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Seinfeld Debut: Twenty-Five Years Ago (1 Viewer)

Best Seinfeld Episode

  • Soup Nazi

    Votes: 32 13.0%

  • The Merv Griffin Show

    Votes: 15 6.1%

  • The Boyfriend

    Votes: 5 2.0%

  • The Fusilii Jerry

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Marine Biologist

    Votes: 72 29.3%

  • The Contest

    Votes: 63 25.6%

  • The Outing

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • Junior Mint

    Votes: 6 2.4%

  • Puffy Shirt

    Votes: 3 1.2%

  • Yada Yada Yada

    Votes: 4 1.6%

  • The Finale

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Other Episode (list your favorite)

    Votes: 10 4.1%

  • Choice Is In Poll #1

    Votes: 32 13.0%
  • Total voters
    246
KRAMER: Yeah, yeah, then all of a sudden, this guy pulls out a gun. Well, I knew any delay is gonna cost her her pinky toe, so I got out of the seat and I started walking towards him. He says, "Where do you think you're going, Cracker Jack?" I said, "Well, I got a little prize for ya, buddy - " <Kramer throws two quick punches and a massive uppercut> - knocked him out cold!

GEORGE: How could you do that?!

KRAMER: Then everybody is screamin,' because the driver, he's passed out from all the commotion...the bus is out of control! So, I grab him by the collar, I take him out of the seat, I get behind the wheel and now I'm drivin' the bus.

GEORGE: You're Batman.

KRAMER: Yeah. Yeah, I am Batman. Then the mugger, he comes to, and he starts chokin' me! So I'm fightin' him off with one hand and I kept drivin' the bus with the other, y'know? Then I managed to open up the door, and I kicked him out the door with my foot, you know - at the next stop.

JERRY: You kept makin' all the stops?

KRAMER: Well, people kept ringin' the bell!

 
Godsbrother said:
"The Library" with Mr. Bookman is one of my all time favorites.
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I've heard that ep took double time because Jerry couldnt stop cracking up @ Hall's rants - even the shots they ended up with betray that a bit - which is odd because Seinfeld writes/re-writes the beats of every word of every script, so they were essentially his.

The first play i ever had produced, "Oh, to be in Casablanca" (a 1974 comedy revue for a community theater which was basically Casablanca with the Marx Bros added and Charlie Chan in to solve the murder of the German courier), had a Groucho who was soooo good at chanelling Marx that i ended up re-writing his scenes after every rehearsal to include his ad libs. I spent those entire three weeks giggling to myself over the synthesis which was occurring, which must have been similar to what Seinfeld felt w Hall and i must tell you it was one of the truly marvelous joys of my life.

For the record, Even Steven (The Opposite) is my fav ep

 
Can we agree that the worst episode is "The Dealership" with George's absurd candy lineup? What a waste of time.
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"The Dealership" and "The Chinese Restaurant" are near the bottom of my list. I'm not a big fan of Larry David's experiments in "awkward existentialism".

But the worst episode of them all is definitely "The Finale". The entire episode was a steaming pile of meh. Even the first half (before the arrest and trial) was boring and unfunny. It was like Larry David's ultimate middle finger to the establishment. ("Oh, you want a feel-good finale, do ya?? WELL, GET A LOAD OF THIS!!")

 
The Statue is an episode that I turn off when it's on. I don't mind the Dealership episode.  I also don't like the Doll episode as well.

 
Joe Summer said:
But the worst episode of them all is definitely "The Finale". The entire episode was a steaming pile of meh. Even the first half (before the arrest and trial) was boring and unfunny. It was like Larry David's ultimate middle finger to the establishment. ("Oh, you want a feel-good finale, do ya?? WELL, GET A LOAD OF THIS!!")
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The odd part was that the early part of the final season had some pretty good episodes. Compared to the season 9 episodes of most other comedies where they usually are just going thru the motions.

 
I liked the finale then and like it better now.

A point that i've been unsuccessfully trying to make on this board since i first started posting here is that GenX or fanboy culture is all based on a joke that its denizens never got. Star Wars to Stern, the bedrock of much of the last generation of storytelling & comedy were deconstructions that ended being consumed as whole cloth, parodies adopted as generational archetypes that plotted the course of entertainment straight to the junkpile. NTTAWTT, but it's been flabbergasting from the start to watch irony become gospel.

That i believe is what was behind David's approach to the finale. He saw an opportunity to let all his best fetishes take a bow in a way that said, "Y'know, me, Jerry, the whole gang - we're ####ed up. Funny, sure, but screwed up in extremis. Screwers and screwees. You know that, right?" But, just as with Obiwan & Bababooie, culture said "No, they're us. And we're cool, so ha!

 
Raider Nation said:
Can we agree that the worst episode is "The Dealership" with George's absurd candy lineup? What a waste of time.
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First off Merry Christmas, good to see you around. 

Second, any episode with the Mandlebaums is the worst for me. Thought that whole thing was really hacky. 

 
RBM said:
First off Merry Christmas, good to see you around. 

Second, any episode with the Mandlebaums is the worst for me. Thought that whole thing was really hacky. 
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One of those episodes gave us one of my favorite quotes:

 If they were any more Cuban, Castro would have smoked them himself.

 
mon said:
the one where Jerry puts on thick glasses at the theater.
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That also had some good Uncle Leo stuff

“Jeffrey went out tonight… I’m supposed to tape this nature show for him, he loves nature. Botany, zoology. You know his botany teacher from college stays in close touch with him? They became friends!.. That’s pretty rare! I mean, actual friends! Like equals! They have dinner together, they have discussings…”

 
Always enjoyed pretty much every episode - even the lesser ones usually have one storyline or phrase that was memorable.

The one I can't say this about is a really early one where Jerry takes a girl to Vermont and things go horribly and he's stuck there a few days.  He and George are also in on some stock and are debating whether to hold or sell.  Jerry sells, George holds and hits big.  Not a good episode.

 
The thing that always strikes me as I watch the re-runs is how many storylines are in a single episode that always seem to tie together in some way.  Almost every episode I re-watch gets me saying, "oh, I forgot that was in this one too".  That's why it is so hard to pick one favorite episode.  There are threads in each episode that are so good it's tough to choose.

 
Gally said:
The thing that always strikes me as I watch the re-runs is how many storylines are in a single episode that always seem to tie together in some way.  Almost every episode I re-watch gets me saying, "oh, I forgot that was in this one too".  That's why it is so hard to pick one favorite episode.  There are threads in each episode that are so good it's tough to choose.
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I'm currently netflixing Curb Your Enthusiasm, and it really seems like a Seinfeld with only one storyline.  It is really making me appreciate how many storylines each episode was juggling.

 
RenegadeGM said:
Always enjoyed pretty much every episode - even the lesser ones usually have one storyline or phrase that was memorable.

The one I can't say this about is a really early one where Jerry takes a girl to Vermont and things go horribly and he's stuck there a few days.  He and George are also in on some stock and are debating whether to hold or sell.  Jerry sells, George holds and hits big.  Not a good episode.
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I've been waiting 20 years for the robot butcher.

 
I finally voted, two years later, and I went with "Other".  The Pothole is still my favorite after much further review.  "Holy Cow!"

 
Gally said:
The thing that always strikes me as I watch the re-runs is how many storylines are in a single episode that always seem to tie together in some way. 
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This was done to perfection in The Wig Master.

Well does it say anything in the contract about my car being used as a whorehouse?

 
Marine Biologist is one amazing scene, best finish ever maybe?

Best episode?  Not even close.  What else in that episode was hilarious?

The Contest was killer from start to finsih.  

And Merv Griffin is seriously underrated here. 

 
The one where Kramer takes an intern is also really overrated.   Watch the Pothole again and tell me it's not right up there.  Holy Cow!  Kramer turning the highway into two lanes, Newman using the mail truck as a U haul.  The garbage and sewing machines.  Gold Jerry, GOLD!

 
PIK95 said:
That's the backwards one!  I love Kramer with the giant lollipop that starts off small.
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The cleverness and how little things (like the lollipop) were scattered throughout was what made that episode great.  Still had some good tie ins and lines ....."too many people know the combination to your vault"

 
The one where Kramer takes an intern is also really overrated.
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"You know, Darren, if you would have told me twenty-five years ago that some day I'd be standing here about to solve the world's energy problems, I would've said you're crazy. Now let's push this giant ball of oil out the window."

 
PIK95 said:
The one where Kramer takes an intern is also really overrated.   Watch the Pothole again and tell me it's not right up there.  Holy Cow!  Kramer turning the highway into two lanes, Newman using the mail truck as a U haul.  The garbage and sewing machines.  Gold Jerry, GOLD!
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I still quote Elaine in that episode every time I encounter a wide open road:

"Wiiiiiide lanes... so luxurious!!!"

 
Joe Summer said:
"You know, Darren, if you would have told me twenty-five years ago that some day I'd be standing here about to solve the world's energy problems, I would've said you're crazy. Now let's push this giant ball of oil out the window."
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I meant underrated.  Spell check must have switched it.  Love the oil bladder.  The girlfriend who was below also.

 
I voted The Opposite originally...love the 3-headed The Opposite/Even Steven/Kramer's Coffee Table Book.

And it had the greatest quote ever of course. Some other favorite quotes I always stop to watch if the Ep is on:

  • 'May I have one of those, Madam?'
  • 'I don't even really work here.'  /  'That's what makes this so difficult.'
  • 'Jimmy's down!'
  • ...George's Greatest American Hero answering machine
 
Amazing underrated scene. When Elaine thinks she has rabies after getting bit by the dog in the eyeglass store. She starts frothing at the mouth because she thinks her throat is closing up. 

"Yeah she's got rabies, just like Bob Sacamano"

 
RBM said:
Amazing underrated scene. When Elaine thinks she has rabies after getting bit by the dog in the eyeglass store. She starts frothing at the mouth because she thinks her throat is closing up. 

"Yeah she's got rabies, just like Bob Sacamano"
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'Listen you hipster, doofus!'

 
As someone who used to call 777-FILM

Hearing Kramer awkwardly say...."Why don't you just tell me the movie you selected." Probably makes me smile more than most people

 
Mario Kart said:
YOU STOLE MY JESUS FISH!

Yeah, bla blah blah blah blah (like a devil).

Gold, Jerry. GOLD!
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Elaine: David, I’m going to hell! The worst place in the world! With devils and those caves and the ragged clothing! And the heat! My god, the heat! I mean, what do you think about all that?Puddy: Gonna be rough.Elaine: Uh, you should be trying to save me!Puddy: Don’t boss me! This is why you’re going to hell.Elaine: I am not going to hell and if you think I’m going to hell, you should care that I’m going to hell even though I am not.Puddy: You stole my Jesus fish, didn’t you?Elaine: Yeah, that’s right!

 
BeaverCleaver said:
Elaine: David, I’m going to hell! The worst place in the world! With devils and those caves and the ragged clothing! And the heat! My god, the heat! I mean, what do you think about all that?Puddy: Gonna be rough.Elaine: Uh, you should be trying to save me!Puddy: Don’t boss me! This is why you’re going to hell.Elaine: I am not going to hell and if you think I’m going to hell, you should care that I’m going to hell even though I am not.Puddy: You stole my Jesus fish, didn’t you?Elaine: Yeah, that’s right!
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Elaine

 
I smell a Seinfeld Tourney coming. Top 64 episodes...maybe trim it down to 32 and run it for voting. I can't decide between Merv Griffin which I love for so many personal reasons but Kramer turning his ####### NY Apt into a Merv Griffin set...he just found it in the dump. What a great episode plot. I'm shocked one of these modern comedies doesn't rip it off. How can you not love the Soup Nazi episode? I love so many I could get emotional watching some of them lose. 

We need to do this.

 
Ministry of Pain said:
I smell a Seinfeld Tourney coming. Top 64 episodes...maybe trim it down to 32 and run it for voting. I can't decide between Merv Griffin which I love for so many personal reasons but Kramer turning his ####### NY Apt into a Merv Griffin set...he just found it in the dump. What a great episode plot. I'm shocked one of these modern comedies doesn't rip it off. How can you not love the Soup Nazi episode? I love so many I could get emotional watching some of them lose. 

We need to do this.
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My favorite underrated line from that episode: "You idiot!  Hawks eat squirrels!"

Oh, and: "He's a squirrel!  He has no home!"

 
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