Just Manhattanites. People from Brooklyn are OK. ;-)
native Brooklynite. Another Brooklynite:
Posted on 07/02/2014 2:41:32 PM PDT by SMGFan
Twenty-five years ago this Saturday, “Seinfeld” debuted on NBC.
It didn’t do particularly well at first, but it slowly began gathering viewers and then — yada yada yada — it permanently changed the way that we, as New Yorkers, talk.
In honor of those 25 years, here are 25 things that “Seinfeld” added to the popular vernacular over the course of its nine seasons on the air (1989-98).
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Jerry: "I am not interested in buying, I just want to go to other resorts, such as Hilton's Head, SC."
Time Share Salesman: "Please put down $20 that will ensure you are not a no-show to our presentation tomorrow. It will be refunded to you afterwards with a pair of free tickets to Penn & Teller at the Rio."
Jerry: "I just rented a new apartment, I do not have any extra cash. Also, I have already seen Penn & Teller and I do not like them one bit."
Time Share Salesman: "You must come to our presentation. You will not regret it. We will pick you up in a swank limo at 8am and will take you to our resort in which you will be served a cold buffet breakfast that looks like it was sitting out from the night before. Also, we will now offer you tickets to Marie Osmond."
Jerry: "I am swamped with bills – parking space payment, credit cards, new wardrobe, apartment remodel, yadda yadda. Besides, I am not fond of Marie Osmond"
Time Share Salesman: "You will be joined at your cold buffet breakfast by one of our most skilled salesman who will convince you that a time share here in Las Vegas is the way to go. Also, we will instead give you a pair of free tickets to see Garth Brooks"
Jerry: "Las Vegas just does not fit my lifestyle – not enough activities for kids, location is too hot and dry, lack of surrounding activities besides gambling, yadda, yadda. Besides, I hate Garth Brooks. Everything he put out after Ropin' The Wind is crap.
Time Share Salesman: "OK, I agree with you on Garth Brooks. Instead, we will give you a pair of tickets to Cirque du Solei. You will receive the obligatory tour of the resort in a golf cart, driven by one of our top salespeople. We will show you a sample unit that will blow your socks off."
Jerry: "I can not afford it, it is much too far out of my price range. Besides, I am not wearing any socks and didn't even pack any for this trip. As well, seeing a bunch of fairies swing on trapezes does nothing for me. Not that there's anything wrong with that"
Time Share Salesman: "If our highly skilled salesman does not close the deal, we will send you our top closing manager who will cut our prices in half and offer you a deal you cannot refuse. Instead of fairies on trapezes, we shall offer you a pair of tickets to Jersey Boys.
Jerry: "Jersey Boys, now you are talking. However, I am still not interested in your overpriced timeshare. Even if your top closing manager cuts the price in half at the end. However, pick me up at 8 with your swank limo. I'll eat your cold breakfast, listen to your salespeople and ride around on your golf cart. Then I want my $20 back and those Jersey Boy tickets."
Uromyecytisis
The Dingo ate yo baby
Well, I have a fiancée...
I’m so happy they included “these pretzels are making me thirsty” which I loved and which was NOT included in the special quote episode that aired before the finale.
I’d rather be a Marine Biologist...
Whenever I am on a first date, all I can think of is:
Darn, I’m not Keith Hernandez...
Just Manhattanites. People from Brooklyn are OK. ;-)
native Brooklynite. Another Brooklynite:
Jambalaya!
shrinkage.
Oh, and don’t try rolling Crepes with Dominicans...
Park in the handicap spot...
What am I supposed to do with all this paella?!?
Cubans are crepes.
Did you just “double dip”?
“That’s a shame.”
Serenity now
I found those particularly funny since I’ve “played” with those annoying telemarketers much like Jerry did. And I once had a reservation for a rental car but when I went to pick it up, there weren’t any cars available – but then again, that wasn’t all that funny to me at the time – I was really pi$$ed.
One of the funnier episodes that I think was an early one was where they were at a Chinese restaurant waiting for a table. IIRC, the whole episode takes place in the Chinese restaurant – hungry, tired of waiting, worried about missing the movie, trying to decide whether to keep waiting or go somewhere else, debating on where to go and what to eat, rude Chinese guy who didn’t speak very good English…been there, done that…LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnG4ZXklyp4
And there was the one that the entire episode took place in a big mall parking garage and they couldn’t find where they had parked.
And I’m almost embarrassed to say that actually happened to me and some friends, not at a mall parking garage, but at a big intercity parking garage that was in an office building and not open 24-7. After we’d been to seen a play and catch a late dinner, we spent a good hour + walking around, from parking garage floor to floor, sometimes thinking we found the car only to find it was a only a similar looking car, trying to remember the color and number on our ticket which we’d left in the car, someone in our group needing to go to the bathroom but finding that the venue had closed and the parking garage was soon about to close, effectively locking our car in until the next morning and us telling our friend either to hold it in or relieve himself in some corner or that we’d pick him up on the street corner, “if” we could find him “after” we’d finally found the car. LOL!
That’s where I think Seinfeld was at its best – when it took rather mundane everyday situations that many of us have experienced to some degree or another and exaggerated them, but then only slightly.
Oh absolutely. That was the genius of the show — you could relate to all the stupid, embarassing, typical events in some way or another. When something goes awry, my husband and I still joke “hey, this is just like that Seinfeld episode where....” And the way the writers could weave two or three unrelated storylines together to “meet” at the end was amazing. I know it was a hugely liberal show, but it was definitely one of the best ever written IMO, along with M*A*S*H and (to a lesser degree) Frasier.
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