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emjay2kay

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You can buy seasons 1-3 in a boxset, which is where I started. Season 1 is only 5 episodes long, and Season 2 about 13, and from then on they're all 23 long or something like that.

Personally, I think it's funny from the get go. Episode 1 being all about signals, the hand sandwich. Great stuff. Straight in at pretty much "classic" Seinfeld for me.

Then you've got Male un-bonding, The Stock Tip and The Stake-out. I forget the other episode from Season 1. They are episodes that you might pick out of any other season to point to, but no, that's just the whole season. It's great.

I think Seinfeld was at its peak during Seasons 1-5. I know Jason Alexander didn't like the direction the show took from Seasoon 5ish onwards. It's definitely different, and I can see why some wouldn't like it. I still think they're great (Not seen Season 9 yet - Christmas is but 9 days away though!) but yeah, 1-5 are my favourite.

The only season that sometimes leaves me cold is Season 6, and that's just because of the somewhat abrupt end you get to some of the episodes. I don't know, it just sort of ends, and I go "Oh.. I didn't expect it to end there. Ho hum." Will have been a great episode, but its ending just throws me. Like the one where Jerry and Kramer are on the bus going somewhere. (Think it's from The Mom and Pop Store) and it just ends. I was like, "Aren't they going to get to Mom and Pops?"

Only thing I've ever disliked about Seinfeld.

Apart from Elaine sometimes. But only sometimes.

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Will have been a great episode, but its ending just throws me. Like the one where Jerry and Kramer are on the bus going somewhere. (Think it's from The Mom and Pop Store) and it just ends. I was like, "Aren't they going to get to Mom and Pops?"

Only thing I've ever disliked about Seinfeld.

Was that the bit from Midnight Cowboy? I liked that ending.

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"I told her I had a bus transfer that was only valid for the next hour"

:wub:

Went through the first two discs of season 9 yesterday. Yes, it's a lot more overtly ridiculous than most of the stuff before, and it's clear it should have ended when it did, but some of these episodes are my favourites. I've seen these so many times on tapes I've had from the Paramount Comedy Channel for years, but I still enjoy them and the odd line like that one above still catch me unawares and crack me up.

See also the one where Kramer installs a garbage disposal in his shower and takes some food round to Elaine's to have with some germophobes - 'I prepared this as I bathed'. Great stuff.

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The first two series are pretty terrible, to be honest; I love Seinfeld, and I find them pretty hard to watch, just because they seem like a pretty bog-standard sitcom, as opposed to the work of genius it became in around series 4. I'd recommend starting with series 3 – the first episode I saw (and liked) was 'The Limo', which is one of the best episodes ever.

I actually prefer the later episodes of Seinfeld – the mad surreal stuff is among the funniest bits, like the episode where George blags his way into a nightclub for beautiful people, or the one where Elaine ends up driving a van with a sewing machine stuck under the wheels while Kramer's painting the highway with flammable materials or something.

The best episode is obviously 'The Opposite', though.

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or the one where Elaine ends up driving a van with a sewing machine stuck under the wheels while Kramer's painting the highway with flammable materials or something.

I think you will find that it was Newman was driving his mail van [/comic book guy]

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What season was the backwards episode in? The one that starts at a wedding in India then each scene that follows precedes it chronologically? (If that makes sense) Love that ep.

The Betrayal in Season 9.

Can you imagine something like My Family even trying anything as audacious as that?

I love this exchange between Kramer and Mickey in The Stand-In from Season 5.

[setting: ABC Studios set]

KRAMER & MICKEY: Rock, paper, scissors match.

MICKEY: all right, rock beats paper.

(Mickey smacks Kramer on the hand for losing)

KRAMER: I thought paper covered rock?

MICKEY: Nah, rock flies right through paper.

KRAMER: What beats rock?

MICKEY: (looks at his hand) Nothing beats rock.

KRAMER: all right come on.

KRAMER & MICKEY: Rock, paper, scissors match.

KRAMER: Rock.

MICKEY: Rock

KRAMER & MICKEY: Rock, paper, scissors match.

KRAMER: Rock.

MICKEY: Rock.

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Speaking of Mickey episodes, I just watched the one where he's acting out disease with Kramer for medical students.

Kramer enters.

Kramer: Well, I got gonorrhea.

Elaine: That seems about right.

Kramer: That's what they gave me.

George: They? The Government?

Great episode. George ranting about musicians and their 'complicated shoes', Kramer uses the word 'haberdasher' for the only time in sitcom history, and we discover Puddy is religious. Why did Elaine take him back? She needed to move a bureau :D

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Couch Corpse

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The first two series are pretty terrible, to be honest; I love Seinfeld, and I find them pretty hard to watch, just because they seem like a pretty bog-standard sitcom, as opposed to the work of genius it became in around series 4. I'd recommend starting with series 3

Ah what, some of the best stuff is from 1 and 2, it may be more bog-standard sitcom in structure but the naturally funny dialog shines, plus we get to see the birth of the characters and the events that help pervert them.

The birth of the make your own pie pizza shop.

"The Revenge" is pure gold, Jerry discussing George's future prospects.

"The Deal" is probably my personal favourite episode.

And the final 3 episodes of Season 2 are classics, The Chinese Restaurant is ridicurously good.

There's also Lawerence Tierney in The Jacket

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"Can't we just say we're frightened and have to leave?"

The best episode is obviously 'The Opposite', though.

You're probably right here though.

"You know who used to love Paris? My dead fianceé."

:D

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emjay2kay

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Was that the bit from Midnight Cowboy? I liked that ending.
I suppose if you didn't get the reference it would have thrown you. I must be a real fanyboy as I pretty much loved every single episode.

Ah. Showing my ignorance there.

The first two series are pretty terrible, to be honest; I love Seinfeld, and I find them pretty hard to watch, just because they seem like a pretty bog-standard sitcom, as opposed to the work of genius it became in around series 4. I'd recommend starting with series 3 – the first episode I saw (and liked) was 'The Limo', which is one of the best episodes ever.

The best episode is obviously 'The Opposite', though.

The Limo is amazing. George's complete ignorance about who O'Brien is, before he suddenly realises when he reads "his" speech, and then his settling in to the role, "Ahem... who here is the leader of the Arian Union, me or you?""

I think The Opposite must be in everyone's Top Five Episodes or something. It truly is brilliant. "Hi, I'm George. I'm unemployed and I live with my parents."

I'm going to have to rewatch the whole series or something and come up with my own top five I think. I've always loved The Boyfriend, with it's weird male courtship stuff and JFK parody, so that would possibly be in there.

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This line makes me laugh just thinking about it. From "The Strike".

FRANK: Kramer, I got your message. I haven't celebrated Festivus in years! What is your interest?

KRAMER: Well, just tell me everything, huh?

FRANK: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reach for the last one they had - but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way!

KRAMER: What happened to the doll?

FRANK: It was destroyed. But out of that, a new holiday was born. "A Festivus for the rest of us!"

KRAMER: That musta been some kind of doll.

FRANK: She was.

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Couch Corpse

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It's Risk, it's a game of world domination being played by two guys

who can barely run their own lives.

George: Jerry, let's face it, I've always been handicapped. I'm just now

getting the recognition for it. Name one thing I have that puts me in a

position of advantage. Huh? There was a guy that worked at the Yankees-- no

arms! He got more work done than I did, made more money, had a wife, a family,

drove a better car than I did.

Jerry: He drove a car with no arms?

George: Alright I made up the part about the car, but the rest is true. He

hated me anyway!

Jerry: Do you know how hard it's getting just to tell people I know you?

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From the Butter Shave:

Kramer: "I'm fried."

Jerry: "Technically, you're sauteed. So what are you doing for that?"

Kramer: "I just gotta keep my skin moist so I don't dry out."

Jerry: "Is that what the doctor said?"

Kramer: "I read an article in Bon Apetit Magazine."

The best sitcom ever, no question.

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emjay2kay

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I was just flicking through an episode list on Wikipedia and this made me laugh.

From The Ex-Girlfriend

Marlene: I guess it all started for me on Tuesday night.

Jerry: Tuesday night? What happened Tuesday night.

Marlene: I saw your act.

Jerry: (confused) My act? What does that have to do with anything?

Marlene: Well, to be honest, it just didn't make it for me. It's just so much fluff.

Jerry: So what are you saying? You didn't like my act. So that's it?

Marlene: I can't be with someone if I don't respect what they do.

Jerry: You're a cashier!

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