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S09E08 The BetrayalretroNov 20, 2005, 9:55 AM ET8 years later15 posts by 9 posters
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Fans debate their favorite and least favorite Seinfeld episodes, with mixed opinions on "The Betrayal" backward episode; some find it innovative and funny while others find it confusing and annoying.

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big lipped texan

but lets do it again what is your favorite episode? what is your least liked? mine are the episode when the reporter "outs" jerry and the spongebath scene is just too much! my least favorite is the backward episode, maybe because my add wont let me concentrate enough and also they go to india i get all confused but kramer gettng hit by the snowball is hilarious

You know, twenty years ago, if you had told me I'd be standing here about to solve the world's energy problems, I'd have said you were crazy. Now let's push this giant ball of oil out the window
Richardbig lipped texan

I really like the backwards episode, after seeing it a number of times I find it very funny, and innovative for a sitcom, especially the part where Kramer's has the lollipop that gets bigger and bigger.

but that's just me "big lipped texan" wrote in message news:Z60gf.478$4v.384@fed1read03... but lets do it again what is your favorite episode? what is your least liked? mine are the episode when the reporter "outs" jerry and the spongebath scene is just too much! my least favorite is the backward episode, maybe because my add wont let me concentrate enough and also they go to india i get all confused but kramer gettng hit by the snowball is hilarious

-- You know, twenty years ago, if you had told me I'd be standing here about to solve the world's energy problems, I'd have said you were crazy. Now let's push this giant ball of oil out the window

big lipped texanRichard

yeah the lolipop is cool anyone here know why they chose this method for this episode? "Art Van Dalay" wrote in message news:[email]... I really like the backwards episode, after seeing it a number of times I find it very funny, and innovative for a sitcom, especially the part where Kramer's has the lollipop that gets bigger and bigger.

  but that's just me
    "big lipped texan"  wrote in message news:Z60gf.478$4v.384@fed1read03...
    but lets do it again what is your favorite episode?
    what is your least liked?
    mine are the episode when the reporter "outs" jerry
    and the spongebath scene is just too much!
    my least favorite is the backward episode, maybe because my add wont let me concentrate enough and also they go to india
    i get all confused
    but kramer gettng hit by the snowball is hilarious
    --
    You know, twenty years ago, if you had told me I'd be standing here about to solve the world's energy problems, I'd have said you were crazy. Now let's push this giant ball of oil out the window
osmiumbig lipped texan

"big lipped texan" wrote:

anyone here know why they chose this method for this episode?

My guess is that they did it for the same reason people climb Mt. Everest, because they can, or think they can. And it impresses the hell out of your peers.

I too find it a very annoying episode and it is perhaps the only show I haven't seen straight through at one sitting. But I expect I have actually seen all of it in bits and pieces here and there.

TheNewsGuy(Mike)big lipped texan

Yes, the episode was a parody of Harold Pinter's book that was made into a 1983 film, "Betrayal" It starred Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley and the story unfolded in reverse as you learned more about the characters' histories. Hence the use of the name "Pinter" as the groom.

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TheNewsGuy(Mike)TheNewsGuy(Mike)

No they wouldn't and THAT is what made the show, Seinfeld, great! It appealed to people at many levels; from Kramer's great slap stick comedy, to the great dialogue, to more intellectual parodies. And they melded it so well. The Genius of Larry David!

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TheNewsGuy(Mike)TheNewsGuy(Mike)

All the time - much more laid back than "Seinfeld" but with the same Larry David touch - interwoven plots, good dialogue, interpersonal social and cultural issues, unexpected events that undermine Larry's good intentions,...

It is very clever and funny but not every one relates to it.

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Mark MellinTheNewsGuy(Mike)

In article , "TheNewsGuy(Mike)" wrote:

You know, he used to be called Peter.

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LRodMark Mellin

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:36:19 -0800, Mark Mellin wrote:

I thought it was flaming loaves of bread. But that's not funny.

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rericsLRod

I thought it was "Cleveland 117, San Antonio 109".

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ErMark Mellin

"Mark Mellin" wrote in message news:[email]...

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dfensebig lipped texan

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:55:17 -0800, "big lipped texan" wrote:

A tie between "The Chinese Restaurant" and "The Cheever Letters"

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Erdfense

"dfense" wrote in message news:[email]...

So many... The Cheever Letters is good. The Outing, The Boyfriend are good. I like The Chicken Roaster. The Merv Griffin show is also good.

Male Unbonding, and the one where Jerry can't shake the annoying comedian and the gang tries to go to the movies... dunno the title. I like the 'small is medium, large is x-tra, x-tra is jumbo' exchange though.

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dfensedfense

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:30:36 GMT, projectile vomit chick wrote:

It was a silly episode. Nothing clever about it at all.

rericsbig lipped texan

Can't think of absolute number 1 favorite, but my least favorite is the one where Jerry is doing part of his act to some guy in a hospital bed (don't remember the ep name). I remember there wasn't much of anything funny in it if I recall correctly.

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