Attention all Seinfeld fans. I'm very curious to know what your all time favorite scene from the show is. It can be from any episode from any season, though I'm sure that the majority of your responses will be from recent episodes.
My personal favorite was the court room scene where Newman (Wayne Knight) is in court fighting a speeding ticket and he has Kramer (who is incoherent from beingkicked in the head) as a witness.
Tough choice, but the expression on Elaine's face, when she opens the restroom door in the back of the plane, seems to stand out in my mind.
Jason
"Just elevate and decide in the air" -ATR
I don't that it's my favorite scene, but I do know which one made me laugh the loudest and longest:
The first shot of Kramer sleeping soundly a couple of weeks ago during "The Contest".
In article [email] (Dave Eisen) writes:
Here's mine: it's the episode where Jerry and Elaine get back together; the screen is right after that when Jerry and George are in their coffee shop G: So what did you do last night? J: Slept w/Elaine (and George just loses it) G: Then he asks how Elaine was J: (My favorite line from the show) She must have taken lessons. Then Jerry tells George about the "Rules" 1) No calling the next day (G. says that's good, I like it; I'm impressed) 2) Sleeping over is optional (G. reacts negatively saying J. went too far; it will never work)
My close second: (was from a recent episode, the infamous line "the panties your mother laid out for you" one where Jerry dates Elaines secretary) (again at their coffee shop) J. is telling G. about why this woman left. He leans over to tell G. what "dirty stuff" the woman says (and the camera is behind J. so we see G. reaction (he's holding a spray ketchup bottle) and when he hears what J. says, he's flabbergasted and squirts out the ketchup and then follows the spray line w/his eyes. G. then says "that's digusting, something about filthy", but he loves it and asks for more. J. says something about what else she did (I'm not sure what it was) and G. screams out like to a waittress, "Water, I'm gonna need some water over here". Then J. tells G. what he says and it's that line about "you know, the panties your mother laid out for you". Does anybody know what this means??. On the show neither character could figure out why that was so bad and made the woman get up and leave Jerry?
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I think the funniest scene was in the show John Kelly mentions above, however, the best part was the very end with Elaine leaving J.`s apartment. After just getting a check written to her because J`s flirt with Elaine's secretary caused J. to get E`s secretary moved. However the secretary squealed on E`s long distance phone calls over-seas, that amounted to hundreds of dollars. After E. made J. feel guilty about suggesting the transfer (because he didn't want E. to find out what he said), and promisin
g J. that she didn't hear anything about the date, J. gave her the money to pay for the phone calls. Just as she was leaving, she told J. something to the affect of "I think I`ll go over my mom's house now, ......... I think she layed out some new panties for me" - end of show. This was hilarious. Not only was it at the end of the show, but just the fact that she didn`t even let on the fact that she knew, and actually was able to get J. to give her money. How can you hate Seinfeld ??????????????
Oh, I get it. John's favorite Seinfeld scene was the one about nothing. :-)
In article [email] (John R. Kelly) writes:
It's not that this was BAD, it's just that it was so ODD! They were all baffled because bringing her mother into it was so, well, sort of goofy sick! dontcha think?
(re: "The ones your mother laid out for you")
I wasn't going to reply to this, but it keeps coming up - it's been posted here that Jerry himself gives the source of this line as a real-life experience of one of the writers, "God help him...".
Now I'm wondering why they had some actor playing "Calvin" on this week's show... I mean, usually when they have a reference to someone famous, they either don't show him (like John John or Joltin' Joe) or they show the actual person (Keith Hernandez, or that star from Cheers on the Carson show). I think this is one of the first times they've shown someone "famous" (allegedly Calvin Kline, or Klien?) and not had the acutal person playing the role.
. <<<<Infinite K>>>>
Another real-life celebrity to add to your list: Jerry Seinfeld. You may have noticed he actually appears in several episodes. They could have hired an actor to play this part, but no, they got the real guy. Good casting!
In article [email] (Dave Eisen) writes:
Here's mine: it's the episode where Jerry and Elaine get back together; the screen is right after that when Jerry and George are in their coffee shop G: So what did you do last night? J: Slept w/Elaine (and George just loses it) G: Then he asks how Elaine was J: (My favorite line from the show) She must have taken lessons. Then Jerry tells George about the "Rules" 1) No calling the next day (G. says that's good, I like it; I'm impressed) 2) Sleeping over is optional (G. reacts negatively saying J. went too far; it will never work)
My close second: (was from a recent episode, the infamous line "the panties your mother laid out for you" one where Jerry dates Elaines secretary) (again at their coffee shop) J. is telling G. about why this woman left. He leans over to tell G. what "dirty stuff" the woman says (and the camera is behind J. so we see G. reaction (he's holding a spray ketchup bottle) and when he hears what J. says, he's flabbergasted and squirts out the ketchup and then follows the spray line w/his eyes. G. then says "that's digusting, something about filthy", but he loves it and asks for more. J. says something about what else she did (I'm not sure what it was) and G. screams out like to a waittress, "Water, I'm gonna need some water over here". Then J. tells G. what he says and it's that line about "you know, the panties your mother laid out for you". Does anybody know what this means??. On the show neither character could figure out why that was so bad and made the woman get up and leave Jerry?
Good day good people! One of the best scenes has to be in last night's (repeated) episode when Jerry is explaining the great lock on his door to Kramer...
J: "It's the best lock on the market...it has only one design flaw... The door (slams it real loud)...MUST BE CLOSED!!!
Ha ha ha. I was dying on that one. Later! Amy ******************************************************************************* *"Guess what folks, that's the news and * "They have pre-wrapped sausages, but* * I am outta here!" * they don't have pre-wrapped bacon!"* * -Dennis Miller * -Barenaked Ladies * *******************************************************************************
IMHO, the funniest scene was when Jerry was clapping around the tweety-bird PEZ dispenser at the piano recital- also when Jerry had it perched on his lap facing Elaine.
In article , [email] (l.goodfield) writes:
Kramer, in the "M" show, when Jerry was going to go tell the lady across the street to put her clothes on. "Jerry, Jerry are you crazy? When we were kids we would sit at the window and say 'hey, wouldn't it be great if there was a naked lady in that windows over there.' She's there Jerry..... we have the naked lady. And you want to tell her to put her clothes. (Kramer then starts to jump up and down) Jerry, please please for me Jerry please!!!!!!
Rocko
Bookman, the library cop, any of his speeches.
The classic episode has to be "The Boyfriend" - lots of great scenes, but I think the two that stand out are:
1. Jerry describing the flight of the "magic loogie" 2. George, fighting for his unemployment, running out of the bathroom, pants around his waste, shouting to Kramer "Say Vandelay!!!" and falling down. Jerry returns, observes, and notes "and you want to be my latex salesman?!"
Love that second one.
Or how about the Subway - the naked guy says he's not ashamed of his body, JS replies "You should be!"
Boy, its hard to pick out one favorite!
jeff graham WPAFB, OH
"Oh yeah, you're a chucker!"
My favorite scene is from a couple of seasons ago when Kramer was trying to get a bag of concrete into a washing machine. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm.
Eric Pettersen [email]
"You're soooooo good looking"
In article [email] ((The_Optimizer)) writes:
Just to let you know, I typed this little exchange used by jerry out and hung it up over my phone. Living in a University town, I often get calls from people trying to sell coupon books and all kinds of other stupid junk. I r43 read from this script when I got a call about buying a Lafayette coupon book. The person trying to sell me the book responded perfectly and I replied with "now you know how I feel." It was perfect. I suggst you try it as well. ZZ
My favorite line is when Jerry calls 911 from a pay phone in LA.
[Ring..ring..]
Jerry: How are you doing today?
My personal favorite is from the episode where George is trying to get unemployment compensation. After he gives Jerry's name for Vandelay Industries. Seeing him run out of Jerry's bathroom screaming "VANDELAY, VANDELAY!!!!"
Rich
The funniest to me, because it was so unexpected, occurred at the end of the show where the girl at Elaine's office dumps Jerry because of his "the ones your mother laid out for you" remark. When Elaine backs out of his apartment saying she had to go see her mother because she had bought her some new panties and had laid them out, it was absolutely hilarious.
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My all time favorite is in the "Vandelay" episode, when George lied to the unemployment agency that he worked for Vandelay Industry selling latex gloves and he gave Jerry's phone number as the work number. So when that lady at the agency called, George was in the bathroom, Kramer answered the phone and (of course being Kramer) said "...I don't know the heck you're talking about [Vandelay]..." Of course George heard him, and he screamed madly, trying to get to the phone. He rushed out from the bathroom, pants half down around his knees, tripped over by his pants, and felt over completely face down on the floor. And Jerry walked in the apartment, saw George's exposed white underwear, and said "and you want to be MY latex saleman!?"
[email] (l.goodfield) writes:
Yes, I thought that it was one of the funnier ones also!!!
-Marie
Hard to pick a favorite, but I adore the scene in "The Fix Up. when George is grilling Jerry about Elaine's friend Cynthia.
G: Does she have long flowing hair? I like long flowing hair.
J: She has long hair.
G: If you stick your hand in her hair, is it hard to get it out?
J: (Increasingly baffled) Do you *want* to be able to get it out?
and so on.
The one scene which had me rolling on the ground laughing was:
Elain and Seinfeld were sitting on his couch listening to Entertainment Tonight when Kramer walks in and starts freaking out because of the ET theme song. I thought it was great because Seinfeld and Elain don't even notice until 5 minutes have gone by at which time Kramers on the ground bouncing like a seal!
It was the show where Seinfeld sees a lady hit a car and doesn't stop to give her name and address.
That scene was great, of course because of Kramer and Jerry and Elaine, but more importantly because it was based on a true (yes, TRUE) account of some lady who went into epileptic seizures everytime she heard Mary Hart's voice on Entertainment Tonight. Seeing Kramer go into fits was even more funny when you know the background behind it.
However, I think one of my favorite (I don't have *a* favorite, they're all favorite) scenes was with the last episode to feature 'Crazy' Joe Davola - when he sat next to Jerry and Elaine in the opera, while dressed as a clown.
/* Eric */
Wait a minute, how do you know it's not John Tesh?
In article [email] (Eric L. Thav) writes:
A little more background: The lady who had the seizures whenever she heard Mary Hart's voice was from the Albany, NY area. When it was announced that this lady had seizures at the sound of Mary Hart's voice, all three Albany TV stations made that the top story of the day. Puh-leeze!
One of my favorites is still the episode in which Jerry and Elaine are rushing to catch their plane.
J : Look at you! You run like a girl! You want to catch a plane, you have to run like a man! Lift those knees! Run like a man!
It cracked me up when Elaine really tried to "lift those knees" when she was running. Her bag kept slipping off her shoulders, and the expression on her face! It happened again later in the show, with Kramer and George too.
My favorite one is the show on Masterbation and how they keep asking each other, "Are you still the master of your domain?"
I also like how they showed Jerry, Elaine and George tossing in their sleep while Kramer was peacefully sleeping!
The whole office was talking about this episode in the lunch room the next day!
-Andrew
In article [email] (l.goodfield) writes:
One of my favorites was when Jerry and Elaine (who are as we know still friends even though no longer a couple), after watching the "naked channel", start negotiating the ground rules for one time sexual encounter.Perhaps it amused me because a friend and I had a similar discussion (years ago, before I was married).
One of my favorite scenes is with 'Crazy Joe' and Elaine. She goes to his apartment and sees pictures of her all over his walls. He then asks if Elaine wants to see his darkroom, to which she replys 'No thanks... I'm a day person'. This just doesn't translate from the keyboard, but the way she said it was hilarious. Some of the expressions/mannerisms she comes up with are brilliant!
brian.
All these choices are great examples of Seinfeld gold but I would like to add to the roster the scene where George is adamantly denying that he has a girlfriend. Jerry asked him several questions which end with, "And do you have tampax in your apartment? Do you?" To which George squeimishly replies, "Yes." Jerry then says very judgementally, "Then you *HAVE* a girlfriend." Humor pierces truth. Truth, humor.
Of all time? I'm not sure. This season? The episode where he returns from the date to his apartment with the waitress with the hysterical laugh (the one he met in a previous episode while eating with his parents and uncle). He's trying not to get her to laugh, then listens to a message from George while she's still there about the laugh and rips the machine out of the wall.
Okay, so I butchered it. Anybody know what his middle initial is? Just wondering if mine is the same.
John
In article [email] (l.goodfield) writes:
OK, one more time. For those of you who haven't hear me brag about this episode, it's truly the funniest: George and Elaine go and get massages from these professional masseurs because they heard they could write the massages off as tax deductions. It turns out George gets "Ray" and Elaine gets a woman masseus (sp?). George begs Elaine to switch with him, but she won't. Ray comes out in his white slacks and white shirt, "You ready George?" George just froze. On the massage table, he couldn't relax. He was in such a panic. The scene switches to George moping into Jerry's apartment later. Jerry asks him, "what's wrong?" George tells him he got massaged by this guy "Ray" and Elaine wouldn't switch with him. Jerry says "what's so bad about that?" Then George screams out, "IT MOVED." He was so ashamed because IT MOVED during the massage.
Jerry: It MOVED? Like, a lot? George: <groan> At least two inches.
The rest of the show, George was in a state of panic and defensive. Afraid he might be gay. I think this was the same episode when Kramer spots Joe D'Maggio in the diner. "Joe is a dunker." A true crack up.
One word: "Stellaaaaaaaaa!"
In the episode where Elaine and Jerry visit his parents in Florida
My favorite scene from a Seinfeld episode was from "The Revenge" (I think that's the name). Anyway, it was the scene where Kramer convinces Jerry to pour concrete into the washing machine at this laundromat where Jerry lost a lot of cash. Just watching Kramer pour concrete all over himself while Jerry is distracting the guy was hilarious.
Jef.
My favorite scenes are: Krammer trying to get Joe Dimagio's attention by hooting and smacking the table.
In the M episode Krammer walks in slams his money down and says "I'm out".
And I think the panties laid out the bed may be a reference to her being a little girl still.
In a previous article, [email] (Joe Panfil) says:
My favorite: From the airport show, when the plane is landing and J looks out his window and sees Kramer running alongside the plane.
Also... "I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!"
My favorite scene actually occurred off camera. It was the popping sound you heard during the fight between George and the Bubble Boy.
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Paul Springer
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. _Catch-22_
My favorite scene is from the episode where E & J go to FLA to visit J's parents. Elaine gets the uncomfortable sofabed and we see her tossing and turning, tossing more, turning more, until finally she's flopping and flailing about like a landed fish on a slippery deck, with that great "Pained Elaine" expression on her face the whole time. A great example of JLD's talent for physical comedy. A second example of her skill: that great all-over shudder when she heard that Kramer had seen her naked. I remember her as being vaguely amusing on SNL during their nadir years ("I luff Lisa Lisa" is the only thing I recall now) and a major pain on that day care show with that soap opera guy and that Lou Grant woman ("Day by Day" I think). If you had told me that she would be the funniest woman on TV on the funniest show on TV (at least the funniest non-animated show on TV) I would never have believed you. She even managed salvage a bit of dignity while hosting that painfully lame SPY special... The only question is, what was Jerry thinking when he let her get away?... TWICE! Would any guy with his sensibility let that happen to someone who was SOOOO good looking? NAWT BLUDDY LIKELY!
In article , [email]
time favorite scene from the show is. It can be from any episode from any season, though I'm sure that the majority of your responses will be from recent episodes.
Three scenes come to mind:
1. In the Keith Hernandez episode, the detailed descriptions of the
spitting
incident ala 'JFK', and the endlessly repeated videotape of Kramer's
head
being snapped back after being struck by the 'magic loogie'.2. George in the dentist's office (I think), in the episode where he's
afraid
he's turning gay following the massage. The dentist has a poster of
whoever
was the heavyweight boxing champion (Holyfield?) and tries to get
George
in a conversation about the champ's physique, and who George 'likes'
in
some upcoming fight, as George becomes increasingly uncomfortable
and
defensive.3. After Kramer gets kicked in the head, everybody's in Jerry's
apartment and
the phone rings. Kramer picks it up and starts babbling, really
fast and
totally deadpan, in some foreign language (Italian, maybe?).This last one is probably my favorite. Cracks me up thinking about it even now.
BTW, I've been reading the net for several months and this is my first attempt to post, so I hope I did this correctly and don't draw flames.
Wayne Erxleben
time favorite scene from the show is. It can be from any episode from any season, though I'm sure that the majority of your responses will be from recent episodes.
"IT MOVED"
That is when I became a true Seinfeld fan.
Actually, someone on this bulletin board cross posted Jerry's reply on Prodigy about this. The phrase had come from one of the writers on the show. The writer had said the exact same thing in a moment of passion. Unfortunately, I can relate to having done similar once my hormones had kicked in.
Thank you.
Steve Simmons
I don't know how many of you are familiar with the old Honeymooners TV series, but if you are I'm wondering if you can agree with something I've obeserved. Doesn't it seem that Kramer's maneurisms are almost identical to Norton's (Art Carney) of the Honeymooners. They both enter a room the same way; sliding in without knocking. They also use very similar hand motions too. What do you think?
Steve.
He doesn't excactly slide into Jerry's apt. First, he unlocks the door with his own his key.(I hope you didn't think that Jerry's door was always unlocked? Ralph's door was always unlocked.) Second,it look more like a jump than Norton's slide.
-Mark
You can add the following as possible candidates from 16-Dec-92 show:
- George going to a therapist and spending the entire session with a stuck zipper.
- Jerry picking his nose (actually it was only a scratch). Later, he does a scene by Shylock from the Merchant of Venice. "Do pickers not bleed if pricked" (paraphrased).
- George complaining to Elaine that he did not get a Christmas card and so Elaine shoves his face into her breast.
- Kramer parading around for Calvin Klein where underwear, white socks, and black shoes.
- George informing everyone how he broke off with a girl by using the pick (alway up to the fist).
Great show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you.
Steve Simmons
Don't forget when Elaine was talking to her sister:
"What do you mean you can't find it?! Look under the bed!"
My absolute favorite scene (it makes me fall over laughing every time I even think about it) is after Kramer has been kicked in the head by his lunatic "friend" (I temporarily forget his name).
KRAMER: YO YO MA !!!! JERRY: What about him? KRAMER: Who? JERRY: Yo Yo Ma. GEORGE: Who's that? JERRY: He's a cellist.
Andy
In the USA Today interview a few weeks ago Jerry says that he will stop the show after five years. He says that five years is long enough for a show and that he would much rather leave the stage than get kicked off. I cna't believe this to be true! I think that with Cheers leaving after this season NBC may move Seinfeld to Thursday so it will not compete against Home Improvement and finally break into the top 20 (Home Improvement was #5 this past week).
I also remember Seinfeld saying at the begining of the first episode rerun a few weeks ago that they had done 54 episodes up until then. This was when he and Elaine were on the couch. If Seinfeld were to end after 5 total seasons would this be long enough for the show to go into syndication? I thought a show had to have 80 episodes to get into syndication. I cna't believe they would not. It is bad management not to take advantage of the royalties.
Can anyone add to this?
John
You need about 100 to have a good syndication deal. Seinfeld should reach that number and pass it before his 5th year is out.
-Mark