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From: Susan.A.Higgins@dartmouth.edu (Susan A. Higgins)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:49:16 GMT
 <1992Dec10.133400.13924@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> 
 <1992Dec10.175354.28353@leland.Stanford.EDU>  <kelly.1@nd.edu>
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In article <kelly.1@nd.edu>
kelly@nd.edu (John R. Kelly) writes:

> Does anybody know what this means??.  On the 
> show neither character could figure out why that was so bad and made the 
> woman get up and leave Jerry?


It's not that this was BAD, it's just that it was so ODD!  They were
all baffled because bringing her mother into it was so, well, sort of
goofy sick!  dontcha think?
From: basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: THE CONTEST
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:02:28 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

toten@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Derek Toten) writes:

>>
>>Thanks for the post, Alan.  I had also been trying to think of some of the
>>funniest sit-com episodes I've seen through the years, and hadn't really
>>come up with anything until you mentioned WKRP.  The funniest show
>>I've ever seen was the Thanksgiving episode when the turkeys are tossed
>>from the plane.  The scene with Les reporting live is absolutely hilarious,
>>followed by the perpetrator's comment (I can't remember if it was Norm or
>>Mr. Carlson), which is perhaps the funniest line I've ever heard: "I swear 
>>to God, I thought they could fly!"

>	I think you mean Herb, not "Norm." And it was Mr. Carlson who
>uttered one of the greatest lines EVER from a sitcom:

>	"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

That was a great one.  Other great sitcom moments:

	Radar's drum solo in M*A*S*H
	The trumpet theme music in the original Bob Newhart Show
	Any and all phone conversations involving Bob Newhart
	The WKRP episode when Johnny was moved to the morning slot

David Basiji
UW Bioengineering
NeRD #3762
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From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
Subject: Jason Alexander on records
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:03:35 GMT

Fans of Jason Alexander (George Costanza) will want to know about his
participation in a recent recording of a Gershwin musical.  The title is
LADY, BE GOOD!, it dates from 1924, and it's a brand-new recording
released as part of an ongoing Gershwin series on the Elektra Nonesuch
label.

Jason Alexander takes the role of the "supporting comedian," lawyer
Watty Watkins.  He sings the title song and participates in the finales
to each act.  He also gets some spoken dialog, so we can hear that it is
indeed the actor we know; his delivery is priceless.

Jason Alexander is of course no newcomer to musicals.  He appeared in
the original cast of Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, was in Kander and
Ebb's THE RINK, and won a Tony award as Best Actor in a Leading Role in
a Musical for JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY, in which he was the master of
ceremonies and was onstage almost throughout.

Jon Alan Conrad
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From: johnc@porsche.cs.rpi.edu (John Colasante)
Subject: Re: Snapple
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY
	<1209@racerx.bridge.COM> <1gu6arINN9k1@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:16:13 GMT


   Somone told me today that 10% of either Snapple's profits or sales are
   used to support the Pro-Life movement. Does anyone know if this is true?

Respectfully, I vote for a motion that this newgroup *not* turn into
a forum for the abortion debate. Please respond to this question with 
a simple non-controversial and friendly answer.

This has been an attempt to stem the tide of the inevitable...






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From: bj835@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tim Connors)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:01:38 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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My favorite scene is from the episode where E & J go to FLA to
visit J's parents.  Elaine gets the uncomfortable sofabed and
we see her tossing and turning, tossing more, turning more,
until finally she's flopping and flailing about like a landed
fish on a slippery deck, with that great "Pained Elaine" 
expression on her face the whole time.  A great example of 
JLD's talent for physical comedy.  A second example of her 
skill: that great all-over shudder when she heard that Kramer had
seen her naked.  I remember her as being vaguely amusing on SNL
during their nadir years ("I luff Lisa Lisa" is the only thing I
recall now) and a major pain on that day care show with that 
soap opera guy and that Lou Grant woman ("Day by Day" I think).
If you had told me that she would be the funniest woman on TV on
the funniest show on TV (at least the funniest non-animated 
show on TV) I would never have believed you.  She even managed
salvage a bit of dignity while hosting that painfully lame SPY
special...  The only question is, what was Jerry thinking when
he let her get away?...  TWICE!  Would any guy with his
sensibility let that happen to someone who was SOOOO good 
looking?  NAWT BLUDDY LIKELY!
-- 
TJC
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From: mlcooper@rigel.engin.umich.edu (marie l cooper)
Subject: Re: Kramer
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 02:44:42 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: usa
Originator: mlcooper@rigel.engin.umich.edu


In article <1992Dec17.200024.23841@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, msteyer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Matthew T Steyer) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know if that was really Calvin Klein in the December 16th episode?
> And what do you think is worse, a little "nip" on all of your Christmas cards, 
> or what Kramer exposed to the public in his ad?

What Kramer exposed in the ad, if the little preview that we got of him parading
around in his underware was any indication of what was in the ad.

Also, why couldn't they have shown his ad on tv?

-Marie
From: alan.kennedy@canrem.com (alan kennedy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: seinfeld sweatshirts???
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:51:24 GMT
Reply-To: "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Several people have told me that Seinfeld sweatshirts exist. Does anyone 
know where? I called Castlerock and they sent me on a wild goose chase to 
the CBS store (why CBS I don't know). But no one could tell me yes or 
no... just "I don't think so..." 

So... does ANYONE know if & where you can buy Seinfeld stuff?

Too late for Christmas, but I still want to know....

Alan Kennedy - alan.kennedy@canrem.com - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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From: cbittel@scoraz.resp-sci.arizona.edu (Clinton Bittel)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Double Crunch
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:11:01 GMT
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Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ


   I've got a question about last nights Nipple show.  Kramer comes into
  Jerry's apartment twice asking him if he has any Double Crunch cereal, 
  and I even saw Jerry eating what seemed to look like KIX or something.

   Is this some inside joke about the Walters interview?  I missed it, but
   remember hearing something big about cereal.  Does Double Crunch even
   exist as a cereal?

   I also thought the expression on Georges face after being smothered
  in Elain's breasts was one of last nights highlights!
From: bbeagan@gmr.com (Brian D. Beagan CT/90)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:22:00 GMT
Reply-To: bbeagan@gmr.com
Organization: EDS


One of my favorite scenes is with 'Crazy Joe' and Elaine.  She goes to his apartment and sees pictures of her all over his walls.  He then asks if Elaine wants to see his darkroom, to which she replys 'No thanks...  I'm a day person'.  This just doesn't translate from the keyboard, but the way she said it was hilarious.  Some of the expressions/mannerisms she comes up with are brilliant!

brian.
From: greg@redeye.EBay.Sun.COM (greg)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Nipple
Date: 17 Dec 1992 05:53:53 GMT
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December 16th episode

So, Elaine shows her nipple in  photo on  Christmas Card,
but do we get to see it?  Nooo!  Why not?  I mean if Jerry
can pick his nose on national TV, why can't we see Elaine's
nipple?  

BTW, wasn't  Elaine (Julia-Louise Dreyfrus) in an issue of
Playboy magazine with the other girls of Saturday Night Live?
From: newberg68@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Best lines
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:34:23 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Since I have only been reading this newsgroup for the last two weeks, I
probably missed any summary of best Seinfeld lines from people.
If anyone wants to relay their favorites, I would be welcome to hear them.


Some lines that had me rolling for hours afterwards:

1. In the airport, first-class/coach episode:
    Captured murderer: Do you know what I would do to you if I wasn't in these
shackles?
    George: But ya aaaaaaaaaaaaare in the shackles, aren't you? That's right.
Ya aaaaaaaaaaare in the shackles.

2. In the Nipple/pick episode:
  A.  George: And then I thought of it.
      Jerry and Elaine: Thought of what?
      George: The pick.  She comes out of the bathroom, I'm in up to my wrist.

  B.  Elaine on the phone talking about her 10 year old nephew(?): Yes, I know
how old he is.  It's what?  Well, check under his mattress.

  C. Calvin Klein: You know, you're very graceful.
     Kramer: Why, yes.  I am.

3. In "the contest" episode:
    George's mom: I don't understand why you even bothered to come here.  I'm
so hungry. Can't you just get me a sandwich?
    George: Here. Have some tic-tacs.

4. In the nazi limo episode:
  A.  Male nazi: You know, you don't look like a Murphy.
      Jerry: I may not look like a Murphy, but I act like a Murphy.
      Male nazi: Where are you originally from?
      Jerry immediately taking on an accent: Dublin.
      Male nazi: You sound more Scottish.
      Jerry: We were right on the border.
      Male nazi: Why'd you leave.
      Jerry: Oh, cereal famine. Terrible tragedy. Couldn't get a bowl.

  B.  George: Did you see the way she looked at me?
      Jerry: She's a nazi, George!
      George: But she's a nice nazi.

5. Bubble boy episode:
  A.  George: I'm sorry, but the correct answer is 'moops'.

  B.  In trying to get Naomi to stop laughing as it is incredibly annoying:
       Jerry: That's not funny.
       Naomi laughs again.
       Jerry, angry: It's not funny.
       Naomi: "The Naked Gun" is on tonight. That just makes me laugh and
laugh. Wanna watch it.
       Jerry: Nope.
       Naomi: Why? I thought you were a happy-go-lucky guy.
       Jerry: No. I'm not happy.  I'm not lucky.  I don't even go.  I'm just a
sad-stay put-unlucky type of guy.  I hear "Holocaust" is on TV.

6. In the first episode:
     Woman: And you are?
     George: Oh, I'm George. I'm (pointing around at the building structure) an
architect.
     Woman: Oh. And what do you design?
     Meanwhile Jerry is staring at George as if yo ask the same question.
     George: Railroads.
     Woman: I thought engineers did that.
     George: Oh, they can do that too.

One last one, before I go-  back to the airport episode:
    George: These are Supersavers. They're non-refundable.  We were going to
return these.
    Kramer: Well, the saleslady convinced me that they were a great deal.

If anybody has some to add, feel free.
Thanks all,
Brad "Murphy" Newberg
From: kprashan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (hyderabadi)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:57:33 GMT


My favorite line is when Jerry calls 911 from a pay phone in LA.

[Ring..ring..]

Jerry: How are you doing today?




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From: daled@meaddata.com (Dale Drummond)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Nipple
Date: 17 Dec 1992 16:43:56 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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In article <1992Dec17.092413.11297@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>, moran@clodii.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dan Moran) writes:
|> greg@redeye.EBay.Sun.COM (greg) writes:
|> : 
|> : December 16th episode
|> : 
|> : So, Elaine shows her nipple in  photo on  Christmas Card,
|> : but do we get to see it?  Nooo!  Why not?  I mean if Jerry
|> : can pick his nose on national TV, why can't we see Elaine's
|> : nipple?  
|> : 
|> : BTW, wasn't  Elaine (Julia-Louise Dreyfrus) in an issue of
|> : Playboy magazine with the other girls of Saturday Night Live?
|> : 
|> I have a new favorite scene almost every week watching Seinfeld.  Last
|> night it was when Kramer went over to Elaine and started sniffing her
|> (because she was wearing "Ocean").  All of the characters have great
|> mannerisms.
|> 
Another great scene:

George whining about not getting a Christmas card, and Elaine pulling his
face to her chest, and saying, "Here's you Christmas card!"

Hilarious.

"I have seen the nipple on your soul!"

|> BTW, last night had just the right amount of Newman.
|> 
|> 

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From: jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: Who watches this show?
Reply-To: jpenovic@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:32:08 GMT

In article <YAMAUCHI.92Dec17184746@yuggoth.ces.cwru.edu>,
yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:
> In article <If9De2u00iV2Q4OegT@andrew.cmu.edu> "Richard W. Rees"
<rr20+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
> >that the (representations of the) characters and their world is close to
> >the way I represent my own experience to myself.  The show reveals my
> >own class, race, political, ideological, educational, "attitudinal,"
> >etc. position, though in a stylized, tv-way.
> 
> >*white
> 

  Yes
> 
> >*middle class
> 

  Yes.
> 
> >*politically liberal-ish to left, including general sympathy with
> >feminist issues [even though the characters themselves are pretty
> >apolitical]
> 
  Definitely YES.

> >*board, uninterested, ambivalent or apprehensive about "careers" and yet
> >associated with people who have them
> 
  No.

> >*college eductated
> 
  Yes.
> 
> >*young adult (I'm 30)
> 

  42

> >*media-saturated [e.g., remember J's rendition of the Loony Toons intro
> >to which Elaine responds that all his references are to tv and cartoons]
> 
  Yes.  Though I think that Seinfeld's own media saturation is
  closer to my age group (he's about 38,isn't he) than to those 
  who watch that are in there late teens or in their 20s.
> 
> My guess is that "young adult" and maybe "college educated" are the
> important factors here...

 College educated maybe, but young adult, I don't think so.
 Some of the people I work with are in their 40s and 50s, and
 they think it's hysterical. It's just very funny, well
 written, and well executed.  It's about real things (even
 though they say it's about nothing) that people of different
 ages and geographical backgrounds (though I am originally from NY :-))
 can identify with.  
 
 (I thought it was great that people actually
 ate and spoke at the same time and went to the bathroom.  You
 usually don't see that on tv.)


 BTW, I love Northern Exposure, Murphy Brown, Roseanne, Picket Fences, 
 and McLaughlin Group (now this show is funny).  Sometimes I
 really like Mad About You.

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From: napalm@next06pg2.wam.umd.edu (Warren L. Mohn)
Subject: Re: On the Jackie Thomas show
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:20:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.181909.6526@sunova.ssc.gov>  
rocko@ireland.Berkeley.EDU (Rick O'leary) writes:
> In article <Bz9K3x.KL4@encore.com>, jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich)  
writes:
> |> In article <1992Dec10.135503.13462@sunova.ssc.gov>,
> |> rocko@ireland.ssc.gov (Rick O'Leary) writes:
> |> > In article <Byzu4u.23q@encore.com>, jpenovic@encore.com (Jan  
Penovich)
> |> writes:
> |> > |> 
> |> > |> I watched the Jackie Thomas show (Tom Arnold's show) last
> |> > |> name, and Jerry Seinfeld was mentioned four times, and Blossom
> |> > |> once.  It was pretty funny.
> 
>                ^
>               /|\
> ----------------
> 
> |> > |> 
> |> > |> I was surprised because they're not on the same network.
> |> > |>  
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> |> > |> 
> |> > 
> |> > WOW.....
> |> > 
> |> > 	Do my eyes deceived me?  Does that post say " It was pretty  
funny"?
> |> > Jan, do us all a favor, take a vacation.  Don't take your wife or  
husband
> |> > or dog or bird or T.V. or anything..... but what's left of your  
brain.
> |> > I'd say go to Florida.... but your already in Florida.  Go to  
Pittsburgh.
> |> > Great place lots college kids to ogle at.  Plenty of theater,  
museums,
> |> > clubs, sporting events.
> |> > 
> |> > 	Just take a break.  You are very close to the edge.
> |> > 
> |> > 							ROCKO
> |> 
> |>   ROCKO,
> |> 
> |>   I guess your eyes did deceive you.  I thought it was pretty
> |>   funny that a show on one network would mention Seinfeld (not
> |>   once, but several times) who appears on another network and
> |>   also mention Blossom, which as we all know, has been mentioned
> |>   several times on Seinfeld.
> |> 
> |>   As to whether I find the Jackie Thomas show funny, I haven't
> |>   mentioned that.
> |> 
> |>   I'm assuming that you were trying to be funny and forgot the
> |>   smileys, not that you were being a condescending smart ass.
> |> 
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> 
 

Please continue to include the entire, insipid signature everytime.  It  
makes reading so much more enjoyable.  Nice, conservative use of asterisks  
I must admit.  Jeez.
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From: bmr@gonzo.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Bruce Reagan)
Subject: Re: THE CONTEST
Reply-To: reagan@fedsrus.b15.ingr.com
Organization: unknown
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:55:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.143254.13527@davidge.com>, rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette) writes:
|> Thanks for the post, Alan.  I had also been trying to think of some of the
|> funniest sit-com episodes I've seen through the years, and hadn't really
|> come up with anything until you mentioned WKRP.  The funniest show
|> I've ever seen was the Thanksgiving episode when the turkeys are tossed
|> from the plane.  The scene with Les reporting live is absolutely hilarious,
|> followed by the perpetrator's comment (I can't remember if it was Norm or
|> Mr. Carlson), which is perhaps the funniest line I've ever heard: "I swear 
|> to God, I thought they could fly!"

	I thought the funniest line in that episode was when Les was describing
the scene with something like "They're hitting the ground like sacks of wet
cement."


|> 
|> Thanks for the memories! Now, back to Seinfeld.
|> 
|> Robert
|> 
|> -- 
|> Robert Cianchette, Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC | rmc@davidge.com
|> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
|>  The information, questions, and opinions contained in this message 
|>   are mine and are not representative of Davidge Data Systems Corp.

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From: daled@meaddata.com (Dale Drummond)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Who watches this show? 2b
Date: 15 Dec 1992 22:28:20 GMT
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In article <1992Dec14.191629.7858@julian.uwo.ca>, thornto@next2god.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Mike Thornton) writes:
|> 
|> Count me in too, the show sucks. Northern Exposure and the movie "Howard's
|> End " single handedly caused me to break up with my girlfriend.
|> 
|> Mike

Hmmmm.  I really liked Howard's End.  Northern Exposure has become fairly
dull this year, but it used to be good, IMO.

And, Seinfeld and RnS are my favorite TV shows.  No accounting for tastes,
I guess.

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From: bsc7@po.CWRU.Edu (Bradley S. Corsello)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Nipple
Date: 19 Dec 92 15:42:36 GMT
Reply-To: bsc7@po.CWRU.Edu (Bradley S. Corsello)
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In a previous article, greg@redeye.EBay.Sun.COM (greg) says:

>
>December 16th episode
>
>So, Elaine shows her nipple in  photo on  Christmas Card,
>but do we get to see it?  Nooo!  Why not?  I mean if Jerry
>can pick his nose on national TV, why can't we see Elaine's
>nipple?  

It wasn't a pick!  It was a scratch!  There was NO nostril penetration,
none whatsoever!

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"Was there nostril penetration?" - George, on Seinfeld
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