Movie parodies in the show?

Hi,

Can anyone give a list of all of the movie parodies that have been in Seinfeld and in what episode they occurred?

Some that come to mind/seem like movie parodies are:

"Wrath of Khan" - can't remember the episode name - it's been parodied at least 3 times now, most recently on 1/8/98. movie name? - end of an episode where Jerry and Kramer are riding the bus and Kramer says that "the nosebleeds are starting again" movie name? - Frank Constanza relating his war experiences to Kramer. He pours some liquor into a glass, then tells his story.

I don't know if second and third scenes are movie parodies, but they had an odd look to them, so I figured they might be.

Any others?

-Greg

there's one episode where Elaines boss does a Brando bit from Epocalyps Now.

I've seen that in lots of episodes of "M*A*S*H" and it's a standard scene for any detective show where a veteran is questioned. Also, in the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoons, there's a bragging colonel who tells some outlandish story to an uncomfortable guest. I can't recall if he's sipping sherry or anything like that, though.

jbt wrote,

I've seen that in lots of episodes of "M*A*S*H" and it's a standard scene for any detective show where a veteran is questioned. Also, in the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoons, there's a bragging colonel who tells some outlandish story to an uncomfortable guest. I can't recall if he's sipping sherry or anything like that, though.<<

It's a parody of Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning "Platoon," down to the gory slow-motion sequences.

Actually, though not from a movie, Seinfeld used Shakespeare as a source -- in "The Pick," Jerry gives his speech at the Calvin Klein offices, asking "Is a picker not human? Does he not bleed if you stab him," or something like that. This is from "Merchant of Venice."

Also, when Elaine's nipple is revealed on the Christmas Card, she gives a spech about the "nipple on the soul of all of us." This might be from "Merchant of Venice." If not, it's from another Shakespeare play, I believe.

That's correct.

G

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And they "Magic Loogie" film is a parody of the Moovie JFK (or something like that"

Actually, the Magic Loogie is a parody of the film taken of the Kennedy assassination by a man named Zapruder, not the movie "JFK."

An obscure trivia question: On last week's (1/22) episode, what is the movie referenced in Newman's mail truck speech ("It will happen like this....It may be the first day of spring....A mail truck will pull up alongside you, and someone you know may offer you a ride....")?

In , DK writes:

The scene with Newman telling Kramer how it's gonna go down
was a parody of "Three Days of the Condor".  The scene with
Wilford Brimley playing the Postmaster General was a takeoff of
"Absence of Malice".
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I thought Brimley's character was a reference to the character he played in "The Firm"?

Thanks, Steve

Correct! It's Max von Sydow's final speech to Robert Redford.

BraveHeels wrote:

No way- not close - no cigar -

It is an exact - exact copy of a scene in the movie JFK. And - it's worth renting JFK (anyway) to see it is Wayne Knight playing a character in JFK called NUMA and in the Seinfeld parody Wayne is NEWMAN and plays the scene the same way.

BEAUTIFUL!!!!

(For a guy that is in a.t.s and news:alt.conspiracy.jfk don't fool with me on this)

:-)

At the end of "The Pick", Jerry stands in front of the elevator and shouts "I am not an animal!" This was a parody of The Elephant Man.

The "spitter" scene in the boyfriend was like JFK

On 10 Jan 1998 15:28:39 GMT, [email] (AbeVigoda1) wrote:

I thought it was from "A Man Called Horse".

While not parodies of an entire movie plot, the following two bear noting: 1. Where Jerry tells George he must get back togther with Susan in order to sell the TV pilot, George does his Al Pacino from Godfather III, exclaiming, "Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in!"

2. In one episode, George tells someone,"I solve problems; that's what I do." This is from Harvey Keitel's character, Mr. Wolf, in "Pulp Fiction."

ebravo wrote,

>>2. In one episode, George tells someone,"I solve problems; that's what I do." This is from Harvey Keitel's character, Mr. Wolf, in "Pulp Fiction."<<

While this might have been partly inspired by PF, the REAL reference to this movie and character was in the episode, "The Muffin Tops," when Elaine calls in a "Cleaner" ("He solves problems."), who is Newman. Newman walks in and request a clean 8-ounce glass. He then retreats to the back room of "Top Of The Muffin!," pulls out a half-gallon container of milk from his bag, pours a glass, and starts eating the muffin bottoms Elaine and Lipman can't get rid of.

There was also a "Cleaner" in Luc Besson's movie "La Femme Nikita" with Anne Parillaud (very poorly re-made as "Point of No Return" with Bridget Fonda). The cleaner played by Jean Reno. Excellent.

My favorite is at the end of "The Mom And Pop Store" (the Jon Voight car episode), when Jerry and Kramer are on a bus to NJ to get Jerry's sneakers at the end. It's a great parody of the classic final scene of "Midnight Cowboy," with Kramer as Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Jerry as Joe Buck (Jon Voight), down to the playing of the movie's theme, "Everybody's Talkin'."

Newman also does an Al Pacino from Godfather II when he says "MY ROOM! WHERE I SLEEP......where I play with my toys." when it was supposed to be "My room, where my wife sleeps, where my children play with their toys."

That was Jerry describing to Elaine why he is helping Newman get his transfer to Hawaii. "My home Elaine. Where I sleep. Where I come to play with my toys."

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