do you ever yearn?

[4th&Five 41900]

7 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I actually like Tom Pepper’s reenactment of this scene in the pilot casting better than Kramer’s original. 

Did he just steal the raisins?

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

17 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Did he just steal the raisins?

Yes he did. 

[4th&Five 41900]

I love Edmund Fitzgerald’s voice. 

[futureman 22664]

you know, you really need some help.  a regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you.  you need to go to like vienna or something. 

[McCroskey 1510]

I’m unbelievable at spelling last names. Give me a last name.

[futureman 22664]

if hitler had vomited on chamberlain, chamberlain still would’ve given him czechoslovakia. 

[4th&Five 41900]

2 hours ago, McCroskey said:

I’m unbelievable at spelling last names. Give me a last name.

D-A-L-R-I-M-P-E-L

Not even close. 

[Biff Tannen 46060]

12 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

I love Edmund Fitzgerald’s voice. 

My Seinfeld trivia team name is Rammed by the Cat Stevens

[ztejas 44114]

Well... he tired to... poison his boss. 

[McCroskey 1510]

It’s chocolate, it’s peppermint, it’s DELICIOUS!

[Biff Tannen 46060]

4 minutes ago, McCroskey said:

It’s chocolate, it’s peppermint, it’s DELICIOUS!

That’s true. 

[Sbbruin 22081]

Just finished up “Bubble Boy.”  Moops might be my favorite scene in the history of Seinfeld.

[Biff Tannen 46060]

28 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

Just finished up “Bubble Boy.”  Moops might be my favorite scene in the history of Seinfeld.

Oh nooooooo!

[Sbbruin 22081]

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Oh nooooooo!

The card says…”moops”

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

2 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

Just finished up “Bubble Boy.”  Moops might be my favorite scene in the history of Seinfeld.

Kramer chugging a beer while smoking a cigarette can’t be topped. Although, “I’m out!” is definitely in the running. The next day after The Contest I learned that others were watching the show too. 

[ztejas 44114]

I'm out is probably the greatest. But there are so many brilliant Kramer scenes. The Calvin Klein episode is great. Him throwing the JFK golf clubs at the car thief while he's driving is great. To name a couple more. 

The horse racing scene at the bookie. 

Edited June 12, 2022 by ztejas

[HornOnTheBayou 9056]

When I think about the most memorable moments in television history, "I'm out!" is up there with Walter White laughing hysterically in the basement and Alexandra Daddario taking off her shirt.

Edited June 12, 2022 by HornOnTheBayou

[PantsTent 2003]

Pinky toe story is another. That's right, I am batmam.

[Cheeseweasel 26439]

On 6/11/2022 at 8:44 PM, ztejas said:

But there are so many brilliant Kramer scenes.

My top three:

 

 

[futureman 22664]

there’s no way to pick a favorite.

 

[futureman 22664]

or when he’s eating the sweatshop eggs and wants kurt to try them and then just gets up and crawls over the side of the booth to leave. I laugh every time. there’s a million little scenes like that. 

[NorthLoop 14420]

The look on his face when George pulls out the golf ball

[Biff Tannen 46060]

Well then I think one of us should leave!

[Kel Varnsen 8682]

The Smoking Lounge always got me

 

 

Edited June 13, 2022 by Kel Varnsen

[McCroskey 1510]

I remember when the librarian was a much older woman. Kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life…we didn't want to know anything about her private life.


RIP, Lt. Bookman.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/philip-baker-hall-dead-seinfeld-library-cop-dies-1235164442/amp/

[WBT 20879]

Heaven needed an angel to check copies of the Five Chinese Brothers for pee-pees and wee-wees.

rip

[NorthLoop 14420]

He liked simple pleasures, like buttering his ass, lollipops in his mouth. But that was just him. That was something he enjoyed. 

[Biff Tannen 46060]

3 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:

The Smoking Lounge always got me

 

 

Rugged?  The man’s a goblin. 

[Biff Tannen 46060]

He nailed the scene in Jerry’s apartment.  Jerry was about to lose it the whole time, but Philip Baker Hall just kept on coming. Great ancillary character. 

[Wiler77 1619]

4 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:

The Smoking Lounge always got me

 

 

 

The outtakes from this scene may be funnier than the scene itself.  Floors me every time.

['stache 22115]

I personally believe that if you can identify a single scene as "the best" then the show is probably mediocre. There are so many great scenes, I could never say one or another is "the best." However, within that conversation, I submit Officer Bookman, which are some of the best comedic scenes ever, IMO, and the one where Kramer imitates a police officer to get the stolen statue back. "Make love to that wall, pervert" makes me laugh every damn time.

[4th&Five 41900]

Bookman was great as the doctor on Curb too. 

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

On 6/11/2022 at 11:41 PM, HornOnTheBayou said:

When I think about the most memorable moments in television history, "I'm out!" is up there with Walter White laughing hysterically in the basement and Alexandra Daddario taking off her shirt.

Right, because what qualifies as one of the great moments in tv history is a hot chick getting naked. Because on HBO, that almost never happens. (You might consider subscribing to Cinemax.)

[ztejas 44114]

15 hours ago, futureman said:

or when he’s eating the sweatshop eggs and wants kurt to try them and then just gets up and crawls over the side of the booth to leave. I laugh every time. there’s a million little scenes like that. 

I think you can argue he's the most integral piece of the show. Some of the rest of the humor is fairly hit or miss for me as the show ages - but the well-executed physical comedy that Kramer/Richards puts on nearly every episode is just fucking timeless. And that's why it's one of if not the greatest sitcom ever. It's witty and ironic and sardonic and that by itself creates great moments but then you throw in the absolute genius of Kramer and it blows by pretty much everything else that isn't prime Simpsons. 

[Cheeseweasel 26439]

8 hours ago, ztejas said:

And that's why it's one of if not the greatest sitcom ever.

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

[Biff Tannen 46060]

26 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

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

What’d did you do today?

[Cheeseweasel 26439]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

What’d did you do today?

I got up and came to work.

[Biff Tannen 46060]

1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:

I got up and came to work.

There’s a show! That’s a show!

[ohchaucer 1444]

But why am I watching it?
Because it’s on TV!
Not yet.

[Cheeseweasel 26439]

How about this: I manage a circus.
 

[Al_4_ISU 12612]

The scene where Kramer describes how he comandeers a bus to take his girlfriend's toe to the hospital and wards off a mugging in the process, is probably the perfect distillation of the character.  The physical comedy as he plays out the fight scene, and how completely unassuming he is about how totally unusual his behavior is, kind of tie up all of the genius of Kramer.

"You're.... you're Batman."

"Yeah.  Yeah.  I AM Batman!"

[DaysOff 8157]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdwd5yth/?k=1

June 14, 1987

35 years ago


Here's the scene

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdwd2E3T/?k=1

[ohchaucer 1444]

The scene where Kramer describes how he comandeers a bus to take his girlfriend's toe to the hospital and wards off a mugging in the process, is probably the perfect distillation of the character.  The physical comedy as he plays out the fight scene, and how completely unassuming he is about how totally unusual his behavior is, kind of tie up all of the genius of Kramer.
"You're.... you're Batman."
"Yeah.  Yeah.  I AM Batman!"

You kept making the stops?
Well they kept ringing the bell!

[miguelito 11442]

 

This scene always cracked me up, and I do the same move when I dig into some crackers, but I never really noticed how he's holding the crackers with his left hand.  What are his #2 and 3 fingers doing?

Also, he has at least 2 more sleeves of crackers in the briefcase.

TCB.

[Kel Varnsen 8682]

Kramer: And you didn't ask me to do it? I could raise enough money to cure polio.
Jerry: I believe they've had a cure for polio for quite some time.
Kramer: Polio

Edited June 15, 2022 by Kel Varnsen

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

On 6/14/2022 at 10:34 PM, miguelito said:

What are his #2 and 3 fingers doing?

That’s analogous to extending your pinky while you drink a cup of tea. It shows he has class. 

[ztejas 44114]

[Biff Tannen 46060]

So anytime you want you can just picture her naked?

I guess that’s true…

[HornOnTheBayou 9056]

Well, if she was a criminal and you had to describe her to a police sketch artist...

They'd pick her up in about ten minutes.

[WBT 20879]

Do you have something a little more...less expensive?

 

There's a Frank & Morty marathon on Comedy Central this morning for Father's Day.  They didn't mention Alton.