Funniest "dialogue-less" moments

We all know that this show is renowned for its witty dialogue. However, often overlooked are those hilarious scenes where no dialogue is spoken. The "Pez Dispenser" episode contained two such moments. The first was when Jerry put the Pez dispenser on Elaine's seat after she went outside to laugh. The camera panned from Jerry...to the Pez dispenser...to George, who was giving Jerry a look that could kill! The other scene was when Jerry picked up the Pez dispenser and had his fingers situated so that it looked like the Pez dispenser was clapping. The look on Jerry's face while he's "clapping" is hysterical, and I crack up every time I see it. Any other examples of non-verbal comedy on this show that anyone can think of?? Gary...

Half of the things that Kramer gets himself into. For instance, the time he dumps cement into the washing machine (The Revenge). No dialogue, but fantastic comedy.

"Robbin or Gary" writes:

    How about the end of the 'tape recorder message' when Jerry
, George, and Kramer all find out that Elaine was the one who
left the dirty message. The camera pans through each of the
guys each with a 'horny puppy dog' look on their faces if such
a thing exists. You know what I mean. Good topic by the way.
        Joe

Remember at the end of the episode with Jon Lovitz when George is trying on the hair peice and Gary Fogul (Lovitz) walks in and Jerry and George exchange looks and then George starts simling and adjusting his hair peice while Jerry starts arguing with Fogul in the background? To me this is one of the funniest exchange of looks. Without the "looks" in this scene it wouldn't have been as funny.

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Or how about when Kramer is dressed up like a pimp, and is walking down the street with that "funky" music playing?? I love that part. But then again, nearly all of Kramer's dialogue-less bits are funny.

-Simonfeld d:] ("Do you see the hat yet?")

My favorite is from the episode where Jerry almost had sex with one of Elaine's co-workers. Jerry and George are in Monk's and Jerry's telling George that Elaine's friend started talking dirty to him in his apartment. George, of course, insists on knowing what she said. Jerry whispers what she said to him in George's ear and George squeezes the plastic ketchup bottle such that it shoots a stream of ketchup across the room.

A hilarious double-entendre sight gag!!

"Oh, that is dirty. That's absolutely filthy!"

Keep in mind they never actually said they had sex.

jacob

One of the funniest "dialogue-less" moments has to be from "The Pez Dispenser" episode. After Elaine has gotten up from the piano recital because she was laughing and the Tweety Bird Pez Dispenser takes her place. Also, later Jerry clapping for Tweety after the recital is over. A very funny episode.

Jason French [email]

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Actually, when I first posed this question a couple of weeks ago, this was the scene that inspired my message. Glad to see someone else appreciates it...

Disrupting a piano recital is not my idea of humor, but "it's just a show."

How about the classic moment when George eats the eclair out of the garbage pail, and the girlfriend's mother walks in?

Or in "The Contest" at various points who's tossing and turning, and who's sleeping like a baby :)

How about in "The Pledge Drive" when Jerry looks in the girl's closet and there are about 100 cases of the "Today Sponge" ?

Or "The Wigmaster" with Kramer strutting down the street with the Technicolor dreamcoat, the white hat, and cane?

This one KILLED me - in "The Rye" when Elaine's saxophonist boyfriend decides to add "a new number to his repertoire", then can't play the tax at all during his important audition? Just standing there pathetically blowing into the sax with horrible noises coming out? Then, Elaine just sheepishly sneaks out, because only she knows WHY he couldn't play.

Same episode, when George is trying to reel in the marble rye using Susan's father's fishing pole, then turns around to find them all staring at him in disbelief?

In general, I think this series does a lot more than most without dialogue. There is a lot of depth, and most of the episodes are still funny even if you've seen them several times.

Joe .

Keep in mind they never actually said they had sex.

jacob

Don't know if this one has been mentioned, but I really liked George "practicing" his soup-ordering protocol waiting in line after the Soup Nazi "unsouped" him the first time. George is mouthing the words and miming handing the money to SN, kinda like DeNiro in "Taxi Driver" looking over his shoulder, saying "You talking to me?" and miming drawing his gun.

Lee Salem wrote: I really liked George

George is mouthing the words and

What a stretch that is!

George timidly practising his dollar-offering technique, and Travis Bickle with his array of ammunition ready to slaughter the entire NYC underworld?

Maybe you were thinking of the armoire bandits in the same Soup Nazi episode, who did the "are you talkin' to me?" bit when Kramer and Jerry met them on the street.

In the same reference: what's the deal with the guys being wimps when approached by the gay guys? In more than one episode, when approached, the characters flee confrontation with "the bandits."

"Not that there's anything wrong with that!" KB

In article , [email](Simon C Russell) writes:

Just after that scene in that episode comes my favorite dialogue-less moment. It's when Jon Lovitz tells George that the City of NY took his parking spot for some scofflaw (Newman). George is no longer bound and Jerry looks at him at raises both arms since he's just dying to confront Lovitz about lying about having cancer. Jerry and George's motions in that scene were classic.

The last scene in The Friar's Club where Elaine puts the hearing aid in her ear and the alarm goes off was hilarious. I was rolling on the floor.

That was the best.

Maybe Elaine's best moment.

[Simon Harris]

I haven't seen that episode. What season is it?

I think the funniest "dialogue-less" moment must be when Kramer goes bananas as he hears Mary Hart's (sp?) voice in Jerry's apartment and falls behind his couch.

When Kramer was the curator for that restored historic movie theater, and Jerry had to pretend he wore glasses so he put on these impossibly thick cokebottles that made him look hilarious!

The great thing about the "Pez-clapping" vignette was it came right after the guy outside said to Elaine about the intervention, "He'd do it if Jerry is there. Richie respects Jerry." The subsequent image of Jerry holding up the Pez dispenser in front of his face with that idiotic grin and clapping with his index fingers was perfect counterpoint to that last line! :-)

I mentioned this one some time ago: After Jerry got the exceptionally bad haircut from his usual barber, Kramer entered Jerry's apartment, saw Jerry's hair, and shuddered violently from head to toe. My wife and I were rolling on the floor as we played those few seconds over and over from the video tape...

Steve

I recall a few such moments, including:

George's reaction to Jerry repeating a recent date's "dirty talk", which sent ketchup flying across the diner.

George and Jerry peeking at the NBC exec's daughter's cleavage (George turned the peek into a stare and got busted).

Kramer's reaction to the very explicit talk on Jerry's recorder (he listened on headphones, and it turned out to be Elaine).

Or how about Kramer rooting for his horse at the off-track betting place, and then having the mugger come after him?

Kramer is the physical-comedy king of Seinfeld. Just having him burst through Jerry's door can put me on the floor.

SM

my favorite is the moment when George and his mother walk in on Kramer helping George's father on with the "bro" (or is it manzierre?) while doing the cha cha.

I just thought of another one: when George spies the eclair in the trash can ("below the rim") and reaches for it just as his girlfriend's mother comes into the room.

Steve

In article [email] (Steven Wasserbaech) writes:

That reminds me of an even better one from the same episode - George spills coffee on a guys windshield, and starts cleaning it off with a rag. He looks up, and sure enough his girlfriends mother is across the street watching, thinking he is a homeless window watcher!

--Ted Weiman

One of my favorites is from "The Jacket". Jerry and George have just sat down with Elaine's overbearing father. Both Jerry and George are visibly (extremely) uncomfortable, and as soon as their drinks arrive, they frantically grab for their beverages.

Throughout the scene, both Jerry and George are genious in their physical expression of overwhelming social discomfort.

It has to be the end of the episode that the Costanzas and Seinfelds get mad at each other because they were moving to the same condos in Florida. The super in Jerry's building had just installed low-flow shower heads in all the bathrooms. Kramer "just wasn't himself" with flat hair, so he and Newman had bought some black market shower heads. Anyway, Kramer had spent about $400(?) on a head that circuses used to wash elephants. The last scene shows Kramer about to jump into the shower, turning it on, then slowly and painfully he gets flipped completely over and out of the shower, ripping the curtain. Hilarious!

peace and veggies Amy R. Kelley