Nov.25 show

Again, another terrific show.
 It reminded me of an old Seidelmeyer commercial (You can always tell a
Seidelmeyer; "Where's the beef?" was the most famous).  It was for some
airline.
   A man enters the plane door, ticket in hand and sees a scene quite
different from what we usually expect which is a bunch of people getting
settled into the rows of seats.  In a pleasantly lighted area, men and
women are laughing and covorting with each other, loosening their clothes;
seemingly getting ready more for a raucous party of which golden memories
are made of instead of just for a flight.  The steward standing at the
door, turns back to our new traveller after sharing a joke with some other
passenger.  He smiles and tells him, "Welcome aboard, sir" and takes his
ticket.  He looks at it and the smile leaves his face like a mator'd who
has just found out you are nobody and have no reservation.  He points to
a doorway on the left covered with a fabric drape (like in Seinfeld) and
says, "Yes, coach. Right this way".  Our traveler who up to this time has
had an anticipitory smile on his face watching all the fun, now goes
through the doorway.  What he sees is a chilling sight.  Coach looks like
the fusilage of an old WWII Russian army plane.  No seats.  Bare metal
walls.  Everything is painted green with a layer of grime.  The passengers
mostly looking like refugees from some holocaust are sitting on the floor
against the sides of the plane.  Several have cages of chickens with them.
The only light is a bare bulb with no shade hanging from the ceiling.
The only music is made by a refugee turning an old 78 rpm record on an old
Victrola record player by hand.  A quick shot to the travelers face dourly
looking at his ticket.  The narrator says something like, "Some airlines
have a big difference between coach and class.  We at [fill in here]
believe all our passengers.........."
   Everytime I remember this commercial, I crack up.  I believe it won
an award
   One of my favorite scenes of the Seinfeld show was Elaine trying to
sneak into first class and getting booted out.
   Or Kramer, after convincing George to give him his credit card, comes
back with two supersaver tickets.  George says "You idiot, these aren't
refundable." To which Kramer says "Well, she convinced me it was a great
deal".
  After becoming addicted to some fine TV comedies throughout the 70s and
80s, I have to say that this one has reached the top as far as I'm
concerned.  I feel the perplexity of the poster who asked how she could
explain to her boyfriend just how funny this show is.  I find it impossible
to describe to anyone not watching this show how funny these scenes are.
It is not only the incredibly intelligent and truly absurd scripting.
It's the finest comedy ensemble put together in a long time.  Each is
absolutely perfect in presenting their character's point of view.
I could boringly describe each of them but I will end by just pointing out
that when Elaine gets that mischevious, wide eyed smile on her face, I
don't even have to hear her next line, I'm already beginning to bubble
with laughter inside.
ALAN ROGERS

<<I find it impossible to describe to anyone not watching this show how funny these scenes are.>>

I like to shop at the duty-free shop. Yeah, I like to shop at the duty-free shop.

You run like a girl ...

I think what makes this stuff funny is that everybody has these experiences but some of them are so insignificant that you never talk about them. (Elaine's face as she entered the polluted airplane bathroom was great)

not to mention George's face before/after he entered the airplane bathroom. :-)