if you had told me twenty-five years ago that some day I'd be standing here about to solve the world's energy problems, I would've said you're crazy...
Now let's push this giant ball of oil out the window.
Frank: What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for?!? He had 30 home runs, and over 100 RBIs last year. He’s got a rocket for an arm. You don’t know what the hell you’re doin’!
Steinbrenner: Well, Buhner was a good prospect, no question about it. But my baseball people loved Ken Phelps’ bat. They kept saying “Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps.”
a show I still watch all the time even though I, like many of us, know virtually by heart every second of every episode.
Small (annoying) sidenote: the show is often sped up by TBS and the like to fit in more commercials. Additionally, WPIX will insert commercial banners during the show in the bottom 3rd of the screen. Annoying.
I love the early episodes, which now decidedly have that "retro" feel, like you're watching Cheers. The scenes are so much longer than the later episodes, which cut around almost manically at 10 seconds per scene.
The middle chunk (~4-6) of Seinfeld is, alongside golden years Simpsons and 1-3 of Breaking Bad, the best TV ever made. The are just absolutely crushing it.
It starts to jump the shark after that a little bit, starting with "The Doll" which is near unwatchable, when caricatures really set in, but it's still highly entertaining with tremendous writing. The Slicer, The Betrayal (backwards India episode), The Blood, and obviously Soup Nazi some stronger later episodes.
Always thought "The Finale" got too much criticism. It was serviceable at the absolute very worst. The last exchange: a callback to the OG button conversation was clever.
Jason Alexander nailed that character more than any other actor in sitcom history. There is zero feeling of "this guy is acting right now" while watching him. A brilliant portrayal. Although he's not my favorite character on the show (that would be Newman).
Unlike many, many Seinfeld fanatics, I am not a Curb fan. It feels so forced to me. LD is reliably funny, but so much of the acting & scenarios are contrived and unfunny. In part a result of the half-improv nature of the show.
It's great to see how Seinfeld has influenced other shows. "It's Always Sunny", e.g. clearly adopted Seinfeld's group of selfish, hedonistic assholes pursuing their highjinks. Though Seinfeld is and will always be one of a kind.
Even 20 years after it ended I find myself seeing things in everyday life that remind me of scenes from this show.
20 years later? I lived on the UWS from 1973-1978/9, and for a while of that a scant half block from "Tom's Diner" that was the featured restaurant with the red booths wherein many scenes took place. (The neon sign and the partial shot of the outside of the diner on Broadway at 107th or so was on location footage.)
Far more than any other sitcom ever made, Seinfeld had scenes one could absolutely see happening in real life, in the early and middle years. Later as noted it grew far more contrived and stero-typecast and lost much of it's edge and ring of truth.
But you know me...I thought I did! - ( New Window )
Should read Dolores...
Glamour?
Now let's push this giant ball of oil out the window.
Steinbrenner: Well, Buhner was a good prospect, no question about it. But my baseball people loved Ken Phelps’ bat. They kept saying “Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps.”
"P.S. Loved the cabin."
"Frank if Aunt Baby were alive today, how old would she be?"
"She'd never make it."
Small (annoying) sidenote: the show is often sped up by TBS and the like to fit in more commercials. Additionally, WPIX will insert commercial banners during the show in the bottom 3rd of the screen. Annoying.
I love the early episodes, which now decidedly have that "retro" feel, like you're watching Cheers. The scenes are so much longer than the later episodes, which cut around almost manically at 10 seconds per scene.
The middle chunk (~4-6) of Seinfeld is, alongside golden years Simpsons and 1-3 of Breaking Bad, the best TV ever made. The are just absolutely crushing it.
It starts to jump the shark after that a little bit, starting with "The Doll" which is near unwatchable, when caricatures really set in, but it's still highly entertaining with tremendous writing. The Slicer, The Betrayal (backwards India episode), The Blood, and obviously Soup Nazi some stronger later episodes.
Always thought "The Finale" got too much criticism. It was serviceable at the absolute very worst. The last exchange: a callback to the OG button conversation was clever.
Jason Alexander nailed that character more than any other actor in sitcom history. There is zero feeling of "this guy is acting right now" while watching him. A brilliant portrayal. Although he's not my favorite character on the show (that would be Newman).
Unlike many, many Seinfeld fanatics, I am not a Curb fan. It feels so forced to me. LD is reliably funny, but so much of the acting & scenarios are contrived and unfunny. In part a result of the half-improv nature of the show.
It's great to see how Seinfeld has influenced other shows. "It's Always Sunny", e.g. clearly adopted Seinfeld's group of selfish, hedonistic assholes pursuing their highjinks. Though Seinfeld is and will always be one of a kind.
"You can drop a grand in Disney World like THAT."
Look George, it's a Pieeeerree Cardin!"
"They don't want us there, so we're going."
I could go on and on...
George: Moops!!
Yeah? Well I had sex with your wife!
George, his wife is in a coma...
Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
Link - ( New Window )
-They DO have their own schools!!
...That's beautiful -George
Incredible
And this offends you as a Jewish person? -Priest
No, it offends me as a comedian!
20 years later? I lived on the UWS from 1973-1978/9, and for a while of that a scant half block from "Tom's Diner" that was the featured restaurant with the red booths wherein many scenes took place. (The neon sign and the partial shot of the outside of the diner on Broadway at 107th or so was on location footage.)
Far more than any other sitcom ever made, Seinfeld had scenes one could absolutely see happening in real life, in the early and middle years. Later as noted it grew far more contrived and stero-typecast and lost much of it's edge and ring of truth.
No, that's the Netherlands.
-Holland IS the Netherlands.
Then who are the Dutch???