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Jerry Seinfeld teases 'Seinfeld' reunion 25 years after show ended
Fox News ^ | 10/10/2023 | Stephanie Giang-Paunon

Posted on 10/10/2023 7:44:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: Truthsearcher
Seinfeld was about making fun of narcissistic and neurotic main characters

Sure, but for the most part I didn't find them unlikeable or unsympathetic. The show seemed to me to be saying that one didn't have to be perfect, and that being a little loopy wasn't the worst thing in the world. In the last episode, though, the series did morally indict the characters. That episode wasn't one of the best by any means.

61 posted on 10/10/2023 9:10:33 AM PDT by x
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To: Fireone

Michael Richards was great on “Fridays”, especially as “Battle Boy”.


62 posted on 10/10/2023 9:12:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

I tell people I have 4 friends coming over tonite. They come over ever night.

“Oh, how nice!”

Yeh,....

Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer.


63 posted on 10/10/2023 9:20:43 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: Hammerhead

Jerry: It’s a show about nothing.

Truer words were never said.........................


64 posted on 10/10/2023 9:23:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The three episodes with Brian George as Babu Bhaat the deported Pakistani very funny “Jerry is very very bad man”


65 posted on 10/10/2023 9:23:25 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: x

Yes, that’s what made the show work, in that the characters were horrible yet somehow we found them likable, warts and all. That’s always a difficult to maintain, most show either make them too unlikable, or too perfect that we cannot relate to their lack of flaws.


66 posted on 10/10/2023 9:36:48 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: dfwgator

Wasn’t that China Beach?


67 posted on 10/10/2023 9:39:04 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: Levy78
"The last good cable series was Tour of Duty from the late 80’s 😂. Remember it?"

I was in college and an ROTC cadet at the time. Most of our senior cadre were Vietnam vets and had interesting commentary on the show...as I recall their assessment was that some aspects of the show were pretty well researched and realistic and other parts were ludicrous Hollywood fabrication.

68 posted on 10/10/2023 9:42:05 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: SunkenCiv

Overheard it. Never watched it.


69 posted on 10/10/2023 9:58:32 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Same. Didn’t like it or dislike it, just never thought it was funny.


70 posted on 10/10/2023 10:10:14 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why be a fan of a show that is about nothing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPPlSkQ1WEQ&ab_channel=ChaosClips


71 posted on 10/10/2023 10:22:12 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: JZelle

Dana Delaney was China Beach.


72 posted on 10/10/2023 10:26:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Levy78
Maybe it’s just because I raised in west Texas but this urban, goofy NYC humor is the least funny show ever forced upon a population of TV viewers.

I was raised in the Midwest and spent more than half of my military career in the Plains states and I can agree with you.

I have seen three episode of Seinfeld, one being the "Soup Nazi" (almost funny) and understood but was not impressed with the humor.

Another show that needs to be placed in the Hall of Mediocrity is "Friends." I tried to watch a couple of episodes and shrugged.

73 posted on 10/10/2023 10:27:31 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Never watched it except I was in a bar the night the last episode aired and everyone was glued to the TVs. Very weird experience. I felt like an anthropologist watching some aboriginal ceremony.


74 posted on 10/10/2023 11:59:20 AM PDT by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, indeed. Constantly.

Yet there are people who lament if shows that like leave a paid streaming service even though they are on regular free TV constantly.


75 posted on 10/10/2023 1:33:07 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: GreenHornet
What was so funny about that?

That he demanded particular ordering etiquette.
That he banned customers, in Elaine's case for a year.
His fierce hostile demeanor as opposed to friendly and welcoming like every other business owner.

To each his own. I'm very familiar with the show and it's quite good. But the first episodes in the first season were dreadfully bad. No zip, no cleverness, dull writing, dead air. None of the characters were even remotely interesting.

76 posted on 10/10/2023 1:37:06 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Red Badger

They all were locked up in jail. The new show will have them being released after all these years and find their apt building is overrun by drug addicts and illegals.


77 posted on 10/10/2023 1:52:14 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: GSWarrior
Also portrayed African Americans as buffoons.

I don't remember that. Could you provide examples?

Off the top of my head, the black characters (with lines) I recall were Jerry's exterminator, George's co-worker Morgan, John Paul the marathon runner. None of them were buffoonish.

78 posted on 10/10/2023 2:36:04 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: GSWarrior

Definitely portrayed gays as buffoons, as in the “Who Doesn’t Want To Wear The Ribbon” episode.


79 posted on 10/10/2023 2:37:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL, yeah, same here.


80 posted on 10/10/2023 3:29:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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