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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

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