Seinfeld: Classic or Dud

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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xi4O1yi6b0

I think my particular favourite episode would have to be the Merv Griffin show,

Just watched this episode the other day, I couldn't breath with laughing. Seriously one of the all time best ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxhs-O_9BLc

who's dancin?

huh?

you want me to get it started? alright, i'll get it started

also in that one they get a woman drunk to play with her toys

xp

JERRY: I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense!.. am I wrong?

I might be one of those people who references Seinfeld way too often.

would anyone be interested in polling the seinfeld seasons? like, each season for best episode? or would it make ile too much like ilm?

i would participate in these threads with joy tbh. give me an excuse to re-watch eps i don't remember. i love seinfeld so much.

i would enjoy this v much too but i don't want to turn into clog ile after complaining about ilm being clogged!

"I'm down baby! Put me down!"

Do it Jordan! :)

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big salad episode is my favorite episode of all time

imagine that... her taking credit for your big salad

- big salad
- kramer & steven dennison & the murder of the drycleaner
- newman dumped the girl that jerry is dating
- elaine being stalked by the mechanical pencil guy

Anybody know what kind of computer Seinfeld has in the episode where Lloyd and George are competing to sell uh... computers out of the garage? When kramer makes a front porch in the hall. It was strange looking and I'm very curious.

ah the you mean the computer that looks like a flat folding tablet screen with a strange large empty area underneath the screen. erm i dunno

was it this?

http://www.marialanger.com/wp-content/images/macosvqs/TAM.jpg

- newman dumped the girl that jerry is dating

elaine: maybe there's more to newman than meets the eye?
jerry: no -- there's less