In last nights episode where Baboo gets deported, he at the end tells his friend in Pakistan that he will go to all lengths to get back at Jerry. Why hasn't he returned? He would make a great guest next season. Sometimes I wonder if the writers on Seinfeld ever look back at old episodes. Don't they ever try to bring back great characters and great ideas from previous years and expand on them? If I were writing Seinfeld I would watch the reruns to get ideas. Looking back will help with writing, it's not a cheap way to get ideas at all. I'll bet those writers never watch old episodes, there out in Hollywood enjoying the high life. Stupid writers. You know I saw two of the writers on Howard Stern (I don't watch Howard by the way) on E! network and the two writers were both annoying and they were lesbians. Go figure.
Will Baboo ever get his revenge?
What are you talking about. That is one of the great things about seinfeld. I could name numerous instances where plots pick up years after they were first started. In the fourth episode "Male Unbonding" Kramer mentions the idea of a pizza parlor where you make your own pie. It is not until episode #91 "The Couch" that Kramer and Poppie actually make a go of it. I am afraid I have to completely disagree with your statement. Give me an email and we can discuss it further.
Jacob Bestebroer
Isn't that slightly errrr... drastic and violent?
Besides if Jerry is killed, however will they make a "Seinfeld Movie Special" in 10 yrs or so time? :)
Pixi
The same way that they make all of the movies based on old television series:
Badly.
--Michael
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Continuity has never been a big issue with Seinfeld so I'm sure they would find a way to do it.
Kurt
I like it!
I think the final episode should have Baboo in it too. The only thing I would do differently is have Joe Dovola work with him!
See you
Now we know that in all honesty Jerry CANNOT get married, that would ruin the entire show. Maybe Baboo will come back and kill Jerry's wife to be. Another fiance bites the dust!
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uhhh...no. Maybe he should come back to kill you! How dare you wish death on Jerry! You're a very bad man! Very bad man!
What are you talking about. That is one of the great things about seinfeld. I could name numerous instances where plots pick up years after they were first started. In the fourth episode "Male Unbonding" Kramer mentions the idea of a pizza parlor where you make your own pie. It is not until episode #91 "The Couch" that Kramer and Poppie actually make a go of it. I am afraid I have to completely disagree with your statement. Give me an email and we can discuss it further.
Jacob Bestebroer
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Just because you can't wait for a well-thought out surprise doesn't mean the writers are stupid. I think it is better that they wait, because it will be more of a surprise and thus funnier.
Not that there's anything wrong with that
--Ted Weiman "My little man is and idiot"
Other multiple references: (there are too many to list and this could easily develop into a long standing thread)
Kramer's idea for a perfume that smells like the beach (The Pez Dispenser) was actually realized and worne by the model that Jerry met on the plane (The Pick).
The scene where George visits his mother in the hospital while a sponge bath is being given to the patient on the other side of the partition (seen as a shadow) was done in 2 episodes (The Contest & The Outing)
Lloyd Braun, the Dinkins campaign worker (The Non Fat Yogurt) returned this season in The Gum (played by a different actor).
In The Puffy Shirt, Goerge referred to his winning of the contest when being interviewed for a hand model job.
In The Caddy, George and Susan return to her parent's restored cabin that had burned down in The Bubble Boy.
George's phony Vandelay has been used in 4 episodes.
In The Label Maker, George states that he would drape himself in velvet if he could and then does do this in The Doodle
The woman at Doubleday who interviewed Elaine in The Chaperone also borrows Mr. Pitt's Tennis Racket in The Switch
Jerry and Elaine attend Gary Fogel's funeral (died in a car accident) in The Face Painter. Fogel played by Jon Lovitz was the toupee wearing friend who faked having cancer in The Scofflaw
Several characters appear or are mentioned in multiple episodes including Crazy Joe DaVola, Poppie, Rachel - Jerry's devout girlfriend, Bania, Jack Klompus, Evelyn, David Puddy, Tim Whatley, Ping, Karen - The Risotto woman, Mickey Abbot, Sid the car parker, Maryedith and her son Matthew, the Drake, the couple who exhort - "You just have to see the baby!", Jake Jarmel, The Maestro, the flea exterminator, Joe Temple and his daughter, The mean manager of Monk's, Elaine's former roommate Tina, Ricky the nerdy guy that Elaine meets on the subway, Elaine's friend Noreen, Naomi (laughs like Elmer Fudd sitting on a juicer), the gay pair that steal the armoire from Kramer, Sid Farkas - the friend of Frank Costanza that operates the bra business, Deena (who thinks George is going mad) and her father (who went mad), Sue Ellen Mishke (THe Oh Henry candy bar heiress), Jackie Chiles and Russel Dalrymple the NBC president.
In season 4, many of the guests that appeared during that season have cameos where they watch the airing of Jerry and George's pilot in the season finale.
Then there are the two infamous characters that are sometimes mentioned but have never been seen on camera:
Jerry's cousin Jeffrey who works for the Parks Dept. and Kramer's friend Bob Saccamano.
Locales that have been shown more than once:
Hunan Chinese Rest. Champagne Video Royal Bakery New York Athletic Club, The General Hospital Reggie's Diner The Dry Cleaning Place that Jerry goes to. Jerry's parents condo in Florida
Also I noticed in the handicapped space episode, Jerry mentions to George "I think I'm gonna buy a yoyo" to which George replies "I can see that". The yoyo came up in other episodes, like the Junior Mint.
--Ted Weiman
My favorite "brought back idea" involves the Pilot where George says something to the effect of "I should just do the opposite of everything I think I should do" (far from verbatim). Seasons later, an entire episode (a good one at that) is devoted to his early-early sentiment.
WoW, you sure know your Seinfeld!
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How about "prognosis: negative" . It was the name of a movie in one ep and the phrase has been used in several other episodes.
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How about the way George and Elaine refer to Jerry's comedy condescendingly as "ya ever notice this/ya ever notice that stuff"? I remember two instances where they are pretending to either not know him (Elaine on a date with Russell Dalrymple from NBC describing the pilot), or not have kept up with him (George pretending to run into him after years in "The Race").
Lloyd Bron, Poppy, etc. etc.
By the way, I remember George eating alone in Reggie's (the "other diner"). The first time was when George kept calling the waitress at Monk's who went on a walk with George and then disclosed she had a boyfriend. The second time was when his place at the booth for 4 at Monk's was usurped by Susan.
Going back to the well too often and designing characters to be recurring is what destroyed SNL, along with the departure of the original cast.
GR
YEah. The "Not that there's anything wrong with it" episode had a hospital scene which recalled the one in The Contest, except that the nurse and patient were both male.