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From: jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: On the Jackie Thomas show
Reply-To: jpenovic@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:14:20 GMT

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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From: rac@warren.med.harvard.edu (Bob Cote)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Date: 11 Dec 92 16:53:23 GMT
Organization: Harvard Medical School

In article <1992Dec10.081344.5060@sobeco.com> lgoodfie@sobeco.com (l.goodfield) writes:

>Attention all Seinfeld fans. I'm very curious to know what your all time        favorite scene from the show is. It can be from any episode from any season,    though I'm sure that the majority of your responses will be from recent         episodes.

>My personal favorite was the court room scene where Newman (Wayne Knight) is in court fighting a speeding ticket and he has Kramer (who is incoherent from beingkicked in the head) as a witness.


>-- 
>Lionel Goodfield
>(514) 592-4204
>Internet Access: lgoodfie@sobeco.sobeco.com
>    UUCP Access: uunet!sobeco!lgoodfie

One of my favorites was when Jerry and Elaine (who are as we know still 
friends even though no longer a couple), after watching the "naked channel", 
start negotiating the ground rules for one time sexual encounter.Perhaps it 
amused me because a friend and I had a similar discussion (years ago, before 
I was married).
From: firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Nipple
Date: 17 Dec 1992 07:37:16 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
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In article <1gp4lhINNf1@male.EBay.Sun.COM> 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?  

Jerry didn't pick.  He was scratching.  :)

Great episode.  Some good lines.  I loved the continuity with last years
episode.  When I first saw Jerry sniffing at her perfume and he mentioned the
beach smell, I fell over laughing.

firenza
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: Steve=Rotter%Staff%UIUC=CMC@bigbird.will.uiuc.edu (Steve Rotter)
Subject: Kramer The Great vs Norton
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:28:08 GMT

	

	I don't know how many of you are familiar with the old Honeymooners 
TV series, but if you are I'm wondering if you can agree with something 
I've obeserved.  Doesn't it seem that Kramer's maneurisms are almost 
identical to Norton's (Art Carney) of the Honeymooners.  They both enter a 
room the same way; sliding in without knocking.  They also use very similar 
hand motions too.  What do you think?

Steve.

Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: daled@meaddata.com (Dale Drummond)
Subject: Re: Who watches this show?
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:01:38 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <AVR=Lm@engin.umich.edu>, mlcooper@thuban.engin.umich.edu (marie l cooper) writes:
|> 
|>  Renee Wallerius writes:
|> > >
|> > >Look, I love Roseanne and Simpsons and Ren & Stimpy, too. (I stopped
|> > >watching Northern Exposure last season for lack of sarcasm/cynicism in
|> > >
|> > 
|> > I like the Simpsons, but Ren & Stimpy are too disgusting for me (I'm
|> > referring to the episode where Ren takes a bath on the space ship and
|> > begins to eat the soap).  
|> 
|> You call that disgusting?!  What about when Stimpy shows Sven Hoek his Booger collection saying, 'I picked them myself!' or when Ren unzips his pants and wizzes on the electic fence game that Stimpy and Ren were playing!  Just eating soap is NOT disgustin|> g!! Eating soap is something that your mother made you do when you said a bad word.  I mean come on if you're going to put down RnS for being disgusting, then make it something good!

Or, perhaps Ren Hoek (aka, Robin Hood) climbing up Maid Moron's (aka, Stimpy)
nose hair and being sucked into her nostril.  Or Powdered Toast Man farting.  
Or Ren sticking to the sheets in Nurse Stimpy.  

|> 
|> - Marie, a fan of RnS
|> 
|> >  
|> > =============================================================
|> > reneew@cirrus.com			Renee Wallerius
|> > 					Cirrus Logic, Inc.
|> > 					3100 West Warren Ave.

another Rns fan...
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From: ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons)
Subject: >>>>>> Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:59:03 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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> And I think the panties laid out the bed may be a reference to her being a
> little girl still.

Actually, someone on this bulletin board cross posted Jerry's reply on 
Prodigy about this.   The phrase had come from one of the writers on the 
show. The writer had said the exact same thing in a moment of passion. 
Unfortunately, I can relate to having done similar once my hormones had 
kicked in. 

Thank you. 

						Steve Simmons
From: ferd@bridge.com
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Kramer Article
Date: 17 Dec 92 05:02:16 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: unkown

The local newspaper's TV magazine of Dec. 6th had an article titled "TV
Is Ripe For Second Bananas."  The characters it focused on were "Al"
from "Home Improvements," "Luther Van Dam" from "Coach," and our
own favorite, "Kramer" from "Seinfeld."

The article is (C) 1992, Orlando Sentinel.  The article is by Greg
Dawson.  Hopefully they won't mind a few "fair use" excerpts here.
(If you like this, perhaps you should subsribe to the Sentinel, a fine,
fine journal.)

Near the beginning of the article, he write:

    Why does Kramer make the list and not, say, George Constanza?

    Let me put it this way: I've met people like George Constanza,
    they've been friends of mine, but I've never known anyone like
    Kramer.  Or Luther or Al.

I'd disagree about Al, and I'm not familiar with Luther.  Here's a few
paragraphs about the genesis of our favorite eccentric:

    The "Seinfeld" producers had admired Michael Richards' work on the
    short-lived ABC comedy-sketch series "Fridays," which aired from
    1980 to '82.

    In fact, the producers apparently had so much confidence in
    Richards that they barely bothered to connect the dots of his
    character.

    "There wasn't much," Richards said about the Kramer file.  "The
    writers really didn't know.  So I just had to make it up through my
    imagination.  I didn't know his age or nothing. All I knew is that
    he didnn't have much money and that he lived across the hall from
    Jerry's apartment."

    Everything about Kramer seems so right, from modified Don King do
    to the retro wardrobe -- and yet it's all the product of
    happenstance.

    "I simply got a bad haircut," Richards said.  "I had just finished
    cutting it kind of wierd for 'Problem Child,' shaving it real close
    on the sides.  It was too short on top, so I kept pulling it up."

    "Seinfeld" didn't have a huge wardrobe budget at the outset, so
    Richards searched thrift shops and came back with his collection of
    exquisitely hideous, '50s shirts.

    "I was lucky enough to go into shops and find some still in the
    bags, new," he said.

    Richards, an expert physical comic, has carte-blanche to punctuate
    his lines with pratfalls.

    "If it's funny, it's in," he said.  "I try to find an action to go
    along with the dialogue," he said.  "You can't write that.  I mean,
    you can write a bit where a character has trouble opening a door or
    slips on an area rug, but it's really what the actor does with
    that."


Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette)
Subject: Re: Name of Restaurant/Diner? ..."Mom's Place"????
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:49:29 GMT

In article <Bz61sy.Mwt@ais.org> bevis@ais.org (Jeremy Lechtzin) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.143901.21461@davidge.com>, rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette) wrote:
>>In article <1992Dec9.042146.23687@news.columbia.edu> egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
>>>In article <1992Dec9.014307.15727@cunews.carleton.ca> cs401005@scs.carleton.ca (jeff brinskelle) writes:
>>>>	Does anyone know the name of the restaurant that the members usually
>>>>meet in?  Is it "Mom's Place" like my roomate says? or does it not say at all.
>>>>
>>of restaurant.  Tom's is a greek diner, as parodied by Saturday Night Live
>>with Belushi and Akroyd (sp?).  The restaurant in the show is a more
>
>Actually, the restaurant that Belushi and Ackroyd parodied is The Billy
>Goat, in Chicago.  I think that the Billy Goat is also Greek, though.
>
> 

Which is why I said "a" Greek diner, not "the" Greek diner.  There are
hundreds of Greek diners in New York, as well in every other major city, 
I imagine.  The menus are all the same, the coffee cups are all the same. 
But, I defy you to walk into Tom's and order a Cheeseburger and
Coke and not grin when the European male immigrant yells your order 
over the microphone to the kitchen!  Belushi lives!

My point was that the diner where Jerry and the gang hang out 
isn't "a" Greek diner, ala Tom's,  because Jerry and gang wouldn't
seem very interesting compared with the restaurant itself.

Robert

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: zaphod@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Majikthise)
Subject: Re: >>>>> Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Summary: YO YO MA !!!
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:13:42 GMT

My absolute favorite scene (it makes me fall over laughing every time I even
think about it) is after Kramer has been kicked in the head by his lunatic
"friend" (I temporarily forget his name).

KRAMER: YO YO MA !!!!
JERRY: What about him?
KRAMER: Who?
JERRY:  Yo Yo Ma.
GEORGE: Who's that?
JERRY:  He's a cellist.

Andy
From: bsc7@po.CWRU.Edu (Bradley S. Corsello)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Who watches this show?
Date: 19 Dec 1992 14:58:47 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bsc7@po.CWRU.Edu (Bradley S. Corsello)
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In a previous article, pjnelson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (nelson peter j) says:

>[re: Northern Exposure]
>I agree, but I still watch it. I think that the show has become WAY too
>liberal. However, my philosophical outlook has evolved (independently)
>in the past few years, so maybe the show hasn't changed that much.
>Chris, the DJ, seems to be a little too looney lately. I'm hoping it 
>will get better.

I happen to be very liberal, and I can't stand Chris and his fortune-
cookie "philosophy"... needless to say, I also stopped watching NE.

>As far as Jerry is concerned, he doesn't seem to have a viewpoint on
>political/philosophical problems, which is acceptable, since the show
>is a comedy, not a drama.  [...]

I'd describe Jerry's philosophy as Epicurean, meaning that for him, the
good life is having lots of friends and being nice to them.  By a strange
coincidence, it's my philosophy too.  Philosophy doesn't necessarily mean 
having a bunch of bespectacled professors mumbling about Essence and 
Nothingness, you know.
-- 
+=================================================================+
Brad Corsello (bsc7@po.cwru.edu) 2L Case Western Reserve Law School
"Was there nostril penetration?" - George, on Seinfeld
"Factum clarum, jus nebulosum."  Rex v. Haddock.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: On the Jackie Thomas show
Reply-To: jpenovic@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:41:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.072028.22572@wam.umd.edu>,
napalm@next06pg2.wam.umd.edu (Warren L. Mohn) writes:

> 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.


  Oh, chill out!

  BTW, Seinfeld was mentioned again on the jackie thomas show
  this week.

  Security guard mentions Seinfeld.

  Jackie: What's that?

  Security guard: It's a wry observational comedy show (and he
  says something else that I don't rememember).

  Jackie: Sounds terrible.

  And yes, this exchange was pretty funny.

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From: nicholas@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Jeffrey Nicholas)
Subject: Re: Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:15:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.184014.2808@vela.acs.oakland.edu> rjmannin@vela.acs.oakland.edu ((The_Optimizer)) writes:
>From the episode at the beginning of the season when Jerry and George are
>working on their idea for NBC.  The funnest line was when they were all
>in the apartment and the phone rang, and Jerry answered it.
>
>Jerry:  Hello!
>
>Other line:  I'm from (Some long distance Co.) and would like to know if
>             you would like to switch over?
>
>Jerry:  Well I am kind of busy right now so why don't you give me your    
>        home phone number and I will call you back later.
>
>Other line:  Well I can't do that.
>
>Jerry:  Oh, I see you don't like to be bothered at home.
>
>Other line:  Well, no
>
>Jerry:  Now you know how I feel (and hangs up).
>
>

Just to let you know, I typed this little exchange used by jerry out and hung
it up over my phone.  Living in a University town, I often get calls from
people trying to sell coupon books and all kinds of other stupid junk.  I
r43 read from this script when I got a call about buying a Lafayette coupon
book.  The person trying to sell me the book responded perfectly and I replied
with "now you know how I feel."  It was perfect.  I suggst you try it as well.
ZZ
From: erxleben@ece.arizona.edu (Wayne Erxleben)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Seinfeld/Northern Exposure
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:08:17 GMT
Reply-To: erxleben@ece.arizona.edu (Wayne Erxleben)
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

OK, I learned from my first post that I need to make my
lines shorter.  So here's my second one.

I would like to add my name to the list of those who like
both Seinfeld and Northern Exposure.  In fact I was surprised
to see the recent 'general disdain' for NEXP expressed on
alt.tv.seinfeld.  Yes, Chris the DJ can get a bit overbearing
sometimes when he takes his philosophizing too seriously.  And
the recent addition of Mike the Bubble Boy (not the one that
George got in a fight with) is a major annoyance.  Still, I think
it's one of the most intelligent (or pseudo-intellectual, depending
on your point of view) shows on TV and explores some great themes.
In fact, the only shows I watch regularly are Seinfeld, NEXP, and
the Simpsons (although I still try to see Cheers and 60 Minutes
when I can).

Also, in response to the recent post about sitcoms throughout
history, I'd say my favorites of all time, not counting ones that
are still on, would be (roughly in chronological order):
       The Dick Van Dyke Show
       The Beverly Hillbillies
       All In the Family
       MASH
       Barney Miller
       WKRP in Cincinnati
       Taxi

Does anyone remember a show called 'Reggie' starring the guy from
'Soap' (I think his name is Richard Mulligan)?  It only ran about
six weeks in the early 80's but I remember it being really funny.
He was going through a mid-life crisis and kept having fantasy
sequences, and I don't recall much else about it.


Wayne Erxleben
From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Seinfeld show breaks toilet taboo
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:26:56 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <1992Dec17.110232.119677@marshall.wvnet.edu>
rcbi110@marshall.wvnet.edu writes:

> I have noticed something about the Seinfeld show.  It's the first show as far
> as I know that breaks the semi-taboo of characters going to the toilet.  I
> mean, in other shows there have been flushing sounds, to give the impression
> that someone has come from the restroom.  But on Seinfeld, you actually get to
> see them go in, or even better, they yell into the conversation while they're
> still on there (like at the beginning of last night's show).
> Just another thing that makes this show even sillier...

Or the show where George is looking for a job and gives Jerry's number
as the number for 'Vanderlay Industries'.  When Kramer answers the
phone, George comes out of the bathroom, pants around his ankles,
screaming something like, "Say Vanderlay!  It's Vanderlay!!"


--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
"I should have known it would be bad vodka when all the label said was
'Russian Vodka'."
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Saturday, 19 Dec 1992 00:58:28 CST
From: <U54778@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Seinfeld/Northern Exposure
Distribution: world,local
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In article <BzGx71.p5@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, pjnelson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (nelson
peter j) says:
>
>>Wow!!!! This is one hell of a list from someone only 18 years old and
>>from the name, I can only suspect is a foreigner to our shores.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Talk about Stereotyping! I hope you didn't criticize New Yorkers a couple
>weeks ago for stereo-typing the rest of the U.S. about their knowledge of
>door buzzers, Snapple, etc. You've never met a U.S.-born citizen with
>a foriegn (!?!) sounding name?
>
I didn't mean it in any derogatory way.  I got the impression that
the person was foreign also from many names of sit-coms I had never
heard of.
Even though I only said "I suspect", I will apologize here and now if
any negative connotations were conveyed to anyone out there.
You should also know that this person emailed me to tell me that he
was born an American.
Actually what was uppermost in my mind was with the long list of
mainstream American sit-coms along with what seemed like foreign
sit-com names, I wondered, as I have many times, how much our TV
menu influences by exposure the rest of the world and of course how
much we get influenced back.
I believe the Newhart show was influenced by Fawlty Towers.
We also know that a show we never saw on this side of the Atlantic
influenced "All in the Family".  I wonder how many sit-coms might have
made the crossing from us to them as an influence.
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From: rjmannin@vela.acs.oakland.edu ((The_Optimizer))
Subject: Re: Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:40:14 GMT

From the episode at the beginning of the season when Jerry and George are
working on their idea for NBC.  The funnest line was when they were all
in the apartment and the phone rang, and Jerry answered it.

Jerry:  Hello!

Other line:  I'm from (Some long distance Co.) and would like to know if
             you would like to switch over?

Jerry:  Well I am kind of busy right now so why don't you give me your    
        home phone number and I will call you back later.

Other line:  Well I can't do that.

Jerry:  Oh, I see you don't like to be bothered at home.

Other line:  Well, no

Jerry:  Now you know how I feel (and hangs up).


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