Mar 17, 2000·20 posts by 11 posters·alt.tv.seinfeld
❓ Question
Fans discuss made-up words and phrases from Seinfeld that have entered common culture, and debate where episode names can be found since they don't appear in the show itself.
Sorry if the above has already been posted. My $#%^%&@ ISP's news server crashed and lost everything.
I have an additional question...
A while ago we started getting re-runs, starting from the beginning. I believe we are still getting 1991 episodes (they are being run in order), or maybe early 1992 - yesterday's episode was about Jerry's smelly car (valet's BO). Anyhow, where do they show the episode name? It's not shown at the beginning of the show, and I've checked the credits at the end, but can't see anything that looks like an episode name.
Seinfeld has made up a lot of words or combination of words that have worked their way into our common culture. Check out my "Language" list for many of them. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/1955/language2.html
Things like regifter, sponge-worthy, soup nazi, and SO SO many more.
The episode names are sometimes shown in TV guides. Most of us got them from the episode guide at http://epguides.com/Seinfeld.
The News Guy (Mike) wrote in message news:[email]...
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Thanks Mike, great site. Unfortunately none of the "Seinfeld Expressions and Language" from your site was the actual word I'm thinking of. The word wasn't your typical Seinfeld "made-up word" - in the episode I'm thinking of the characters (could be George and Elaine???) actually discussed how the word doesn't exist, and they deliberately set out to incorporate it into everyday language. Just like we did at work (where we also celebrated Festivus). Now, if I could only remember the damn word!
Morty: Quone's not a word... Jerry: No good. Sorry. There it is. Get it off... Helen: Why did you make me put that down? Kramer: Nah, we need a *medical* dictionary! If a patient gets difficult, you *quone* him...
The News Guy (Mike) wrote in message news:[email]...
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No, it's not quone. But thanks for trying! Gee, I wish I could remember *anything* about the episode with "the word" in it. All I can remember is that the word definitely was not a real word, it was acknowledged by the characters (for some reason I think of Elaine and George?) to be a made-up word, but they decided to use it in every day language with other people, outside "the group", to see if others would start using the word. And they did.
C'mon guys, doesn't *anyone* know what I'm talking about?
Well, it's not a word, but are you thinking of the phrase "B.B.O."? (which was curiously left off the Seinfeld Words and Phrases website) That was one of my favorite episodes (but nobody else seems to like that one). Perhaps I just have a lot of smelly friends, so I can relate?
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"ArtVandelay2000" wrote in message news:[email]...
To be honest, although I'm sure you don't want to hear it, it sounds as if you are misremembering. The situation you describe sounds quite clear and I find it very hard to imagine that *no-one* on this NG can come up with what you're talking about. I've seen every episode in the first 6 seasons a number of times and can *guarantee* this doesn't happen in any of those.
How about when Elaine was confronting the editor of New Yorker about the cartoon that didn't make any sense. He's says it's a pun among other things and then he says it's a "valstein" and she says that's not a word. This happened in "The Cartoon". Could also be thinking of George always saying "flathmm" under his breath when he doesn't know what to say.
I haven't seen those two episodes but neither of them sound like what the guy (whose name has now been lost in the ether) was describing. The idea of them deliberately making up a word and trying to get it accepted in the language sounds quite distinct and I tend to think if that had happened in any of the episodes I haven't seen about 10 people here would have got it in about 2 days. Maybe this happened in another sit-com or something?
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I'm actually not a guy :) But you're right, if it had happened, someone here would know what I was talking about. It could only have been Seinfeld, if it happened. My friend John (who also remembers this episode which I now believe truly probably doesn't exist) and I used to work together, we also used to enjoy liquid lunch on Fridays... perhaps this whole word thing evolved from one of those lunches. It's the only explanation I can think of. It also probably explains why neither John nor I can remember what the word was ;) Oh well...
Vonnie wrote in message news:38e51b19$0$[email]...
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Loath as I am to respond to my own post ( I *swear* I was just going to let this one die...), but I emailed my buddy John to let him know the outcome, ie. we (John and I) must have both imagined or misremembered what we refer to as "The Word" episode. I was happy to let it go at that (I mean, John and I have both been trying to remember The Word for over a year now, and it's just not happening - most likely because the episode appears to never have happened), but John just won't let go. Here is a copy of his reply to my email (in which I was trying to bury this for once and for all...)
"No, no, no, no, NO, NO, NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Now, I will happily admit that weird stuff used to evolve from our Friday liquid lunches (why do I hear that Celine Dion Titanic song whenever I think about those lunches??????)
And I can admit that my vague recollections of "The Word" are confined to an episode I can only have seen once, which given the frequency of reruns of the show in Australia is.... well, a statistical improbability.
I am also willing to accept that I can be wrong. Sometimes. Not often, but sometimes.
And I can appreciate that you may have bowed to pressure from Seinfeld aficionados in order to stop the frustration of it all.
But I'm sticking to my guns...........
You came to me at work one day (I think it was a sober day, ie. before Friday afternoon, but I can't be sure) and said there was an episode where George made up a word and they all started dropping it into their conversations. It didn't twig instantly as I hadn't watched the previous night's rerun, but (as things between friends sometimes gel, even when one of them has not given lots of details) I remembered an episode that I liked where Jerry read a report or resume or something George had written (perhaps we can therefore confine the search to George's "working" years?), and he pulled him up on the word - then Jerry was the first to use it when he was talking to somebody else."
OK guys, now that you have a little bit more info on this *alleged* episode, does it twig something with anyone? At all? No? I'm trying real hard to let go...
Cheers, Vonnie
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." - William Blake (1757-1827) "Auguries of Innocence"
Vonnie's former work (and drinking) pal wrote: "....And I can appreciate that you may have bowed to pressure from Seinfeld aficionados in order to stop the frustration of it all......"
No pressure to stop from this quarter. I'm very curious to see how this turns out.
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Yeah, I was hoping someone would come up with it by now.
Sounds very familiar, but I can't remember specifics to
save my life.
No apologies, let's hash it out.
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No Brian, I don't mind hearing that you think I'm misremembering! (At least you haven't come straight out and said I'm insane...) :) I want to believe that myself, as I'm quite positive someone here would have known what I was talking about if it actually happened! The only thing that's stopping me from totally believing that is, as I have stated in previous posts, my good friend at work also saw (or maybe also misremembered?!) the same episode, and we both started using the word at work, and others picked it up too. 97% of me believes I've misremembered, but there's still that 3%...
Regards, Vonnie
PS: If the episode *did* ever exist (other than in my mind!), it would have aired in Australia between January '97 and January '98.
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." - William Blake (1757-1827) "Auguries of Innocence"
No, but thanks anyway! I'll just keep watching the repeats (only another 6 1/2 years to go!)... I'll keep monitoring this group though, in the hope that one day, someone might actually know what I'm talking about!
Cheers, Vonnie
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." - William Blake (1757-1827) "Auguries of Innocence"