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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
[Re: rockstar_man45]
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09/26/14 02:06 PM
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That's like asking me to pick my favorite child . For sheer sentiment, I'll go with "Cheers" because is started in the very early '80s. When it came on, I was in my early twenties. When it went off, I was in my early thirties. I got married and started out in the world during the run of that show. So there's a lot of nostalgia there for me. But nostalgia aside, and everything being equal, I'm just as big a fan of "Seinfeld" as I am of "Cheers." Not to mention "Curb Your Enthusiasm." They're also VERY different shows that worked for VERY different reasons .
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
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09/26/14 08:33 PM
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I feel ya pizza man. Me personally it depends on the day. Seinfeld is hilarious because of the situational humor. It's every day shit gone array. And the best part was they were all extremely dysfunctional in some way so everything would backfire in their faces. Cheers was just characters playing off each other. Sam and Diane couldn't have worked any better. Fuck it you're right. It's hard to choose
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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
[Re: SC]
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09/27/14 05:04 PM
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I had a bar that I went to EVERY night after work for about five years. I was its "Norm" and I REALLY felt like it was home. I related to that. Ditto.
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
[Re: Moe_Tilden]
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09/27/14 05:20 PM
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He really is socially awkward. It's no act. I knew that long before he was famous. He wasn't mean or anything; he just never seemed to fit in socially. The co-op in which we grew up had 240 apartments and almost every one of them had kids. It was an AWESOME place in which to grow up. The boys always had a few stickball, punchball or softball games going on and even the older guys played (because many had younger brothers). So, there was ALWAYS something to do and everyone knew everyone else's name and such. Still, I really didn't know him because he was, like I said, stand-offish. He has an older brother (I THINK his name is Kenny) that is my brother's age but they weren't friends either (they once had a big fight in the schoolyard. Larry's brother was bigger than mine but my brother kicked his ass ).
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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
[Re: MaryCas]
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09/30/14 01:08 PM
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Seinfeld and Cheers had great characters and they were both fresh with subplots and new characters. Two different styles, but clever and poignant. I'll throw in a third show that preceeded Cheers - M*A*S*H. Never missed it. Great cast and wonderful story lines; funny and sad. Seinfeld is on reruns, but if Cheers and MASH are on, I watch them. I'm a big M*A*S*H fan too, MC. I have the whole set on DVD. My all time favorite scene is when Radar gives Potter his horse (Sophie) as a gift. Potter slips on a pile of horse shit, Frank Burns says "that's disgusting," and Potter says, "to me, that's a tip toe through the tulips."
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
[Re: rockstar_man45]
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10/01/14 11:03 AM
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Thanks for that nugget, SC. Larry David is one of my favorite comics and I actually like "Curb Your Enthusiasm" a little more than "Seinfeld." And Pizzaboy, I also loved "M-A-S-H." Not only were the regulars like Henry Blake, Burns, and Hawkeye all great, but they had fantastic recurring characters like Col. Flagg, Scully, Rizzo, and on and on. My all time favorite scene is when Radar gives Potter his horse (Sophie) as a gift. Potter slips on a pile of horse shit, Frank Burns says "that's disgusting," and Potter says, "to me, that's a tip toe through the tulips." There are so many great scenes. One that stands out for me is when they were trying to figure out who was playing practical jokes in the camp. BJ got someone to yell "air raid" knowing that Frank Burns would jump into a foxhole. In anticipation of that, BJ filled the hole with water. ******** Back on topic, I'd take "Seinfeld" over "Cheers" by a slight margin. There were lulls in Cheers, especially when they focused on Sam/Rebecca and when the setting was outside of Cheers. My favorites were with Coach and when they involed trying to compete with Gary's Tavern.
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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
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10/02/14 11:19 AM
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Seinfeld and Cheers had great characters and they were both fresh with subplots and new characters. Two different styles, but clever and poignant. I'll throw in a third show that preceeded Cheers - M*A*S*H. Never missed it. Great cast and wonderful story lines; funny and sad. Seinfeld is on reruns, but if Cheers and MASH are on, I watch them. I'm a big M*A*S*H fan too, MC. I have the whole set on DVD. My all time favorite scene is when Radar gives Potter his horse (Sophie) as a gift. Potter slips on a pile of horse shit, Frank Burns says "that's disgusting," and Potter says, "to me, that's a tip toe through the tulips." I love MASH too. Though I prefer the earlier seasons when it was a comedy with dramatic undertones rather than the later seasons when it became a drama with comedic undertones. Frank was always my favorite character and it sucked when he left the show.
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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
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10/02/14 03:51 PM
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I agree Ivy....the early shows were by far the best...then they got into liberal mumbo jumbo and really ruined the comedic value of the show. That's very accurate. And it's no coincidence that the show's liberal slant increased in direct correlation to Alda's autonomy. By the sixth season he had almost total control. His acting as Hawkeye was the best of his career. But he's the original Hollywood liberal.
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
[Re: IvyLeague]
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10/02/14 03:54 PM
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Frank was always my favorite character and it sucked when he left the show. No surprise there. You remind me of Frank Burns .
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Seinfeld or Cheers?
[Re: MaryCas]
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10/18/14 09:42 AM
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The movie MASH was a ground-breaker. Great cast; Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, ROBERT DUVALL, Sally Kellerman, Tom Skerritt and Gary Burgoff (RADAR). 1970, when sex and risque language were creeping into cinema (R - rated). mary, you forgot the doll. joanne pflug.
" watch what you say around this guy, he's got a big mouth" sam giancana to an outfit soldier about frank Sinatra. [ from the book "my way"
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