Seinfeld is on Netflix UK

[Mobbd]

BOOKMAN: You buy a jar of Folger's Crystals, you put it in the cupboard, you forget about it. Then later on when you need it, it's there. It lasts forever. It's freeze-dried. Freeze-dried crystals.

I think of that line surprisingly often.

[Mobbd]

So now I'm watching The Bubble Boy.

Something I just thought of is how The Bubble Boy might be the first occurrence of the Larry David trope about disabled people who turn out to be unpleasant or unreasonable or, importantly, ungrateful.

He uses it in Curb a lot: the blind guy who asks him with help to move house, the disabled toilet user, the lisping guy, etc.

[Better Midlands]

Reading the thread and a show popped into my head where Jason Alexander guested playing himself (I think) living in a big mansion, I can remember something to do with a large safe which had money &/or cocaine in it, maybe he got money from it to buy cocaine - I think the money eventually got stolen.

It was about 10/15 years ago and could have been something like Californication or Entourage.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

[Icehaven]

Well this is strange.
https://youtu.be/9b9N5iYB84c

"But I don't WANNA be a Ley-go!"
Puddy though!

[McDead]

Reading the thread and a show popped into my head where Jason Alexander guested playing himself (I think) living in a big mansion, I can remember something to do with a large safe which had money &/or cocaine in it, maybe he got money from it to buy cocaine - I think the money eventually got stolen.

It was about 10/15 years ago and could have been something like Californication or Entourage.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

I want to say Monk, but when I looked it up it seems he played a rival detective in that. Hmm.

[chveik]

Reading the thread and a show popped into my head where Jason Alexander guested playing himself (I think) living in a big mansion, I can remember something to do with a large safe which had money &/or cocaine in it, maybe he got money from it to buy cocaine - I think the money eventually got stolen.

It was about 10/15 years ago and could have been something like Californication or Entourage.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

big time in hollywood, FL. good little show

[McDead]

In "The Robbery", when Jerry asks George how he got in, what's the deal with George's folded arm gestures?

I would also like to know the answer to this. He seems to mime something or someone falling over dead, very odd.

I also don't get really get the Choose game they play in The Apartment. I actually *do* get it - the lads on Reddit explained how it works - but I can't find any history to the game prior to this episode of Seinfeld. Did it exist beforehand? Did Larry and Jerry make it up?

[gilbertharding]

Puddy though!

Yeah that's right.

[BeardFaceMan]

I also don't get really get the Choose game they play in The Apartment. I actually *do* get it - the lads on Reddit explained how it works - but I can't find any history to the game prior to this episode of Seinfeld. Did it exist beforehand? Did Larry and Jerry make it up?

It's just a variation of the 'odds or evens' game isn't it? They did something similar with marbles in Squid Game.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

BOOKMAN: You got any coffee?

JERRY: Coffee?

BOOKMAN: Yeah. Coffee.

JERRY: No, I don't drink coffee....

That's a thing: I'm pretty sure Jerry does drink coffee, so why does he say that?

That minor confusion aside, it's possibly one of my favourite scenes in a sitcom ever. Everything about Hall's performance is great, but I think maybe the best part is the dramatic pointing.

[BeardFaceMan]

That's a thing: I'm pretty sure Jerry does drink coffee, so why does he say that?

That minor confusion aside, it's possibly one of my favourite scenes in a sitcom ever. Everything about Hall's performance is great, but I think maybe the best part is the dramatic pointing.

Isn't there a plot where Elaine and George are bonding and she tells him that Jerry drinks a certain brand of coffee because he thinks it has no caffeine in it, when it actually does?

[Better Midlands]

big time in hollywood, FL. good little show

Bingo, Stephen Tobolowsky was in it - that's why I had Californication and Entourage in my head.

[Better Midlands]

Isn't there a plot where Elaine and George are bonding and she tells him that Jerry drinks a certain brand of coffee because he thinks it has no caffeine in it, when it actually does?

Morning Thunder, it's at tea.

[Butchers Blind]

I would also like to know the answer to this. He seems to mime something or someone falling over dead, very odd.

I thought it was a I Dream of Jeannie reference.

[Jerzy Bondov]

Personal favourite line delivery in the whole of Seinfeld: "What? Oh I spilled some food on it."

[Mobbd]

That's a thing: I'm pretty sure Jerry does drink coffee, so why does he say that?

Since I seem to watching the series through now, I'll keep 'em peeled for Jerry drinking coffee in the apartment.

We see him drinking coffee all the time in the diner but he does a stand-up bit about only "getting coffee" outside.

[gmoney]

Jesus Christ Jerry Stiller is so good.

Frank: I saw a bum sleeping in a Cadillac the other day

Estelle: Why would someone break into a car to take a nap?

Frank: They don't nap, they make it their hooooome. They URINATE IN THERE!!

His delivery on the last line is just incredible.

[QDRPHNC]

I always loved his response to learning about roosters have sex with hens and chickens... "That's perverse!"

And also his pronunciation of "croose".

[Milo]

Since I seem to watching the series through now, I'll keep 'em peeled for Jerry drinking coffee in the apartment.

We see him drinking coffee all the time in the diner but he does a stand-up bit about only "getting coffee" outside.

I've had them on in the background recently and vaguely recall Kramer complaining that Jerry only has instant and Jerry responds by saying he gets his coffee on the outside.

[Better Midlands]

I was watching some season 3 and he definitely asked for a "decaf" in the diner.

[jobotic]

I've had them on in the background recently and vaguely recall Kramer complaining that Jerry only has instant and Jerry responds by saying he gets his coffee on the outside.

Yep, in one I watched a couple of days ago

[Mobbd]

Yep, in one I watched a couple of days ago

Continuity fuck-up then. Worth it for the Bookman tirade though.

[bobloblaw]

Listen joy boy, The Note, The Pen, The Library, The Parking Garage, The Tape, The Red Dot, The Pez Dispenser, The Boyfriend, The Limo... all stone cold classics. I prefer it to series 8 and 9.

THIS x 1000. Very Larry Charles-heavy season and many of the show's finest moments contained within.

[Milo]

Continuity fuck-up then. Worth it for the Bookman tirade though.

I don't remember the scene exactly but could it be a way of making sure an unwelcome guest doesn't linger? I'll try to watch that one later.

[Keebleman]

The Cigar-Store Indian.  Had anyone here heard the phrase 'indian giver' before?  For me it was as bewildering a punch line as "Delores!"

[Milo]

My 'unwelcome guest' theory falls apart as it's right after Jerry is brewing a cup of tea and asks Bookman if he'd like one. The whole scene would have worked if Jerry offered him coffee and Bookman asked for tea, with a few tweaks.

Is quite an odd one with tea not being the standard thing to have in the US like it is in the UK.

Bookman puts on a brilliant hard frown right after, "you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the new york public library fella". He's clearly a millisecond away from pissing himself laughing.

[gilbertharding]

The Cigar-Store Indian.  Had anyone here heard the phrase 'indian giver' before?  For me it was as bewildering a punch line as "Delores!"

Only from Seinfeld. Is it like an Indian Summer (which I had heard of previously)?

Similarly, I had to reverse-engineer 'mono', being what Americans call glandular fever.

[Milo]

It's giving a gift then trying to get it back. Certainly some old racist thing, pretty sure I reverse-engineered that via something in The Simpsons.

[Keebleman]

Wikipedia has a definition of it, but it's just that I had never heard it before, or since.

[JamesTC]

Might have been the notes about nothing text track on the DVDs that meant I understood what "Indian giver" was.