backwards episode

S09E08 The BetrayalretroJan 24, 2004, 12:34 AM ET6 years later15 posts by 15 posters
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Fans praise the backwards-told India wedding episode for its clever storytelling and gimmick execution, with most agreeing it's one of the show's best despite the unconventional format.

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Darius Fatakia

My friends and I were debating the worthiness of this episode (where the cast goes to India for a wedding, and Kramer sucks on a lollipop that keeps getting bigger). Yes, the backwardsness is gimmicky but I think it's very well done. Anyone want to lend their opinions to the fray?

Reparations, Jerry...REPARATIONS!!!

VolvoDarius Fatakia

I believe that this is the best episode. It i my type of Seinfeld. The story in that episode is a very easy one but a good idea makes it better than the others.

I was planning to make a reverse for that episode nowadays. If I do I will let you know. So you may watch the story from real beginning to real end.

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eightballDarius Fatakia

What a fantastic concept!!! No other "sit-com" has ever done anything at all similar to this!!! ...

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"eightball" wrote in message news:40125fdd$0$1735$[email]...

The Simpsons did something similar, if not the same . I would gather it's been done elsewhere too. But I would agree the Seinfeld rendition probably has alot more depth than any other.

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"Vince" writes:

Coupling in "blatantly ripping off Seinfeld" shocker. Film at 11.

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Andi_BrownieDarius Fatakia

I've seen it a while ago, but I thougth it was an amazing episode. First of all, the story itself was good, and the whole show was funny. But just the way things explain themselves as the episode goes back in time, is amazing, so smart and well done!! I think very few shows can get away with this, heck, I think very few shows are good enough to even come up with something like this!

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Captain InfinityDarius Fatakia

Once Upon A Summertime, Just A Dream From Yesterday Darius Fatakia wrote:

It was interesting and clever, but not very funny. And the cleverness wears thin after repeated viewing. The lollipop gag was the best, and that's unusual because it's a sight gag whereas most of "Seinfeld's" humor is derived from wordplay. Not a bad episode at all, but not one of the top ten.

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KittyDarius Fatakia

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I thought it was very creative. Not a whole lot of funny lines, but it was an interesting experiment that they pulled off.

--kit

"You can stuff you sorries in a sack, mister!"

JeffDarius Fatakia

I thought the best part was at the end when Kramer is moving in and Jerry tells him to help himself to anything in his apartment. Like someone else said it kind of ties some stories together.

"I wish FDR would drop dead!"

"Darius Fatakia" wrote in message news:but04t$muu$[email]... > My friends and I were debating the worthiness of this episode (where the > cast goes to India for a wedding, and Kramer sucks on a lollipop that
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Play/book/movie in the style in the style of "Memento Mori"

. "One of Harold Pinters most ambitious undertakings, his 1978 play BETRAYAL ranks among his finest works. Often called a sly comedy of sexual manners, BETRAYAL encompasses much more than just adultery.

BETRAYAL has only three main characters (plus a waiter in a single scene). There is Jerry and Emma, who years before had an affair, and Emmas husband Robert, who happens to be Jerrys best friend and business partner. Pinter ingeniously has the play occur in reverse chronological order, so that it begins with a meeting between Jerry and Emma in 1977, years after their affair, and it ends with a shocking scene from 1968. The ending gives BETRAYAL a great deal of reread value, as one can go back through the play and apply the secret revealed in its final moments.

While adultery is the most evident theme of the play, it is about other forms of betrayal: how we betray our friends, betray our spouses by permitting them to break the bonds of marriage, and how our words and actions betray the secrets we strive to hide. Pinters usual theme of the unknowability of our lifelong partners is even more strongly shown here than in other plays.

BETRAYAL is an excellent play for anyone who likes the work of Harold Pinter. Even if you became interested in the playwrights work through his late political plays like "The New World Order" and "Party Time", this more "traditional" work will excite."

A memento short story can be found at..

http://www.dpg.devry.edu/~lewinski/new_page_4.htm
Jack McCulloughgeo

I've said this before, they should have saved this idea for the series finale. The story would have been different, but they could have kept the same last line.

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FrogiswrongJack McCullough

Yeah, The show would have been great if they made the last line the same as the first, all those years ago.

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IncubusFrogiswrong

What........"Goodnight Jugdish" ?

Kidding.

I like watching closely to see if Jerry and Julias lips actually touch when she's drunk and crawling over him....I think they do but not 100 % yet.

"Frogiswrong" wrote in message news:bv2qhd$mpmke$[email]... > Yeah, The show would have been great if they made the last line the same as