Seinfeld Ripp-Offs

May 2, 2001, 4:42 PM ET9 posts by 8 posters
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Viewers discuss whether other TV shows have copied jokes and storylines from Seinfeld, citing examples from Caroline in the City, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Becker with similar comedic premises.

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Kuhn-Munkres

In "The Library" Jerry is hounded by the library detective Mr. Bookman: "The library detective's name is bookman?!". I remember seeing an episode of Caroline In The City where the same gag is used (in a much less funny way)... A bank manager was named Mr. Banks.

And in "The Lip Reader" Elaine pretends tp be deaf so she didn't have to talk to the car service guy ("God forbid you could discuss the jumbles"!). She tells Jerry that she's not a bad person: how she doesn't poof her hair up when she goes to the movies etc. and that "when there's a squirrel in my apartment I say "*get* *out*" I don't throw stuff at them like some people do." (or something like that). There was an ep of Everybody Loves Raymond where Ray says he's not a bad person because he swerves to avoid squirrels in his car.

Also, I don't know what ep it was, but in Jerry's stand up act at beginning of the show, he says (something like) "Who will aliens think are the masters if they're looking at us and see people walking their dogs, and when the dog leaves a mess WE pick it up after them....". (I know that's nowhere near accurate but it's the idea that's important). On Becker, Ted Dansen was commenting on how people who run are idiots: "You see a man and his dog. The guy's running around an oval and the dog's just sitting there watching. Who's more intelligent? The runner or the dog?"

Does anyone know any other shows that have borrowed from the classic?

so true

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I've seen a couple on Becker. George was right.... he is better than Ted Dansen

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Hans MolemanKuhn-Munkres

Actually in the movie "Battlefield Earth" they said something like that, I think. John Travolta said that dogs were the main species of the Earth, but they weren't good for "manual works".

I'm not completelly sure about this...

Brian DicksonHans Moleman

Hans Moleman wrote:

I've always had a sneaking suspicion that the writers on "Suddenly Susan" got the character name of "Nana" from Jerry's grandmother on "Seinfeld" ("...you told Nana to drop dead!"). If I remember correctly, "Susan" debuted shortly after that episode of "Seinfeld" was aired.

-B.
homerr..2KBrian Dickson

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You're kidding, right???

Nana for grandmother is as common as Dick for Richard. [or Art for Arthur;-) ]

homerr.. bachelor#3 [pronounced Eyegore]

Ozmodiarhomerr..2K

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that would also explain why there are no children named Nana

ArtVandelay2000Ozmodiar

I'd like to know why the two examples you gave were Dick and Art.

homerr..2KArtVandelay2000

ArtVandelay2000 wrote in message ...

S'no big thang....

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