― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 17 February 2003 06:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 February 2003 07:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― Skottie, Monday, 17 February 2003 07:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 February 2003 07:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― geoff, Monday, 17 February 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― frank p. jones (frank p. jones), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
I think this was mentioned on the xander/bez threads
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:04 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:05 (twenty years ago) link
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:27 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:58 (twenty years ago) link
― colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Friday, 22 August 2003 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Friday, 22 August 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
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
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 22 August 2003 03:39 (twenty years ago) link
"WORLD'S ARE COLLIDING!"
― nickaliciousalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 22 August 2003 04:26 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 22 August 2003 04:30 (twenty years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 22 August 2003 08:21 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:36 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 22 August 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
Also, everything that Philip Baker Hall says as the Library Cop.
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 22 August 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 22 August 2003 11:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally-zay (mlescaut), Friday, 22 August 2003 12:40 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 22 August 2003 23:50 (twenty years ago) link
aka the nerdiest :-p
― minna (minna), Saturday, 23 August 2003 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
― colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Saturday, 23 August 2003 00:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally-zay (mlescaut), Saturday, 23 August 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
― minna (minna), Saturday, 23 August 2003 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally-zay (mlescaut), Saturday, 23 August 2003 06:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Nellie (nellskies), Saturday, 23 August 2003 07:30 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 August 2003 13:41 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Ally-zay (mlescaut), Saturday, 23 August 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
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
1. interpersonal relationships are too good to be a game so let's reduce it to one2. 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 lose3. the deliveries4. 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 funny6. &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
sung along to a synth pop jingle type background:
"believe it or not George isn't at homeplease leave a messaaaaage at the beepi cant be here or id pick up the phonewhere 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
― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:46 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 19:51 (twenty years ago) link
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
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:42 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 August 2003 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
― m.s (m .s), Sunday, 24 August 2003 04:32 (twenty years ago) link
― m.s (m .s), Sunday, 24 August 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link