(a note to readers and newcomers) You know the episode. Kramer and Newman reverse the peepholes on their apartment doors so they can, in the K-man's words, "see if anyone is waiting to jack us with a sock full of pennies!"* It's Kramer's reply to Jerry's reaction to this hilarious home improvement though, here above,… Continue reading “You know, if someone wants to help themselves to an eyeful, well, we say, ‘Enjoy the show.'”
Tag: Frank Costanza
“Oh…let him kill me. I won’t have to do any more sit-ups.”
(a note to readers before you read on to more Seinfeld-isms below) It was cut from the episode, the above Costanza line, before "The Busboy" aired. (Turn on the "Notes About Nothing" function while watching any Seinfeld episode on DVD to get such priceless trivia.) George inadvertently played a hand in the kneejerk firing of a waiter… Continue reading “Oh…let him kill me. I won’t have to do any more sit-ups.”
“I don’t know what your parents did to you.”
(another Seinfeld-in-culture note to readers before you read on to more Seinfeld-isms below) Elaine delivered the above line into George's neurotic implosion over a date gone wrong ("She wants me to like her, if she likes me. But she doesn't like me!"). Parents magazine delivered a Seinfeld line in a sidebar story in their August issue (p. 116) for… Continue reading “I don’t know what your parents did to you.”
“I’m gonna read a book. From beginning to end. In that order.”
(another Seinfeld-in-culture note to readers before you read on to more Seinfeld-isms below) It was one of George's aims, the above comment, in the "summer of George." We're not exactly sure where George stood when it came to books. In one episode, he was collecting them like an avid reader. In another, he was foregoing a… Continue reading “I’m gonna read a book. From beginning to end. In that order.”
“Chinese food!”
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“You ask me to get a pair of underwear, I’m back in two seconds.”
A snappy observation to use when someone you know is asked to do something, and they could be moving a little quicker. They could use a little motivation. So you decide to give them some. Setting up his son George with a job interview with a bra salesman, Frank Costanza told him that he should know… Continue reading “You ask me to get a pair of underwear, I’m back in two seconds.”
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