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OT: Best Seinfeld episodes?

Lefty2one said:

I can't imagine a TV character ever eclipsing George. He is the pinnacle.
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Used to think the same thing, but then I heard that "George" was basically Larry David in sitcom form. I never got into Curb Your Enthusiasm. Maybe it's about time to start a binge.
 
Husky25 said:
Used to think the same thing, but then I heard that "George" was basically Larry David in sitcom form. I never got into Curb Your Enthusiasm. Maybe it's about time to start a binge.
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You will be so glad you did. Watch the first 3 or 4 seasons, just hysterical. It’s mostly improv too. The actors have a very basic storyline and improv around it.
 
sammydabiz said:
Love Curb, but this latest season was a letdown, should have just kept it retired
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I love that show, but I can only imagine the flow charts needed to keep track of what’s happening. Just when I think they’re going nowhere, they come back around to something from a previous show and tie it all together.
 
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8893 said:
The Bubble Boy!
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Part of that episode happened to me in real life a few years earlier. We were playing Trivial Pursuit back then at my buddy's house, boys against the girls. It was at the end of a taut game. The question to us was, "What is Coq au vin"? And we said "Chicken with wine". The wife says "No! Chicken with RED wine" and slams the card back into the box. The girls went on to win. They got divorced.
 
Husky25 said:
Used to think the same thing, but then I heard that "George" was basically Larry David in sitcom form. I never got into Curb Your Enthusiasm. Maybe it's about time to start a binge.
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you will thank yourself.

Larry David IS George. You will recognize it right away. He is George in real life. Seinfeld worked so well because it was a show taken (mostly) from Larry Davids life and observations. Curb is taken from Larry Davids life and observations and then that gets meta in a hurry because he plays himself.

Cant say one is better than the other because of the standard network sitcom format of the 90's vs. the creative freedom of HBO. They are both works of Genius. And the common thread between the Genius of both shows is Larry David himself. That much is known. Curb is a top 5 TV show for me of all time. And the top comedy.(for me). Yes I like it even more than Seinfeld.

Larry made a few appearances in Seinfeld too, most people know this but a few dont.
He sold a pack of gum to someone (george?) once
He was the guy wearing the cape on the street in one episode
and he was George Steinbrenner
 
I can’t even reply to this without doing some serious thinking and analyzing. Seinfeld and creating to _ “lists” are 2 of my favorite things on the planet.
 
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August_West said:
you will thank yourself.

Larry David IS George. You will recognize it right away. He is George in real life. Seinfeld worked so well because it was a show taken (mostly) from Larry Davids life and observations. Curb is taken from Larry Davids life and observations and then that gets meta in a hurry because he plays himself.

Cant say one is better than the other because of the standard network sitcom format of the 90's vs. the creative freedom of HBO. They are both works of Genius. And the common thread between the Genius of both shows is Larry David himself. That much is known. Curb is a top 5 TV show for me of all time. And the top comedy.(for me). Yes I like it even more than Seinfeld.

Larry made a few appearances in Seinfeld too, most people know this but a few dont.
He sold a pack of gum to someone (george?) once
He was the guy wearing the cape on the street in one episode
and he was George Steinbrenner
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After watching Curb it’s easy to spot which Seinfeld episodes are mostly written by Larry. The structure of having four or 5 seemingly unrelated things all brilliantly tie in together at the end of the episode is Larry’s signature. It’s no coincidence the final two seasons of Seinfeld are comparatively weak, since Larry wasn’t involved by then.

I agree August, that you can’t compare the two because of the reasons you stated. I kind of like to look at it like loving The Beatles and then getting to enjoy McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Ringo solo material. Different material but still reminders of what we loved so much about the ensemble act. Blessed in both cases.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Is your wife 8?
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Close but no.

28.

And Colombian so she is not always familiar with some of the things that makes America GREAT like microbrews, New Haven pizza, Seinfeld, March Madness, seasons and free museums in DC.

Although she is quickly catching on with the microbrews and learned about March Madness last year when I took off two days from work to watch the first round (and I already put in a leave request this past week for this coming MM).

BFieldHusky said:
I love when Kramer adopts a highway and turns it into 2 lanes. The end scene with Newman. "Oh the humanity" as his truck blows up.
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I was thinking of that episode yesterday. The topic of seinfeld actually came up yesterday with some co-workers at lunch, not even because I asked too. This episode, along with soup nazi were the first two mentioned at this lunch.
 
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Not sure which episode it was but the one in which Kramer borrowed Jerry’s car to drive to the blood bank but used the blood as engine oil when the car overheated was brilliant.
 
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The Mohel / pig man episode and “the gum” with Lloyd Braun and the theater are 2 of my favorites.

I could probably name every episode of every season 1-7; at least I could a year or two ago.

For me to create a legit top 5 / 10 list of Seinfeld would require some real analysis.
 
Beef-a-roni

The rickshaw, which I believe is the same episode where George had to buy the book after taking it to the bathroom with him.
 
8893 said:
Beef-a-roni

The rickshaw, which I believe is the same episode where George had to buy the book after taking it to the bathroom with him.
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Beef a Reeno is what Kramer fed the horse, Rusty — the Marble Rye I believe. They never put the rye on the table that George’s parents brought, who proceeded then to take it home, leading to George needing to get the rye back in the house before they got home.

Tremendous episode, and wow I’m a .
 
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jibsey said:
The JFK recreation “loogie” with Newman in Jerry’s kitchen is brilliant.
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A group of four of us were in Florida having dinner when one guy says "It's Keith Hernandez! What's he doing here? We figured he was here for Spring Training and the guy says, "He was a baseball player?"
 
Keith was "rounding third" but Elaine wasn't "waving him in."
 
tentoes4rings said:
Not sure which episode it was but the one in which Kramer borrowed Jerry’s car to drive to the blood bank but used the blood as engine oil when the car overheated was brilliant.
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even better part of that was when Jerry had to get a transfusion with kramers blood and when Jerry wakes up in the hospital and starts screaming at the horror of that, Kramer starts involuntarily screaming too, like there is some kind of twin blood bond. I swear JK Rowling stole that notion for when Voldemort touches Harry Potter at the end of Goblet of Fire and they both start screaming because of their connection.
 
August_West said:
even better part of that was when Jerry had to get a transfusion with kramers blood and when Jerry wakes up in the hospital and starts screaming at the horror of that, Kramer starts involuntarily screaming too, like there is some kind of twin blood bond. I swear JK Rowling stole that notion for when Voldemort touches Harry Potter at the end of Goblet of Fire and they both start screaming because of their connection.
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Or both borrowed it from Young Frankenstein.
 
jibsey said:
The JFK recreation “loogie” with Newman in Jerry’s kitchen is brilliant. I sometimes wonder how I can enjoy episodes that I have seen 20 times, but I still do, and it’s still more entertaining than the crap that’s on now.
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By the time I dug into the thread, my recommendation was already mentioned....love the Keith Hernandez/ JFK episode. The first episode I ever watched was the Chinese Restaurant and I was hooked.
 
Totally forgot about Yada, yada, yada.
 
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