A snarky question to answer those who don’t think you can step up to the challenge–your answer here being, in so many words, You might want to stand back.
Elaine happened to overhear Jerry and George hatching a plan to find a woman to flash some cleavage at their TV show boss–to trap him in a “peek-a-boob” moment and hold it against him (because he had just caught George in a similar moment and held it against him). When Elaine didn’t hear her good friends drop her name, she dropped this chest-puffing line.
It’s curtains up every time we walk out our front door: time to perform, to put on a good show–the right face, the right words, the right clothes. Then along comes a doubting Thomas in your workplace or circle of friends who doesn’t believe you’ve got what it takes to pull off a certain something, and you’ve basically one of two options with your next choice of words:
(1) Shrink from their disbelief.
(2) Jolt the audience like you’re Bon frickin’ Jovi popping up out of the stage in the “Lay Your Hands on Me” video.
Elaine’s line let’s your audience know you’re not into shrinkage.
From “The Shoes”
Episode 17, Season 4
Seinfeld Volume 3, Disc 3* (wait for it…waaay at the bottom here)
Timecode for the scene: 16:43
Errata (and Mea Culpa)
This post is unique–less a reposting than a resurrection. Debuting ca. 2011, “asses in seats” was brought down years later for reasons I can only sum up as a strike of conscience…not of my own, mind you. Rather, that of others in certain former circles of mine who take offense at such “language.” (“She said ‘asses’.” And we’re not channeling Beavis and Butthead here.) The preemptive move to assuage others’ stuffy sense and sensibilities was decidedly reactive, in that I just didn’t want to deal with the horseshit–if you catch my, er, drift. The new me shouts bring it, with Gibson-in-Braveheart bravado. In the words of the great philosopher Phil Collins…”I don’t care anymore.” And with words of apology in closing to those deprived of this excellent Sein-line for life while it lay buried under-blog-ground.
*This marks the last time any post here will bear these trappings of the DVD set (which still sit in an esteemed line-of-sight on my family room shelf). In a related story tonight…thanks are extended to Netflix for expediting the world’s access to Seinfeld in HD.
The timecodes will continue, with “+/- a few seconds” implied throughout, in the DVD to TV stream-time conversion there. Should be pretty darn close.
Seinfeld-ism 