Can’t believe we all let soup Nazi fall so far! Summer of George and Subway were also episodes I was thinking about.
Ditto to the Fire. You took out two of my top ten picks! As a matter of fact, I only have one left. Guess you still have one more pick left before me. Let’s see if my list can survive it.
3rd Round Pick 19 The Strike
Called the strike because it starts with the storyline of Kramer going back to work at H&H Bagels after being on strike for 12 years, this is really the Episode that brought us Festivus.
“I’ve got a lot of problems with you people and now you’re gonna hear about it!”
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Meb with three murderer’s row picks back to back
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Meb took two of my top ten with his picks. Thankfully, I have one more left:
The episode involves Jerry getting in a relationship with an attractive woman with very large hands, bringing the nickname “man hands” into vogue. George uses a picture of a model named Gillian that he claims is his dead fiancee Susan to get into an exclusive club of attractive models while Kramer actually finds himself having a real job for once in his life.
But this is nothing compared to the main plot where Elaine discovered an entire world that stands in contrast to the world she lives in. It’s just…bizarre
So with the 2nd pick in the third round, SuperUber Seinfeld picks…
“The Bizarro Jerry” (Season 8, Episode 3)
The plot is based off of a comic book involving Bizarro Superman which takes place on Bizarro-Earth.
You see the difference in plain view when they meet on the street for the first time with the main three all demanding something from Elaine while the bizarro character (Kevin, Gene, and Feldman) give money to a homeless man.
She enjoys hanging out with the Bizarro version of Jerry, George, and Kramer but she feels out of place and eventually blows it by being no different than the people she no longer wishes to spend time with
SuperUber’s Seinfeld Roster
- The Contest
- The Summer of George
- The Bizarro Jerry
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Chicken Roaster might be my favorite episode 
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Michael Richards’s physical comedy really shines
That clip kills me
Not quite up there with The Subway but it just cracks me up.
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I got a lot of problems with you people, but this pick isn’t one of em!
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@anon92450360 is up
Okay I assume that The Bubble Boy (Season 4, Ep 7) is only still on the board because we have so few people participating, but lettuce remedy that now. I always love it whenever Brian Doyle-Murray pops up basically anywhere, and here he does a masterful job as BB’s father. The waitress in the restaurant is to me one of the most instantly hateable characters of the entire series. Also, we have still to this day never seen the Bubble Boy afaik.
Plot
Jerry, George, Elaine, and George’s girlfriend Susan plan to travel upstate to Susan’s family’s lakeside cabin. In the coffee shop, a kindly man (Brian Doyle-Murray) tells Jerry and Elaine about his son Donald, who lives in a plastic “bubble” which creates a germ-free sterile environment. Because Donald is a fan of Jerry’s, the father petitions Jerry to visit Donald on the way to the cabin to cheer him up.
On the trip, exhilarated by the light traffic and the resulting chance to make excellent time, George drives at top speed, leaving Jerry and Elaine behind. As they were relying on George to guide them, they quickly become lost. While waiting for Jerry to arrive, George and Susan play Trivial Pursuit with the “bubble boy.” Irritated by Donald’s taunting and condescension during the game, George disputes the answer to the question: “Who invaded Spain in the 8th century?” Donald answers “the Moors,” but due to a misprint, the question card says that the answer is “the Moops.” George refuses to give Donald credit, and Donald begins strangling him. When Susan defends George, she punctures and depressurizes the bubble, causing Donald to collapse.
Jerry and Elaine exit the highway and go to a diner. A waitress (O-Lan Jones) there asks for an autographed picture of Jerry, who was mispronounced as “Gary Seinfield.” Jerry does not like what he writes, so he asks for it back. The waitress refuses, and it escalates to the point of the waitress attacking Jerry. A man bursts in and announces that Donald was attacked (by George and Susan), and that his house is right down the street from the cafe. Jerry and Elaine meet up with George and Susan at the house before being chased away by the residents of the town.
Kramer and Naomi (Jerry’s girlfriend, played by Jessica Lundy) attempt to rendezvous with Jerry, Elaine, George, and Susan at Susan’s family’s cabin. Kramer carelessly leaves his lit cigar near some newspapers, which causes a fire that destroys the cabin. The other four travelers arrive shortly after the firefighters.
Namath
- The Opposite
- The Pick
- The Bubble Boy
@suzzer99 is up
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Moops is A+
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I think there are just too many good episodes.
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People talking about a daily Wire rewatch need to get aboard the daily Seinfeld train
It’s almost not fair, I haven’t looked at numbers but would snap assume it’s been the most successful sitcom in syndication of all time. Even today I find myself missing the show on TBS in the evenings.
And unlike Friends, you can delight when it’s offensive
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A May 2014 article published by the LA Times notes that cable networks have been giving advertisements more screen time for several years. In 2013, for instance, networks showed 15 minutes and 38 seconds of commercials per hour of programming. This is up from 14 minutes and 27 seconds of advertising per hour in 2009.
While this increased demand for advertising only affects current shows in terms of length, syndicated programs such as Seinfeld have to be cut, edited or sped up in order to fit these new time constraints. Tech Times notes that the change is especially noticeable in shows from the Seinfeld era which originally aired with an average runtime of around 25 minutes. In contrast, modern sitcoms such as The Big Bang Theory can be as short as 19 minutes.
I mean, there hasn’t been an episode posted yet I wouldn’t rewatch in a second, but the actual correct number one pick is still on the board!
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Oh I know for a fact every time [undrafted] would air, entire lines of dialogue were chopped out. With most shows, they can squeeze more ad time out of the broadcast by shortening the opening theme song. Seinfeld essentially did not have one of those. Once they stopped opening the eps with scenes from Jerry’s standup there was nothing left to cut but the show itself I guess.
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For my 3rd round pick I give you: They’re real and they’re spectacular
Plot:
Jerry dumps his ladyfriend, Sidra (played by Teri Hatcher), after Elaine convinces him that her breasts are probably the result of implants. Kramer claims a man at the health club who introduces himself as “Sal Bass” (played by Tony Amendola) is actually author Salman Rushdie. Later, Elaine and Sidra are in a sauna together, and Elaine accidentally grabs onto Sidra’s breasts to break her fall after tripping. Elaine later goes to Jerry and admits that she now thinks that Sidra’s breasts are real. Jerry decides to take Sidra back. However, Elaine later carelessly enters Jerry’s apartment when Sidra is there, cluing Sidra in to the fact that the two of them are friends; to make matters worse, Kramer soon appears (looking for Elaine) and unintentionally mentions that they used to go out. Thinking he had Elaine deliberately feel her breasts in the sauna, Sidra dumps Jerry and calls him and Elaine “mentally ill”. As she leaves, she then tells him: “And, by the way, they’re real… and they’re spectacular !”
George accompanies his current girlfriend, Betsy (Megan Mullally), to Detroit for her aunt’s wake, hoping to accelerate their relationship by being supportive in the midst of her grief. While there, he tries to get a copy of her death certificate so he can get a 50% discount on the airfare. However, he gets into an argument at the funeral reception with Betsy’s brother, Timmy (Kieran Mulroney), over the social acceptableness of double-dipping a chip. It devolves into a disruptive fist fight, leading an upset Betsy to break up with him. Lacking the death certificate, he shows an airline clerk a picture of him next to the casket, but the clerk does not consider this sufficient proof.
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