Seinfeld: Classic or Dud

Yeah, they've been killing it all month.

I like these but one of them is a direct lift from a Star Trek: deep space nine episode I'm sure of it.

the jerry arc there is from a krzhizhonovsky story

I am familiar with the works of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.

reminded me of "House of Leaves"

George stares into the abyss, but the abyss shows no interest back.

that's from nietzsche

ugh this is even cornier than 'future seinfeld,' what is the compulsion to use an actual comedy classic as fodder for chin-scratching internet humor

this here is one of my favourite piece of 'internet humour':

Seinfeld Current Day ‏@Seinfeld2000
Newmen comit suicide

lol

wait what's chin scratching about it -- it's pretty faithful to the Seinfeld template and free of deliberate misspellings.

http://i.imgur.com/JPKPyqr.gif

George and Jerry's 'Comedians In Cars' reunion special http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/george-costanza-the-over-cheer

This was not funny at all.

I've been enjoying Comedians in Cars, though. Not the Tina Fey one as much as the others, but I'm a regular viewer. And i was ina Starbucks next to a guy watching it on his laptop, which makes me think it's taking off.

so wait is 'Goerge Costanza' in character in this episode of Comedians in Cars?

i'll never know!

xp I think the concept is that it starts out as the actors but kind of time-warps into the characters when they enter the restaurant. Man I fucking hate Jerry Seinfeld.

painful

the seinfeld reunion season of curb is so great, larry and jerry really were so great together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o5m_mXadoU

A joke about shitting in your host's house at a party... just off yourself you hack.

Just watched it--yeah, that didn't work at all.

not the wallersteins

yeah man that totally sucked. and one thing about the series is the retro car porn is sort of pathetic in the context, he is so boring now yet senselessly rich. it's sad to see how little enjoyment he gets out of life

i think he enjoyed the pacer

The thing about its marketing was pretty funny

yes they're in character to answer the question. the latest (3rd) series of CICGC has been less funny this time around imo; the earlier Brian Regan,
Alec Baldwin and Carl Reiner ones were side splitting. it's pretty popular now though it seems
http://www.thewrap.com/comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee-jerry-seinfeld-crack-25-million-streams

I think the concept is that it starts out as the actors but kind of time-warps into the characters when they enter the restaurant.

He's dressed as George Costanza in the car, making George-style "uh-huh. uh--huh."s in the car, is rugless throughout, and captioned and introduced as 'George Costanza.'

yeah i picked up a couple of those subtle clues

i didn't realize JA was known for wearing a little hair hat now

he is so boring now yet senselessly rich. it's sad to see how little enjoyment he gets out of life

I like it in the Todd Barry one where he's shocked when Todd tells him he carries his laundry down the street in a big dirty clothes bag. There's a weird pause and Jerry kind of meekly says "I mean... I used to do that."

i think for a billionaire (or whatever) that JS comes across as relatively easy going and fun loving in the Comedians In Cars.. stuff. as much as anyone with a shedload of cash i mean.

I didn't think it was very funny but I wasn't offended....

Watching the series from scratch. Great line in S1E1, he says, what do men want? They what women! It's the only thing we're completely sure of.

Otm

http://boingboing.net/2015/03/23/watch-indian-comedians-nail-s.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAiUkXjD6A8

watched an ep of this show for the first time in at least 10 years

it was the one where jerry & George make a pact to be grown ups & then George goes and proposes to susan and jerry breaks up w his gf cuz she eats peas one at a time

holds up, still funny

o and as the credits role George is in bed w/ susan totally stone faced w/ the mad abt u opening theme playing from their tv lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ibSvOWAMg

watching the early episodes on hulu now. they feel so quiet and leisurely compared to the later stuff. not a bad thing -- almost feels kind of like you're watching a play sometimes. george also nowhere close to his later maniacal self.

This show is chicken soup for my soul.

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/

Watched a half dozen or so Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for the first time yesterday. Not bad. The Seinfeld reunion ones were nice. Michael Richards ep nostalgic/sad you can tell his big gaffe shook him up and he'll probably never be the same. Wonder if Seinfeld deliberately chose the shittiest rusty looking car he could for that one. Julia Louis-Dreyfus was really nice and that one felt more like old best friends hanging out, really sweet. The ep with "George Costanza" was really weird cos Jason Alexander was wearing some bad bad bad makeup.

The Mel Brooks one was great, he's probably the funniest guest on the whole show. Larry David was good, Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, Louis C.K., all great.

Seinfeld's kind of a tool but that's just who he is and he's kind of funny when he acts that way anyways. Much like Curb and Seinfeld this show is in many ways about rich people being obnoxious in public. Which is fine because I think they are funny.

I don't know, I really enjoy the good episodes (loved the Joel Hodgson one), but sometimes I cant get over the combination of sensory-porn-for-rich-old-people (super close ups and sounds of the nice cars, coffee being brewed, other episode specific food or things similarly filmed) and the talking to each other like everything they say is some genius anecdote merely because of who's saying it (usually met with a confirmatory "that's great" spoken as if they just experienced wit and insight nobody else could have conjured).

I suspect the "Tim and Gelman" sketches were inspired to parody that show while at the same exact time create delusional hacky comedian characters that think they are as good as a Seinfeld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80G38bxPeyI

caught the last 5 minutes of the backwards episode "the betrayal" last night and for some reason id never seen it! i can literally recite most Seinfeld episodes, had a torrent of the complete series on my computer from my late teens to late twenties that I watched like crazy, have watched it regularly in syndication for a decade, and most notably i said to my wife like a week ago "i wish somehow there were some Seinfeld episodes i hadn't seen because ive seen them all too many times". my mind is blown.

that is actually the first episode I ever saw of the show in full. and I've never seen it since.

first episode i saw was the sponge, i was 11 or 12, the idea that there was a prophylactic other than a condom and that it was a sponge confused me no end

I have already mentioned my confusion at the sponge upthread lol

^ I figured you were doing a reference to the call-back they did in the last episode, with the shirt buttons.

Betrayal is the worst post-season 1 episode imo. frogbs you picked the least funny and most confusing episode.

i highly recommend checking out The Opposite if you ever want to give it another chance.

hah - meant to say I've never seen that episode since. just weird to me that the first episode I saw was arguably the strangest, then when I actually got into the show I never saw it again.