do you ever yearn?

[Guest Lobo]

But this is an office...

[Biff Tannen 44955]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

But this is an office...

[TKthunder2 4958]

Just watched the finale again.  I thought I remembered a scene they did years later where they get out of prison and go for coffee but I can’t find it.  Did I completely dream that up in my head?

[Guest Lobo]

You dreamed it.  The final cell scene feels like they’re out for coffee based on how they’re sitting, and their topic of discussion.  
most of the ‘reunion finale’ inside the CYE universe took place at Monk’s and they reference the finale.  Maybe you mashed that all up in your brain while sleeping.  

[Biff Tannen 44955]

Just finally figured out what this reference was:

 

Movie called What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?  1962

[WBT 20143]

It's in that movies references youtube video that's been posted in this thread 3 times.  I never got it either until watching that.

[Guest Lobo]

^

to be fair, it is by far one of the handful of most obscure references to actual movies by Seinfeld.  They do so many obvious ones, but there's about a half dozen that are just so narrow that it's become obvious to me that Larry David just inserted them for his own giggles.  

[Biff Tannen 44955]

I don't know.  But I woke up in the Hudson River in a SACK!!!

[Biff Tannen 44955]

It's like trying to smoke a chicken bone.

[futureman 22338]

4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

It's like trying to smoke a chicken bone.

that thought always makes me shudder. 

[4th&Five 41102]

Smells like a rubber fire. 

[Biff Tannen 44955]

34 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Smells like a rubber fire. 

What's that?

[NorthLoop 13919]

Your face looks like an old catcher's mitt.

['stache 21518]

Your face is my case.

[WhatTheBuck 28587]

Look away, I’m hideous. 

[WhatTheBuck 28587]

I don’t return fruit. Fruit’s a gamble. I know that going in.

[WhatTheBuck 28587]

Hooo...psycho-sexual. 

[Biff Tannen 44955]

I'm a bad man!

[Eskimohorn 5551]

George was often in the wrong, but when his car was damaged by the suicidal patient who jumped out of the hospital, he was wrongfully shamed by the hospital administrator.

Are there any Surly attorneys who can weigh in on who was responsible? Hospital, the deceased’s estate, George, or the Pig Man?

[4th&Five 41102]

My brother once impregnated a woman named Pauline!

[TurkeyChew 383]

I've been binging on Netflix from Season 1 and I'm at Season 8. I've noticed a few things in this progression:

- the vignettes before the episodes in the later episodes aren't as good as the stand up comedy intro

- the episodes and story lines increasingly break into more of a vacuum once you get into 7 and 8. What I mean is, in earlier seasons there wasnt as much "big" events in episodes that get left behind. Examples include the episode where Susan thinks George and Elaine are cheating because of the conflicting story to see Marisa Tomei. She punches him, never gets a resolution and next episode they are hanging out in the apartment or invitation shopping or whatever. Another example is the Soulmate Jenine Garafalo episode. She just disappears. Same with Elaine coming back into the fold after Bizarro world Jerry & friends, etc.

- it's stupid that Frank C. got a GTO way back in season 3 or whenever Larry David was the lawyer in a cape but it just deus ex machina's in on Season 8 when George needs to look like a greaser

[futureman 22338]

50 minutes ago, TurkeyChew said:

Another example is the Soulmate Jenine Garafalo episode. She just disappears.

that’s actually addressed and explained. everything is addressed and explained. don’t come here with your gripes, pretty boy. 

[Biff Tannen 44955]

1 hour ago, TurkeyChew said:

What I mean is, in earlier seasons there wasnt as much "big" events in episodes that get left behind. Examples include the episode where Susan thinks George and Elaine are cheating because of the conflicting story to see Marisa Tomei. She punches him, never gets a resolution and next episode they are hanging out in the apartment or invitation shopping or whatever. Another example is the Soulmate Jenine Garafalo episode. She just disappears. Same with Elaine coming back into the fold after Bizarro world Jerry & friends, etc.

There are several times where Susan just seemingly forgets what George has done and continues forward with plans for getting married.  The others you mentioned are resolved.

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

1 hour ago, TurkeyChew said:

I've been binging on Netflix from Season 1 and I'm at Season 8. I've noticed a few things in this progression:

- the vignettes before the episodes in the later episodes aren't as good as the stand up comedy intro

- the episodes and story lines increasingly break into more of a vacuum once you get into 7 and 8. What I mean is, in earlier seasons there wasnt as much "big" events in episodes that get left behind. Examples include the episode where Susan thinks George and Elaine are cheating because of the conflicting story to see Marisa Tomei. She punches him, never gets a resolution and next episode they are hanging out in the apartment or invitation shopping or whatever. Another example is the Soulmate Jenine Garafalo episode. She just disappears. Same with Elaine coming back into the fold after Bizarro world Jerry & friends, etc.

- it's stupid that Frank C. got a GTO way back in season 3 or whenever Larry David was the lawyer in a cape but it just deus ex machina's in on Season 8 when George needs to look like a greaser

[NorthLoop 13919]

It's almost as if it was a sitcom and not a drama. 

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

24 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

It's almost as if it was a sitcom and not a drama. 

I think I can sum up the show for you with one word: NOTHING.

 

[Biff Tannen 44955]

14 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

I think I can sum up the show for you with one word: NOTHING.

 

What does that mean?

[Kel Varnsen 8254]

Or we could not do the show altogether, how about that?

[Biff Tannen 44955]

The whole Russell falling in love with Elaine storyline is hilarious.  

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

What does that mean?

What'd you do today?

[Biff Tannen 44955]

1 minute ago, Cheeseweasel said:

What'd you do today?

I got up and came to work.

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

Just now, Biff Tannen said:

I got up and came to work.

There's a show. That's a show.

[Biff Tannen 44955]

You read?  You read on the show?

[Guest Lobo]

Then why am I watching it?

[futureman 22338]

2 hours ago, Lobo said:

Then why am I watching it?

because it’s on tv!

[Biff Tannen 44955]

Sometimes in life, the gods smile upon you my friends.

You get someone to take that Canadian quarter?

[4th&Five 41102]

3 hours ago, futureman said:

because it’s on tv!

Not yet. 

[WhatTheBuck 28587]

You’re part of the problem. 

[WBT 20143]

No stories!

No, no, no.  Nothing happens!

[oSuJeff97 3435]

18 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

It's almost as if it was a sitcom and not a drama. 

LOL yes.

And always remember Larry's and Jerry's mantra for the show: "No hugging. No learning."

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

52 minutes ago, oSuJeff97 said:

LOL yes.

And always remember Larry's and Jerry's mantra for the show: "No hugging. No learning."

Except in bizzaro world: Me so happy. Me want to cry.

[Biff Tannen 44955]

1 hour ago, oSuJeff97 said:

LOL yes.

And always remember Larry's and Jerry's mantra for the show: "No hugging. No learning."

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

[Guest Lobo]

So that’s it.  My deepest, Darkest secrets.  And everything that I’m capable of.  

[futureman 22338]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

So that’s it.  My deepest, Darkest secrets.  And everything that I’m capable of.  

well, good luck with all that. 

[Biff Tannen 44955]

Susie didn't commit suicide, she was murdered!  BY JERRY SEINFELD!!!!

[4th&Five 41102]

Not only that, I broke his thumbs.

[Guest Lobo]

He’s a real phony!

[Al_4_ISU 12201]

Jerry tells George how he dumped Janeane Garofolo because he realized he was basically dating himself.  That's not a loose end at all.

[Al_4_ISU 12201]

On 3/7/2022 at 3:48 PM, Eskimohorn said:

George was often in the wrong, but when his car was damaged by the suicidal patient who jumped out of the hospital, he was wrongfully shamed by the hospital administrator.

Are there any Surly attorneys who can weigh in on who was responsible? Hospital, the deceased’s estate, George, or the Pig Man?

There are quite a few occasions with George (and more with Larry in CYE) where he's pretty clearly in the right but absolutely everyone involved sees it the other way and he's completely ganged up on.

Which of course fuel the neuroses even further.

Example from earlier in the series:  The Bubble Boy is a gigantic asshole/piece of shit, and the incident is a complete accident, but the townsfolk want to lynch George.  Fuck the Bubble Boy, IMO.

Edited March 9, 2022 by Al_4_ISU