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Shane Hird said:
The Face Painter was just on...one of my all time favourite bits is Puddy after the Devils game screaming...DEVILS! ...the old priest's response always cracks me up.

The car stops just short of hitting Puddy. There's an old priest in the
passenger seat.

Puddy (pounding the hood): Hey, what are you doing?! Watch where you're
driving, man! (He approaches the passenger side window)

Don't mess with the Devils, buddy. We're number one, we beat anybody! We're the Devils! The
Devils!! Haaaa!!!

Puddy runs away, leaving the old priest shaken.

Father Hernandez: El Diablo! Dios mio! El Diablo!!



And the monkey spitting water in Kramer's face towards the end. Great episode that:thumbsu:
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"Oh, La Madonna! Madre de Christo! Yo estoy lista!"
 
This is quite amusing.

I was going through the new posts thread, and there's a thread called: Ask a Communist.

And I immediately thought of the episode where Elaine is dating a communist, and she is getting off being able to tell people: oh yeah, he's a big communist, huuuuuge communist (and she then gets her boyfriend banned from the chinese restaurant his dad used to frequent as a black listed communist).

Anyway, I was just about to put up a similar post on the Ask a communist thread, but then only three threads down on the list, the Seinfeld thread shows up!

Well, serendipity and all that...
 
Gigantor said:
This is quite amusing.

I was going through the new posts thread, and there's a thread called: Ask a Communist.

And I immediately thought of the episode where Elaine is dating a communist, and she is getting off being able to tell people: oh yeah, he's a big communist, huuuuuge communist (and she then gets her boyfriend banned from the chinese restaurant his dad used to frequent as a black listed communist).

Anyway, I was just about to put up a similar post on the Ask a communist thread, but then only three threads down on the list, the Seinfeld thread shows up!

Well, serendipity and all that...
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"Your boyfriend reads The Daily Worker? What is he, a Communist?"

"He reads everything, you know. Ned's very well-read."

"Maybe he's just very well 'Red'?"
 
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Frank Costanza: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man.
As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.

Cosmo Kramer: What happened to the doll?

Frank Costanza: It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born … a Festivus for the rest of us!

Cosmo Kramer: That must have been some kind of doll.

Frank Costanza: She was.

Gotta love Frank...and here's a site devoted to all things Festivus!!! lol


Festivus is a secular holiday celebrated on 23 December as a way to celebrate the holiday season without participating in its pressures and commercialism. It was created by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a screenwriter for the 166th episode of Seinfeld, The Strike (18 December 1997)


Did you hear? We started a Festivus Blog... Recent Posts: Meatloaf for Festivus |Festivus Food: Kramer Style Mulligatawny | Festivus 2014 Airing of Grievances | It’s a Mighty Fine Pole | More

Welcome! "Happy Festivus" is the traditional greeting of Festivus a holiday featured in "The Strike" episode of Seinfeld. The episode first aired on December 18, 1997. Since then many people have been inspired by this zany, offbeat Seinfeld holiday and they now celebrate Festivus as any other holiday.

According to the Seinfeld model, Festivus is celebrated each year on December 23rd. However many people celebrate it other times in December and even at other times throughout the year.

The slogan of Festivus is "A Festivus for the rest of us!" The usual holiday tradition of a tree is manifested in an unadorned aluminum pole, which is in direct contrast to normal holiday materialism.

Those attending Festivus may also participate in the "Airing of Grievances" which is an opportunity to tell others how they have disappointed you in the past year, followed by a Festivus dinner, and then completed by the "Feats of Strength" where the head of the household must be pinned.

All of these traditions are based upon the events in the Seinfeld episode, however, strangely enough, Festivus has roots that pre-date Seinfeld



http://festivusweb.com/
 
Fesitvus fb page...:thumbsu:




Some people, most of them inspired by the Seinfeld episode, subsequently began to celebrate the holiday with varying degrees of seriousness. Allen Salkin's 2005 book Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us chronicles the early adoption of Festivus. Rabbi Joshua Eli Plaut's book A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to Be Jewish(Rutgers University Press, 2012) references Festivus, along with hybrid holidays such as Chrismukkah.

In 2000, Baltimore Ravens head coach Brian Billick would not allow his NFL football team's players to discuss the possibility of competing in that season's Super Bowl. Instead, he and the rest of the Ravens players and staff referred to the NFL playoffs as Festivus, and the Super Bowl as Festivus Maximus. In 2005, Wisconsin GovernorJim Doyle was declared "Governor Festivus" and during the holiday season displayed a Festivus Pole in the family room of the Executive Residence in Madison, Wisconsin. Governor Doyle's 2005 Festivus Pole is now part of the collection of the Wisconsin Historical Museum
 
Great episode The Wink.

Kramer trying to get the card off little Bobby..Elaine chased by mutton luvin digs..




[Hospital]

TV: Bottom of the eighth, score tied at one apiece. Two and one to Paul O'Neill.

KRAMER: You know Bobby, it's very very hard to hit two home runs in one game. Even for Paul O'Neill.

KRAMER: He can do it, Mr. Kramer. I know he can. He'll do it for me.

TV: "Klick! Long fly ball into deep left field over Bell's head . . . O'Neill's rounding second O'Neill going for third, O'Neill rounding .


KRAMER: Come on Come on!

TV: . . . third being waived in.

KRAMER: GO! GO!!

TV: . . . Martinez throws it over Alomar's head. O'Neill is safe at home. And the Yankees take the lead.

KRAMER: An In The Park Home Run!

BOBBY: Yeay!

KRAMER: All Right! Yeah, well, I guess I'll be on my way (grabs framed card)

TV: That's being scored a triple for Paul O'Neill with a throwing error charged to Martinez.

BOBBY: Hey, …

KRAMER: Huh?

BOBBY: … that's not a home run. (grabs frame)

KRAMER: Yeah, maybe not technically, but …

BOBBY: You said he'd hit two home runs.

KRAMER: Oh, come on. Bobby, Bobby! That's just as good!

BOBBY: Well, you're not taking that card.

KRAMER: Now, Bobby, Bobby, we had a deal . . . gimme that …





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Watching 'The Gum' on Foxtel right now. Seeing Lloyd Braun melt over Elaine's cleavage, as well as having seen Russell Dalrymple transfixed by it and her in 'The Shoes' recently, kind of makes me wonder what they were going for with the Elaine character looks-wise most of the time. I know they probably wanted her to seem more "normal" than be any sort of sex symbol, and didn't want her looks to be a focus of the story or a "distracting" reason for viewers to be watching, but would any attractive 30-something professional woman in the '90s have really dressed the way she did? She kind of sexed it up a bit later in the series, but she looked like a '50s high school girl most of the time, with her blouses, long skirts, patent leather shoes and bobby socks. Just seemed a bit odd.
 
Adzam said:
Whenever watching Seinfeld these days I'm always thinking how many scenarios could have been solved if they lived in the day of Mobile phones
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Kind of makes you realise how much of our lives (particularly socially) are ruled by technology these days, even compared to 15-20 years ago.
 
Damon_3388 said:
She kind of sexed it up a bit later in the series, but she looked like a '50s high school girl most of the time, with her blouses, long skirts, patent leather shoes and bobby socks. Just seemed a bit odd.
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I think she's meant to be a 1990's Greenwich Village gal. It was filmed in a L.A studio but it was meant to be N.Y.C. In the early seasons she was even into animal rights and other 'trendy lefty' stuff. Her character probably went through bigger changes than George over the course of the series.
 
'The Gymnast' was on 7mate tonight.

It contained one of my favourite (and most appropriate) quotes from Jerry describing George: "Boy, I tell ya', knowing you is like going out in the jungle. I never know what I'm going to find next, and I'm real scared."
 
Damon_3388 said:
Watching 'The Gum' on Foxtel right now. Seeing Lloyd Braun melt over Elaine's cleavage, as well as having seen Russell Dalrymple transfixed by it and her in 'The Shoes' recently, kind of makes me wonder what they were going for with the Elaine character looks-wise most of the time. I know they probably wanted her to seem more "normal" than be any sort of sex symbol, and didn't want her looks to be a focus of the story or a "distracting" reason for viewers to be watching, but would any attractive 30-something professional woman in the '90s have really dressed the way she did? She kind of sexed it up a bit later in the series, but she looked like a '50s high school girl most of the time, with her blouses, long skirts, patent leather shoes and bobby socks. Just seemed a bit odd.
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90's fashion for you bro.
 
I love using the same emphasis in the way characters say certain lines in tv shows and movies (part of the whole parody thing where hopefully the people I say the lines to in a real life situation "get" what I am referencing).

Anyway one of the common one's I do is the Jerry Seinfeld exaggerated Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii knowwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Pointless Xtreme information :D
 

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