Good Morning...A TV "Show About Nothing" Premieres

[Okla-homey]

May 31, 1990 Seinfeld premieres

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Sixteen years ago on this day, the sitcom Seinfeld debuts -- one of several new TV shows based on the comedy of popular comedians. The show was produced and sometimes co-written by comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

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Seinfeld was 36 when the show first hit the airwaves. He was born in Brooklyn NY in 1954, greatly admired his father, a sign painter with comic talents. At an early age, Seinfeld decided to pursue comedy and spent countless hours watching TV, studying the style and delivery of comedians.

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He began performing in Manhattan nightclubs in the mid-1970s and spent years working the stand-up circuit. In 1981, he made his first appearance on The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson loved Seinfeld's act and apparently so did Tonight Show viewers. After this success, Seinfeld began appearing more frequently on talk shows. In 1988, he won the American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic.

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On July 5, 1989, the pilot for his comedy series, called The Seinfeld Chronicles, aired. In May 1990, the program launched, featuring Jerry Seinfeld as a thirty-something stand-up comic and his group of wacky friends, including chronic worrywart George Costanza, eccentric neighbor Cosmo Kramer, and quirky ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes.

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The show wasn't an instant hit but gradually gained popularity. In the 1992-93 television season, Neilsen ranked Seinfeld as the 25th most watched show, but the program zoomed to third place the following year and hit first place in the 1994-95 season.

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The show aired its last episode on May 14, 1998, and 76 million viewers tuned in to watch. Advertising spots for the final episode sold at $1.7 million for a 30-second spot.

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Yes, the joint actually exists on NYC's upper west side

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[yermom]

great show.

this is still on my wall from the previous occupant of my room:

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[Scott D]

yeah.....I'm going to have to go ahead and give this thread the thumbs down...especially when on this date in 1678 was Lady Godiva's 'infamous' ride against Taxation in Coventry.

[Okla-homey]

yeah.....I'm going to have to go ahead and give this thread the thumbs down...especially when on this date in 1678 was Lady Godiva's 'infamous' ride against Taxation in Coventry.

The mythical protest of an equistrienne tart pales in comparison to the broadcast greatness which was "Seinfeld."

[yermom]

usually a naked chick is pretty notable, but this is Seinfeld dude :D

[White House Boy]

The best TV show EVAR.

Close talkers, low talkers, high talkers, sidlers, Kenny Rogers Roasters, Superman, man hands, soup nazis, Kramerica, lords of the manors, kings of the castles, masters of their domains, tooth brushes in toilets, tractors with gonorrhea, puffy shirts, manssiers, bros, ship bladders, marine biologists, architects, jerk stores, 8 ball jackets, one in a million shots, sponge worthiness, big salads, ugly babies, and shrinkage......... not there's anything wrong with that. Oh, the humanity!

Serenity now.

[yermom]

you are SO good lookin'

[Viking Kitten]

How many TV shows feature a guy's fiancee dying on one its funniest episodes? Pure greatness.

Oh. And "A$sman."

And, "Thanks for putting my daddy out of business, you fat ****."

Good choice, Homey.

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

I love this show. I think it's funnier now in reruns.

Was it someone's naval that said "Hellllllllllooooooooo"

[TUSooner]

I'm so grateful for reruns; otherwise I wouldn't know the greatness that is Seinfeld, and my unhipness would have sunk even beneath its current tragicalness.

[sooneron]

I was showing some friends from out of town around on Monday and had to take them to the diner. It's just a couple of blocks from St John the Divine on Broadway and 112th St.

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[picasso]

I was showing some friends from out of town around on Monday and had to take them to the diner. It's just a couple of blocks from St John the Divine on Broadway and 112th St.

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the funny part is the real coffee shop doesn't fit the inside design of the one seen on tv.;)

This is unprecedented!

There's no precedent baby!

You been using my babies?

[sooneron]

Yeah, it's really small inside, which doesn't make for good tv.

[yermom]

but do they have the Big Salad?

[Viking Kitten]

but do they have the Big Salad?

And if they do, would you thank the right person for it?

[Beano's Fourth Chin]

That one where George pees in the shower, because he read in medical journals that holding it wasn't good for you. They asked Kramer if he peed in the shower.

Kramer: I take baths.

Then the one with the low flow shower heads.

Kramer: I just took a bath, Jerry. A bath...It's disgusting. I'm sitting there in a tepid pool of my own filth. All kinds of microscopic parasites and organisms having sex all around me.

[White House Boy]

but do they have the Big Salad?

Forget the big salad. Do they have any salsa?

[yermom]

That one where George pees in the shower, because he read in medical journals that holding it wasn't good for you. They asked Kramer if he peed in the shower.

Kramer: I take baths.

Then the one with the low flow shower heads.

Kramer: I just took a bath, Jerry. A bath...It's disgusting. I'm sitting there in a tepid pool of my own filth. All kinds of microscopic parasites and organisms having sex all around me.

don't forget the garbage disposal in Kramer's shower :D

[White House Boy]

That one where George pees in the shower, because he read in medical journals that holding it wasn't good for you. They asked Kramer if he peed in the shower.

Kramer: I take baths.

Then the one with the low flow shower heads.

Kramer: I just took a bath, Jerry. A bath...It's disgusting. I'm sitting there in a tepid pool of my own filth. All kinds of microscopic parasites and organisms having sex all around me.


Remember uromyosititis... in the parking deck? Classic episode.

Hmmmmmmm. There seems to be a urinary thread woven within the subtext of Seinfeld.

What does this mean?

[yermom]

Forget the big salad. Do they have any salsa?

do people really like it, or do they just like saying salsa?

[Beano's Fourth Chin]

As if I could really forget that.

[White House Boy]

Speaking of garbage disposals in showers, my story from the linked thread below demonstrates the need for this amenity for those of us with young'uns:

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67240&highlight=seinfeld


Funny thing about that idea (garbage disposal in the shower)... last night I realized how bright that idea really is.

Usually, I am able to wipe MOST of the food from my 2 1/2 year old son's body and hair after supper before putting him into the tub for his bath. Last night was NOT one of those nights. He had tomato seeds, broccoli flowerets, and chunks of strawberries and chicken all over him.

I would've had to have hosed him off in the back yard to get all the food off of him. Against my better judgement, I took him straight to the tub without the customary "pre-wash" cycle.

As much as I tried to get all the food out of the tub after he finished bathing, the drain still ended up being slow going this morning when I took my shower.

A garbage disposal in the tub?

Genius.

[Taxman71]

I think Kramerica Industries is working on that as we speak. They bought the rights from Vandelay Industries who specializes in importing and exporting.

[Beano's Fourth Chin]

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And you want to be my latex salesman.

[yermom]

what-delay Industries?

[Viking Kitten]

'I always wanted to pretend to be an architect.'

[yermom]

heh, it was Jerry's fault that he was the Marine Biologist :D

[Viking Kitten]

Hee hee.

'The sea was angry that day my friend. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.'

[yermom]

Titleist

[Viking Kitten]

'So I looked right into the eye of the great fish...'

'Mammal.'

'Whatever.'

[picasso]

That one where George pees in the shower, because he read in medical journals that holding it wasn't good for you. They asked Kramer if he peed in the shower.

Kramer: I take baths.

Then the one with the low flow shower heads.

Kramer: I just took a bath, Jerry. A bath...It's disgusting. I'm sitting there in a tepid pool of my own filth. All kinds of microscopic parasites and organisms having sex all around me.
low flow was great. remember the one where Kramer lives in his shower? calls Puddy to get a garbage disposal installed. heh.

[picasso]

whoops. heh.

[Taxman71]

One of my favorite episodes:

World's are colliding....Relationship George will kill Fun George...a George divided against itself cannot stand.

[White House Boy]

One of my favorite episodes:

World's are colliding....Relationship George will kill Fun George...a George divided against itself cannot stand.

I love that Geroge.

[toast]

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[12]

"Seinfeld" has aged about as well as any show out there.

[Scott D]

That show coulda been great..if they'd left out the lame stand-up bits and centered more on Kramer.

[Viking Kitten]

That show coulda been great..if they'd left out the lame stand-up bits and centered more on Kramer.

Well I guess we can agree to disagree... with my backhand upside your head.

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

'...I said 'oops' upside your head...said 'oops' upside your head...'

[12]

Sorry, but Kramer was the lamest part of the show.

[Scott D]

Well I guess we can agree to disagree... with my backhand upside your head.

Hey, I'm just saying..if the show had been 'Kramer' or 'George' and featured less of Ray Romano's Jewish Twin it woulda been a hit :D

[White House Boy]

Sorry, but Kramer was the lamest part of the show.
Blasphemy.

Kramer's character was physical comedy at it's finest.

[12]

So so. I always thought the writers sold out a little on him. I guess it was the audienced applause whenever he burst through the door...

[White House Boy]

So so. I always thought the writers sold out a little on him. I guess it was the audienced applause whenever he burst through the door...
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It's best to stop while you're ahead.

[White House Boy]

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

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[tbl]

There is no weak point of this show. It's comedic genius and there is nothing more that can be said. No argument can be made to prove otherwise.

[lefty]

but do they have the Big Salad?

My wife cannot make a salad and call it a "big salad" without me going into my George mode. I will never be able to think of a salad the same way again.

[birddog]

"tomatoes the size of volleyballs."