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Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by atum47 »

Cyph0n wrote: post #44
bitL wrote: post #18

Just watched the first two seasons of Friends and the first season of Seinfeld (never seen them before so a trip to the past) and Seinfeld is so much more intelligent and Friends so shallow and boring (outside some Joey gimmicks). Is there any such show with playful intelligent humor as Seinfeld these days?

Arrested Development up to Season 3 (the rest doesn’t exist). In my opinion, it is the most rewardingly rewatchable comedy show of all time. Extremely dense packing of humor that takes multiple passes to fully appreciate. Curb Your Enthusiasm, as others have mentioned. It has an improvised feel to it (intentionally!) which makes it quite unique. What We Do in the Shadows is more modern but also a brilliant comedy. Th…

You forgot to mention community

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Post by kyleyeats »

davidw wrote: post #25
davidw wrote: post #22

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Jerry: So, George, I heard you found this AI-generated Seinfeld script. What's the deal with that? George: Oh, Jerry, it's amazing! You won't believe it. This AI claims to have generated a brand new Seinfeld episode, using all the data from the original series. I had to check it out. Jerry: Well, I gotta say, I'm intrigued. Let's hear it. What's the plot? George: Alright, here it goes. Kramer gets his hands on a new…

I find that it gets a bit too cutesy with its endings. Seinfeld was never a "gosh, we learned something today" show; quite the contrary.

The key is token-starving it so it can't ever write that ending.

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Post by quechimba »

This website is great. I'm a huge Seinfeld fan and it's really good for finding quotes from the show.

I got all episodes in my phone so I can watch Seinfeld wherever I am even if there's no internet. Good to have when traveling

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Post by schwartzworld »

bitL wrote: post #18

Just watched the first two seasons of Friends and the first season of Seinfeld (never seen them before so a trip to the past) and Seinfeld is so much more intelligent and Friends so shallow and boring (outside some Joey gimmicks). Is there any such show with playful intelligent humor as Seinfeld these days?

The IT crowd

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Post by lotsoweiners »

adanto6840 wrote: post #46
clemailacct1 wrote: post #42

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Frasier is the epitome of hilarious and intelligent humor. In my personal opinion it is 10x more intelligent and funny than Seinfeld.

Interesting to hear. I watched Cheers, almost religiously (a time ago, I suppose), and I could just never get into Frasier. I'm not sure I've ever laughed as hard as I did when watching Cheers; it unfortunately doesn't hold up all that well, but I still hold it dear nonetheless. It's been a while, but maybe I'll give Frasier another shot, even if only as some quasi-filler. :)

I had watched a lot of sporadic Frasier as a teen in the 90s but had never seen it all in order. Last year I watched it from the beginning by myself and my wife said she had never heard me laughing so hard. Frasier is such a self righteous, pompous asshat and seeing him constantly get his comeuppance hits directly to my funny bone.

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Post by acak »

bitL wrote: post #18

Just watched the first two seasons of Friends and the first season of Seinfeld (never seen them before so a trip to the past) and Seinfeld is so much more intelligent and Friends so shallow and boring (outside some Joey gimmicks). Is there any such show with playful intelligent humor as Seinfeld these days?

If you cast the net to include British comedies, I’d venture to say Yes Minister and Yes Prime Ministry are deeply intelligent and uproariously funny.

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Post by lapcat »

bitL wrote: post #18

Just watched the first two seasons of Friends and the first season of Seinfeld (never seen them before so a trip to the past) and Seinfeld is so much more intelligent and Friends so shallow and boring (outside some Joey gimmicks). Is there any such show with playful intelligent humor as Seinfeld these days?

Check out Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal on HBO.

The Good Place is a good semi-recent example.

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Post by echelon »

jihadjihad wrote: post #39
sdwr wrote: post #21

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I keep coming back to: - 30 rock - arrested development - curb your enthusiasm and - jake and amir - joel haver - brian david gilbert all in short clips on youtube

Joel Haver appearing on my YouTube feed out of nowhere was a great gift I never expected

Joel Haver is one of my favorite comedians of all time. I connect with his humor on a deep level.

I hope he goes far and builds an audience much bigger than YouTube. Feature films, sitcom, SNL. He deserves it.

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Post by c8formal »

atum47 wrote: post #51
Cyph0n wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arrested Development up to Season 3 (the rest doesn’t exist). In my opinion, it is the most rewardingly rewatchable comedy show of all time. Extremely dense packing of humor that takes multiple passes to fully appreciate. Curb Your Enthusiasm, as others have mentioned. It has an improvised feel to it (intentionally!) which makes it quite unique. What We Do in the Shadows is more modern but also a brilliant comedy. Th…

You forgot to mention community

30 Rock as well

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Post by footlose_3815 »

bitL wrote: post #18

Just watched the first two seasons of Friends and the first season of Seinfeld (never seen them before so a trip to the past) and Seinfeld is so much more intelligent and Friends so shallow and boring (outside some Joey gimmicks). Is there any such show with playful intelligent humor as Seinfeld these days?

IT Crowd was pure gold start to finish IMHO.
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