everyone seems to think that there has never been references to George's wallet, and I tend to agree, although I was watching a rerun tonight, and may have picked up on one. It was the one where they were at that nbc guy's house, and he was in the bathroom puking, and George said something to the effect of: "You want some pepto bismal? I always keep some in my wallet" I thought that may allude to hte fact that he used his wallet as some sort of storage case/filing cabinet.
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I picked up on this too. I'm wondering if the writers have a list of everything about the characters and in the episodes before this season have only made small references to them, and know they are finally revealing the whole 'thing.'
The thing about the wallet would have been better if the other characters acted as if they'd seen this thing plenty of times before, that it was only us examining it for the first time. The way Elaine and everyone stopped talking and stared at it everytime he brought it out, made it unbelievable. Imagine if they'd continued talking amongst themselves during the wallet closeups and stuff, said observant funny things as if they always joked about his wallet or as if they didn't even notice it anymore. And if Jerry had said, on it's first appearance, "Oh please, not this speech again," it would have made such a difference, IMHO.
George's wallet exploding may have been funny, but have we all noticed the subtleties? It exploded because he saw an ad for guitar lessons and tore off a tiny piece of paper with the phone number, stuck it in his wallet, and BOOM.
But why the hell did he want guitar lessons? That's the only part I found funny.
But the whole episode was pretty much ... not entertaining. Getting assigned jobs (like the fishbowl), and the leather European carry-all and the whole peephole thing just turned me off. Are the writers trying too hard to be original? Obviously.
I hope Larry David can help save Seifeld's last days with the series finale.
-DK
George wanted the guitar lessons because they were free! You know George he will take what ever he can get as long as he doesn't have to pay for it.-Rebecca
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Because it was free. George can't resist *free*.
Vetter
Just another way to get babes. Babes loves it. They go wild over guitar players. I ain't no beauty, but once I was in a bar and this girl said she was going after one of the band's guitar players, and he wasn't even as good looking as I am (which isn't much). All the band members just laughed her off.
Uh, I think his sole interest was that the first lesson was *free*.
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998 06:35:22 GMT, [email] (Jacques Buuted-Thugge) wrote:
The one thing I've never gotten is the babes that George gets. Look at him. Dumpy. Neurotic. Unemployed 90 percent of the time. Some of that describes Woody Allen, but how many millions does he have in the bank? I can see dumpy lonely women being attracted to George. But some of his babes are to kill for.
But then, what has any of this to do with reality?
George must have more than a "thin" wallet, because they all obviously eat at least one meal a day at the restaurant, and eating out in NYC isn't inexpensive. Kramer seems to be the only one who cooks regularly, while Jerry eats cereal (that never seems to be in alphabetical order!) and Elaine eats muffins.
I can't believe I'm seeing people on this newsgroup complain about the wallet angle because it had never been brought up before. Do you really want them to just talk about old things which have been brought up before and nothing new? How interesting would that be and wouldn't you be the same people who would complain that they are "using old stuff". It's clear that a lot of people are just obsessed with complaining about the show for no real reason.
Thank you, Greg. I still think it's amazing that a picky little detail can prevent someone from enjoying the show. Complaining because something new doesn't jibe 100% with the past because "the writers didn't research it well enough", then complaining when a bit from an old plot is worked into a new episode because "the writers aren't creative enough to come up with anything new".