Seinfeld: Classic or Dud

Other George highlights:

"The sea was angry that day my friends... like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli" from The Marine Biologist.

"A simple joke, from a simple man," he tells Jerry in The Abstinence, in which he's turning into a genius because he's 'not getting any', and ponders the idea that maybe he should just never have sex again, 'maybe I can serve the world better this way'.

But the most brilliant, mindblowing George episode for me is The Opposite, when he finds his 'religion' in ignoring everything his instinct ever told him, and to do the opposite. "Hi... my name is George, I'm unemployed and I live with my parents."

Oh and Dr. Carl Sagan completely OTM, it keeps me going as well, I cannot get enough.

Jerry: "All right, you're on a desert island. You can bring five books. Which five do you take?"
George: "I gotta read five books?"
Jerry: "All right, one. Come on!"
George: "Oh, I got it. Three Musketeers."
Jerry: "You've read that?"
George: "No, I'm saving it for the island."
Jerry: "Let's start this whole thing over. Best Chamberlain: Wilt, Richard, or Neville?"
George: "For the desert island?"
Jerry: "OK."
George: "Richard."
Jerry: "You know, he was in The Three Musketeers."
George: "Exactly. Save me from having to read the book."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuHcNkLo8Ok

this kid's videos are an absolute goldmine of lols.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pkfPDPKfpg&feature=related

I didn't lol till the end credits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4rd7I0Q75o

I don't know what it has to do with Seinfeld but it sure is funky.

Seinfeld hate is insane. What else do you hate? Christmas? Batman? Love?

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/823440.html

there was a festivus set-up in DC when i was there this weekend.

By all that is holy, Seinfeld should be entirely unwatchable. The acting is rather awful and overdrawn. The writing is peculiar, but hardly great. I still wonder why it is moderately amusing. I suspect it may have something to do with the strange medium of television, or else the cuteness of Elaine.

Seinfeld succeeds because everyone secretly identifies with George.

"everyone"

i dont identify with him as much as want to be him

everything else about seinfeld>>>>>>>cuteness of elaine

and I will admit, elaine is damn cute

this might be another case of british vs. american tastes in humor.

the top rated british sitcoms of all time feature men in frilly shirts with stupid accents going all king george this, and fish and chips that. of curse they wouldn't get seinfeld

Two nations divided by uncommon sitcoms?

the british seinfeld:

this was supposed to be the summer of george

Post-Arrested Development/It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia this show doesn't really grab me by the booboo like it once did.

One feels compelled to note the outstanding solo careers of all the principal actors after leaving this show. Bee Movie, anyone?

in britain its the summer of king george

I, II, or III?

whatever one we took ourselves from you guys from

From us Oregonians?? Or were you thinking something else?

Oh, I thought you were British. Who cares about you then

My mother, sweet old lady that she is.

Jesus, or so I heard.

Everyone I owe money to.

The makers of laxatives.

hayy burt i was thinking slash hoping maybe you could talk about how claxxxic nyc shows like seinfeld have influenced today's metro area hipter youth and what girls who wear mid-90s blazers to shows are like. other topics for your consideration: how much realer seinfeld is than friends, anti-semitism in america

i think this show is classic btw

so many people so wrong on this thread

Almost every britisher I know who has seen this show loves it. The problem is a lot of them haven't seen it. It was shunted around the schedules, usually late on BBC2. If it had a C4 8pm friday slot (or something) we wouldn't even be having this debate.

there's an awful lot of shouting in the earlier seasons isn't there.

shouting and silence

seinfeld at its peak: classic

last two seasons: terrible