Seinfeld: Classic or Dud

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

I prefer Curb Your Enthusiasm because it has cursing and no annoying laughtrack. Man I fucking hate laughtrack. But Seinfeld was pretty damn classic, yes.

Last two seasons were terrible. Larry David picking up the prostitute just so he can drive in the carpool lane was funnier than every episode of the last two seasons of Seinfeld put together.

wasn't seinfeld taped in front of an actual audience, hence actual laughter (as opposed to a 'laugh track', '60s sitcom style)?

That's weird, I just had a conversation earlier tonight about whether or not Seinfeld was taped in front of an audience.

i was playing the Seinfeld trivia game tonight.

was there a question about whether or not seinfeld was taped in front of an audience?

that one didn't come up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac

Dud.

xpost. Heavy, heavy lols.

also kind of weird, I watched an episode of Family Guy on Saturday night where Patrick Stewart mentions the McDLT and it was the first time I'd ever heard of it. Now this is the second time I ever heard of it. The idea is quite puzzling to me. I've never had a big mac and thought, "shit, I wish the vegetables on this were cooler". I've thought "shit I wish the meat on this was more edible" but that's about it.

congratulations, you have debunked a long-defunct hamburger idea from the 1980s.

:*-(

We didn't have them in Britain and even if we did I'm too young. Not trying to set McDonalds to rights retroactively from 20 years in the future. Just found it a bit quizzical is all.

they don't ever drink on seinfeld

they eat instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4QGAtrCk8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgXAt_gstcs

Seinfeld is kind of Cheers in a diner (and an apartment) so yeah not as much drinking. i'm sure if they actually followed Jerry's life as a comedian outside of occasional stand-up segments more than a handful of times that wouldn't have been the case.

schnapps is the key to elaine's or jerry's lockbox tho

good call

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DSkCKxKAtCQs

forgot about kramer

forgot about kray