do you ever yearn?

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

14 hours ago, Lobo said:

I saw another infograph, whatever we're calling them.  It was yet another reminder that Jerry never said, "What's the deal with..." during the show.  Either in the scripted scenes or in the opening standup bits.  But I swear when George is contemplating whether or not to go play Frolf...Jerry pops up in a bubble over his shoulder and says something like, "And what's the deal with...(can't remember the noun he says."  Am I remembering that right?  

He says it in The Butter Shave too when he's "throwing the set" for Bannia. 

Quote

 

Jerry is on stage at the comedy club, Kramer is in the audience.

Jerry: What's the deal with lampshades? I mean if it's a lamp, why do you want

shade?

Kramer laughs hysterically, he's the only one.

Jerry: And what's with people getting sick?

Newman: Hee hee! Yeah yeah!

Jerry: I mean, what's the deal with cancer?

Man in audience: I have cancer!

Kramer: Oh, tough crowd.

 

 

[futureman 22340]

laughter is the best medicine. 

[Biff Tannen 44976]

3 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

He says it in The Butter Shave too when he's "throwing the set" for Bannia. 

 

So clearly the author of that infograph thing was not a fan.

[Guest Lobo]

It pops up every few years whenever there's news about Seinfeld (show, or Jerry, or Netflix).  It tried to pin the whole cliched expression to that "Standup and Win" sketch he did on SNL 30 years ago.  But I knew he said it a few times on the show, if even ironically.  

It also reminded me that after every single time we've seen Jerry's standup, he always does the same thing.  Comes out for an "encore" to take questions from the audience. And it doesn't really matter who shouts what, he always answers the same 3 or 4 and then does the Newman thing to close.  one time though, at least in Austin, he pretended to be asked about his favorite quote from the show.  Everyone wants him to do one of the classic seinfeld-isms.  But he said he loves all his episodes equally, like his children.  But that for years, he did use one line around the house all the time when his kids were picky eaters.  "If you're one of us...you'll take a bite."  It was such a throw-away line in that new suit episode for George.  But that it resonated with Jerry decades later made me smile.  I use it with my kids today (both of whom suck at eating).  /csb

"I don't think more flan is the answer!" 

[futureman 22340]

all right, I’m… asian. just to mess with them. 

[Biff Tannen 44976]

2 minutes ago, futureman said:

all right, I’m… asian. just to mess with them. 

Yo yo!  Keep it down!

[Guest Lobo]

Do these masks have any cultural significance?  

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

21 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

So clearly the author of that infograph thing was not a fan.

I'll bet he hates rainbow suspenders. 

[futureman 22340]

my family used to live there, but, uh, we got out years ago, for obvious reasons.  you know how it is.

Edited October 20, 2021 by futureman

[Guest Lobo]

They drove us outta Bayside!

[4th&Five 41109]

48 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Do these masks have any cultural significance?  

Yeah...they're African. 

[WhatTheBuck 28592]

So do you want to go to the Gap?

[Dr Fear 1264]

Ohhh, Elaine. The toll road of denial is a long and dangerous one. The price... your soul. Oh and by the way you have til' five to clear out your desk. You're fired.

[Guest Lobo]

Away from the curtains...away!  Use your bucket!  Yay! 

[Da Fino 2658]

You know, a muffin can be very filling!

[HornOnTheBayou 8839]

He finds his laugh intoxicating.

[Biff Tannen 44976]

1 hour ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

He finds his laugh intoxicating.

Oh damn this thing!

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

11 hours ago, Da Fino said:

You know, a muffin can be very filling!

Top of the muffin TO YOU

[futureman 22340]

1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Top of the muffin TO YOU

no, no, it is!

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

26 minutes ago, futureman said:

no, no, it is!

Well, you know Jake, you should learn to use them. Like the way I'm talking right now, I would put an exclamation points at the end of all these sentences! On this one! And on that one!

[futureman 22340]

“it was a damp and chilly afternoon, so I decided to put on my SWEATSHIRT!”

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

Mr. Lippman is an underappreciated character.

[Guest Lobo]

He'd be funnier if he wasn't so fucking high-maintenance about his sockwear. 

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

1 minute ago, Lobo said:

He'd be funnier if he wasn't so fucking high-maintenance about his sockwear. 

I like his glasses though.

[Guest Lobo]

Well you see Elaine,  one either has grace or does not have grace.  

Edited October 21, 2021 by Lobo

[Wally Pryor 5198]

Name the only (ex) UT football player to ever appear in an episode. Necessitates a pretty deep dive.

[Guest Lobo]

That's easy.  Keith Hernandez.  

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

12 minutes ago, Lobo said:

That's easy.  Keith Hernandez.  

Yeah! I'm Keith Hernandez!

[Guest Lobo]

33 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

Name the only (ex) UT football player to ever appear in an episode. Necessitates a pretty deep dive.

Okay, jokes aside.  That's a really good question and an interesting bit of trivia I'd love to know.

Can you at least give us a hint? 

[Wally Pryor 5198]

The Joel Rifken episode should give it away once you recall the specifics of the episode but you still have to take a little leap from there. 

[futureman 22340]

Neil Watkins from accounting, aka T-Bone, is a UT alum. no idea if he played football though. 

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

15 minutes ago, futureman said:

Neil Watkins from accounting, aka T-Bone, is a UT alum. no idea if he played football though. 

Nah. You're Coco.

[Guest Lobo]

19 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

The Joel Rifken episode should give it away once you recall the specifics of the episode but you still have to take a little leap from there. 

Cracks me up that "the Masseuse" episode (Joel Rifkin episode as well) played up the idea that O.J. Simpson could be a serial killer, a year+ before he actually became one.  I mean, I guess not so funny for Nicole and Ron.  But funny to me.  One of Joel Rifkin's possible name changes was Ned Rifkin, who worked at UT for a time as Director of the Blanton Museum of Art.  And in real life he played college sports, basketball at Syracuse.  Lawrence Taylor is in this episode, but we know he did not play ball at Texas.  

Neil Watkins, aka "T-Bone", is from Texas...but I doubt he played college ball given that he was barely taller than Costanza.  

So all that to say, give us another hint.  'Cause we ain't found shit...

[Da Fino 2658]

Britt Hager or Raul Allegre. 

[Guest Lobo]

This is Seinfeld, not Tecmo Bowl...get your head outta your ass!

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

27 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Lawrence Taylor is in this episode, but we know he did not play ball at Texas.  

It's going to be some obscure player that was in a quick shot of the game they went to see. 

[Wally Pryor 5198]

11 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

Britt Hager or Raul Allegre. 

Ding.

When Elaine and Joel go to the Meadowlands for the NYG game there's a brief pan to the field.  Raul Allegre is kicking off for the Giants. 

[Guest Lobo]

Do they say his name over the PA?  Dammit, how'd I miss that?

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

13 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

Raul Allegre is kicking off for the Giants.

As a lifelong Giants fan, I'm pissed that I missed this. But he sucked, so...

[Biff Tannen 44976]

Ned's a guy who buys irregular underwear.

[Guest Lobo]

He also wasn't that great for UT.  60% career FG%.  Not awful, but not noteworthy.

And apparently he retired years before that episode even aired.  Worlds were colliding!

[Wally Pryor 5198]

4 minutes ago, Lobo said:

He also wasn't that great for UT.  60% career FG%.  Not awful, but not noteworthy.

 Nah, that's awful.

Almost as awful as the little dance after every made FG.

[futureman 22340]

13 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

Nah, that's awful.

for today. not then. 

[Biff Tannen 44976]

Don't lie to me Butterbean!

[Sbbruin 21578]

I find tinsel distracting.

[Biff Tannen 44976]

I want the antidote, Pimple Popper!

[futureman 22340]

saving lives?? she’s one step above working at the clinique counter!

[Guest Lobo]

Reputation for being kind of the Village Idiot.

"Well, I still say we're related!" 

['stache 21520]

I started again from the beginning on Netflix, and I'm not sure it would have made it today past the first few seasons. I enjoy them but they are so different than what the show eventually became. The tertiary characters in the later seasons are what really make the show, in my opinion. At the time I didn't even know who George Steinbrenner was but those scenes were still hilarious as is the basic premise that a loser like George wound up with a pretty fucking cool ass job.

[4th&Five 41109]

Which one of y’all is this?

I almost did JERKSTR last time I bought a car.