Fans discuss whether Elaine's line at the party was about dingoes eating a baby or fiancé, with most recalling it was baby and that the woman kept calling her fiancé "baby."
I know the "maybe the dingoes ate your baby" thread has died out, and I don't usually pick at nits... but wasn't Elaine's line
"Maybe the dingoes ate your fiance?"
Maybe I'm referring to the wrong episode, but I recall at the Long Island party, Elaine was sitting on the couch with a woman who said (words to the effect):
"I'm here with my FIANCE. I wonder where my FIANCE went. My FIANCE was just here ... maybe my FIANCE went to the bathroom."
Elaine:
"Maybe the dingoes ate your fiance"
njh
Actually, I remember 'baby'. Often when people are talking, it will remind you in some manner of a movie, song, etc. Until seeing it here, I didn't know the reference, but still thought it was funny knowing what Elaine was doing. I'll say lines from movies whenever they pop into my mind, and get the same looks she got. The really confused expressions and every so often others will laugh because they know the reference too. These times are rare, but they do happen. The first woman was talking about her FI-AN-CE, and the dingo line just popped into her mind.
One more note. I can understand wanting to know about the beginnings to reoccurring themes, if you missed them, such as the jacket. Everyone trying to figure out where George went to high school, though, need to keep the theme song from Mystery Science Theater 3000 in mind. Just keep telling yourself it's just a TV show. This isn't "In Search Of Jerry Seinfeld's life story with Leonard Nimoy". It's a fictional show. Get it?
-Tom
[email] (Tom McDonald) writes:
It was "baby". The annoying woman was cooing about her fiance, and then started referring to him as "baby", as in "I wonder where my *baby* is". That's when Elaine piped up with the dingo comment.
It was "baby". The annoying woman was cooing about her fiance, and then
Elaine said "Maybe the dingoes ate your baby" to the woman, but when the woman kept going on about her fiancee, Elaine did say "Maybe the dingoes ate your fiancee." thus causing the woman to leave in a huff.
No, it was definately "baby", but the woman was talking about her fiance. They lady was saying "Has anyone seen my fiance", and then something like, "He can be such a baby" or "He's my baby" or something like that. That was when elaine shocked her.
"Maybe the dingo ate your bay-beeee" (wasn't dingo singular)
"what?"
"I said, 'maybe the dingo ate your bay-beee'"
garr
I haven't seen the movie, but is there a chance that the "dingoes" line is adapted from that meryl streep movie called "cry in the dark" (or something similar), about the woman who claimed that her child had been dragged off by dingoes and killed? if not from the movie, i suspect it was inspired by the movie.
m.h.
In article [email] (Garr Godfrey) writes:
As I remember it the transition was...
"Have you seen my FI-AN-CE? Is my FI-AN-CE upstairs? Are you going upstairs? If you see my FI-AN-CE tell him I'm looking for him. I seem to have lost my FI-AN-CE, poor baby."
Elaine then starts up out of her bad-conversation-induced stupor with her great line.