Thread discusses a favorite scene from The Baby Shower where Jerry is killed by the FBI in a dream, with appreciation for Larry Charles's writing and a trivia tidbit about his cameo in The Airport.
I was recently watching "The Baby Shower" episode and I have to say the scene where Jerry is killed by the FBI (in a dream) is one of my favorite scenes ever. They really didn't do many sequences like this during the nine seasons...Larry Charles was one of the best writers.
HowlingBat
Jerry's gonna be a cable boy! (little dance)
"HBat596" wrote in message news:[email]...
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Here's a Didjaknow for you.
In "The Airport", when Elaine has to use the bathroom on the plane, there a guy with a big beard who stinks up the bathroom right before she goes in. That guy was Larry Charles.
Dave (a veritable fount.)
Yeah i knew that...scary looking guy..
HowlingBat
when Elaine has to use the bathroom on the plane, there a guy with a big beard who stinks up the bathroom right before she
<<<Yeah i knew that...scary looking guy..>>>
His smell is scarier.
Art (not hard-of-smelling) Vandelay
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Dave wrote:
Hey, my friend. Long time no post on my part.
Let me ask you something tho': Are you absolutely certain about this? The picture I recall of Larry Charles from those special, Seinfeld-devoted issues of Entertainment Meekly a couple of years ago do not look like that guy at all--even with the whiskers.
Andy MacAskill wrote in message news:...
Nice to see your name again. :-)
Definitely him. Big burly looking guy with a bushy beard. You might be thinking of Larry David?
Dave (gonna check the tribute mag tonight, just to make sure.)
Dave wrote:
Yeah, let us know what you find out. If the big burly guy was him, he sure put on a lot of weight--which happens to the best of us sometimes.
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:50:19 GMT, Andy MacAskill wrote:
You know, Andy, according to every man I've ever met, "size doesn't matter".
Sophie
Ok, I've checked the magazine and I still think it's him. The face looks the same, although it's tough to tell with the glasses, the beard was real and in the episode he was wearing a heavy coat which made him look bigger than he really was. So I'm pretty sure it was him only I'm not as entirely convinced as I was before.
Dave (still open to evidence to the contrary.)
Dave wrote:
Well, gee, my friend. I really thought perhaps you had read this somewhere (that it was him). I guess you hadn't, huh? (I checked not only the more recent of the two Entertainment Weekly "tribute issues," but also my copy of The Seinfeld Universe. Nothing.)
And I suppose it's unlikely that the name of the bathroom guy would appear in the credits for the episode--although I recall seeing Jeff Miller's name (is he a story editor or something like that?) credited for his appearance as the boyfriend of a gal George was interested in. We don't see Mr. Miller's face in whichever episode this was as he's in a hospital room with his face all bandaged up (cf. the bathroom guy's glasses), but we hear him deliver the final line, "George. I win." I suspect that that line is the reason Mr. Miller got a credit, but not the guy who came out of the bathroom--at least I don't think he had a line.
Funny, 'cause I got it from Dennis Kytasaari's by now canonical Seinfeld episode guide.
http://www.tvtome.com/Seinfeld/guide.html
In it, he mentions that the Larry Charles tidbit came from Greg Gattuso, the guy who wrote "The Seinfeld Universe"
No, the bathroom guy didn't have a line, and he wasn't listed in the credits.
Any idea why Helen Slater wasn't credited for playing Becky in "The Good Samaritan"?
Dave (prolly her decision?)
Dave wrote:
Ah. But it's not in the book, even the updated one I have? Seems strange.
Alas, The Seinfeld Universe has no index. Hey, I wonder if we could each put our two heads together and prepare one . . . . Index, that is.
I don't remember which one was The Good Samaritan.
I did learn from this ng that that's Ana Gasteyer from SNL (which I haven't seen in years) who is standing in line for soup in the justly famous Soup Nazi episode. Like the bathroom guy, no line and no credit.
37."The Good Samaritan" gs: Melinda McGraw [ Angela ], Ann Talman [ Robin ], Joseph Malone [ Michael ], Helen Slater [ Becky Gelke (uncredited) ]
Jerry tracks down a hit-and-run driver, then he wants to date her, after dating her he finds out she hit another woman he's always wanted to date. George has an affair with Elaine's friend. Kramer has violent reactions to Mary Hart's voice.
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