Seinfeld
What do the following have in common?
“Just remember it’s not a lie if you believe it.”
“He’s a male bimbo, he’s a mimbo!”
“I’m disturbed, I’m depressed, I’m inadequate, I’ve got it all!”
If you said they were all quotes from the sitcom sensation of the nineties ‘Seinfeld’ – well you’re probably a tragic.
Starring comedian Jerry Seinfeld, the show featured former girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) luckless George (Tony Award winner Jason Alexander) and the shock-haired Kramer and seamlessly blends situation comedy with stand-up routines
The pretext of the series and Seinfeild own view of life as a single adult in the ’90s is well documented and its humour grows out of everyday reality making it one of the most poular television shows of all time!
Amidst the classic Seinfeld episodes were The Soup Nazi; The Bubble Boy and The Outing (in which Jerry and George are mistakenly believed to be a gay item – but ask aficionado’s and they will tell you that every episode is indeed a classic.
What you may not know is the amount of Seinfeld trivia which is a business in itself – with buffs frequenting weekly tournaments throughout the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.
Feel free to add to the list – but the good Doctor can at least lay claim to knowing the following:
Seinfeld creator Larry David modelled the show’s character George Costanza after himself.
Seinfeld was set in New York City however the exterior that was used for Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment house is actually in Los Angeles California.
The cereal boxes in Jerry Seinfeld’s cupboard were always in placed alphabetical order.
Elaine Benes wasn’t in the pilot for Seinfeld. After that episode aired they decided that they needed a female character to balance out the three males.
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May 14th, 2009 at 1:14 am
OK I must be truly weird. I hated this show with a burning passion. I tried to like it because it seems that everybody else did but I couldn’t sit through a single full episode. It was excrutiatingly irritating. Yet I like the English version of The Office. Hmmm
May 14th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Ya know – I can understand it – you’re not weird (a little left of centre perhaps) but not weird
Have to admit – it was a bit like rock oysters at first – you gradually develop a taste for it.
May 14th, 2009 at 5:14 am
Greatest. Show. Ever.
Started watching it in the mid-’90s when it finally got to country Victoria.
yada yada yada …
Still watching it almost every night of the week on Pay TV.
Some nights twice.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that …
After all, did I mention it was the greatest show ever?
May 14th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I can see the boxed set under the Christmas tree this year Sgt . . .
Cheers