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Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by mbg721 » Sat, May 13, 2023, 5:07 PM UTC

massysett wrote: post #109

dctoedt wrote: post #103

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.

Yeah, picture a radio station in 1963 playing "hits from the 20s, 30s, and today".

Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by 2-718-281-828 » Sat, May 13, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

Zolt wrote: post #127

2-718-281-828 wrote: post #108

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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.

Three Minute clip with Jason on the Howard Stern show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfIl9JDNUek Very insightful. "I didn't know how to play off of her."

What a prick. The more I learn about the core Seinfeld group the less I like them. Googling Heidi Swedberg and looking at some pics of her it seems obvious why they didn't get along with her. She's a genuinely likeable and good-hearted person. At least that's my impression.

Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by spaceman_2020 » Sat, May 13, 2023, 5:16 PM UTC

2-718-281-828 wrote: post #114

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #82

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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.

> Curb is hilarious but it’s a little too abrasive to hit 70M viewers. 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. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fremdscham

What a fantastic word - thanks for sharing.

The Germans really have some great words for complex ideas.

Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by atum47 » Sat, May 13, 2023, 9:01 PM UTC

bityard wrote: post #125

atum47 wrote: post #51

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You forgot to mention community

They were clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel on the last few seasons, but yeah, Community had some great stuff in it too. Brooklyn 99 was also pretty consistently hilarious.

Fat dog for midterms

Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by laratied » Sat, May 13, 2023, 10:34 PM UTC

conradfr wrote: post #119

massysett wrote: post #109

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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.

Also if you were young in the 80s you had to ingest maybe two decades of limited great music in addition to the current one. Someone growing up now has like five decades to learn from plus the vast vast music released today.

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Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by stcroixx » Sun, May 14, 2023, 1:13 AM UTC

conradfr wrote: post #119

massysett wrote: post #109

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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.

Also if you were young in the 80s you had to ingest maybe two decades of limited great music in addition to the current one. Someone growing up now has like five decades to learn from plus the vast vast music released today.

You’d have to have extremely narrow taste for that to be true. It was not uncommon at all for people to be into blues and jazz which goes back further and then of course you can go all the way back to Bach. We had jazz band in high school and punk and metal bands at the local all ages places on the weekends.

Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by stcroixx » Sun, May 14, 2023, 1:16 AM UTC

mbg721 wrote: post #131

massysett wrote: post #109

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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.

Yeah, picture a radio station in 1963 playing "hits from the 20s, 30s, and today".

That happened, was called the folk movement. Was pretty huge at the time. Young cool kids in the 60s revered old blues men and pulled them back into music from obscurity. See Newport Folk festival, for example. Dylan modeling himself after Woodie Guthrie, etc.

Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by xattt » Sun, May 14, 2023, 4:22 PM UTC

2-718-281-828 wrote: post #112

xattt wrote: post #15

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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

I've been "studying" these 25 years ago.

This happened to be one of my first Internet experiences at a computer lab at U of T, while my dad was doing post-grad work.

Re: Seinfeld Transcripts

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Post by oska » Tue, May 16, 2023, 1:29 AM UTC

stbtrax wrote: post #90

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.

I checked out this show on yr recommendation. I usually much prefer British tv to US American tv but on this occasion I found the British show vastly inferior. I found Coupling to be crass, unfunny and tedious. I also didn't find it doing what was the subject of discussion here - bringing multiple story lines together in an amusing and clever way.