Fans recall Kramer mentioning email in an episode about junk mail, discussing whether it was when he told Newman he could email someone instead of using traditional mail.
Howdy,
Could someone help me with this? I vaguely recall a few weeks ago an episode in which Kramer tells Jerry et al,"You could even e-mail him!" When I heard that I thought, "Oh, I better take note of this--a rare time when e-mail and technology are ever mentioned on Seinfeld," but I didn't. Does anybody remember this line? Who was Kramer referring to?
laura
I remember, ( in the episode where Kramer keeps getting catalogues in the mail and decides to boycott the US postal service), when Kramer goes to the PO to stop his mail he says to Newman that he doesn't need the mail. There are faxes, email, (and he rattles off other things). Could this be the episode that you are thinking of?
"Laura Kimoto" wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.21.0101051707130.8326-100000@uhunix5...
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Anthony J. Mitchell III wrote:
Yes, I think that's it! What season was this from?
laura
...telegram, HoLOGRAM!!! alright alright!!!
I loved that one.....
What the hell is E-mail ??
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Kramer mentions the internet in 'The Butter Shave' (something about Bania giving a good show the night before).
Also in 'The Betrayal', at the end Nina talks about the WWW and e-mail.
Ramsey.
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Ramsey Ramsamoedj wrote:
Does anyone know exactly what was said? I was the one who wrote in a few months ago about how e-mail the Internet and modern day technology seems to be absent in Seinfeld (i.e., George waiting forever to use a pay phone vs. using his own cell phone), but I guess I was wrong...
laura
Laura Kimoto wrote:
The almost total absence of technology is one of the charms of Seinfeld. Watching it now, it almost seems to be from another era, yet it went off the air only two years ago. Does that mean our personal use of technology has so rapidly changed in two years and has been accepted so quickly or that the writers and producers made a conscious effort to keep technology out of the series? Even the computer on Jerry's desk is used only once in 180 episodes [The Stall]. And when computers are used in the workplace they are usually the focus of a joke or a ridiculous situation... Lt. Bookman found Jerry's 1971 overdue book on the computer [The Library], ... the car rental lady had no car even though she found his reservation on the computer [The Alternate Side], ... Elaine wipes a keyboard on her butt [The Apology], ... Organizers are used as tip calculators [The Wizard], ...the beeping Organizer is thrown out of the car[ The Marine Biologist] ...George's book is flagged as "bathroom" on the computer [The Bookstore] , ...
I am sure there are more, but the fact that this series was produced in the 90's and the lack of integration of technology is obvious would tend to suggest that the writers consciously turned to more basic personal interaction and situations for their humour. They also wrote from their perspective and being children of the 50's and 60's they were not exposed to the digital culture nor did they probably embrace it. As comedians, writers and artists they were more likely to observe the electronic revolution from an objective distance than to be an integral part of it as we in this newsgroup are (self selected as we are).
Okay, and from The Betrayal ======================= NINA: And they call it the World Wide Web. You can e-mail anyone!
JERRY: (Mesmerized) What are you, a scientist?!
NINA: Ah, I gotta go. (Gets up to leave)
JERRY: Ah.
NINA: It's great talkin'
JERRY: Great talkin' to you. (Nina leaves) (To himself) What the hell is e-mail?
Mind you, the computers on his desk did change over the years, suggesting he was using them when not being 'filmed'!! It went from an Apple Mac SE to a more usual desktop machine and then was one of those flat screen black things with huge speakers either side. Pretty costly upkeep there if he wasn't using them!
"Maggy <>" wrote:
"more usual desktop machine" LOL "Flat screen black things" :-)
Better be prepared for the "Macintosh Mafia" flames for your post Maggy. You are treading on religious fanaticism here. LOL
BTW jerry uses scraps of paper to record his thoughts, not a computer [The Heart Attack] - great gobs of sigmund? [The Trip] - Tonight show jokes
Indeed, that "flat black thing" was a 20th Anniversary Macintosh.
Tony Clifton wrote in message news:B6847E31.9377%[email]...
Hmm - yes, i vaguely remember it when it came out now. I've noticed loads of references to Email since it was mentioned here - the episode where Kramer runs for presidency, and jerry gives his dad a personal organisor (tip calculator) - Jerry exclaimes it does "other things" like fax and email. I seem to remember another episode where jerry says something about he's gotta get on this world wide web thing, because he's missing out on everything/last to know.
Obviously theres the bit in the betrayal at the beginning (end) where Nina is ending a conversation about the internet. Then, as said before Kramer said he could use email, when he was fed up of the mail/catalogues. There was the episode where Georges dad sells computers in his Garage, elaine is seen working on her pc in her office a number of times (the episode with the deaf guy).
I guess all of these could have just as well not occured in the programme, which still earns it the quality of being non-technology-confrontational over the years.
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, it was written:
That's another expense to add to Jerry's expenditures / losses over the years.
laura
Mike wrote:
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Wow, it's great to see you still hanging around, Mike! It's been a long time.