"The Cadillac" - The goodbyes at the end.

The scene with Jerry's parents leaving their home and waving to all the neighbours - is that sending up a movie or something?

Scoot wrote in article ...

Well, not really a movie, but it is making fun at Richard Nixon's departure from the White House (just as he is getting into the helicopter).

I think actually, it is more specifically a send-up the movie "Nixon" which came out several months before "The Cadillac". Part of the set-up is the elaborate pompous music which to me indicates the writers were specifically trying to send up the movie rather than just Nixon's real life departure alone.

Jimmy Brain wrote in article ...

helicopter).

i agree...the question is-does anyone out there remember jerry and kramer on a bus at the end of one episode? kramer's nose starts bleeding and jerry starts comforting him. ("i ain't goin to no stinking bellview") remember? was this a movie parallel? if so what movie?

Jerry & Kramer on the bus is supposed to recall MIDNIGHT COWBOY.

In article , [email] wrote:

Midnight Cowboy-- with Jon Voight (you'll remember George bought *his* car!) and Dustin Hoffman.

That was a sendup of Nixon saying Goodbye after he resigned due to Watergate!

Geez, I'm Canadian, and I know this stuff. :-)

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Nixon's farewell after he resigned (no movie)

Richard M. ("Im not a crook") Nixon's departure from the White House..just swap the Cadillac for a Helicopter.

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[email] (Scoot) wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong-to all who are claiming it's a sendup of Richard Nixon leaving to white house in disgrace, but no movie. But isn't it a fairly obvious send up of Oliver Stone's "Nixon?" I know a lot of people haven't seen it, but come on.

-Newman (It's just a coincidence. Really.)