alive she cried Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I'm out of +1's, but...yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I bet HJ refers to pizza as "Za" because he is that cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 I caught Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David took a second though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I bet HJ refers to pizza as "Za" because he is that cool. When you talk like that you make me wanna TB your FB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 WFUATHYRIOYPPC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 OMG FHUTA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 MTIAIF IVWOTIAFNO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 WMFOYDS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrizzle Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Seinfeld Today tweets Jerry is having a long distance relationship with an actress, until he sees her in high definition and becomes obsessed with the large pores on her nose. George becomes enraged when he gets "poked" by Lloyd Braun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 also, we lost the whole disappointing Seinfeld reunion thing in the crash, but i like this better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 21, 2016 Author Share Posted April 21, 2016 yup, my vote is still Costanza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 This bump is Nemo bait, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Nemo McFly Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 If I had to pick one - I'd go w/ George Costanza - I find the bitter, paranoid side of George absolutely relatable. At the same time, I feel in-tune w/ Kramer's free-spirit approach to existence - so, he's a close second. I also love every scene Jerry Stiller (George's dad) is in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 Seinfeld: 5 storylines you never saw Here, former Seinfeld writer-producers David Mandel (Veep) and Jeff Schaffer (Curb Your Enthusiasm) open the vault and share a few story ideas from the NBC comedy that never made it out of the writers’ room — and that just might have you shoving someone while exclaiming “Get out!” 1. Frank Costanza goes to pot. “We went very far down the road with an idea that Frank was going to need medical marijuana for his cataracts,” says Mandel. “We thought the idea of Jerry Stiller on pot just seemed like comedy gold. We heard that Cybill writers had a similar story in the works, and it was enough to make us put the idea aside. We were really rigorous about not wanting to repeat things. I don’t think it was fully outlined, but that was a story that was ready to go. That would happen a lot.” 2. There’s someone you should meet. Who’s that, you say? It’s “the Prompter.” “Alec [berg, a Seinfeld writer-producer] and I pitched this idea a few times,” says Schaffer. “There was another comic, and she was a prompter. Jerry [Jerry Seinfeld] would be at lunch with her, and she would say, ‘You know, I only had one bit that really killed.’ Then she would wait, and he’d have to go, ‘Which one?’ ‘The bowling thing. It only died one time, but that’s because of who was there.’ ‘[sigh] Who?’ You’d wait her out and she’d wait you out. Everyone knows someone like that, who just makes you pull it out of them. In “The Secret Code,” Jerry was going to do an ad for an appliance store called Leapin’ Larry’s, and she was saying, ‘If you’re going to meet with Leapin’ Larry, there’s one thing you should really know about him.’ It was the fact that he had a prosthetic leg. And Jerry just ignored it. Then when Jerry wound up insulting him, he said, ‘Why didn’t you tell me???’ ‘Well, you didn’t take the prompt. I tried.’ It seems like the easiest device in the world: You ignore the prompter, and he or she actually has good information for you. That could work in any show, but we never used it.” 3. The Soup Nazi could have been a lot more literal than we knew. “We joked a whole bunch about an end scene that would take place in the jungles of Brazil, à la The Boys From Brazil, where the Soup Nazi [Larry Thomas] would return to the other Nazis — the actual former Nazi war criminals — with his soup recipes,” says Mandel. “It was sort of half-serious, half ‘Should we do this?,’ half ‘We’re never going to do it.’ But it was much discussed. Going down a river and seeing lots of young boys with blue eyes from experimentation with the soups — it was a full coming together of soup and Nazi. Probably just as well that we didn’t do that one.” 4. Kramer launches a new business that would chill you to the bone. “Kramer [Michael Richards] was taking regular morgue-quality skeletons, refurbishing them, and turning them into museum-quality skeletons for teaching hospitals,” recalls Schaffer. “He would get all the bones together and buff them up real nice. At the same time, Jerry was doing appliance-store ads for Leapin’ Larry’s, and Jerry was having trouble with his dishwasher, because Kramer kept using it. Leapin’ Larry says, ‘Bring it in, we’ll fix it.’ So Jerry brings it in, he doesn’t look inside, and Leapin’ Larry opens it up and there’s a tibia in there and he loses his s—: ‘This is the worst practical joke ever to a guy who’s missing a leg!’ Larry [David, the series co-creator] just said, ‘No. Kramer’s not refurbishing skeletons!’ And we’re like, ‘Come on! This is funny!’ It turns out the show was fine without it. Kramer trying to refurbish skeletons sat on our board forever, and [even after David left the show following season 7] we never used it. I guess Larry was right.” 5. Seinfeld gets a change of scenery — but nothing changes. “There was one story that we never got to for any particular reason, but I always loved it,” says Mandel. “Had there been another season, I certainly would have tried to write this, because it was near and dear to my heart. The idea was that Jerry and the gang go on a vacation somewhere — say, Mexico — and they would check into their hotel rooms, and Jerry would end up with a hotel room right across from Kramer’s hotel room, so the hotel-room dynamic would have been the same as the apartments. The entire episode would have taken place in Mexico but everything would have been kind of the same—there would have been a Mexican diner that they sat in. I just thought the idea of taking the building blocks of Seinfeld — the apartments across the hall and the coffee shop — and transporting that to Mexico would be really fun. When Jerry decided to end the show, and I realized there weren’t going to be enough episodes, I was like, ‘Oh God, I wish there was one more season.'” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 Every single one of those ideas makes a great case for the show ending when it did, maybe even a season earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 i dunno, i might've been down for that last one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 That's the worst one! It's basically just another version of "main character's cousin/brother visits and it's the same actor wearing a moustache!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Nemo McFly Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 LOL - I luv that last one, too. Reminds me of the backwards-episode...where the episode played out the events from...conclusion to beginning. I think a Bizarro-episode would've been cool...where everything is different, but exactly the same...but they kinda already did the Bizarro-thing - the episode where Elaine found new friends. Think it's a little too similar... I dunno, I also like the 'Kramer polishing skeletons' bit. Think it's a little too macabre for the show - but it does totally fit the character. Plus, having being in the death-bizz, I have a soft-spot for that arena. The casual...'just-a-job' routine of the death-bizz does / can kinda lend itself to Seinfeld-style humor. Goddamn, do I have stories. Would've loved to see the Seinfeld universe tackle the behind-the-scenes of the death-bizz. Again, think it'd be a bit too macabre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 That's the worst one! It's basically just another version of "main character's cousin/brother visits and it's the same actor wearing a moustache!" i know but i'd watch that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Outta those "the prompter" sounded like it could've been a great Seinfeld episode. Maybe Larry David will do something with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 Own your own 1:26 scale replica of Jerry's Apartment Set from Seinfeld ($500) that superman statue's a nice touch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 reddit having a thing about how seinfeld's hallway can't exist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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