The stand-in

I think that was the title of the episode. I have recently become a big Seinfeld fan. Missed the whole shebang when it first aired. I have a Tivo season pass and see 2 episodes every night. Some are repeating already but the show is so good that's OK. During the "stand-in" with Bette Midler there is a scene where Jerry is beginning to comfort the crybaby on the couch. George is walking towards the door. (to exit apt seemingly) Cut to Jerry & crybaby 2 shot and Kramer appears at door. Camera pulls back and there is George sitting on the arm cushion of the couch. (now a 3 shot) This is a very bad jump cut. Did the original air that way?

I am sure that is how it was originally shown. In syndication small scenes may be cut to add advertising time but I doubt very much they would do any additional editing.

I have another question, though. For people like yourself who is watching Seinfeld now, 10-20 years after it was originally broadcast, do you "get" all the social, political, and news, references they make. For example, do you know who the "cry baby" was supposed to be?

"TheNewsGuy(Mike)" wrote in message news:1476e$4a24423b$d8fecd32$[email]...

I thought I had been getting the jokes. But no I don't know who the cry baby was supposed to be. I saw one episode when the series ran and it was the one about who would NOT pleasure themselves first. I thought it was dumb and a bit offensive. I saw the same episode a week or so ago and it was hilarious. I'm in my early 60s so know the 90s well. It's an hour show squeezed into half an hour. I love the characters and enjoy re-running scenes just to watch Elaine's expressions.

As a 60's person you will have a lot in common with Larry David who wrote a lot of the parodies into the show. The "stand-in" was Tanya Harding - injuring Bette like her hubby (Gilooly)injured Nancy Kerrigan - when Tanya got to skate in Nancy's place in the Olympics her skate lace was untied and she had to, in tears, start again (like her play performance at the end of the Seinfeld episode0

Check out my web site for all the movie parodies, too.

The shows were written so richly there was humour and information at many levels. That is why it was so successful.

"TheNewsGuy(Mike)" wrote in message news:a637$4a246e1b$cf7064d5$[email]...

I remember now. (Tanya) I've spent some time at your site in the past. Lots of good stuff there. Thanks ...

"rd" wrote in message news:KP%Ul.31029$[email]...

Tonya Harding to be exact.

On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:03:20 -0400, "TheNewsGuy(Mike)" wrote:

I wouldn't be so sure about that. I don't remember exactly how the scene in question plays out in the "network version," but I've seen some absolutely atrocious hack-n-slash jobs done on syndication prints of many shows. The syndie version of The Simpsons in particular has some jarring cuts, often snipping out dialogue mid-sentence if the "point" of the scene has been made (ie, Homer got the relevant story point out but kept talking - they'll snip everything after the relevant story point.) And of course, shows from the '50s/60s/70s *really* suffer in syndication, losing anywhere from 4 to 6 minutes of content.

Someone (well, several someones) made a really neat, detailed guide to the Simpsons' syndication edits (http://www.snpp.com/episodes/scg.html) - maybe one for Seinfeld is in order...

-lugnut

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

Maybe someone with the DVD set can check this scene. Or... maybe not. Is the DVD version same as broadcast?

Previously, on Usenet "rd" wrote:

That is exactly how the scene plays in the DVD. It is a bad jump.

Lars Stockholm

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

Thanks Lars for checking.