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Surprised someone hasn't posted this yet, but some guy named Billy Domineau (who I guess wrote/writes for SNL) wrote a spec script for a Seinfeld episode that takes place surrounding the events of 9/11, and it does not disappoint. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/911-seinfeld-september-11_n_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
I would guess this is fan-transcribed. Simpsons Archive has full episode scripts up compiled from Usenet posts (1). (1) https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/2F20.html
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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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.
My ex could barely watch more than one episode a day because she felt overwhelmed by the Fremdscham. I otoh thrive on that. It also helps that I seriously feel that Larry is actually acting totally reasonable, though clumsy.
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If you like that type of writing, the British Comedy ‘Coupling’ does the multiple story lines coalescing quite well. IMO even better than Seinfeld.
So glad I funded this with my licence fee. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to buy it from Amazon now.
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It's Susan. But yeah, she looks like a lilly.
I read it on reddit that Jason didn't enjoy working with Heidi as in his opinion acting chemistry was missing. If I think about it that might actually be true but was probably contributing to why that relationship was so enjoyable to watch.
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How much of the Beatles do they recognize?
> How much of the Beatles do they recognize? Generally speaking, many of my students appear to know (vaguely) who the Beatles were, but that seems to be about it.
In class, when I mention Seinfeld , or for that matter, Friends , to illustrate a point, many of my students (law students, mostly in their early- to mid-20s) barely know what I'm talking about. You can imagine how my pop-culture references from the '60s and '70s sail right over their heads. (When that happens, I use the occasion to joke about my old-fart status.)
I was listening to the 1980s radio station when I realized that 1980s music right now is older than 1950s "oldies" music was when I was a kid - and when I was a kid that stuff seemed ancient - relics of the days of black-and-white television and a segregated South. What seems like yesterday to an older person happened before a younger person was even born.
Someone growing up now has like five decades to learn from plus the vast vast music released today.
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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.