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Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by quink »

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…

NBC’s Thursday lineup around 2010 basically.

New episodes of Community, 30 Rock, The Office, and Parks and Recreation.

And things associated with it all, like The Good Place.

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

hifromLA wrote: post #69
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.

Larry David is a little too neurotic to be mainstream. Curb is hilarious but it’s a little too abrasive to hit 70M viewers.

Larry David needs a Seinfeld to rein him in.

Sometimes, genius needs moderation. Always felt Seinfeld was that moderating influence.

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Post by akiselev »

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.

Twenty Twelve and W1A for modern British government too.

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Post by dddrh »

sdwr wrote: post #21
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?

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

Man. Jake and Amir had some absolute gems.

My friends still look at me like a lunatic when I quote Amir’s approach to Twitter: > oh the place I keep all my secrets

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Post by aaron695 »

mtlynch wrote: post #5

How are these generated? They seem to have errors that neither a computer nor a English-speaking human would make. They're sort of like how a child or a person unfamiliar with English might try to transcribe words they don't recognize: > Dugan: That's Sam, the new girl in the counting. ... > Sam: Everybody told what a catty shrude you are. Your horrible! https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSummerofGeorge.htm

That's a typical speech to text mistake.

You'll see that all the time on Youtube. Obviously speech to text was solved good enough 30+ years ago.

But it could be shorthand related - https://www.reddit.com/r/shorthand/top/?t=all pulled from the teletext or community transcribers.

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Post by wodenokoto »

geuis wrote: post #10
mtlynch wrote: post #5

How are these generated? They seem to have errors that neither a computer nor a English-speaking human would make. They're sort of like how a child or a person unfamiliar with English might try to transcribe words they don't recognize: > Dugan: That's Sam, the new girl in the counting. ... > Sam: Everybody told what a catty shrude you are. Your horrible! https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSummerofGeorge.htm

Why do you think these are generated? As far as I can tell this isn't a parody site. The domain was registered in 2003 and the design clearly reflects that era. Not everything is AI today.

Was it generated from humans transcribing the episodes? Was it import and clean up of subtitles? Was it generated from reformatting the manuscript?

Not everything generated is AI

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Post by dang »

wilg wrote: post #12

These are transcripts, not the actual ”teleplays”, FYI.

Ok, we've added trans to the scripts in the title above. Thanks!

p.s. Makes me wonder what the difference is between the scripts and the transcripts...

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Post by bombastry »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #77

Seinfeld’s real genius was always the way the script managed to tie together multiple storylines into a cohesive whole. The best example is probably the Marine Biologist episode. You could have never predicted that there would be any connection between golf balls and whales.

The amazing thing is even the writers didn’t know that episode was going to end that way until the night before they shot the ending. Here’s Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld talking about it: https://youtu.be/uZPSO4yte8k

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Post by stbtrax »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #77

Seinfeld’s real genius was always the way the script managed to tie together multiple storylines into a cohesive whole. The best example is probably the Marine Biologist episode. You could have never predicted that there would be any connection between golf balls and whales.

If you like that type of writing, the British Comedy ‘Coupling’ does the multiple story lines coalescing quite well. IMO even better than Seinfeld.
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