Garbage eating

What does Elaine, sharing the bearclaw out of the donut shop garbage bag in "The Strongbox", do to George's argument about eating the eclair he found "hovering" over the garbage on a doily in "The Gymnast"?

Any other garbage eating?

Newman and the muffin stumps? Technically garbage, right?

Any others?

   In 'the Suicide' Jerry asks George to throw out his garbage. When he
won't do it, Jerry places the bag of trash at the foot of the door of
Kramer's apartment, then knocks on the door and runs back into his
apartment. Kramer opens his door, looks around and see's no one, and takes
the bag of trash back into his apartment.....who knows what Kramer did with
it then!
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Dave wrote in message ...

In article , [email] wrote:

i think George raised the bar by eating the snack that fell in the sewer.

In the episode "The Strongbox", Jerry throws a snackbar thru his appartment window for Elaine and then she yells "It went it the sewer!". A few seconds after Jerry sees George eating a similar snackbar and asks him where he got it... George then says he bought it...

I know George is quite a liar and can be really disgusting but I don't think he would go down a sewer to get a snack bar...

ChadPolenz wrote in message ...

But if it was still sealed in its wrapper, and the sewer (gutter?) was
dry, then the only problem with George eating the (looked like some sort
of granola bar) would be sociological.  Inside the wrapper, the actual
food product would be as 'clean' as if it was sitting on a store shelf.
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Dave wrote:

Don't know what kind of stores you shop in but I think I will continue to frequent my own. :-)

But, as is usual in the later episodes, this was just easy, derivitive humour
based on the really funny kitchen episode in The Gymnast.   Notice the difference
in plot development.  In The Gymnast George's eating from the garbage is an
integral part of the plot (IT IS TIGHT WRITING).  It had a purpose.  In The
Strongbox it was a little throw-away shtick that went nowhere. Just silly.   my
$0.02

Sure, me too, I'm just arguing the sociology viewpoint, and no one's 'rising to the challenge'. Sigh.

EVERY episode includes throw-away shtick. Rememer an early episode where Jerry pulls the turtleneck sweater up over his mouth and says, "Look Elaine, Bazooka Joe!"? I can't tell you how much that throw-away line made me laugh. It related to nothing else in the episode, but it still belonged. Just as George's eating the food that fell into the gutter in a previous scene belonged. And it's purpose was to revisit the earlier scene where Jerry didn't want to throw his keys down because he feared they would fall into the same gutter. So when the food landed in the gutter, that was laugh #1, and later, when George was seen eating the food and saying he bought it, that was the payoff, or laugh #2.

Shtick is comedy. Sometimes an unrelated laugh from out of nowhere is a good thing.

In article , [email] wrote:

I agree. The throw away jokes are among my favorite in Seinfeld. My personal favorate is Jerry is in his apartment trying to open a jar. First you just see the exterior and him groaning, then you see him trying to open it. He yells, "It says 'twist off', twist off! TWIST! OFF!" Then we see that Elaine arrived to witness this and she has a look of total disbelief. I think this is from the episode where Elaine and Jerry get George and Elaine's friend set up on a blind date.

-Adam

Yes, yes! Bravo! I agree with both you and Dave wholeheartedly. After all, the "throw aways" are trivial in nature. And isn't the entire show trivial in nature? Each episode focuses on a few major trivialities. On any other show, a marble rye, Elaine's shoes, or Bosko could never be more than a couple seconds of an episode. However, Seinfeld takes these throw aways and makes them into episodes. Basically, the entire show is going to have throw aways anyway, so there might as well be some smaller ones along the way. "Well wouldn't I have to be [stupid]? You tell me there's a can opener in the drawer, I'm looking there, and there is none. What other conclusion could one make?"

Adam Sena wrote in message ...

Dave wrote:

Is Bazooka Joe celebrity-worthy? I guess he is the comic book character. I will put him in the list if you can tell me the episode.

Thanks.

Mike.. Bazooka brand bubblegum used to have a folded comic wrapped around each piece. Was there a Bazooka Joe character there???

homerr

The News Guy(Mike) wrote in message ...

throw-away

character. I will put

Yup. He was the kid in the Bazooka comics who's turtleneck always rode up to cover his mouth. I hadn't seen a Bazooka Joe comic in ages before the first time I saw that scene, and the flashback made for a most sublime experience. Like the writer got inside my head for a moment when I wasn't looking.

Mike, I can't seem to recall the episode, because it was such a detached scene that had no bearing on any plot. I recall they were in Jerry's apt., Jerry was over by the window and Elaine was standing by the kitchen counter. It was one of the early eps.

And it definitely belongs in your list.  Bazooka Joe is as big a part of
US pop culture as the Green Lantern.  Which reminds me, in the same
episode where the Green Lantern is mentioned, George says something
about the Blue Arrow.  I've never heard of the Blue Arrow, is he a real
superhero or made up?
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No there's no Blue Arrow but there's a Green Arrow, who was pals with Green Lantern in the Justice League when I read a lot of DC comics in the '70's. Green Arrow's girlfriend was the Black Canary, they were a pretty colorful group.

richforman

[email] wrote:

Thanks.

Just a thought, I think the kid with the turtleneck is Mort, Bazooka Joe's friend.

"The Cafe"....Jerry was spying on Babu through binoculars and he pulled up his turtle neck over his nose. Elaine told him to stop because it was annoying and thats when he said "Bazooka Joe".....

In article , [email] wrote:

Agreed! A similar favorite throwaway moment of mine, from a relatively early episode. Remember when Jerry was talking to his mother on the phone? He had to specify that he was watching cartoons on Nickelodeon (or was it Nick at Nite?) - which he loves because it's so wholesome. I remember thinking the exact great thing about this and bits like it, was that it had nothing to do with anything else going on or in the plot, just came out of nowhere and left just as quickly - a complete self-contained throwaway, much like a lot of what happens in conversations and situations in real life. In schtickier traditional sitcoms everything is sort of tied together - every bit of dialogue is somehow connected to the plot, much more unlifelike.

richforman

Jerry watching Tiny Toon Adventures was not a disjointed, throw-away bit. It was directly related to the plotline. In the midst of The Contest, in order to keep his mind off of sex (and especially the naked lady in the aparment across the street), he was watchng children's cartoons. Since Kramer was already out of the competition, ("I'm out!"), he kept the window seat occupied.

"The wheels on the bus go round and round...round and round......"

*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*      Avoid cliches like the
plague.

In article ,

You may be right, but I never took it that way. I think he would have been watching the 'toon whether or not the contest was going on. He seems pretty cool, casual, matter-of-fact and on-keel at the time, it doesn't look like he's having too tough a time at that point remaining the master of his domain.

But I'll take a fresh look at the scene next time the ep comes on!

richforman

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But he was singing "The wheels of the bus go round and round, round and
round..." along with the cartoon.  This, to me, meant he was anxious and
trying desperately to get his mind off of the naked woman.  Naturally,
Kramer chimed in, singing "The woman across the street has nothing on,
nothing on..."
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In article , "Daft" wrote:

The tone of his voice made it sound like he was covering something up. Jerry definitely didn't want to share it.

Dave wrote:

George, has on many occassions finished eating from some else's plate in Monks.