Whats your favourite Seinfeld episode/moment?
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Kenny Vermouth
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You're right and I'm no big fan of American sitcoms.stavros said:
Friends makes me laugh sometimes, but only Joey and Chandler.
Will and Grace, Becker, Frasier - all that lot barely raise a smirk.
For me Seinfeld beats Curb, but only because I laugh out loud at it more.
I've just bought season five of Curb and the episode where Larry leaves his friend's wedding anniversary because he needs to go home for a shit is genius.
Kenny Vermouth
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Oh yeah there's that brilliant one where someone does a painting of him.Johnny Canuck2 said:
"We'll buy The Kramer"
I saw the one last week where he gets out of jury duty by saying he's a racist and then gets to the baseball game quicker by picking up a black prostitute to use the car pool lane. I think the best one is still the Beloved Aunt though. You just know that only HBO would allow that to be produced.
wtf?The Groke said:
Fair enough if people dont like Seinfeld but rate it better than Curb. blatantly wrong on every level.
Curb= reasonably funny, unbelievably formulaic, tiresome
Seinfeld= hilarious, beautifully woven tapestry of every type of comedy, masterpiece
Johnny Canuck3
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Kenny Vermouth said:
This is the sign of a serious problem.
Out of all the US sitcoms, this one makes you laugh?
Johnny Canuck3
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Kenny Vermouth said:
Oh: you like Seinfeld.
That's ok, then.
Kenny Vermouth
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Sometimes, I have to admit...I cannot lie.Johnny Canuck2 said:
obviously, but not to the level of Curb which you can predict down to the minutest detail after watching a few. Seinfeld maybe be formulaic but at least the formula gets varied and different types of comedy are thrown in at different times to keep it interesting e.g; the character/visual comedy of Newman popping up unexpectedly.
Kenny Vermouth
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I wouldn't say it is at all. There are themes, but the episodes seem really varied.Skim said:I'd say Seinfeld is pretty formulaic too
JoePolitix
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I wouldn't be so bold as to pick favourates as there are so many class moments across Seinfeilds over 100 episodes but...
One of my favourate scenes is the "chase scene" where George is being persued on his electronic buggy by a bunch of stick waving OAPs on buggies, complete with chase scene music. The camera angle pans out and we see people causally walking by whilst George accelerates for his life!
For me this is brilliant because it takes the male trait of being macho with fast cars and puts it in a context which makes it look utterly redicarious.
One of my favourate episodes is "the slicer" because the plot is so intricate and its got the great scene where Jerry has the "revenge date" with his dermetologist girlfriend and calls her pimple popper MD
One of my favourate scenes is the "chase scene" where George is being persued on his electronic buggy by a bunch of stick waving OAPs on buggies, complete with chase scene music. The camera angle pans out and we see people causally walking by whilst George accelerates for his life!
For me this is brilliant because it takes the male trait of being macho with fast cars and puts it in a context which makes it look utterly redicarious.
One of my favourate episodes is "the slicer" because the plot is so intricate and its got the great scene where Jerry has the "revenge date" with his dermetologist girlfriend and calls her pimple popper MD
I would say both Seinfeld and CYE are heavily influenced by British comedy, in that George and so Larry have shades of Fawlty, Patridge and Father Ted in them, stuck in situations they're wholy unsuited to. And Kramer has more than a shot of Python in him.
I'm frankly stunned that anyone thinks Friends is anything other than definitively shite on every level, especially on the normally otherwise intelligent environment of U75.
I'm frankly stunned that anyone thinks Friends is anything other than definitively shite on every level, especially on the normally otherwise intelligent environment of U75.
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was seinfeld ever on normal telly in Britain?
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And you know what? They didn't miss a damn thing. Not funny.
Skim
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Red Horse said:
True, but I guess I always think of Seinfeld as a very formulaic sitcom in that it's filmed in front of a studio audience and goes for quite a tried and tested writing style – the gags have a traditional set-up and structure. There is no meandering, the gags are set up and delivered at a cracking pace.
Curb can be quite predicatable in some ways – like you always know they'll play a certain piece of music at a particular point in the episode – but when I first started getting into it, that was partly because it broke with old sitcom formulas, ie based around a studio audience and written in a tight, structured style where all the plot strands are tied up neatly by the end of the episode. You don't get that so much with Curb, it goes off at a tangent more and isn't so neatly packaged as Seinfield. It's less about that traditional idea of quickfire gags, which Seinfeld excels at.
Kenny Vermouth
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That's an intersesting observations and it reminds me of something.stavros said:
I was watching one of the NBC execs talking about the episode where Jerry, Elaine and George spend the whole time waiting for a restaurant table. The exec said NBC had serious doubts about the show because nothing had happened.
But if you go back to Tony Hancock there are loads of hilarious shows where nothing happens like when he, Sid and Bill spend all night waiting for a bus or sitting around at home on Sunday because there's nothing to do.
dilute micro
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Mine has to be when George is trying to get fired from the Yankees. He gets a World Series trophy and grags it around with his car in the parking lot honking the horn. Steinbrenner thinks it's great.
Not what I said; I said very clearly that it was what I thought, not cold hard fact. Even if you think it's any good you must surely agree that 47 repeated episodes in a week, as witnessed a couple of weeks ago, is a little too much.
Kenny, agreed, if you think about Blackadder Goes Forth, very little happens outside of their trench and it's still an all time classic.
I sadly never got to see Larry Sanders before BBC2 pulled it, but from what I hear I'd like it.
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