I was watching the King of Queens last night for a bit and saw this part where the main character tried to get a candy bar out of a machine. It was too much like Seinfeld not to be a rip-off IMHO, but what do you think? He put in his "last 75 cents" and the candy of course got stuck...so he goes crazy and yells at it to "jump" and shakes the machine, etc... Maybe I'm wrong but it just seemed to close to the episode at the car dealership (sorry, not a big enough fan to know the episode number :)
Seinfeld and the King of Queens
S09E11 The DealershipretroAug 17, 19992 years later4 posts by 4 posters
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Viewers debate whether King of Queens copied Seinfeld's vending machine scene, with consensus that the trope is too common to constitute plagiarism and that the spinoff lacks Seinfeld's charm.
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ptackbar wrote:
I don't think that in itself would be a rip off of Seinfeld. The act of machines taking money and not giving the candy is too common for Jerry to 'own' it. If they had continued on with some silly antics like having a ridicurous Twix taste contest then they would have stolen that from Seinfeld - but why? :-)
JERRY: Did you just say, "ridicurous?"
DONNA: Ridiculous.
PAUSE
JERRY: I thought you said, "ridicurous."
:-) Couldn't resist. (That's from "The Chinese Woman," by the way.)
DONNA: She was trying to call you, but...
JERRY: The rines were crossed?
PAUSE. DONNA AND GEORGE LOOK AT JERRY
GEORGE: Did you just say, "rines?"
JERRY: Did I?
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ptackbar wrote in message news:[email]...
I saw that too and was glad he didn't take it any further. I remember an old Simpsons episode where it happens to Homer and a few years before "The Dealership"
It was also the first time that I watched King of Queens and Jerry Stiller without the Seinfeld touch is just a shadow of what he was on Seinfeld. I wonder about Jackie Chiles now and how that's gonna workout.
Mo