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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?
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
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.
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> 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.
Conversely, I know teenagers that know every line from Seinfeld and every Beatles song. They are iconic and referenced often on TikTok.
On a script-related note, I spent a bunch of time back in the day reading through these:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~kjell-e/tekla/red-dwarf/scripts.h...
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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…
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Brooklyn 99 was also pretty consistently hilarious.
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.
Whether that says more about me or the show I do not know
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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.
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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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.
Jerry's not much of an actor and that's why he's the straight man. IIRC he has said he chose this role on purpose.
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.)
The 90's.