another seinfeld contradiction

on last nights seinfeld kramer says newman has no job yet we know he was a postal worker and ran son of sams mail route which took place in the 70's.

Very good.

More on Newman's postal route.

Tim Whatley is on Newman's route and Tim lives by where they inflate the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade baloons (from "The Mom and Pop Store").
But in "The Calzone", Newman's route apparently takes him by Yankee
Stadium.  Now, I don't know NYC that well, but I can't see a mailman
with a route that stretches from downtown to the Bronx.
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Dave wrote:

You could always venture to say Newman changed routes.

Good point.  Many of the things that 'could' be called contradictions
can be easily explained by the passage of time between the episodes in
question, like the 'Kramer bath/shower' bit, or by the changing of an
opinion or attitude, like the 'Elaine sponge/diaphragm' bit.
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Dave wrote:

Another contradiction is when George says that it was in 1989 he met Kruger and his kids on the beach, but later when George has Krugers photo airbrushed with a photo shot by Kramer of Kruger with nude chest, Kruger says that it was 10 years ago that photo was taken. Now should then be 1999, but the Seinfeld series stopped already in 1998. Is this correct or are the Seinfeld episodes taking place into the future as well? Rackare.

Rackare wrote:

Keep in mind that shows do not necessarily take place on their air date- "The Slicer" may very well take place in 1999. More likely, though, either George or Kruger is remembering the date incorrectly. A strong possibility, as people do it all the time. This isn't the same thing as an actual inconsistency in the series.

You're my filter, Keith. They gotta get past you before they make it into the FAQ Inconsistancies list.

Dave wrote:

No problem! Glad to help :)

Keith Davenport wrote:

Ok, thanks, Keith, for the information about this. By the way, is there, in any episode, any evidence for in what year the episode (any episode) is supposed to take place? Another question about the titles of the episodes like "The Fix-up", "The slicer" etc, are these official episode titles or are they just describing the story in that episode? Haven�t been able to discover these titles in the Seinfeld episodes shown here in Sweden, not in the texts in the beginning of the show or in the end of it. Rackare.

Rackare wrote:

Try the following web pages, Rackare.

http://www.xnet.com/~djk/Seinfeld_1.shtml A list of all episodes including titles, production code numbers and original air dates.

http://www.xnet.com/~djk/Seinfeld_2.shtml Complete summaries of every episode.

Between these two links, and my Seinfeld FAQ of course (see below),
you'll have answers to most any question you could ask.  Enjoy!
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to answer your second question first, the titles can be found in books and magazines about the show. I think they are created by executives either for the show or for NBC shortly before the episode airs.

About what year it is, there tends to be an understanding in a work of fiction that isn't specifically set in a stated time period, that it is pretty much "right now". Not specifically today or tomorrow, but generally about "this month" or so. Some early episodes referred to it being the same year, (the mayoral election taking place a few years back for one thing, as well as Elaine telling George how many years she had lived in New York and what year she came there in an early episode). There is no reason to believe that they actually skipped an entire year at some point.

Keith Davenport wrote in message ...

As we learn in "The Finale", the shows do take place on their air date. For example, when Jerry met the virgin (and the bubble boy, stealing the rye and so on...), Judge Vandalay (or whoever it was) referred to a specific date - the air date. On the other hand, this reasoning doesn't necessarily cover all episodes.

Tomas wrote:

You're correct that some episodes take place on their air dates, but this cannot be true of all episodes. For instance, an Orioles-Yankees game figures prominently in the plot of "The Letter". However, this episode aired on March 25- before the baseball season had even started. Also, part 2 of "The Trip" aired a week after part 1. Are we to believe Jerry and George waited a week before they tried to help Kramer?

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Has anyone also noticed that the date of death on Susan's tombstone is the same as the airdate of the episode which she died in?

Another contradiction is when George says that it was in 1989 he met Kruger and

This one is even easier to explain. It had in fact only been nine years ago, but Krueger said it happened 10 years ago. Since he had probably not actually kept a log of how many years had in fact passed since the picture was taken, it is possible that he had lost track of the exact year that it took place. Remember Krueger's mentality? Being off by one or two numbers in anything didn't seem to be a big deal to him. Since it happened about 10 years ago, he rounded up and said it was 10 years ago.

In article , "yoyo" wrote:

And I seem to remember something about Kramer... I forget which episodes these were, but Kramer told everyone (with a full mouth) "I take baths!" in one and he complained about "sitting in a tub of my own filth" in another.

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