Oooo I missed them 3 letters. I don't even know what season I'm on tbh. Last one I watched was with the guy who sounded like a woman.
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Which Seinfeld season arc did you enjoy the most?
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I'm currently going through the entire series, including SEINCAST, and commentary!!!
This has been a revelation, my friends. What a series...
This has been a revelation, my friends. What a series...
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You're on 6; you just watched The Pledge Drive.
I honestly think it's a step up from 8, and I love 8. But 9 kind of knew what it was a bit better than 8, imo, after Larry David left.
Don't you love getting that feeling?
George's arc for the Opposite is the best thing the show ever did. It lead to so many classic moments when he worked for the Yankees.
Everyone thinking George was dead.
The cotton uniforms.
George trying to make a black friend to prove he isn't racist.
Yankee Stadium bomb threat.
Steinbrenner testifying at the trial in the finale George was a good boy but he was a Communist.
Everyone thinking George was dead.
The cotton uniforms.
George trying to make a black friend to prove he isn't racist.
Yankee Stadium bomb threat.
Steinbrenner testifying at the trial in the finale George was a good boy but he was a Communist.
The Summer of George!!
And as for the season 9 chatter, I love The Frogger episode. Every time I play the game I too think I must preserve my high score.
And as for the season 9 chatter, I love The Frogger episode. Every time I play the game I too think I must preserve my high score.
It really is.
Best episode: THE DEALERSHIP
Worst episode: THE BETRAYAL
Yep. Just looked at a list of the entire season of episodes, and outside of The Betrayal and The Finale, every episode is fantastic.
I must be in a minority who doesn't enjoy season 4's sitcom stuff and George. He's is just not enjoyable, he's too damn smug and not in a funny way. After the season he becomes so bitter and lazy that it makes him that more hilarious.
This is exactly how I felt as a teenager watching Seinfeld.
George's really REALLY grown on me. The show is basically about him in the later seasons.
I love the last couple of seasons of Seinfeld. It's full on cartoon at that point, and it's great. I think that the Larry David seasons are better as a whole, but as standalone episodes, the later seasons are full of bangers.
Right, I just didn't like George's short hairstyle to begin Season 8.
There was definitely a noticeable shift of tone before it hit its stride with Bizarro Jerry.
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That's what I love about him. He's simultaneously smug and insecure, sure of himself but understanding he's a loser, it's so contradictory but it makes so much sense.
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As an arc the level of meta commentary in Season 4 is just amazing especially the final which is just exploding with easter eggs and small jokes. So that is my favorite on a story level abd my pick.
But in terms of pure humor George moving in with his parents is definitely the funniest. Anything that leads to more Frank and Estelle is just golden.
But in terms of pure humor George moving in with his parents is definitely the funniest. Anything that leads to more Frank and Estelle is just golden.
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That's multiple seasons same as Pendant Publishing and the Yankees. I'm talking more those season-specific arcs.
I love the sitcom arc but George moving in with his parents is such gold. There's an episode where he tries a sex move Jerry told him about in his childhood bed (that has Superman sheets on it) and completely fucks it up. There's just so many layers of him being a loser there that it's incredible.
The sitcom arc is quite funny on re-watch because for a while there it does really seem like it could work out but we know all the while that it will end in disaster. I can imagine watching it contemporaneously thinking this development could radically change the show for future seasons.
But nope, one phone call ends the whole thing, Russell gets lost at sea and everything goes back to normal.
But nope, one phone call ends the whole thing, Russell gets lost at sea and everything goes back to normal.
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Hey, if it makes you feel better, it gives me an idea to do a thread involving arcs that lasted longer (Yankees, George-Susan relationship, J Peterman, Pendant Publishing?) so good thing you said something!
That's actually Season 6 and after the moving in arc, but it's good shit, especially that line with Elaine where she talks about Puddy's new move that's like a big budget movie that goes nowhere, and George says something like, "That's my move. He stole my move!" and she says something like, "That explains it."
And then that funny little C-story in the season finale.
Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun; you take a glance and then you look away!
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Welcome to the club! That first time is something else, isn't it?
Absolutely. I really enjoyed this show! Kramer and George are my favorite characters.
George's season 5 arc, culminating in one of my favorite episodes (The Opposite), is peak Seinfeld for me.
The pitch arc is my second choice. Parts of it drag on a bit, but it's still very funny (and a brilliant sitcom idea).
The pitch arc is my second choice. Parts of it drag on a bit, but it's still very funny (and a brilliant sitcom idea).
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My one point of sadness is any time I've done a poll like this, there's usually a choice that I don't expect to get a ton of votes. Mr. Pitts was that choice, even though I quite enjoyed it. Would anyone who voted for it like to talk about what they enjoy from it over the others? I'm not even trying or wanting to argue about it; I just wanna know since you're out there! =(
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"Who are you, George Costanza?"
"I'm the opposite of every man you've ever met."
Interesting - is it known if it was just a mismatch in types of character that made it hard to work together for years or was it something specific?
I had to watch the video below to refresh myself on exactly what happened.
Basically, she was hired specifically because she looked like a specific NBC executive or something, and she was only intended to be there for a single line. Not sure whether it was an ad-libbed line or what, but George's "I think the girl liked me" line after the show pitch (for The Pitch episode, not in real life) took place was enough to make them want to make Susan a recurring character.
Regarding the "mismatch" problem, Jason Alexander says he "found [her] comedy instincts to be the opposite of [his own]." He never felt that he could get the right responses from her, so it sounds as though she was just really unpredictable for some unknown reason to him that he could never put his finger on. Amusingly, in the clip below, Jason Alexander is adamant in saying that she's a fine actress and that she wasn't doing anything wrong, so yeah, I don't entirely understand it, myself.
Apparently, Larry David picked up on this early on, and that's why he insisted on keeping Susan on for so long. And it sounds like it was one "big scene" that made the other three realize how hard it was to work with her (with The Pool Guy being my guess), which in turn somehow led to the decision to kill Susan.
The Summer of George no doubt, followed by the engagement arc.
What a great show. I actually loved the ending too.
What a great show. I actually loved the ending too.
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