Fans appreciate the show's random, mundane conversational moments like Jerry and George discussing Jeopardy, which have nothing to do with the main plot and reflect real-life dialogue patterns.
The episode the aired around here (Mpls) last night, which I don't recall the name, (Morty tries to unload the "Executive" coats, the close talker, etc), has one of my favorite scenes.
Jerry & George are walking down the street, and get into this discussion about Jeapordy and the contestent interview. I love this scene because:
Dave
You hit the nail on the head for me, too. The style of the show did change after Larry David left (though I still watched and enjoyed it), but that the was thing I missed the most. Those random moments of dialogue about observing little things in life that have mothing to do with that moment's "big picture". My favorite example has to be in "The Dinner Party". Kramer and George are stuck on the street freezing, with George very irate over people who double-park. Then the following dialogue comes out of nowhere, and it's all done in the a very relaxed, conversational feel, very disconnected with the rest of the scene:
Kramer: Are those shoes comfortable? George: No, they're not. Karmer: They look comfortable. George: I know. That's why I bought them.
one of my favorite "real life" scenes is the episode when george tapes the conversation (recorder in the briefcase) at susan's memorial meetings....
he and jerry are back in jerry's apartment and jerry says "play the tape and maybe we'll get a clue"............
george agress but has to rewind it first..... we got 5-10 seconds of simply "rewinding"!! classic!
dave
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I'll second the nail-on-head hitting.
How about these two brief inocuous scenes (maybe I'll let you guys identify the speaker and context):
(1) "Hey. I got a rubber-pencil thing goin'."
(2) Speaker pounding on wall asks, "Are these alive?"
Of course, there are countless others.
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Elaine, can't recall the ep.
George rapping his fist on some framed butterflies in "The Chicken Roaster."
"You know, I'm thinking about getting a yoyo."
"I can see that."
-B.
On Fri, 31 May 2002 21:17:50 GMT, "Brian" wrote:
The clincher is an episode or two later, sure enough, Jerry has a yo-yo. (Trivia: can you name the episode?)
Scott
The Junior Mint
I remember that because Jerry is playing with the yo-yo in the hospital when they visit Elaine's friend, and shows off a trick for the doctor.
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Jerry tells George he's thinking of getting a yoyo in "The Handicap Spot" (while Elaine is on the phone with the Drakette). He actually has the yoyo two episodes EARLIER, in "The Junior Mint" (In Roy's hospital room - "I can't get this damn thing to sleep!").
-B.
On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 15:50:26 GMT, "Brian" wrote:
D'oh! Yet another reason to hate the Drake! He messes with the Space-Time Continuum!
Scott
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I bet The Drake knows who killed Kennedy!
He was probably in on it!
Just flashed to "The Limo" there.
-B.
Brian wrote:
How about the fine scene with Jerry at the ATM, trying to be funny for the gal at the other machine, who it turns out he knows?
That was "The Marine Biologist," of course, but how do you come up with something as funny as all that just to get together two people who hadn't seen each other in awhile?
There is genius in the show (but I guess we all knew that).
I think also the excellent Seinfeld writers and others with the show drew on things that had happened to them in real life. (We know this happened with the Trivial Pursuit misprint, but that was not really one of the "incidental scenes" that you've all been discussing here.)
"Talk about a show about nothing."
I love that scene! It's Elaine sitting at her desk at work (Pendant Publishing, I believe?), and I think she's talking to Jerry on the phone.
John Twernbold wrote:
I know I just posted my suspicion that the great writers of the show must have drawn on real-life experiences, but something as simple as the rubber-pencil thing--I wonder if it may have been Julia L-D who, at an early reading of the script, suggested, "Hey, why don't I interject this here?" I imagine it does happen like that.
And I'm sure Larry David and/or Jerry himself encouraged this kind of thing for their Show About Nothing.
I think the rubber pencil thing was in The John Cheever Letters. Elaine has her big line in that one. "My mother just bought me some panties and they are all laid out for me." Andy MacAskill wrote in message ...
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I recall Jerry playing with a yo-yo in the hospital during "The Junior Mint". He does an "around the world" and prefaces it by saying, "Hey, doc! Look what I can do!", just like a little kid would say to his mother. Which brings to mentioning when Jerry talks like a little kid or a teen-ager. The moments when he'd call Elaine's work and get Mr. Pitt on the horn. "Hi Mr. Pitt! It's Jerry. It's Elaine home?". Or in "The Puffy Shirt" after Kramer tells him he's going to be the first pirate, Jerry reacts in a whiny voice "But I don't wanna be a pirate!".
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A similar teen scenario is when Jerry is turned away by Rachel's father in _The Raincoats_.
Another telephone instance of this situation is when Jerry calls George during a Susan Biddle Ross Foundation meeting, asking if George can go to a movie. George asks permission, if you will, of Wyck (sp?), then glumly replies "I can't go".
Wyck: "Okay, Susan's doll collection is worth $N million. Shall we go over this doll by doll?"