't you give me your home number and I'll call you later."
"Uh, sorry, we're not allowed to do that."
"Oh, I guess you don't want people calling you at home."
"No."
"Well, now you know how I feel."

tehresa, Sunday, 4 October 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link

lol @ tmi long distance!

tehresa, Sunday, 4 October 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link

"I think that milk's gone bad"
"I don't care."

Niles Caulder, Monday, 5 October 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link

[Kramer and Jerry discussing whether their accountant is using drugs]

Jerry: Look, it doesn't necessarily mean anything yet, it just means he was sniffing.
Kramer: Well, what else? Was he nervous? Did he use a lot of slang? Did he use the word 'man'?
Jerry: No, he didn't use 'man'.
Kramer: I mean when he was leaving did he say "I'm splittin' "?
Jerry: No, but at one point he did use the bathroom.
Kramer [freaks out]: Whoh!

franny glass, Monday, 5 October 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link

It's a hot night. The mind races. You think about your knife, the only friend who hasn't betrayed you, the only friend who won't be dead by sunup. Sleep tight, mates, in your quilted chambray nightshirts.

tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link

George trying to be funny:
"Toasting makes me uncomfortable. But toast, I love. Never start the
day without a good piece of toast. In fact, let's toast to toast."

LEGOS by Atlas Sound (coming eventually, 2009 or 2010) (Future_Perfect), Monday, 5 October 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link

lol

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Monday, 5 October 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link

"And it's called the World Wide Web, you can email anybody!"
"What are you a scientist?"

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link

"so attractive one day, not attractive the next?"
"yeah, have you come across this?"
"I'm familiar with this syndrome. She's a two-face"
"Like the batman villain?"
"If that helps you"

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Monday, 12 October 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link

"Stop crying and fight yer father"

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Monday, 12 October 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Jerry: No, but at one point he did use the bathroom.
Kramer [freaks out]: Whoh!

newman: SOUTH AMERICA? what kind of snowblower'd you get us mixed up with?

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz0jkktVfJ8

ojo, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Man: Excuse me. Would you mind watching my bag for a minute?

George: Yeah. No problem.

Jerry: Let's go.

George: Woah, I gotta watch this guy's bag.

Jerry: For how long?

George: I'm sure he'll be back in a second.

Jerry: Come on.

George: Excuse me sir. Would you mind watching my bag for a minute?

Man 2: Why? So I can stand here like an idiot not knowing if you'll ever come back?

Jerry starts to leave.

George: Where are you going?

Jerry: I'm going to be this guy's friend.

the men who stare at goatse (some dude), Saturday, 31 October 2009 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link

ojo otm

5-23-09 CLUTCH & EVIL LOOK (tremendoid), Saturday, 31 October 2009 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

starting at about 1:30 in, once jerry gets off the phone (it's the "he took it out" bit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f57YDEsyNSc

chillwave dudes get washed out, totally (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 November 2009 06:02 (fourteen years ago) link

"oh it be..." love that scene

no for real leggo (tremendoid), Thursday, 19 November 2009 06:13 (fourteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

tippytoe

Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I was handcuffed to the bed, in my underwear, where I remained... She certainly seemed interested in me and though she was attractive, she was also in fact, a Nazi... The water I had been swimming in was very cold, and when I dropped the towel there had been significant shrinkage... Her parents were looking at me. So there I was, with a marble rye hanging from the end of a fishing pole.

In closing, these stories have not been embellished because they need no embellishment. They are simply, horrifyingly the story of my life as a short, stocky, slow-witted, bald man. Thank you.

Oh, also: my fiancée died from licking toxic envelopes that I picked out. Thanks again.

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 14 November 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

The whole scene with Jerry in the confession booth, which unfortunately i couldn't find full on YT sorry.
And the end part with George appearing through the curtain

Summer Slam! (Ste), Monday, 24 October 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link

"That what you had to tell me? Your father wears sneakers in the pool?"

conrad, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link

xp - that's one of my favorite scenes, particularly the part with George where he says something like "I had a feeling you'd be here"

I always had a soft spot for "The Library", especially everything that Lt. Bookman says:

"Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again."

frogbs, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link

George just appears through the confession booth curtain and asks jerry a random question. It was a follow on gag from a previous scene in the same episode where George just randomly appears whilst Jerry is sat in the dentist chair.

Summer Slam! (Ste), Monday, 24 October 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link

personally I loved when the show started getting all weird and meta

frogbs, Monday, 24 October 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link

The whole scene where George and Jerry "meet" each other after x number of years, so George can confirm that Jerry didn't get a head start in The
Big Race. Their whole exchange, from Jerry pretending not to recognize George, to their jabs at each other ("Boy, you really went bald there," "Do you do a lot of that 'Did you ever notice' stuff?") kills me.

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah that whole scene is gold

GEORGE: Oh, the big race.

JERRY: Yeah.

GEORGE: Yes, yes,.

LOIS: You were there?

GEORGE: Yes, sure, surely was. Yeah, I'll remember that day. Well I'll never forget it because that was the day that I uh, lost my virginity to Miss. Stafford, the uh, voluptuous home room teacher.

DUNCAN: Miss Stafford?

GEORGE: Yes, yes, you know I was in detention and she came up behind me while I was erasing the blackboard . . .

JERRY: George!

GEORGE: But I digress.

Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link

also pretty much everything Jackie Childs says is gold. pretty incredible how many great secondary and one-shot characters this show had.

frogbs, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, i always loved the 'guy who loved the Desperado song' who elaine went out with. His strange attitude to Jerry in every scene was priceless, always thinking jerry was poor, and talking about Carl Farlman the furniture designer.

And then he meets jerry in the pissing rain, the guy is driving an expensive sports car and jerry has no umbrella and all his cheques for 12 cents are ruined by the rain.

"I'd give you lift, but I've got Carl Farlman with me"
"Thanks for stopping"

Summer Slam! (Ste), Monday, 24 October 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link

hahaha and i just remembered the scene straight after that

"he said you ran away from his like he was the boogedy man"
"i'm pretty sure its boogey man"

Summer Slam! (Ste), Monday, 24 October 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link

Just saw one with Puddy/Putty in it--the way he stares off into space, a man with absolutely no inner life, is really funny

And when Kramer has an intern, and gets hauled in by the intern's manager:

"As far as I can tell, your entire enterprise consists of a solitary man in a messy apartment which may or may not contain a chicken."

not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Monday, 24 October 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link

Did Seinfeld invent "C/D?"

Also, this makes me laugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKoq6ZdRxJc

ste throkes (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link

haha James, i watched that one last night too.

"so you're just gonna sit there, staring at the back of that chair?"
"yeah that's right"

Summer Slam! (Ste), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:21 (twelve years ago) link

"The Fix-up" was on last night, love the part where George is asking Jerry increasingly weird questions about this girl - "does she have a good cheek? I need a good cheek..."

frogbs, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link

i love jerry's responses in that scene. "good cheek. very nice cheek." or w/e

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link

"Really very good and nice."

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link

^^^^^^yessssssss

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link

OTM

George: "Is she smart? Is she smarter than me? I don't want her to be smarter than me"
Jerry: "How could she be swarter than you"

Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link

smarter

Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link

it's notable that Jerry made a joke about her bulimia, and George kinda brushed it off, when we already know from a later episode that George is totally not okay with that.

frogbs, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Pipe down chorus boy.

Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Thursday, 17 November 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link

and not a line but this will never not be hysterical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-TqEFYcfM

Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Thursday, 17 November 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link

My two science classes were working on a handout today about the proper names for various kinds of life scientists. Marine biologist was on there, so we took a little 45-second detour as I described George and that woman walking along the beach.

clemenza, Thursday, 17 November 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link

i have a bad feeling whenever a lesbian look at me they think "that's why i'm not a heterosexual"

flopson, Thursday, 17 November 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link

six months pass...
two years pass...

IT'S JUST ORIGINAL, JERRY

brimstead, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link

"Jiffy Dump" haha

Is this a joke?!

That's what I like to know about it.

andrew m., Wednesday, 23 July 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link

During hockey season I probably said "gotta support yr team" ala Puddy 50 times

andrew m., Wednesday, 23 July 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link

I used the phrase "hot and heavy" last week and immediately flashed back to the entire "hot and heavy" plot with Elaine and the jazz musician.

Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I know my alleys

brimstead, Friday, 15 August 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

"Jerry, this is Frank Costanza. Mr. Steinbrenner's here, George is dead, call me back."

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 16 February 2017 22:51 (seven years ago) link

kramer: you let out one emotion, all the rest will come out with it. it's like endora's box!
jerry: that was the mother on "bewitched." you mean "pandora."
kramer: yeah, well...she had one, too.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 16 February 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link

xp from the same episode, when steinbrenner is telling the constanzas about george's death... frank is silent throughout until he let's loose with:

"What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for?!? He had 30 home runs, over 100 RBIs last year, he's got a rocket for an arm, you don't know what the hell you're doin'!!"

new noise, Thursday, 16 February 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link

"If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right!"

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 February 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link

GEORGE IS GETTING UPSET

mark s, Friday, 17 February 2017 00:53 (seven years ago) link

Mr. Snrub's line probably in my Top 5.

clemenza, Friday, 17 February 2017 04:23 (seven years ago) link

new noise's might be my number 1 moment for the entire show, though the line itself isn't that funny - it's all based on the context, and Jerry Stiller's delivery too. Even in the laugh track you can hear someone absolutely losing it for that joke

Vinnie, Friday, 17 February 2017 05:49 (seven years ago) link

yes exactly!

new noise, Friday, 17 February 2017 06:43 (seven years ago) link

"You have a garbage disposal in your bathtub?"
"Oh, yeah, and I use it all the time. Yeah, I made this whole meal in there."
"This food was in the shower with you?"
"Mm-hmm. I prepared it as I bathed."

new noise, Friday, 17 February 2017 07:04 (seven years ago) link

"It's not a lie if you believe it"

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 February 2017 08:17 (seven years ago) link

How funny, Bateau, I came here to post the exact same quote

Iago Galdston, Friday, 17 February 2017 08:26 (seven years ago) link

"You know we've LIVING in a SOCIETY!"

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 February 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link

GEORGE: She treated me to the Arabian mocha java.
JERRY: And you misinterpret this how?

clemenza, Friday, 17 February 2017 12:31 (seven years ago) link

four years pass...

"Take toilet paper for example. Do you realize that toilet paper hasvnot changed in my lifetime? It's just paper on a cardboard roll, that's it. And in ten thousand years, it will still be exactly the same because really, what else can they do?"

Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 05:29 (two years ago) link

“you find this fascinating, don’t you?”

flopson, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 05:30 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I think my #1 is from Susan, not one of the principals: "Yeah, give me the papers--I'll sign 'em."

clemenza, Friday, 17 December 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link

Haha her delivery on that was great

hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 December 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link

Elaine: Can’t you see what’s happened? I’ve become George!
Jerry: Don’t say that!
Elaine: It’s true.. I’m George.. GEORGE!

scanner darkly, Saturday, 18 December 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

George, from "The Conversion": "This is the only woman I've never lied to...well, that's not entirely true."

clemenza, Friday, 4 February 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link

"Who told you to put the balm on?"

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 February 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link

George at his therapist’s office:

GEORGE: What if the pilot gets picked up and it becomes a series?

DANA: That'd be wonderful George, you'll be rich and successful.

GEORGE: Yeah, that's exactly what I'm worried about. God would never let me be successful. He'd kill me first. He'd never let me be happy.

DANA: I thought you didn't believe in God?

GEORGE: I do for the bad things.

Sam Weller, Saturday, 5 February 2022 13:21 (two years ago) link

All right! But hear me, and hear me well! The day will come! Oh, yes, mark my words, Seinfeld! Your day of reckoning is coming, when an evil wind will blow through your little playworld and wipe that smug smile off your face! And I'll be there in all my glory, watching, watching as it all comes crumbling down!

underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 6 February 2022 02:10 (two years ago) link

If you’re one of us… you’ll take a bite.

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Sunday, 6 February 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link

Elaine: So, because of a few bad seeds, you're going to impugn an entire continent?

Jerry: Yes, I'm impugning a continent.

buzza, Sunday, 6 February 2022 06:08 (two years ago) link

“elaine, i could see not saying hello. she’s very, what’s the word, supercilious. but HOW COULD JERRY NOT SAY HELLO?”

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 6 February 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link

Jerry and George discussing the word ‘barometer’.
Kramer: “It’s pronounced thermometer.”

This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Monday, 7 February 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

“I believe that’s what you do with garbage, you idiot”

brimstead, Thursday, 7 December 2023 22:20 (four months ago) link

(Bill Erman as old man Jerry was visiting)

brimstead, Thursday, 7 December 2023 22:21 (four months ago) link

Erwin

brimstead, Thursday, 7 December 2023 22:21 (four months ago) link

George: I was spottin' those raccoons!

Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 7 December 2023 23:09 (four months ago) link

No one can tell you what a balm's gonna do. They are unpredictable!

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 December 2023 23:12 (four months ago) link


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