What's your favorite Seinfeld episode or incident?

[Gracie]

We watch a ton of Seinfeld reruns and really love the show. Sarah's post about the Soup Nazi gave me an idea for this thread - what's your favorite Seinfeld episode - or incident during the show?

I loved the Soup Nazi but my all time favorite is when Kramer lost the car in the parking garage. DD loves when Elaine wouldn't give out just a square of toilet paper in the ladies room.

What's your favorite?

Loren

[AndreaU]

Wow, which episode don't I love?? DH & I are also huge fans. LOVE that show... I do like the Soup Nazi, too. A classic.

How about the Junior Mint episode? "It's a JUNIOR mint!"

I also love the one where Kramer was tanning and ended up basting himself with butter; then he was all crispy and as he and Newman were sitting in the diner, Newman saw Kramer as a turkey on a platter.

The library one was great, too (Tropic of Cancer was the overdue book). Mr. Bookman, the detective, had me in stitches!

Of course, "The Contest" was awesome, as was "The Pez Dispenser." DH and I can't look at a Pez dispenser without doing that little finger clap Jerry did with Tweety!

Then there was the big salad one.

(I could go on, can you tell?) Jimmy was pretty funny- the one with Mel Torme. "Jimmy thinks Elaine is cute."

[VeggieQueen58]

Without a doubt the episode about the "Manzier," a/k/a "The Bro." Second favorite is the Festivus one. I just love George's parents!

[stacy7272]

The one that has me rolling on the floor is when Kramer is in a "taking pictures" phase and he takes a picture of Elaine for her Christmas cards. Turns out her nipple is showing in the picture - only she doesn't realize this until she has already sent them out.

The thing that really makes me laugh, though, is that George keeps complaining that he didn't receive a Christmas card and Elaine gets so irritated with him that she says, "You want a Christmas card? You want a Christmas card?" She grabs his head and rubs his face against her breasts and says, "HERE'S your Christmas card!"

[wallycat]

LOVED "the contest" :D

[funnybone]

I LOVE so many. The Rye Bread was on last night - right now I have the one where Jerry dates the girl that wears only one dress. I love the one where George "flags" the book in the bookstore by taking it into the men's room. Oh, and the one where George is "pleasing himself" to a Glamour Magazine and lands his mother in the hospital is a riot too. :D :D

Oh, I love George's parents!

[AndreaU]

Originally posted by funnybone
Oh, and the one where George is "pleasing himself" to a Glamour Magazine and lands his mother in the hospital is a riot too. :D :D


Mrs. Costanza: "I come home and find my son treating his body like it was an AMUSEment park!"

Love the Costanzas, too! And the Seinfelds...

[Gracie]

Jerry dating the girl that only wears one dress was just on tonight! The Manziere was on last night. DD and I only have big salads anymore!!

Oh and the girl Jerry dated with Man Hands! DH works with a woman who has man hands!!

Loren

[funnybone]

Originally posted by AndreaU


Mrs. Costanza: "I come home and find my son treating his body like it was an AMUSEment park!"


:D :D :D

[eas11]

The Chocolate Babka. I thought it was hysterical and when I went to work the next day, people were asking me if Chocolate Babka is really that good. Yes it is! I had my sister bring up a few when she next came.
Also in that episode was a discussion of the last time Jerry threw up...I've had those conversations with people!
Those mentioned already,The Contest,The Nippleand The Manzier are also favorite's of mine.
Love em all an don't seem to tire of the reruns! I still mourn the loss of the show- would have like to continue aging with that crew :D

[Gracie]

Ellyn, where can I get a good Chocolate Babka around here? (seriously)!! :D

Loren

[kwormann]

There is NO WAY I can choose one!!! We have seasons 1 and 2 on DVD and am hoping to soon get season 3 :) LOVE Seinfeld!!!!

[eas11]

Originally posted by Gracie
Ellyn, where can I get a good Chocolate Babka around here? (seriously)!! :D

Loren

Rosenfeld's in Newton Center, really. More dense than a NY Babka, but absolutely delicious!!! The whole wheat challah is also fabulous!

BTW, they are kosher, so don't plan on ever visiting them late Fri or Sat as they close for Shabbat.

[boisewinesnob]

My favorite is the one where Kramer turns his living room into the set for the Dick Cavet show (or some show like that?). Every time someone new comes over, he makes them all scoot down a chair :D . Ha!

[Miss Giggles]

Love them all but I love the Pez dispenser one.

[Gracie]

Thanks Ellyn. Whole-wheat challah sounds heavenly.

How about the one where Kramer has the Asian men sleeping in the drawers of his dresser as their hotel?

Or when Elaine asked Newman to be the hit man on her neighbor's dog that wouldn't stop barking?

Loren

[ellen6242]

The one where Jerry can't remember his girlfriend's name - he only knows it rhymes with a female body part, so he calls her "Mulva."

The one where Jerry goes on the Today Show and agreed to wear the "puffy shirt."

The one where the writer doing an interview with Jerry thinks he and George are gay.

The contest is a classic! So is the junior mint episode.

Ellen

[clairea]

I don't think I can pick one favorite - all of these great. The other one DH and I love which I haven't seen mentioned here is the one with the Fusilli Jerry. "One in a million Doc!"

Claire

[Jessica]

I think the Junior Mint is my favorite one, but I also love the one with Elaine's horrible dance and the one with the muffin tops.

[donnamp14]

Thanks, guys! I will be laughing all day. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

They are all my favorite! How about JFK's golf clubs? The close-talker? The low talker who led to the puffy shirt! The re-gifter! The baby who is breathtaking!I love them all.


Shrinkage!

[bobmark226]

Originally posted by donnamp14
Shrinkage!

:(

Women can be soooooooo cruel.

Bob

[Sarah428]

Originally posted by AndreaU
Jimmy was pretty funny- the one with Mel Torme. "Jimmy thinks Elaine is cute."
That one was on last night, I love Kramer in it!

Too many to choose from!

[funnybone]

"It's Festivus for the Rest of Us".

[LA98]

My all-time favorite is "The Subway."

Jerry falls asleep and wakes up sitting across from a fat naked guy: "I'm not ashamed of my body." "That's your problem, you should be."

Elaine screaming silently when her train stops in a tunnel ("Move! Move!! MOVE!!!") and the conversation she has with a woman next to her: "My luck. I don't talk to a soul in the subway for 35 years. I get a best man at a lesbian wedding." "No, you don't understand! I'm not a lesbian! I hate men, but I'm not a lesbian!"

And Kramer: "His mudder was a mudder."

[AvrilH]

THe airplane one - when Elaine is suffering in coach and Jerry is living it up in first class. I was bumped up to first class once, and the difference is really really that noticable.

[dublchk]

Some great episodes have been mentioned. So many of those are faves of mine. But my all time favorite still has to be when George pretends to be a marine biologist. "The sea was angry that day my friend..." I just love the way George tells that story.

And let's not forget A festivus for the rest of us and Serenity now!

And what about the one where they spend the whole time waiting for a table in the Chinese restaurant?

[HRJ]

Yes, they're all great. I was going to mention the "Shrinkage" episode, too, and also the Puffy Shirt.

Also love the Chinese restaurant episode, where they're waiting for the table. And when they get lost in the parking garage. Oh -- also the one where Elaine is dating the guy whose favorite song is "Desperado."

Probably my all-time favorites are any where they go to Florida to visit Jerry's parents at Boca Del Vista Pines.

Helene

[Jessica]

OMH, Helene, I love the parking garage one.

Don't forget the double-dippers, and the @ssman license plate! I need to watch more TV :).

[funnybone]

Who can forget the Wedding Invitations, The Summer of George and the one where George is a Hand Model. :D :D :D :D

[funnybone]

Oh, Oh, Oh - and the one where George takes a nap under his desk is my kids favorite. :D

[Peggy]

I think I am the only person living that has never seen a Seinfeld episode. I'm not kidding! Culturally deprieved again. :(

However, I am going to see him in person in March!!:D DH got us tickets and I'm very excited.

Peggy

[gertdog]

Originally posted by ellen6242
The one where Jerry can't remember his girlfriend's name - he only knows it rhymes with a female body part, so he calls her "Mulva."


I think that's my favorite too, though I also love "The Contest" and the one with the rye bread. There's also one that makes me laugh out loud- all I can remember right now is that Jerry and Elaine are on a plane, but there's only one seat in first class and Jerry snaps it up, and Elaine tries to sneak up there but gets caught.

[eas11]

How about when Elaine is sure the manicurists are talking about her in Vietnamese and brings George's father to translate for her :)

When George had novacaine and was thought to be "mentally challanged" :)

And Kramer says "I need the secure packaging of Jockeys. My boys need a house!" :)


This thread can have NO END! :D

[SandyM]

Shrinkage. *snort*

It's tough to name favorites, but Bizarro Jerry, The Bubble Boy, and Muffin Top episodes are right up there.

[Sarah428]

Originally posted by eas11

When George had novacaine and was thought to be "mentally challanged" :)

That was the one on last night (it's actual Kramer that had the novacaine). I love the end w/ Kramer at the head table and Mel Torme and singing to him, Kramer's facial expressions are priceless!

I forgot about the a$$man plate and Fusilli Jerry.

And all this time I've been telling DH that the DVD collection would be a waste of money...boy, was I wrong!

[scudgal]

How about the one where George has a job interview that ends with him not being clear on whether or not he was actually hired, so he shows up for work anyway - and is given the "Pennske file" to work on? Or the one where Jerry and George are terrified after meeting Elaine's gruff father in a hotel lobby while waiting for Elaine, and confer in the bathroom to discuss what to say to him in order to make a early exit ("we're frightened and we have to leave")!!

[Meganator]

It's so hard to narrow it down - all the ones mentioned so far are great. However, I think that the episodes that have left us (by us, I mean my family anyway) with new vocabulary that we use in the rest of our lives: Mulva (only because we have a friend named Melva), Festivus, close-talker, low-talker, puffy shirt, shrinkage, mansierre, sponge-worthy, and, best of all MOOPS! I'm sure there are many more.

[Sarah428]

So, what did everyone think of the final episode?

I wouldn't say I hated it but I was a little disappointed.

[Beth H]

The amazing thing about Seinfeld is that almost every episode has some sort of classic bit - the show really gave a lot to our popular culture.

In addition to some of the shows mentioned, I love the one where they're in the parking garage, the one where they're waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, and, of course, the one with the rental car:

"JERRY: I don't understand, I made a reservation, do you have my reservation?
RENTAL CAR AGENT: Yes, we do, unfortunately we ran out of cars.
JERRY: But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation.
RENTAL CAR AGENT: I know why we have reservations.
JERRY: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them."

[Gracie]

Originally posted by Meganator
I think that the episodes that have left us (by us, I mean my family anyway) with new vocabulary that we use in the rest of our lives: Mulva (only because we have a friend named Melva), Festivus, close-talker, low-talker, puffy shirt, shrinkage, mansierre, sponge-worthy, and, best of all MOOPS! I'm sure there are many more.

How about double-dipper? and Big Salad? :D

Loren

[Beth H]

I think that the episodes that have left us (by us, I mean my family anyway) with new vocabulary that we use in the rest of our lives

"Not that there's anything wrong with that." :)

[funnybone]

Originally posted by Sarah428
So, what did everyone think of the final episode?

I wouldn't say I hated it but I was a little disappointed.

At the time it was a bit disppointing only because they were to spend a year in jail. I think I expected so much more. However, I must admit I love it in reruns - love how all the characters come back and and paint them in such a negative way. Also, the last episode ends the way the first one started - with the button conversation between George and Jerry.

[Jessica]

In honor of this thread, I had a big salad for lunch. Now if only I had some Junior Mints...

[funnybone]

Oh, and the episode where Jerry is getting his kitchen remodelled - only to put it back the way it was.

[Chefzhat]

I like the one where Kramer is swimming in the East River. Seeing him flop off the dock is too hysterical.

Also, Jerry dates a girl whose face changes with the light - she's pretty; she's scary; etc.

Anything with Elaine and Puddy. "That's it, we're broken up."

When George buys the Frogger machine and has to get it across the street.

When Kramer does everything in the shower - even making salad.

[Lillith]

Originally posted by Gracie
DD loves when Elaine wouldn't give out just a square of toilet paper in the ladies room.

What's your favorite?

Loren

There are waaay too many favorites to choose just one. Just wanted to say that your DD has it backwards. The stall that Elaine was in had no toilet paper and the woman in the one next to her wouldn't give her any. That's when Elaine lamented...."Can't you even spare a square?"

[ktg0930]

Originally posted by Lillith


There are waaay too many favorites to choose just one. Just wanted to say that your DD has it backwards. The stall that Elaine was in had no toilet paper and the woman in the one next to her wouldn't give her any. That's when Elaine lamented...."Can't you even spare a square?"

But then at the end, Elaine realizes that Jerry's date is the woman who wouldn't give her the toilet paper and runs ahead of her into the bathroom, grabs all the toilet paper, goes into a stall and then Elaine won't give the her any toilet paper when she asks.

There are so many good ones, I've just been laughing to myself reading and remembering all the classic lines.

[Lillith]

Originally posted by ktg0930


But then at the end, Elaine realizes that Jerry's date is the woman who wouldn't give her the toilet paper and runs ahead of her into the bathroom, grabs all the toilet paper, goes into a stall and then Elaine won't give the her any toilet paper when she asks.

Yes! Of course you're right...I forgot how that episode ended. Well, let that be a lesson for us to always carry tissues in our purses or in our pockets :)

[donnamp14]

The opposite of the "shrinkage" episode. How about, "They're real and they're spectacular !

Or how about my 2 all-time favorites, The Bris and Pig Man! I can't choose only one, since I have about 30 favorites, but the Pig Man just about killed me, and also Shaky, the Moyhl (sp)?

Bookman. Take that, Joy Boy.

I could go on for days! (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

[Beth H]

What about the one where George pretends to be a marine biologist and then ends up pulling the golf ball out the whale?

Or, during the "shrinkage" episode, where Jerry and Elaine can't look at the baby because it's so ugly?

Or George's invented name for himself, "Art Vandalay."

This truly was a classic sitcom.

And, Peggy, I've seen Jerry Seinfeld live, and he was really, really funny.

[KimKelly]

Originally posted by donnamp14
l.


Shrinkage!

I've been waiting for someone to mention that one! We also loved the one where Jerry rides First Class on the airplane and Elaine is in Coach....

Kim

[SandyM]

Originally posted by Beth H


"Not that there's anything wrong with that." :)

If the description on the satellite dish is correct, this one is on right now on TBS on the east coast. ;)

[Angelina]

You know, I never knew about shrinkage until watching that episode. I turned to my husband, wide-eyed and disbelieving, and I said "Is that true?????". I guess men think all women know...

I also love the one where Elaine's co-worker dies and there is some guy in the trunk of the car or something like that.

Oh, and one where Jerry is wearing these really thick glasses in an old movie theater...I don't remember other details on that one, but the way Jerry was moving around just cracked me up!

Angela

[sassysu3]

:D The Second Spitter , when Kramer re-enacted "the event."

[stacy7272]

Originally posted by Beth H
In addition to some of the shows mentioned, I love the one where they're in the parking garage, the one where they're waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, and, of course, the one with the rental car:

"JERRY: I don't understand, I made a reservation, do you have my reservation?
RENTAL CAR AGENT: Yes, we do, unfortunately we ran out of cars.
JERRY: But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation.
RENTAL CAR AGENT: I know why we have reservations.
JERRY: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them."

I LOVE THIS SCENE TOO!!! It is just so funny. The hand gestures are what really make it.

I've seen outakes of this particular scene and they were all laughing, especially Julia (i.e., Elaine).

[HejazSunKat]

Originally posted by Sarah428
And all this time I've been telling DH that the DVD collection would be a waste of money...boy, was I wrong!

While I love the show too, I think it is. Someone gave it to us for Xmas and I'd like to exchange it. Why do I need it when the reruns are on every night?

Sort of off topic: Right after the show went off the air I read some column about it where it was described as 'mean'. That really surprised me that some people looked upon it that way. Was it mean?

[kwormann]

Originally posted by bobmark226


:(

Women can be soooooooo cruel.

Bob

:D :D ;)

[Schmee]

Originally posted by LA98
My all-time favorite is "The Subway."

Jerry falls asleep and wakes up sitting across from a fat naked guy: "I'm not ashamed of my body." "That's your problem, you should be."

Elaine screaming silently when her train stops in a tunnel ("Move! Move!! MOVE!!!") and the conversation she has with a woman next to her: "My luck. I don't talk to a soul in the subway for 35 years. I get a best man at a lesbian wedding." "No, you don't understand! I'm not a lesbian! I hate men, but I'm not a lesbian!"

And Kramer: "His mudder was a mudder."
OMG!!
I saw this episode once many years ago and I have NEVER seen it again! I thought it was so hilarious but no one else I talk to ever remembers it! I keep hoping that someday I will be able to see it again on reruns.

[Schmee]

Man Hands !!!!
Crazy Joe Devola and The Opera,The Maestro "There are no villas for rent in Tuscany", "The Executive" beltless raincoat

[greysangel]

a comment on first class....it really depends on the airline. The ONLY difference on Air Jamaica is a glass of mimosa and a curtain drawn across the back of the first four rows :D :D

There are so many classic episodes. I love the Maestro and the bet where they see who can go the longest without the m word. I also love the episode where Jerry is buying a cadillac for his father and all of a sudden his father can't run for the condo counsel or something? It was HILARIOUS. I love both sets of parents. Oh and the one where George's mom finds a condom in her bed, or Elaine having to find a replacement for George's father's TV Guide. :D

[kwormann]

HOw about The close talker ???


Yadda, yadda, yadda

I LOVE where Elaine tells her story about "Ive yadda-ed sex...had dinner with a lawyer, I ordered the crab bisque, we went back to his place and "yadda, Yadda, Yadda", Inever heard from him again."

Jerry: But you yadda-ed over the best part!
Elaine: No, I mentioned the bisque....

That is one of my FAVORITE lines!!!

[beckms]

Maybe the Dingo ate your baby.

:D :D

One of my favorites is when Jerry's dating the woman who played Charlotte on Sex in the City, and he accidentally drops her toothbrush in the toilet and doesn't tell her, but then he won't kiss her because he has that germ phobia. And then when he finally does tell her, she locks him out of his apartment and dips one thing into the toilet but won't tell him what it was.

So he throws away everything he owns just in case, only to find out that she dipped the toilet brush in the toilet.

Love that one.

And I love the one where George is a "bad boy" and dates Elaine's coworker, and then they end up at the police station and Elaine and Mr. Costanza have to pick them up...that episode has a whole series of outtakes at the end where Elaine can't stop laughing when Mr. Costanza shouts, "You want a PIECE A' ME????":D :D :D

[funnybone]

Just had to post another favorite I just saw - where George's dad converts his bedroom into a Billiard room. Of course the room is too small and they bang the walls, break the windows, etc. This is also the episode where Susan has a doll that looks EXACTLY like George's mother. The maestro is back too. Hilarious! :D:D

[granolagirl]

Any with Elaine and Puddy. Hilarious!

Also, all the times when Elaine says "Get Out!" and nearly knocks someone over. The Kenny Roger Roaster One, the frozen yogurt that Kramer is convinced is not low fat and the Vault.

:)

[amcleod]

My favorite is when Kramer finds out that wearing tighty-whiteys can lower the sperm count, and he doesn't like boxers. So, eventually he stops wearing underwear altogether, but before he announces it, Jerry figures it out and says to Elaine: "Don't you see? There's only a thin layer of gabardine between HIM and us!"

And then Kramer says, "I feel like a naked Indian boy and I'm Lovin' every minute of it!!" (although in reruns the words were changed to "naked innocent boy").

Cracks me up every time!

[HRJ]

Oh, how could I have forgotten the Maestro and the villa in Tuscany?

DH and I remembered another one that we loved, over the weekend -- the one where Jerry is dating the woman who likes mutton? So he stuffs the mutton in his coat pocket, and then, for some reason, Elaine borrows his coat, and is chased by dogs on her way home.

And no, I wouldn't call the show "mean" -- yes, Jerry and the gang were certainly callous about any number of things -- but the show always approached the four of them with the idea that ultimately, they were such big losers, too, that you couldn't take any of it seriously.


Helene

[eas11]

Originally posted by HRJ
.......the one where Jerry is dating the woman who likes mutton? So he stuffs the mutton in his coat pocket, and then, for some reason, Elaine borrows his coat, and is chased by dogs on her way home............
Helene

Which reminds me of another dog episode, when Elaine gets bit by the dog as she and Jerry help George pick out glasses, and then he ends up with "ladies frames". :) among other funny events in the episode.
I always like the little side stories happening around the main "event" :D :D

[Gracie]

Originally posted by eas11


Which reminds me of another dog episode, when Elaine gets bit by the dog as she and Jerry help George pick out glasses, and then he ends up with "ladies frames". :) among other funny events in the episode.
I always like the little side stories happening around the main "event" :D :D

Which reminds me of yet another dog episode when Elaine hires Newman as her hit man to take out the neighbor's dog that won't stop barking.
Newman's sitting in the shadows in his living room as he and Elaine dance around the subject of taking the dog out without coming out and saying it!

Loren

[funnybone]

The Chinese Restaurant was on last night. I hadn't seen that one in ages. I brought it up because it was a favorites of some in this thread. :D:D

[JJ40]

Elaine: "I've yadda-ed sex...had dinner with a lawyer, I ordered the crab bisque, we went back to his place and "yadda, yadda, yadda", I never heard from him again."

Jerry: "But you yadda yadda'd over the best part!"

Elaine: "No, I mentioned the bisque..."

LOVE THAT!!!

I am the hugest of Seinfeld fans...quote it whenever I can. Strangers sneeze around me and I say, "you're soooo good lookin'!" I always get weird looks, needless to say.

How about: the Puerto Rican day parade (I love the part where they all go to the apartment that is being shown in order to watch the game on TV! Trivia question: what names do they give the realtor?

Bizarro World...where Elaine makes friends with a Bizarro World Jerry, George, and Kramer...(ten points if you can name them!)

[Gracie]

Originally posted by JJ40
Trivia question: what names do they give the realtor?

Bizarro World...where Elaine makes friends with a Bizarro World Jerry, George, and Kramer...(ten points if you can name them!)

I thought I was pretty good with Seinfeld but I can't answer these! Can you give us the answers?

And speaking of Seinfeld trivia, isn't it weird that they never made a trivia game? There's trivia games for everything - even Friends - so why not a classic like Seinfeld? If anyone knows of one, please let me know. I saw one on an AOL CD but I'm not sure if you need to download AOL in order to play the game and there's no way I want or need AOL.

Loren

[JJ40]

Okay, so I am the only one who is loser-ish enough to know the answers to these questions? Hint to the Puerto Rican Day parade episode: George's and Kramer's aliases are ones they have used before in other episodes...

Here's the answer to the Bizarro world episode:

Bizarro world Jerry = Kevin
Bizarro world George = Gene
Bizarro world Kramer = Feldman
Bizarro world Newman = Vargus