Posted on 07/02/2014 2:41:32 PM PDT by SMGFan
Twenty-five years ago this Saturday, “Seinfeld” debuted on NBC.
It didn’t do particularly well at first, but it slowly began gathering viewers and then — yada yada yada — it permanently changed the way that we, as New Yorkers, talk.
In honor of those 25 years, here are 25 things that “Seinfeld” added to the popular vernacular over the course of its nine seasons on the air (1989-98).
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Tuscanny, Mexico (urban sombrero), some place way north east (last show), Del Boca Vista FL, Texas (jerry’s cowboy boots), Elaine from Bowie MD, ..... any place else?
India
India, England (pardon?), Where did Puddy and Elaine go? France? Mom and Pop Seinfeld went to France, ....
It moved!
“You know, a lot of this will buff right out.”
“You know, manure really isn’t all that bad a word. You have a ‘ma’ in the front of it followed by ‘nure’. Ma-nure....its really quiet pleasant when you think about it.”
Shrinkage Jerry. Shrinkage. Do girls even know about shrinkage?
That’s gold, Jerry! Gold!
Looking back, Seinfeld got away with a lot of very non-PC jokes and story lines, poking fun of stereotypes that actually have some basis of truth in them and not being afraid to point that out and that if it was a new TV show on a major network today, they’d never get away with it today.
Elaine was from Towson (rhymes with How) not Bowie (rhymes with Boo).
“And... it was about this time that she remembered she had a boyfriend?”
auxiliary drain clasp? whadda ya have, a clarkman? /putty
urban sombrero
spare a square
shrinkage
summer of george
buffer zone
tryptophan
i choose not to run
clams cassini...chef recommends!
that’s a shame...
newmannnn
pimplepopper md!
mulva
what is this salty discharge?
serenity now!
jimmy legs. high talker.
“These pretzels are making me thirsty,” "yada, yada, yada," and "not that there's anything wrong with it," are the three Seinfeld lines that I use the most in everyday life. There have been times at my neighborhood Irish Pub when, while eating pretzels, drinking Guinness, and watching a sporting event, I'll blurt out, "these pretzels are making me thirsty." The early babyboomers and college kids are in the know and will nod at me in recognition, but everyone in between seems obvlivious to Seinfeld.
I use “not that there’s anything wrong with that” - especially when talking about homosexuality. What a great, great show.
You are a veddy bad man, a veddy bad man! Say it while wagging index finger back and forth.
Was it Sweden? They had a Kroner with a hole in the middle. Yes, and Tuscany. One million lire. Capishe?
It was always such a polite show. Filled with polite New Yorkers (my people).
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