Seinfeld did quite a few parody gags and episodes. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are the Barber of Seville, Schindler's List, JFK and Apocalypse Now.
I really enjoyed the Schindler's List parody. At the end, Elaine's boyfriend (The Close Talker) was distraught because the Seinfelds had left town and he could have sold his watch or his ring to buy them one more dinner...one more show...etc. LOL!
Can you think of others?
Paige
*Newman:"Oh the humanity!" (as he is driving his mail van into the fire of the paint thinner left by Kramer on the highway mile he adopted)
*Newman's parody on Winston Wolf from Pulp Fiction (riding fast in a bad-*** black car and coming out with sunglasses to solve the problem of the unwanted muffin stumps by eating them) - that one ROCKED
*Peterman's parody on Apocalyse Now when Elain finds him in Myannmar ("it will always remain Burma to me!") and shows him the urban sombrero and he goes:"The horror... the horror..."
And, of course, the entire character of Jacky Charles and (see the Inside Look) how the actor Phillip Morris savored the lines about suing the tobacco companies...
"Paige" wrote in message news:[email]...
There was a nod to The Godfather when Elaine went to see Newman about disposing of the barking dog.
How about this double-whammy from The Pick:
The Elephant Man (Jerry: I am NOT an animal!)
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice (Jerry: If we pick, do we not bleed?)
Paige
Clearly you're more cultured than I. Actually, I caught the Elephant Man line and I had heard the 2nd one many times, I just didn't know what it was from. There's probably tons of stuff throughout the series that goes clear over my head.
Aren't architects supposed to be well-cultured too?
"Art Vandelay" wrote in message news:[email]...
Sure. Fake architects are fake cultured. The kind that cut a button off & punch a whole in a long sleeve shirt so they can use the cuff links someone gave them.
There's also Festivus: according to the Inside Look interview with the authors (including O'Keefe), they don't mention a book behind the concept: they only mention the tradition instituted by the O'Keefe family. If you read about Festivus in Wikipedia, there is a reference to a book written about Festivus not by Dan O'Keefe after the show but by his father long before the show... Don't know to what degree that is true but if it is, this could qualify as a parody...
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How about this double-whammy from The Pick:
The Elephant Man (Jerry: I am NOT an animal!)
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice (Jerry: If we pick, do we not bleed?)
Paige
"Alexis Machine" wrote in message news:g8hjl9$[email]...
George: "A George, divided against itself, cannot stand".
Taken from Abraham Lincoln's speech as a Senate candidate on June 16, 1858 as paraphrased from the new testament, "A house, divided against itself, cannot stand."
"Dimitrios Paskoudniakis" wrote in message news:[email]...
In The Big Salad, the car chase by the police of Steve Gendeson, Kramer's golf buddy who murdered Bobby Pincus the dry cleaner, is a parody of the OJ Simpson car chase by the LA police.
Similarly, the character Jackie Chiles is a parody of OJ defense attorney Johnny Cochran.
...and there is also the California crime scene investigation (when Kramer goes to California and tries to make it in Hollywood and someone is killed and the evidence leads to "a man known only as Kramer"): I can't pin the movie but the way those two policemen are talking reminds me of every crime scene in too much TV and movie material...
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"Alexis Machine" wrote:
That has _Dragnet_, with Jack Webb, stamped all over it. What started as Dragnet was both a TV show and a movie.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:06:37 -0700, "osmium" wrote:
The library cop was also a Dragnet parody.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:10:18 +0400, "Alexis Machine" wrote:
I don't think that was a parody of a movie, per se, so much as a parody of Mark Furman, and to a lesser extent, his partner, from the OJ investigation.
...HOW DID I FORGET! There's the parody on Moby Dick in that episode where there is an African-american policeman with an eye patch who has been trying to ticket a particular car for so many years :oD (that turns out to be Newman's)
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On Aug 20, 10:11 pm, "Alexis Machine" wrote:
Excellent! I had no idea about the Moby Dick reference. Awesome.
Paige
I came across another reference to Moby Dick from the 2nd DVD (Season 2): when George is asking Jerry to pick his books for him from Marlene's, the girl with the southern accent that George broke up with, Jerry is challenging the need for keeping a book once you've read it - he says something like if you re-read Moby Dick, Ahab and the whale are friends...
"Paige" wrote in message news:[email]... On Aug 20, 10:11 pm, "Alexis Machine" wrote:
Excellent! I had no idea about the Moby Dick reference. Awesome.
Paige
...and there's also the parody on Nixon (Morty Seinfeld just before he gets into the Cadillac)
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:18:21 -0700 (PDT), Paige wrote:
The episode in which Kramer wants to opt out of the mail has a scene with Newman warning Kramer about "how it's going to go down. One crisp autumn day you'll be walking along, someone, maybe even someone you know..." (or words to that effect).
That's a parody of "Three Days of the Condor" with Robert Redford, Max von Sydow, and Faye Dunaway.
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:18:21 -0700 (PDT), Paige wrote:
Isn't the part played by the "boyfriend" in the episode where Jerry is "diddlin' the maid" (so sophisticated), a parody of Joe Pantaleria's role in "Risky Business?"
By "Barber of Seville" are you referring to the "Edward Scissorhands" parody? Or is that a different one?
The Barber episode where Jerry wants to change barbers but is afraid of making his regular barber angry. The music from the opera is actually played during the dramatic scene in Jerry's apartment when he is found out.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:31:05 -0700 (PDT), Paige wrote:
But also, throughout the episode are references by name to "Edward Scissorhands" which may, itself, be a paean to BoS (I don't know--never saw it).
In the episode, the two barbers do mention how their favorite movie is Ed Scissorhands and how that movie influenced them is too apparent to call that a parody. Now if the movie itself is a parody on BoS or not is a different matter for which we need to ask a well-cultured person like an architect (where's Art?) - I did see the movie ages ago and my knowledge of BoS, I must admit, is too vague...
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In article , "Alexis Machine" wrote:
Save for the themes of jealousy and hiding, there are few elements in common with Beaumarchais's comedy. Based on Elaine's comment in The Opera, however, we can guess that the music of Rossini's opera buffa is quite familiar to Jerry. :-)
from wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barber_of_Seville>:
"The overture and Largo al factotum have been famously parodied in animated cartoons starring Woody Woodpecker (The Barber of Seville), Bugs Bunny (Rabbit of Seville and Long-Haired Hare), Porky Pig and Daffy Duck (You Ought to Be in Pictures), Tom and Jerry (The Cat Above and the Mouse Below), and The Simpsons ("The Homer of Seville"), as well as in Tex Avery's Magical Maestro and Warner Bros.' One Froggy Evening."
I like the look on Newman's face at the end when Jerry's got him cornered in the barber's chair. Oh the terror! Yet another nod to The Godfather.
In THE PEN: Elaine after taking too many muscle relaxers for her back yells STELLAAAAA!!! (a take from Marlon Brando). Prior to that: Stella, uncle Leo's wife "This better be good... I m missing Golden Girls for this." // Jerry's mom "I hate that woman like poison." Phil