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Re: Seinfeld
[Re: goombah]
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10/22/11 07:49 PM
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Tony Mosrite
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Hey Pizzaboy! I was trying to send you a PM to see how you liked this season's CYE. But your PM message box is full. So whaddaya think so far? I love Funkhouser as a devout Jew from the last episode. good topic! I asbolutely loved the last season of Curb. the episode you mention ("Palestinian Chicken") is up to Seinfeld standards. by the way I was recently watching Seinfeld's "The Masseuse" and I found very funny that two topis of that episode were revisited by Larry David on Curb: 1. George becomes attracted to a woman just because she doesn't like him, just like Larry and Shara the palestinian chick; 2. Elaine is discussing new names for her boyfriend Joel Rifkin and vetos Alex because she had a classmate named like that who used to make an annoying "aahhhhh" after every dip of his coffee.
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Re: Seinfeld
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10/22/11 07:55 PM
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One of my all-time favorites was on last night: "The Chicken Roaster." I absolutely loathe a great majority of the post-Larry David episodes of Seinfeld, and "The Chicken Roaster" is one of them. It's funny, yes, but it's NOT the same brand of humor that the show is known for in it's first five or so seasons. Although, I must admit that the episode DID show some very interesting hints of creativity -- most notably when Jerry and Kramer switch apartments/personalities; and Kramer's whole boycott of Kenny Rodgers Roasters was pretty funny, too. So... I'd actually have to say that the episode was at the very least an original work, I'll give it that. But God, I simply couldn't stand watching the later years of this damn show. obviously there is a point there but I hardly disagree with the generalisation that Seinfeld simply declined after the 7th Season. first, it deliberately changed its style a little bit in an effort to fresh things up - salute to that! second, by a quick glance at the episode list I just don't agree that it declined that much. the writing is not all-time best after Larry David left but the chemistry among the characters allowed them to rely more on gags than genius screenplays. even though they would never be as brilliant as Season Four ever again there are a lot of memorable moments all the way until the end of the last season. the storylines just became more bizarre and character-centered.
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Re: Seinfeld
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10/24/11 10:55 AM
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pizzaboy
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The later seasons had their moments here and there but, generally speaking, stick with the first 5 seasons.
I thought that Season 7 (LD's last season) was a renaissance year for the show. From George's engagement, right up until Susan's death, I thought they hit it out of the park with almost every episode that year (The Rye, The Soup Nazi, The Cadillac, etc.). I agree that the characters became a parody of themselves in the last two seasons, BUT it was still better than 90% of the sitcoms on television at that time.
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Re: Seinfeld
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04/30/12 10:42 AM
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Hey Pizzaboy! I was trying to send you a PM to see how you liked this season's CYE. But your PM message box is full. So whaddaya think so far? I love Funkhouser as a devout Jew from the last episode. good topic! I asbolutely loved the last season of Curb. the episode you mention ("Palestinian Chicken") is up to Seinfeld standards. by the way I was recently watching Seinfeld's "The Masseuse" and I found very funny that two topis of that episode were revisited by Larry David on Curb: 1. George becomes attracted to a woman just because she doesn't like him, just like Larry and Shara the palestinian chick; 2. Elaine is discussing new names for her boyfriend Joel Rifkin and vetos Alex because she had a classmate named like that who used to make an annoying "aahhhhh" after every dip of his coffee. Yes that was one of the minor themes from the most recent season of Curb - LD borrowing from himself some of the Seinfeld subtleties. Although LD's previous season with the Seinfeld reunion was difficult to top. I thought the most recent season had some good moments, but there was a spell in the middle that were not up to standard. However, the last two episodes with Bill Buckner and then Michael J. Fox were classics. But not enough Leon, Richard Lewis, and Funkhouser for the majority of the season.
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Re: Seinfeld
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06/08/12 09:50 PM
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Yeah, Julia's parents were loaded.
I don't get all the hate for later season's of Seinfeld. I know LD left but they were great. Characters change. Can't have the same characters for 9 seasons. It wasn't just the individual characters that changed. The whole "feel" of the show changed. In the later years, it still had it's moments but it wasn't the same kind of humor that made it so popular in the first place. And the same thing could be said about The Simpsons now.
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Re: Seinfeld
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06/08/12 10:47 PM
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Yeah, Julia's parents were loaded.
I don't get all the hate for later season's of Seinfeld. I know LD left but they were great. Characters change. Can't have the same characters for 9 seasons. It wasn't just the individual characters that changed. The whole "feel" of the show changed. In the later years, it still had it's moments but it wasn't the same kind of humor that made it so popular in the first place. And the same thing could be said about The Simpsons now. I understand, LD even has said the show changed and that's why he left, but I still find it strange that people complain about it. Maybe because I was to young to start watching Seinfeld when it first aired and I only started watching it when I was around 18, in 1999/2000. I agree, about the Simpsons. It has gone down hill. Alot of people argue that the true Simpsons, should only be considered the first ten seasons and anything after that is not the true show. It has dropped of in quality, imo, but they also lost an insane number of great writers from those first years.
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