Tonight, on the episode, "The Keys", Jerry and Kramer tussled for some reason and Kramer bumped into the pipe near Jerry's intercom. That prop, the pipe, moved when Michael Richards bumped into it because it wasn't secured at the bottom. That made me wonder: In the real world, what would be the purpose of such an exposed pipe?
The pipe in Jerry's apartment.
S03E23 The KeysretroJul 5, 2005, 3:35 AM ET13 years later22 posts by 11 posters
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Fans discuss the exposed pipe visible near Jerry's apartment intercom in "The Keys" episode, questioning its real-world purpose after Kramer bumps into the loose prop during a fight scene.
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On 4 Jul 2005 23:35:17 -0800, Uncle Vince wrote:
The purpose would be to carry waste water from the apartments out of the building.
Don't different pipes go to different places?
"Vegard" wrote in message news:[email]...
"Karl Farbmann" wrote in message news:uktye.124064$x96.67369@attbi_s72...
I'll call a plumber right now!!
Er
All right all right, can we just stop with all the pee pipe stuff!?!?
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:14:22 -0500, "Er" wrote:
Vegard wrote in news:[email]:
Ugh. One rusted pipe and a person's whole apartment becomes a cess-pool.
Depending on the structure of a building ( load bearing walls Kramer said too) and where other utilities are positioned, it may not fit anywhere else.
--Eric
Other strange features of Jerry's apartment:
-The back of the fridge looks like it must be sticking out in the public hallway outside the apartment (I actually hadn't noticed that untill it was mentioned on one of the DVD commentaries)
-The windows open outwards when seen from the set, but the exterior shots show windows opening inwards.
-A bedroom is added on after the first (?) season without further explanation
-One of the radiators under the windows mysteriously dissappears in one episode, only to appear again in the next (which one?)
-There is a window above the bathroom sink, instead of a mirror (is this common in New York?)
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:49:18 GMT, Cyrus Afzali wrote:
Isn't that pipe a little thick for a radiator pipe? And there's no radiator near it as far as I can recall. Come to think of it, it seems a bit narrow for a waste pipe. And too thick for a regular water pipe.
Did Er call that plumber?
"Vegard" wrote in message news:[email]...
Uh... no, I couldn't find an apple.
Er
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:02:32 -0500, "Er" wrote:
LOL!
But at you had a list of things to talk about!
V.
OK. The plumber is here. I AM a plumber.
Yer ALL blowin smoke.
A "steam-heat" system has only ONE PIPE for each radiator. The hot steam rises and heats the radiator. As it cools, it condenses back into water... which drops to the bottom of the radiator... runs back down through the SAME PIPE... back to the boiler... where it is re-heated... becomes hot steam again... rises back up... "and so on". (Kurt Vonnegut)
Now, "apples". That's another subject altogether. There's nothing worse than a soft, grainy, mushy apple... like a "Macintosh", or a "Cortland". YUK!!!
On the other hand, nothing beats a hard, juicy, CRUNCHY apple... like a "Granny Smith", or a "Red Delicious". (Those can be very refreshing).
And the "TWIX Family-Pack". They're comin in elevenses again. They went down to eight for a while, but now they're back to eleven. What's with THAT?!
Dickens and Fenster, Inc.
In article , (Jeff Gagnon) wrote:
Yabbut, what if Jerry's building gets its steam from conEd?
<http://www.coned.com/steam/default.asp>
Aren't the radiators plumbed differently, then?
- Mark
Ya got me there. But ConEd steam just "might" need to shed electrons as it moves. Could explain the 'vertically-challenged' pipe in question... or even the apple mutations.
The "11 - 8 - 11" TWIX-Pack remains a mystery.
Fenster
Twix, is that the one with the swirling chocolate in the commercial?
"Jeff Gagnon" wrote in message news:[email]...
"Jeff Gagnon" wrote in message news:[email]...
That's because the 'average' North American family now consists of 2.75 children, as opposed to 2 children a while back. Give them four Twix each and hey presto! 11 bars.
It's all supervised!
Er
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:27:57 -0500, "Er" wrote:
Brilliant!
That is the kind of posts this newsgroup could have more of, rather than the mindless drivel of you know who, and his idiot friends.
Lars Stockholm
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:57:43 +0200, [email] wrote:
I thought this was a Seinfeld NG...who cares about Twix candy bars?
More Seinfeld! Petrofi
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:29:50 -0400, [email] (Jeff Gagnon) wrote:
You know, I never even noticed the pipe before I saw the first post on this discussion, now I can't forget it!
Petrofi
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:58:02 GMT, Cyrus Afzali wrote:
OK, I bow to your knowledge. I'm used to water based heating systems, not steam, there must be a difference there.
Since it is near refrigerator, it might be a drain for the melting ice in the days of iceboxes.
A deluxe aptment had a drain into this pipe so you wouldn't have to empty a tray under the icebox. My apartment has an outside access door on the back porch that so the iceman did not have to even come into the kitchen.
Crap apt. That's why I'm always blowing fuses. In the 20's maybe you had a lamp or 2 and a radio in these apts.
"Cyrus Afzali" wrote in message news:[email]...
That's right... in The Apartment, George says about Jerry's radiator:
"The steam has been on this radiator for 50 years. No human can turn this off!"
I always figured those pipes are for the radiators. Those are duct-size pipes, either for heating or venting.
Er