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Seinfeld Debut: Twenty-Five Years Ago (2 Viewers)

Best Seinfeld Episode

  • Soup Nazi

    Votes: 32 13.1%

  • The Merv Griffin Show

    Votes: 14 5.7%

  • The Boyfriend

    Votes: 5 2.0%

  • The Fusilii Jerry

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Marine Biologist

    Votes: 72 29.4%

  • The Contest

    Votes: 63 25.7%

  • 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 13.1%
  • Total voters
    245
massraider said:
Easily The Contest.

George's mom giving him #### in the hospital is underrated funny.

Touching on that subject without saying the word, and making fun of something everyone can laugh about that everyone does is really great, and not something that happens a lot.

Kramer with that look on his face, heading back to his apartment to rub one out, the tying in together of the Virgin and JFK Jr.

Perfect
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Great episode, yes, and very clever, especially the way they manage to make it about a certain subject without ever actually saying it, and there are some LOL moments in it, but I have never thought it was the outright funniest episode. There are many Seinfeld episodes I can re-watch that make me laugh out loud for real more that The Contest does when I re-watch it, but I get that it gets a major bump for how groundbreaking and daring it was.
 
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I remember the show was already on 4 or 5 years before I ever saw an episode. I was at the Pittsburgh airport and gave up my seat for a $400 voucher and four hour wait. I watched it sitting at the bar and thought to myself this is a great show. I have lots of favorites, but I’m partial to the Soup Nazi and Master of My Domain (the contest?). Shrinkage was good too. So was the Mulva episode where Jerry couldn’t remember the first name of his girlfriend, but knew it rhymed with woman’s body part.
 
the mixed race relationship is currently on...... very underrated :lmao:

EDIT: IS the side story to the WILLARD$##@#@ :lmao:
 
BUCKLES!

"don't start with me!"

yet another one off character who were better than that shim the soop nahtzee

- FAMOUS PEOPLE THROUGHOUT TIME STUCK IN TRAFFIC -

"can you store my overcoat?"
 
Deamon said:
The Marine Biologist simply because that scene of George telling the story and pulling out the golf ball is probably my favourite scene in tv comedy history.
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That and Kramer's tale of saving the pinky toe make me wish there had been more opportunities for characters to tell stories.
 
Helena: It was a Three Stooges short, "Sappy Pappy". I played Mr. Sugarman's secretary.

Kramer: That was a Shemp?

Helena: No, a Curly. The boys played three sailors who find a baby. The baby's
been kidnapped and the police think that they did it.

Kramer: Right

Helena: But, but of course they didn't do it, the police had made an awful
mistake.

Kramer: Right

Helena: Moe hits Curly with an axe

Kramer: Right

Helena: The Stooges catch the kidnappers, but it's too late

Kramer: Really

Helena: The baby's dead. The boys are sent to Death Row and are executed

Kramer: I don't remember that part
 
At my company, when we have to submit a proposal of at least a certain magnitude, we conduct what we call Gold Team, which consists of reading every word aloud and wordsmithing the proposal to its final form for submission. It usually takes a few days, with several people together in a conference room doing it.

Earlier this year, we had a Gold Team day for which we declared at the outset that it was Seinfeld quote day. We kept a tally of quotes used in valid context, and all of us had to contribute $1 for each valid quote to a pot the winner walked away with. I'm sorry to say I finished second place, but it was the most fun I've ever had in a Gold Team meeting.

This is just a random cross section of people in our company of varying ages... some young enough to be my children. Everyone knew Seinfeld quotes. It was awesome.

:nerd:
 
Tau837 said:
Earlier this year, we had a Gold Team day for which we declared at the outset that it was Seinfeld quote day. We kept a tally of quotes used in valid context,
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I can't remember a day that has gone by that throughout the course of the day I can't relate something to a Seinfeld episode. It's really quite easy and amazing that there is so much that can be tied into an episode.
 
Gally said:
Tau837 said:
Earlier this year, we had a Gold Team day for which we declared at the outset that it was Seinfeld quote day. We kept a tally of quotes used in valid context,
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I can't remember a day that has gone by that throughout the course of the day I can't relate something to a Seinfeld episode. It's really quite easy and amazing that there is so much that can be tied into an episode.
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Don't you see...that's the genius of it.
 
gump said:
Gally said:
Tau837 said:
Earlier this year, we had a Gold Team day for which we declared at the outset that it was Seinfeld quote day. We kept a tally of quotes used in valid context,
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I can't remember a day that has gone by that throughout the course of the day I can't relate something to a Seinfeld episode. It's really quite easy and amazing that there is so much that can be tied into an episode.
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Don't you see...that's the genius of it.
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The most impressive thing to me is how the show still stands up after all this time has passed. My view is that it is because it was about people and relationships and interactions, so the pop culture references, etc. being dated doesn't really matter. The same people stuff that we all experience all the time is what the show focused on, which is why we all liked it so much.
 
Gally said:
Tau837 said:
Earlier this year, we had a Gold Team day for which we declared at the outset that it was Seinfeld quote day. We kept a tally of quotes used in valid context,
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I can't remember a day that has gone by that throughout the course of the day I can't relate something to a Seinfeld episode. It's really quite easy and amazing that there is so much that can be tied into an episode.
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It's not a lie if you believe it .....
 
jhib said:
I'd love to be a Seinfeld buff. What do you have to do to become a buff?
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You'll have to dress different. you'll have to act different. You'll have to grow a mustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and you'll need a new bedspread and new curtains. You'll have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. You'll have to get new friends. You'll have to get buff friends.
 
AAABatteries said:
jhib said:
I'd love to be a Seinfeld buff. What do you have to do to become a buff?
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You'll have to dress different. you'll have to act different. You'll have to grow a mustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and you'll need a new bedspread and new curtains. You'll have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. You'll have to get new friends. You'll have to get buff friends.
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Hmmm. So adult. It's like stockings and martinis and William Holden.
 
I'd go The Contest narrowly over The Merv Griffin Show. I was thinking awhile back, tho, about my favorite scene from each of the ensemble.
For me that would be Kramer's bar scene in The Sniffing Accountant. From getting conked on the head with the part of the bar the waitress raises up to drinking a glass of beer with a lit cigarette in his mouth, that bit always has me rolling.
My favorite Elaine bit is "The Subway" when she's going to the lesbian wedding and the car stops and starts a couple times. In the dark and freaking out she yells in her head, "************!!!!"
Can't really pin down Jerry but maybe in "The Soup" when he's on the phone with Kenny Bania and he milks a laugh for a huge amount of time when they're talking about getting a meal together. A good job of acting with minimal dialog.
For George I can't do it...just too many great moments. I'll think of one and then think of another I like better.
 
Gally said:
I can't remember a day that has gone by that throughout the course of the day I can't relate something to a Seinfeld episode
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I passed a Firestone tire store awhile ago and almost immediately thought of George flying out to their corporate HQ in Akron, Ohio to deliver his "jerk store" line.

Jerry: you're flying to Akron just to zing a guy?

George: it's not about him. To have a line as perfect as 'jerk store' and never use it. I couldn't live with myself.
 
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