the other end of the buzzer...

S09E13 The CartoonliveJan 30, 1998the next day7 posts by 6 posters
Question

Fans discuss whether the show has ever shown the apartment buzzer from outside the building rather than from inside Jerry's apartment.

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Rinso365

I realized the other day that we have never seen the "apartment buzz in" from the downstairs/outside point of view. Am I correct on this?

DKRinso365

Rinso365 wrote:

Yup. It would be interesting to see George or someone buzz Jerry. But there's something about that scenario that would be unsettling. Instead of following one of the main characters, we should be in Jerry's apartment, where the buzzing really happens. Where everyone pops in and has something interesting to say. I don't know what this means, but all I know is that it makes more sense to see it from Jerry's point of view.

And since I mentioned it, you ever notice how Jerry's friends never just "hang out" anymore? They all have something to do, and only pop in on Jerry when it's important for one of the integrated stories. Kramer occasionally hangs out there for no reason, but the transition is always made to his story for the show. Like his giving up speech. Or his realizing that Kramerica was in need of a resurrection.

-DK

[email] (Rinso365) writes:

Did we see it in The Virgin? Elaine waiting for John John outside Jerry's building, JJ doesn't show and she wants to get away from the virgin, so she buzzes up? I could be wrong.

Suzanne Morine [email] Television Transcript Project: http://www.nyx.net/~smorine/tvtp.htm

[email] (Suzanne Morine) wrote:

do we see the lobby and mailboxes (must be near the buzz in) in the Kiss Hello?

High Five, WT

How ironic that a thread about the buzzer appears here a week before the most "buzzer exposure" I think we have ever seen. I got a kick out of the fact that Jerry didn't know the guy who lived across the hall from him.

Mike

Yeah, especially since he lived in Newman's apartment (5E), although we have seen Newman in 5F as well......

Boring is watching a baseball game when you could enjoy the end-to-end action of a hockey game.

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Maybe Newman really did evicted on that show a couple of weeks back...