That is One Magic Question.

A genie has granted you the power to get a complete and thoroughly honest answer to any one question posed to any one person connected with Seinfeld. What would your question be (and to whom is it directed)?

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In article , [email] (art vandelay) wrote:

Okay, here's mine:

What are you, an idiot? (To Jerry Seinfeld as why he turned down $5 million per episode just to do one more season).

Adam writes:

--------------------------- Why in the world would a man that has more money than he can possibly spend devote a year of his life to doing A when he would rather be doing B?

One only has one life to live and to waste it grubbing for the most possible money is stupid in the extreme. I decided that many years ago, took action on it, and have not regretted it for a minute.

devote a year of his life to doing A when he would rather be doing B?

One only has one life to live and to waste it grubbing for the most possible money is stupid in the extreme. I decided that many years ago, took action on it, and have not regretted it for a minute.>

My question is for Jerry: I have only one question these days and this is it:

Was "bosco" in parody of Citizen Kane's "rosebud"? I HAVE to know this.

I always figured it was, I mean it was just obvious, like "The Magic Loogie" was an obvious parody of "The Magic Bullet" in JFK...no explaination was neccessary for the joke, it was obvious...

From: [email] (Joemovie) .>I always figured it was, I mean it was just obvious, like "The Magic Loogie" was an obvious parody of "The Magic Bullet" in JFK...no explaination was neccessary for the joke, it was obvious...>

I never even realized that the magic loogie was a take-off on JFK (but then I have not heard the phrase "magic bullet" - was this in the JFK movie or on in news references?

It always amazes me how an episode can be so hilarious without even recognizing these satires. Like the Tanya Harding one - I know people who loved that episode and never recognized it - yet knowing that really makes the final scene.

I think this is part of their brilliance - having these satires in there yet having the episode able to stand on its own. cynth

<< I never even realized that the magic loogie was a take-off on JFK (but then I have not heard the phrase "magic bullet" - was this in the JFK movie or on in news references? >>

If you watch JFK, you will see a classic scene called "The Magic Bullet" scene, in it Kevin Costner (in the role Jerry takes in the satire) uses two members of his legal team (one of them is Wayne Knight, or Newman, which makes the Loogie scene all the funnier) to recreate how the cops have reported the shooting of JFK, with only one bullet. The way it is shown (much like the way the spit is shown hitting Kramer, with old news footage sort of) proves that if it was one bullet that hit Kennedy from the back, it was one magic bullet. Not to mention that if the shot did come from the back, the location of suspected killer Oswald, Kennedy's head would have gone foward, but instead, and you may remember this from the line in "The Magic Loogie" scene, JFK's head goes "Back and to the left." If you have never seen the film, I recommend it highly, I didn't get the joke myself the first time I saw the episode, the scene just struck me as funny, but recently I watched JFK and then saw this episode again, finally realizing the hidden joke behind it...

<<It always amazes me how an episode can be so hilarious without even recognizing these satires. Like the Tanya Harding one - I know people who loved that episode and never recognized it - yet knowing that really makes the final scene.>>

Maybe this is an episode I missed, or just the satire, but I don't recall the Tanya Harding one, can you clarify for me...thanks...

Joemovie wrote:

This was The Understudy. Another clever weaving of real parody with comedy. Tanya Harding's husband and friend beat up Nancy Karrigan so she could not compete against Tanya in the US Olympics. (but she did) This is what everyone thought George did when he knocked down Bette Midler so Jerry's girlfriend could star in Rochelle Rochelle. Then when Genice does go on stage she has a shoelace undone, cries and has to stop. This is what happened to Tanya in the Olympic event when she skated out on the ice.

What I liked in the episode was Kramer's lecture about Broadway.
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Kramer: So my dear you think you can get to Broadway.
        Well let me tell you something.  Broadway has no room
        for people like you.  Not the Broadway I know.
        My Broadway takes people like you and eats them
        up and spits them out.  My Broadway is the Broadway of
        Merman, and Martin, and Fontain, and if you think you
        can build yourself up by knocking other people down...
        ...GOOD LUCK...   (exits)

Oh...I recall the episode, I guess I just never understood the joke...

Joe: "Oh...I recall the episode, I guess I just never understood the joke..."

And was it funny without knowing all that?

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Of course it was, I had never made the connection until you pointed out to me last year. The whole Bette Middler incident/plot is self contained anyway. The Elaine subplot is also one of my favorites and the meeting with Peterman in the rain is pure movie magic.

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Yes, it really was...this was one of the first Seinfeld's I ever watched, and I still to this day enjoy it. That's the good thing about Seinfeld, they make a pun at something with a situation that is funny on it's own, it just happens to be a pun of something else...same case for "the magic loogie" a classic scene that will make you laugh whether you have seen JFK or not...understanding the pun makes it a bit funnier...

Joe:

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Yeah, and I keep learning new references I missed (like the JFK one). I'm so glad I found this out (and it WAS incredibly funny even without knowing it).

AND MO:

YES, this was great. I had forgotten this was in that episode. I still don't have a memory that retains all the pieces of a show unless I've watched it over and over.

Cynth

Hey people - if you want to learn more about the real movie references and parodies take a look at my Real Movies page on my web site. I think it helps with the enjoyment of the shows when they mean more to you.

The News Guy(Mike) wrote:

>Hey people - if you want to learn

Shameless.

Phil

Wayne Knight was used as part of the magic bullet/loogie demonstration in JFK as well as in the Keith Heranandez ep.

Paul Valenti

didn't that make it all the funnier? I thought so...

I think there were books/papers about the JFK assisination being a cover-up conspiracy which coined the phrase "magic bullet". I think one or some of these books are what inspired the Oliver Stone movie.

I think this episode aired about the time of the hype over the JFK movie.

Life's a journey, not a guided tour.

His a Question Art, I heard that this season with out Seinfeld on NBC is the time that they are in jail and next season they will be out of jail and the series continues from there. What is your take on this?

His an answer, Cinnamon Manch:

Not gonna happen.

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