Great Idea For Final Episode

Feb 28, 19983 posts by 3 postersalt.tv.seinfeld
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The finale will depict the characters as exaggerated versions of themselves working behind the scenes on a TV set.

Thread proposes finale concept showing characters' exaggerated off-screen personalities on the show's set, with debate about whether it reflects reality.

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Have them do a fake behind the scenes kind a thing on the set.

Show us their "off screen" personalities but have them exaggerated.

Such as: Jerry is highly emotional and pompous. Hard to work with. George is the mastermind behind the show. Writes, Edits, sets the lighting, etc. Kramer is identical person. He doesn't act that way. He is that way in real life.

Start the Episode with them wrapping for the day on a shoot in Jerry's apartment. Jerry delivers a punchline and the director yells, "cut".

But how should Elaine be in real life??

Herb

If you talk with people who've worked with Jerry, he's anything but that. They say he's actually a lot more relaxed and at ease than his on-air persona, and very amiable and pleasant to work with. He skewers himself on the air as being both shallow and high-strung...but that's just his humorous take on himself. The real Jerry's apparently a LOT more likable than TV Jerry, and actually quite a likable man in real life.

Some of the other main characters are also extremely exaggerated. Cosmo Kramer may be a "hipster doofus" but his real-life model Kenny Kramer is a down-to-earth guy, although he shares Cosmo's sense of fun and relaxed approach to life. (I've spoken with him personally several times...)

The real life models for Elaine are also said to be super-exaggerated. The only guy who comes close to his TV depiction is Larry David, who admits a lot of George's passion and paranoia are directly translated from his own life and personality (or at least that's what he says in every interview he's ever given). Bob Smith, afternoons WXXI-AM 1370, Rochester NY