Funniest Soup Nazi Moments

Upon a second viewing of the Soup Nazi episode (rerun Thu Feb 29), I found myself laughing the most at these three moments:

1. The Soup Nazi's henchwoman at the cash register snatching the bag from George. She was perfect. An entire character was revealed in her at that moment. Rank her as one of the best non-recurring characters.

• Newman, after sniffing his newly-purchased soup, saying: "Jum-ba-LAY-a~!"

3. George, imitating Jerry, at the diner with Susan: "Sweetytweetyweetysweetytweetyeety!"

None of them are jokes. They aren't punchlines. Instead, they are funny because of the sudden evocation of character in a compact, punctuated way.

In the New York Times on Tue Feb 27, a social scientist studying humor in ordinary life found that the things people found funniest weren't jokes, but just such revelations of characters -- simple comments or noises that spoke volumes. That article also made a swipe at "Seinfeld", saying Seinfeld-like jokes are rare in real life. On the contrary, Seinfeld seems to be dead accurate.

I disagree with that statement, Seinfeld style jokes are not rare in real life. It comes down to personal experience what may be rare for one person may not be rare for someone else. A large part of it has to deal with the type of people you associate with. Always remember we all have different experiences.

The best part in that whole episode was after Elaine makes the Soup Nazi mad and the camera pans to the guy who is next in line. A minute earlier he was told that the SN was in a good mood and the look on that guy's face after Elaine made the SN mad was hilarious.

Another good part in the episode was when Elaine shoves Kramer down(in her usual fashion) after Kramer got the armoir for her, and then she's talking to him for a while and he's still down there. All in all a classic episode.