Fans discuss Curb Your Enthusiasm airing in Canada on Showcase and debate Larry David's role in creating Seinfeld catchphrases, with one correcting misinformation about the Soup Nazi origin.
Good news for Canadians who want to see Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm. It was previously only available on TMN (a pay channel), but will be airing on Showcase starting February 12.
Here's the website: http://www.showcase.ca/curb/index2.asp
Emile
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:28:20 -0500, Emile Khordoc wrote:
Yes, for those that haven't seen it this is a great opportunity. But not everyone likes it - it is very low key - with adlib improv dialogue - and based on trivial social interactions. (I love it.)
But Showcase doesn't know what they are talking about when they say... "... Remember the now-classic sayings "Master of Your Domain," "Yada, Yada, Yada" and "Soup Nazi," which he had a hand in creating for Seinfeld?.."
"yada yada" was in year 8 after Larry left the show.
"The Soup Nazi" was named by staff of the Letterman show, not Larry David.
"Master of his domain" would have been Larry.
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:35:11 -0800, "The News Guy(Mike)" wrote:
How did that happen?
Tomas Stockholm
I think Jerry was appearing on Letterman, and before the taping of the show, the staff were telling him about a guy who sells soup and is a little demanding when it comes to the actions he expects of his customers. Mind you, the actions were a little exaggerated in the show. He basically just likes to keep the line moving. They apparently come up with the term "Soup Nazi".
I saw a story about him on oprah one time, and it turns out he actually gives free soup to the homeless. There is usually a line of people waiting to be served outside of his store, as in the Seinfeld episode.
He was saying that, you would expect by giving away soup for free, he'd end up with less profit, but infact, it results in more profit through other people hearing about this and therefore going there to buy soup.
I also remember there is a website that has the exact recipes for some of the soups which were in the show. It also has recipes for commercial products like McDonalds special sauce and KFC seasoning. Don't remember the address but it's out there.
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http://topsecretrecipes.com/cgi-bin/search.asp?andor=or&search=nazi
I've tried some of the recipes, and they are great.
I've got this mental image of Oprah clutching a bag, hustling down the sidewalk, saying "Jambalaya."
^^^^^^ "Art is often hailed as the grandest expression of human spirit, but we know now ... that the grandest expression of human spirit is whatever it takes for a man or woman to rush back into a burning building to save more people."
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And also, the website 2 messages up about the recipes is the one....thanks a bunch.
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From: http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/1998/0598/seinfeld.html
Michael "Spike" Feresten ("Thomas") claims he had no idea his rendition of a real New York soup vendor would have such an effect on viewers, although he chose the character deliberately. "I used to eat at the Soup Nazi, but the whole thing came from [the fact that] he yelled at me one too many times--'How can I exact my revenge on this person?' We used to eat there [when I wrote for The Late Show with David] Letterman since it was two blocks away." Delicious though the thought of revenge for wrongs committed was, Feresten was half-convinced the episode--the first he wrote on staff--would be his last. "I remember the moment clearly when Larry and I had finished editing it, and I just didn't find anything about it funny in any way," he says. "I thought, 'This it; I'm out on a limb. This is the worst thing I could have done, and it's a disaster. I'm a joke writer for Letterman and I've made a huge mistake.' And Larry didn't seem too pleased with it. The editor said, 'Do you want to go through it again?' And [Larry's] like, 'No, no, I've seen enough.' And I just felt like I wanted to apologize, like, 'I'm really sorry for this, don't worry, I'll get much better!'" Feresten also drew on his personal experiences for "The Reverse Peephole," in which Kramer and Newman reverse the viewers in their doors so that people can see in--an idea Feresten says is "just jacked-up New York City paranoia. 'If somebody's going to be on the other side of my door, I want to know before I go in.' That's how everybody thinks." Similarly, the "manfur" coat of the same episode, which Elaine tries to take away from on-again, off-again boyfriend David Puddy, "was just my own personal annoyance. Back when I was living in New York, walking by Lincoln Center,I would see--every night--a man in fur. I was just annoyed because I didn't understand it. So of course I attacked it, like an idiot."
In article , "Incubus" writes:
Actually my cuz was visiting NY from London and he told me that he was wondering around Manhattan and he saw the Soup Nazi. It was years after he was featured on Seinfeld though. And my cuz went up to him and asked him if he was the soup Nazi and the guy was like yea. He said not too many people recognized him anymore.