Favorite lines from Seinfeld?

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"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!"

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

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

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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".

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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


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