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39 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

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Oh man.  I think 5 is the obvious choice.  I can talk to Frank about Jay Buhner and Hideki Irabu, and then turn around for pearls of widsom from J Peterman and talk to Jackie Chiles about his public humiliations?  Would be entertaining as hell.

3 is my backup.  Talk to Klompus about the pen and also Bookman and George.

Least favorite would be Crazy Joe Davola.

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12 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Oh man.  I think 5 is the obvious choice.  I can talk to Frank about Jay Buhner and Hideki Irabu, and then turn around for pearls of widsom from J Peterman and talk to Jackie Chiles about his public humiliations?  Would be entertaining as hell.

3 is my backup.  Talk to Klompus about the pen and also Bookman and George.

Least favorite would be Crazy Joe Davola.

I'm going #5 too... I think Jerry would run interference and Frank is hilarious.

I think #1 would be the absolute worst, followed closely by #7... I don't want to become the next vegetable lasagna. 

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I love the little detail that Vegetable Lasagna guy has this crap accent for every line and tries to go big with almost all of them.  But then when Elaine calls him an idiot, he deadpans in his natural, deep voice, "I can hear you."  

Those little ticks are what make Seinfeld so wonderful.  And by the way, that's my Apple Juice.  

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This.  I would bet all my rep from this thread and all my Seinfeld DVD's that the writer's room tried to figure out a way to have a scene with Klompus and Frank Costanza (when he was visiting Del Boca Vista), but they figured it was impossible to have those two guys in the same room with nobody breaking.  

Another thing that goes overlooked on Seinfeld is Jerry and Larry took great care to bring on standup comic friends of theirs to play one-off roles.  And the chemistry showed quite clear.  But they also paid homage to the Catskill/Borsch Belt days that grew up admiring.  Klompus, or Sandy Baron was a great example of that.  He wasn't just a crazy Cadillac driving, pen hoarding, cigar smoking asshole.  Baron was an improv troupe player, broadway star, played the part of Lenny Bruce, frequent comedic guest on the Merv Griffin show, and often opened for Frank Sinatra and Neil Diamond when they were on tour.  A lot of the 'old timers' (spoiler alert, Jack was only 56 when he first appears on Seinfeld, not much older than most of us), were comedic actors that Jerry and Larry and Alec Berg looked up to as kids.  While we see many of Jerry's standup contemporaries on the show, we forget how we also get to see them play out their childhood dreams of working with old-school comedic greats.  Another layer to the show we are lucky to have witnessed.  

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This almost slipped to page 3. What are we doing here?

Im in the Vegas airport and thinking about all the episodes that took place at least partially in an airport or airplanes. 
 

Obviously the airport pick up episode.

Betting on arrivals and departures.
Elaine and Puddy and Vegetable Lasagna.

30,000 feet above your head you bastard!

Farfel

 

Any others?

 

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This almost slipped to page 3. What are we doing here?
Im in the Vegas airport and thinking about all the episodes that took place at least partially in an airport or airplanes. 
 
Obviously the airport pick up episode.
Betting on arrivals and departures.
Elaine and Puddy and Vegetable Lasagna.
30,000 few above your head you bastard!
Farfel
 
Any others?
 

First class vs coach. More everything!
The Pilot freaking Jerry out.
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Just now, HornOnTheBayou said:

It didn't take place at an airport, but it is relevant:

"Next thing you know, you'll be driving him to the airport."
"I'm not driving him to the airport!"

Man, the convertible sofa is where I just lose it. The nerve!

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I like to stop at the Duty Free Shop

I like to stop at the Duty Free Shop 

 

I pride myself, like most of you, for even in my teens and twenties when I got hooked on the show---for getting almost all the references.  But I didn't for so many years what the hell George meant when he was on the plane with the crazy prisoner, "But y'are Blanche.  Y'are in those shackles."  Spoiler alert-don't watch the source movie with your children.  

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On 7/12/2024 at 10:47 AM, Biff Tannen said:

This almost slipped to page 3. What are we doing here?

Im in the Vegas airport and thinking about all the episodes that took place at least partially in an airport or airplanes. 
 

Obviously the airport pick up episode.

Betting on arrivals and departures.
Elaine and Puddy and Vegetable Lasagna.

30,000 feet above your head you bastard!

Farfel

 

Any others?

 

Murphy and O'Brien

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On 7/12/2024 at 12:47 PM, Biff Tannen said:

This almost slipped to page 3. What are we doing here?

Im in the Vegas airport and thinking about all the episodes that took place at least partially in an airport or airplanes. 
 

Obviously the airport pick up episode.

Betting on arrivals and departures.
Elaine and Puddy and Vegetable Lasagna.

30,000 feet above your head you bastard!

Farfel

 

Any others?

 

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I never knew I could drive like that.

 

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Good callback.  That's a very underrated episode IMO, as multiple Season 2 episodes are wont to do.  

Start at the two minute mark.  It's one of Elaine's best physical comedy scenes of the whole series.  Then when she gets to Jerry's.....she delivers a dramatically dry, almost unhinged monologue without cracking.

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I never knew I could drive like that.

 

I thought about this one, but it’s on the fringe, as there is no airport scene, just the mention of going to the airport. But I’ll let it slide. 

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Yeah, I think we're getting into 'airport-adjacent' episodes.  

I'd switch over to boats, but the only 'actual' boat scene is Russell from NBC for Greenpeace.  There's lots of 'boat-adjacent' episodes, shining from which is "The Andria Doria" 

Trains are plentiful with all the subway scenes.  

How about Busses?  

-Kramer Reality Tour 

-Can't remember the episode plot, but Kramer puts his head on Jerry's shoulder in the back row like in "The Graduate" (IIRC) 

-and obviously, 'Batman the Bus Driver' 

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Besides how the existence of cell phones and the internet would have resolved most of these episodes within 5 minutes I'm amazed by...

The continual handing off of the expensive Poppy pee couch when washing the cushion cover or, if necessary, getting a new cushion and cover would have probably sufficed. I think Jerry could afford it or at least point out to Poppy that he'd just peed on the couch and demand reimbursement. Hell if Poppy was one of the plane seating options most passengers would choose to parachute.

Also a red dot on a cashmere sweater can be cured with just a little dab of white paint

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Ok, watching The Pilot and there's all sorts of wild stuff happening here that I've never really digested.

 

1. Kramer (known as Kessler at this point) apparently has a dog that shoots into the scene for a couple of seconds.  He also has apparently "never been out of the building in 10 years".

2. Jerry has a dart board right by the front door and a catcher's mask hanging on his coat rack.

3. George talks about how he wishes he could do the opposite of everything (which became one of the greatest episodes ever, years later)

4. The whole first half of the episode takes place outside of the apartment, which we would come to know and love.

5. Another airport scene (meeting the woman who flew in to meet him - Laura - good trivia), going back to my question from upthread about airport scenes.

6. Very presumptuous of her to tell her fiancee Jerry's home number (the phone number of a host who she has never stayed with and her fiancee has never met), but maybe that was just life before cell phones.

 

And then it just ends.  That's the joke at the end.  "Never get engaged".  Ok.  Not sure I'm going to watch this show again.

 

 

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