“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.”

“If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.”

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“It’s a Festivus miracle!”

A yuletide observation for making something down-to-earth sound out-of-this-world. Not because it's actually miraculous (it might even be ridiculous) but because 'tis the season. On hearing that George's father, Frank, had invented a holiday alternative for those on the outs with Christmas--a "Festivus for the rest of us"--Kramer was in. When an unlikely host of… Continue reading “It’s a Festivus miracle!”

“…there’s not enough voltage in this world to electroshock me back into coherence!”

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“Something’s missing alright.”

An under-the-breath observation to make when confronted with someone who doesn’t understand why the pieces of the puzzle before them don’t fit. But you understand. When George’s parents joined him and his fiancee, Susan Ross, for dinner with Susan’s parents, the cornish game hen they were eating set Mr. Costanza to pondering aloud which bird—the… Continue reading “Something’s missing alright.”