Fans discuss how Kramer affords his Upper West Side apartment rent despite being unemployed, with replies noting his various odd jobs and side hustles throughout the series.
Hi everyone. Disturbing question (for me at least) : Kramer doesn't have a job and yet he manages to pay the rent of an Upper West Side appartment.
Of cours we all know he doesn't pay his food but his rent ?
How does he do it ? All answers are welcome.
Thanks - Alain - France
You havent watched enough episodes.
Hes got his fingers in many pies.
"jonkalak" wrote in message news:3e5cc700$0$242$[email]...
actually I watched them all but it was a long time ago (the last time in 98). I am just starting to download them. It's tough living in France where seinfeld isn't shown on TV (not even on cable).
I had forgotten about Paul Buchman. Pretty good explanation... "Joe3000" a �crit dans le message de news: [email]...
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:54:07 +0100, "jonkalak" wrote:
Kramer sublets the apartment from Paul Buchman. Paul never gave up his apartment when he married Jamie because he was afraid to lose his independence. So he probably rented it to Kramer at a very low price.
Also
"...Kramer goes to a fantasy camp. His whole life is a fantasy camp. People should plunk down two-thousand dollars to live like him for a week. Do nothing, fall ass-backwards into money, mooch food off your neighbors and have sex without dating; that's a fantasy camp...."
The FAQ lists the jobs and income he has had.
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Sayeth Kramer: "Oh...I get by..."
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Oh yeah?
He's living off the royalties from his writing efforts:
The Coffee-Table Book "Astonishing Tales of the Sea" "Astounding Bear Attacks"
Not to mention the paltry sum he received from J. Peterman for the use of the stories of his life.
PizzaBagel
He didn't write these.
--Phil
He didn't write the Bear Attacks or Tales of the Sea books, he just owns them
how about the lawsuits... for the coffee (free coffee) and the cigarettes
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:19:48 GMT, "Peter P. Szabaga" wrote:
"Scott" wrote in message news:[email]...
He and Jackie didn't make any money from the lawsuits, either (although they certainly could have)...Kramer just got free coffee, and his likeness on a huge Marlboro cigarettes ad in Times Square.
However, he is a decent poker player ("Are you kiddin'? You see those two ladies I got showin'? Do they look scared?"). And he's occasionally made money from other forms of gambling, even though he "used to have a problem."
-B.
Between the Marlboro ad in Times Square (as just noted) and the Calvin Klein underwear ads, you'd think he made some good cash...posing for these two major companies has got to pay well. Plus, he does have a daily job anyway, he's just on strike...
In article , "Derek Tagliarino" writes:
Oooh Oooh , I remember one.....
Didn't he make a couple of bucks when he drove the horse and carriage around? I know he messed up when taking George's parents in law out, but the rest of the time he must have made a few bucks
"GetRichQuick712" wrote in message news:[email]...
Klein
anyway,
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he also got free coffee for life when he scalded himself one episode. That'll save him some $ on beverages he can spend on the rent.
rob
but who told him to put the balm on?
In article , Scott writes:
I can't remember the cigarettes one, but the coffee....so what? He gets free coffee, he didn't get no money....
can't pay the rent with coffee
Episode 151 The English Patient
He asks Jerry to bring back some Cubans with him from Florida (Jerry thinks he means cigars) -- 3 real Cubans show up at the door.
JERRY: (animated) They're real Cubans?! They're human beings, from Cuba?!
KRAMER: I said Cubans. What'd you think I meant?
JERRY: Cigars!
KRAMER: Jerry, Cuban cigars are illegal in this country. That's why I got these guys.
JERRY: (incredulous) You're making your own cigars now?
KRAMER: Yeah, yeah. I got investors all lined up.
I think the plan falls apart cause they aren't Cuban, but Dominican.
jonkalak wrote:
KRAMER: Jerry, I just picked up the Cubans at the bus station. (shrill) What's going on!?
JERRY: What?
KRAMER: (animated) They're not real Cubans. They're Dominicans.
JERRY: So?
KRAMER: So, Jerry, if my investors don't get Cubans, the whole deal's off.
Dan Coogan wrote:
Kramer's actually a CIA agent, with an excellent cover. Paul Buchman is his field supervisor.
In article , [email] (WM Morgan) writes:
Ok, can I just ask.....
Is this an inside joke of this NG or what? How did this "relationship" of Kramer and Buchman arise? it's been mentioned in a couple of posts and I dont think it's a (big or little) coincendence....
it's because the appartment kramer lives in belongs to Paul Buchman from "Mad About You". It was mentionned in a "A Mad About You Episode". Jamie wanted him to sell his old bachelor appartment(kramer's).
In "Mad About You" Friends Phoebe's sister also is a character (waitress)
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dont
In article , "jonkalak" writes:
Yea, i saw "Phoebe" as the waitress. Didn't they mention the waitress from Mad About You in a Friend episode? I thought Friends explained that the waitress was Phoebe's evil twin? Or maybe not?
"jonkalak" wrote in message news:3e5cc700$0$242$[email]...
Strike pay from the bagel place.
What about Kramerica Industries? They put catsup and mustard in a single bottle. "dr. mabuse" wrote in message news:b3konh$1r2$[email]...
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:35:58 -0000, "Joe3000" wrote:
KETCHUP: Also catchup, Catsup. A condiment consisting of a thick, smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes.[Probably Malay kechap, fish sauce possibly from Chinese (Cantonese) ke-tsiap]
Notes: The word ketchup exemplifies the types of modifications that can take place in the borrowing process, both in the borrowing of a word and in the borrowing of a substance. The source of our word ketchup may be the Malay word kechap, possibly taken into Malay from the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Kechap, like our word, referred to a kind of sauce, but a sauce without tomatoes; rather, it contained fish brine, herbs, and spices. The sauce seems to have emigrated to Europe by way of sailors, where it was made with locally available ingredients such as the juice of mushrooms or walnuts. At some point, when the juice of tomatoes was first used, ketchup as we know it was born. However, it is important to realize that in the 18th and 19th centuries ketchup was a generic term for sauces whose only common ingredient was vinegar. The word is first recorded in English in 1690 in the form catchup, in 1711 in the form ketchup, and in 1730 in the form catsup. These three spelling variants of a foreign borrowing remain current.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition 1992 MM by Dorothy Flatman 1997 From: Dorothy Flatman Date: 06 Mar 97
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thanks very much for this great lesson on the history of the word ketchup. What are they waiting for to put seinfeld on the school programs ? It's a mine of information !!!!
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Who cares whether it's ketchup or catsup? Salsa is the number one condiment in the U.S.
PizzaBagel
"jonkalak" wrote in message news:3e5e4fae$0$236$[email]...
"Peter P. Szabaga" wrote in message news:Aut7a.376$[email]...
Well, Uma Thurman's "Fox Force Five" tomato joke in "Pulp Fiction" wouldn't have made sense if she'd pronounced it "catsup," that's for sure.
-B.
Wait till that Uma smells this uva
In article , [email] (teejay) wrote (or did he?):
CT.ME.VT.DE.MA.NY.IA,OR 5 cent/MI 10 cent REF.
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:16:48 GMT, "Peter P. Szabaga" wrote:
Do you know why? Because people like to say *salsa*!
--Tarkus2040
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:12:33 GMT, Tarkus2040 wrote:
You sure he didn't say "selzer"?
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:28:58 -0800, "The News Guy(Mike)" wrote:
Don't you know the difference between seltzer and salsa?! You have the seltzer AFTER the salsa!
--Tarkus2040
see, that should be the show
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:49:33 +0100, "jonkalak" wrote:
I few years ago a high school kid wrote that watching Seinfeld helped him pass a test. They asked for the eighth president of the US.
So what did we all learn from "Seinfeld" that we did not know before and then came in handy..
For me it was .. "Casus Belli" certainly imprortant today.
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"The News Guy(Mike)" wrote in message news:[email]...
ketchup.
These since haven't 'come in handy,' but...
George: I like DeSoto.
Jerry: What did he do?
George: He discovered the Mississippi.
Jerry: Oh yeah, like they wouldn't have found that anyway.
I also had to do a little research on ABSCAM after "The Sniffing Accountant."
"You know, it is so sad. All your knowledge of higher culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons." :)
-B.
In article , "Brian" writes:
And you know I was the most advanced kid in my first spanish class, all thanks to Seasme Street.....
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:11:48 -0800, "The News Guy(Mike)" wrote:
This will sound ridiculous but I tried Chow Fun for the first time based on George's description ("It's a broad noodle") and I loved it!
Scott
I tried "kung pao" because I knew from Seinfeld that it'd be hot. John likes his chicken spicy!
And Calzone [sp] are fantasic.
DV
"Daniel Vesma" wrote in message news:b4577i$get$1$[email]...
but why would John steal from the Yankees?
rob
He wouldn't!
I don't what the hell's going on here...
In article , John Twernbold writes:
Welcome to .... The SEINFELD Zone
"Scott P" wrote in message news:[email]...
Did you get the pea pods?
-B.
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:01:06 GMT, "Brian" wrote:
With extra MSG
Scott
"The News Guy(Mike)" wrote in message news:...
What's "Casus Belli"? Is it about me?
On 27 Feb 2003 22:47:15 -0800, [email] (The Maestro) wrote:
Why must you always be the vocal point of attention? Why can't you just be? Why can't you live?
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In article , "The News Guy(Mike)" wrote:
That truth is sometimes stranger than sitcoms ....
In _The English Patient_, Izzy Mandelbaum claims:
IZZY: Each crepe has to be hand-rolled by a Mandelbaum. That's what puts the magic in Magic Pan!
The magic in Magic Pan was actually an automated crepe wheel invented by restaurant founder Laszlo Fono:
"METHOD FOR PANCAKE PRODUCTION", US patent #3,349,726, Oct. 31, 1967
"This invention relates to the art of producing high quality pancakes, 'crepes,' 'palascintas' and the like, having unique properties. More specifically it relates to varieties of pancakes which are extremely thin."
No mention is made of how tightly the crepes should be rolled.
In article , "The News Guy(Mike)" writes:
I learned a hilarious ways to get rid of solicitating phone calls
I'm a little busy, can i get your home number? (pause) Oh well I guess you don't want people calling you at home?
Well now you know how I feel!
<click>
In article , "jonkalak" writes:
News Guy Mike is a walking encyclopedia
thanks for the ketchup history cliff!
But he only offered Fantasy World Corporate Experience
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:53:18 GMT, "Bruce" wrote:
Although he has had many money making schemes that others here have posted like the coffee table book and gambling wins please remember that the big joke from the start is that Jerry and Kramer live in a rent controlled building so they were probably paying like $500.00 a month for it. So even the most debased loser can swing that much!
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"rw" wrote in message news:rDs9a.5678$[email]...
Rusty the rickshaw thief sure couldn't.
-B.
also, he always tries to make small amount(s) of cash such as selling his stories to mr. peterman, selling his clothes ect. i'm sure others will add more to the list :)
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