Posters explain that Richard Dawson was the host of Family Feud who was known for kissing female contestants on the show, clarifying the reference Jerry makes in The Kiss Hello.
In the episode The Kiss Hello Jerry says to Kramer "I'm like Richard Dawson down there". It had something to do with Jerry's picture on the wall in the lobby and acting friendly to everybody.
Again I'm Dutch so I never heard of Richard Dawson, who is he and why is Jerry comparing himself to him?
Ramsey.
He was the host of the game show "Family Fued". He would give all the ladies on the show a kiss. Some were more than little pecks on the cheek too.
PS If you have the Game Show Network, you can still see "Family Fued".
tommy
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Thanks (also Dave). Now I know why everybody was laughing :-)
It's not in Holland.
Ramsey.
Richard Dawson was the host of a game show called Family Feud.
http://www.gameshownetwork.com/gsn/familyfeud.html
His 'thing' was he would give every female contestant a peck on the cheek.
You may also know him as Newkirk in Hogan's Heroes.
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dumb children with no parental supervision, and access to a hammer.Dave wrote in message ...
On similar lines, in The Fire, the prop comic commending Jerry on his heckling of the heckler said "You're like Rosa Parkes(sp?)" in The Fire. Is this a famous American or am I displaying my ignorance to all. :)
(And what are bear-claws?)
Brian
Well i don't know much about Us History but Rosa PArks was a Black (African american ) Lady who didn't want to go or couldn't go in a Blacj only bus so she went in WHite only one...AM I RIGHT?
What does Heckling mean?
Tariq
Tariq wrote:
"Well i don't know much about Us History but Rosa PArks was a Black (African american ) Lady who didn't want to go or couldn't go in a Blacj only bus so she went in WHite only one...AM I RIGHT?
What does Heckling mean?"
Close. In the years prior to the 1960's, Blacks were not allowed to ride in the front section of public buses. Ms. Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, and by doing so she became an important symbol to the Civil Rights movement in the US.
Heckling can be mildly described as unwanted audience participation. It usually consists of insults from an audience member directed toward a performer. Some comedians handle it beautifully...others are completely thrown off by hecklers.
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Thanks, I knew of the woman but didn't know her name. I thought, from the context of the scene, she might be a US women's libber but that makes perfect sense.
Brian
One of the things I like most about Seinfeld is how they use names from the US's historical and cultural fabric to pepper their comments with. (Nice mixed metaphor there, huh?)
People like Stein Erikson and Mary Beth Whitehead, for example. If you didn't know Whitehead was involved in the first ever lawsuit concerning a surrogate mother wanting to keep her baby after birth, you wouldn't understand why Jerry referred to Tony the mechanic's stealing of the car he had worked on so much because he didn't think Jerry was taking care of it, as "pulling a Mary Beth Whitehead" in "The Bottle Deposit."
And people who had never seen Planet of the Apes probably had no idea what Elaine meant when she called the fur coat wearing Puddy "Dr. Zaius" in "The Reverse Peephole."
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Thanx for that info. I had no idea about any of those people. Why did she call Puddy "Dr. Zaius" and who is Stein Ericson ?
NV.
Dr. Zaius was one of the apes in Planet of the Apes and Stein Ericson was an Olympic downhill skiing champion in the 1950's. Both were used as references to Puddy wearing his fur coat.
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