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Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by davidw »

clemailacct1 wrote: post #42
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?

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

Frasier was definitely funny in a 'witty' sort of way, but Seinfeld is just classic somehow, IMO.

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Post by bigmattystyles »

yuters wrote: post #49
PrimeMcFly wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It's been described as "Seinfeld on crack" after all. Beware that there's a lot of screaming over each other on that show and it seems like a big barrier to entry for some people. The fake "clip show" episode where they misremember a Seinfeld episode happening to them is one of my favorite scene.

The thing is, people do talk, even scream over each other in real life.

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Post by bigmattystyles »

acak wrote: post #56
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.

Check out peep show

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Post by AlbertCory »

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?

For sure. I've never been able to watch an entire episode of Friends.

The Seinfeld ensemble were all brilliantly drawn characters, while the actors in Friends were just boring and narcissistic twits.

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Post by endorphine »

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Jerry Seinfeld many times seems to be smiling in a "this scene is so funny I can't hold on not to laugh" way?

I mean, some scenes would be more convincing/funny if he looked more serious.

This still strikes me as weird. Has this been discussed somewhere (I would surprised if not, perhaps I should ask GPT4)? Do we know why this happens?

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Post by anotherhue »

bigmattystyles wrote: post #64
acak wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Check out peep show

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It

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Post by hifromLA »

endorphine wrote: post #67

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Jerry Seinfeld many times seems to be smiling in a "this scene is so funny I can't hold on not to laugh" way? I mean, some scenes would be more convincing/funny if he looked more serious. This still strikes me as weird. Has this been discussed somewhere (I would surprised if not, perhaps I should ask GPT4)? Do we know why this happens?

I’ve always felt jerry is the worst part of Seinfeld. Larry David is the brains as evidenced by CYE and the other actors outshined Jerry.

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Post by SteveNuts »

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?

Better off Ted is pretty good
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