Fans debate which of Kramer's business ideas is the dumbest, citing examples like the DIY pizza place, car periscope, bladder for ships, and other schemes.
Just for the sake of starting a debate. What do you think Kramer's dumbest idea is? The 'do it yourself' pizza place, or the car periscope? What about the 'bladder for ships'?
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http://www.geocities.com/rick_criddle/actually, the bottles to michigan for $.10 instead of $.05, using newman's mail truck to bump the vehicle cost curve. i thought that was pretty dumb.
the butter shave....feeding a horse beans......the list goes on & on.
ds
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selling his clothes to banya, without thinking ahead that he has no other clothes to get home.
"DS" wrote:
LEVELS!
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He actually fed the horse Beef-a-rino.
-Chooch
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The tie dispenser was pretty bad.
Brian
Only fresh food.
Swimming in the East River.
Sleeping...what... 15 minutes out of every hour?
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[DaVinci sleep, right?]
How about deciding to never talk again.
--JKB
Yes, that show with sally weaver was a bad idea too. Don
Jason Barber wrote:
...And there's the winner! Swimming in the East River, the question comes to mind, "Why?"...
"Bladder for ships, actually, that's not a bad idea!"
I'll go with the smoking lounge he opened in his apartment. It back fired on him when all the smoke ruined his complexion ....." look away, I'm hideous....." Steve wrote in message news:[email]...
How about "Beach" cologne??
How about blacking out highway stripes to make his section of the road roomier.
Hot clothes
Blue jeans
i thought the peterman reality tour was pretty bad though i did like the pasta statues--fusilli jerry because he's silly lol
lea
"When I like them they don't like me and when they like me I don't like them." George Costanza 'Seinfeld'
Business Ideas
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A roll-out tie dispenser [The Sniffing Accountant]
"The Beach" - A cologne that smells like the beach [The Pez
Dispenser][The Pick]
A pizza parlor where you make your own pizza pies [The Couch]
A bladder system to contain oil tanker spills [The Voice]
Ketchup and mustard in the same bottle [The Voice]
Rickshaw business [The Bookstore]
Bottle deposit returns [The Bottle Deposit]
Coffe table, coffee table book, that becomes a coffee table (with a
coaster) [The Cigar Store Indian][The Opposite][TheWizard]
2.9% financing on Toyota one-ton pickups [The Voice]
Remodel the Cloud Club restaurant in the Chrysler Building [The Voice]
Periscopes in cars [The Invitations]
PB&J's -- A peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich restaurant [The Friars Club]
An alarm clock that tells you the weather (Feldman) [The Bizzaro Jerry]
Peterman Reality Tour [The Muffin Tops]
Sold raincoats with Morty [The Raincoats]
Sold old records with Newman [The Old Man]
Organized Jewish singles night [The Fatigues]
The Bro -- A bra for chesty men [???]
Importing "Cubans" to roll cigars [The English Patient]
Buying a rooster to get fresh, cage-free eggs.[The Little Jerry]
A mattress filled with sand -- "It's like sleeping on a beach" [The Nap] Other Ideas
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Levels in the apartment [The Stake Out]
Making the apartment look like a ski lodge by using wood wallpaper [???]
Cooking with a garbage disposal in the shower [The Apology]
Eating only fresh food [The Soup]
No warm water in the shower (actually Tor Ekman's idea...) [The Heart
Attack]
Sleeping only 20 min/3hr like Da Vinci [The Friar's Club]
Car windshield coffee table [The Truth]
Storing blood in a fridge [The Blood]
Installing a screen door on his apartment [The Serenity Now]
Taking dog cough medicine [The Andrea Doria]
Retiring and moving down to florida [The Keys]
Deciding never to talk again [The ??? ]
Quiting from having mail [The Junk Mail]
Using butter as shaving cream [The Butter Shave]
Promoting wall of tenant's photos in the building lobby [The Kiss Hello]
Turning the apartment into a Swedish spa by using a hot tub. [The Hot Tub]Turning the apartment into a talk show set [The Merv Griffin Show] Turning the aprtment into a smoking area. [The Abstinence] Making sandwiches with meats sliced with a slicer [The Slicer] Test driving a car to see if it fits jerry's lifestyle [The Dealership] Reversing the peephole in the door [The Reverse Peephole] Making statues of people out of pasta that match their personalities [The Fusilli Jerry] Making sausages with Newman [The Blood] Removing the plates & scratching off the VIN on Jerry's Saab [The Puerto Rican Day] Going to Japan [The Finale]
(compiled mostly by John Weiskopf, Seinfeld worshiper (As known as Lord Stupid...)
rofl!
you could add selling his clothes to Banya, without thinking he doesn't have any other clothes to go home.
"The News Guy(Mike)" wrote:
It was a bad idea for him to settle with the coffee company before hearing them out. Also a bad idea to talk communism. Don
I think also that is was maybe not in the best interest of the show to address topics like communism. However, i think that it is important that the show was not driven to that of younger viewers so i don't think that it impressed upon many young minds which is a good thing.
The point of that show was not to convert people to communism, it was jokes. Donny
"Jennifer A. Root" wrote:
Donald Frank McHugh II wrote in message ...
jokes.
Somebody once posted here than it was a searing social critique of baby-boomer superficiality. I must confess I was more than a little dubious.
Brian
If you are talking about the episode The Race - (where among other things, Kramer is accused by the children of being a communist) - It was a parody of the McCarthy trials in the USA of the hollywood writers where they too, were accused of being communists and the Hollywood leaders, especially their union leader, did not come to their aid. This episode is also linked to the movie High Noon when the townspeople would not come to the aid of the sheriff when the gunslingers (mccarthy people) were coming for him.. Those writers were blacklisted (Elaine was blacklisted from the chinese restaurant) The High Noon connection (the writer of High noon, was blacklisted) - the confrontational gunfight in the street - the confrontational Seinfeld race in the street. There were many connections to the communist "trials" of the 50's. Kramer as a Santa faking a foreign tongue - a parody of the "materialistic" movie Miracle on 34th street where the Santa seamlessly breaks into Swedish(?) to talk to a little girl. What a great episode this was - very deep, but also funny and even if you missed the analogies there were so many things going on.
The News Guy(Mike) wrote in message
No it wasn't anything like that. Nothing obvious at all. The poster suggested that the shallowness of the main characters throughout the entire series represented the shallowness of their whole generation - as if we were supposed to despise what they stood for rather than be simply amused by their lack of substance.
I was just lurking at the time so didn't query the argument. I wish I had now.
Brian
In article , "Jennifer A. Root" wrote:
You obviously don't get the show at all, do you?
great list, except that technically the idea of a car periscope never actually happened, it was just an idea Kramer had in Jerry's imagination. We could also add going to return a pair of pants while wearing the very pants he was returning. And how about the restaurant called P B &J's where all they serve is peanut butter and jelly?
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MerriF311 wrote:
I think that was actually a great idea!