Seinfeld’s real genius was always the way the script managed to tie together multiple storylines into a cohesive whole.<p>The best example is probably the Marine Biologist episode. You could have never predicted that there would be any connection between golf balls and whales.
Surprised someone hasn't posted this yet, but some guy named Billy Domineau (who I guess wrote/writes for SNL) wrote a spec script for a Seinfeld episode that takes place surrounding the events of 9/11, and it does not disappoint.<p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/911-seinfeld-september-11_n_57a4b78ae4b056bad2155208" rel="nofollow">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/911-seinfeld-september-11_n_5...</a>
I love this. I picked one at random <a href="https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheCigarStoreIndian.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheCigarStoreIndian.htm</a>
I haven't seen this one, but it's great. The characters are so familiar you can construct the whole thing perfectly in your head, now I don't really need to see it. Although I can't picture Elaine's apartment. Was that a regular set?<p>The script is put together like a Swiss watch. Every line fits perfectly in place. Kudos to the craftsmen involved.
In class, when I mention <i>Seinfeld</i>, or for that matter, <i>Friends</i>, to illustrate a point, many of my students (law students, mostly in their early- to mid-20s) barely know what I'm talking about. You can imagine how my pop-culture references from the '60s and '70s sail right over their heads. (When that happens, I use the occasion to joke about my old-fart status.)
This website is great. I'm a huge Seinfeld fan and it's really good for finding quotes from the show.<p>I got all episodes in my phone so I can watch Seinfeld wherever I am even if there's no internet. Good to have when traveling
There's some code for parsing all Seinfeld scripts and putting them into a SQLite database [1] here.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/colinpollock/seinfeld-scripts">https://github.com/colinpollock/seinfeld-scripts</a>
Reading this makes you realise how much of what makes Seinfeld good is in the skillful delivery. I wonder how much they would have to rehearse to get it spot on.
How are these generated? They seem to have errors that neither a computer nor a English-speaking human would make. They're sort of like how a child or a person unfamiliar with English might try to transcribe words they don't recognize:<p>><i>Dugan: That's Sam, the new girl in the counting.</i><p>...<p>><i>Sam: Everybody told what a catty shrude you are. Your horrible!</i><p><a href="https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSummerofGeorge.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSummerofGeorge.htm</a>
obligatory mention of the Vandelay Industries slack app[1].<p>usage is: /vandelay <seinfeld dialog you're looking for>.<p>it returns an animated gif of the scene & dialog you searched for (if it exists).<p>details about how it was made here[2] but the TL;dr is that the entire Seinfeld catalog were in MKV, the subs were extracted, then the sub time ranges were looped through and animated gifs were made. then the whole lot made searchable.<p>it's a great slack app.<p>code here[3].<p>[1] <a href="https://vandelayindustries.online/" rel="nofollow">https://vandelayindustries.online/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://medium.com/free-code-camp/unfundable-slack-bots-9369a75fdd" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/free-code-camp/unfundable-slack-bots-9369...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/bertrandom/vandelayindustries-slack-server">https://github.com/bertrandom/vandelayindustries-slack-serve...</a><p>(edited for clarity & added github url)
Just watched the first two seasons of Friends and the first season of Seinfeld (never seen them before so a trip to the past) and Seinfeld is so much more intelligent and Friends so shallow and boring (outside some Joey gimmicks). Is there any such show with playful intelligent humor as Seinfeld these days?
You can also access every quote/meme from the show at <a href="https://carpeme.me/" rel="nofollow">https://carpeme.me/</a><p>Pretty much my favorite thing on the internet. Link unfurling in iMessages and everything. (Or whatever app you're using that has unfurling)
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Jerry Seinfeld many times seems to be smiling in a "this scene is so funny I can't hold on not to laugh" way?<p>I mean, some scenes would be more convincing/funny if he looked more serious.<p>This still strikes me as weird. Has this been discussed somewhere (I would surprised if not, perhaps I should ask GPT4)? Do we know why this happens?