*Bob* Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 When am I supposed to laugh? Or is an occasional wry smile all I should hope for?Please help. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 When am I supposed to laugh?1993. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Just before the nasty slap bass riffs Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 *wry smile* Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 If it's good enough for HonaloochieB then by god it's good enough for you, you brazen pup youfor 15 years I didn't get seinfeld - resented it in fact. But it is most definitely geniusIt's not the plots or the "jokes" - it's the internal workings of the characters. The trappings of the era (slap bass and all) can grate but more often add to the charm. And no, his dress sense doesn't get any better Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
misscarmelite Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 yes i agree , genius. You have to watch them in order let the plots and jokes build up and then it emerges as a piece of triumphant and quite brilliant comedy. "the sea was rough that day my friends" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 Oh god.. please don't start quoting from Seinfeld. People quoting jubilantly from Seinfeld has put nearly as many people off Seinfeld as, well, the show itself. Realistically, how much of it do you have to force yourself to watch before you can expect some sort of a return? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie1997 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 StraferJack Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> If it's good enough for HonaloochieB then by god> it's good enough for you, you brazen pup you> It's not the plots or the "jokes" - it's the> internal workings of the characters. The trappings> of the era (slap bass and all) can grate but more> often add to the charm. And no, his dress sense> doesn't get any betterThis!George Costanza (the character) makes me laugh the most. Also the mail man... Kramer can be irritating! What about Curb your enthusiasm *Bob*? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 Ah yes, Kramer. The Jar Jar Binks of comedy. I'm down with Curb - and virtually everything else that should (by rights) put me in the Seinfeld backslapping club. Oh, apart from Frasier. Which wasn't funny either. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 What have you watched so far Bob? I would say don't judge it on the pilot or first few episodes give it a bit of time and it'll eat away at your funny bone. You'll be crying by the final episodes. Nancy Sinatra is supposed to have missed the passing of her father as she was away from his bedside watching the final episode. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie1997 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 I don't get Frasier either... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireClaire Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Maybe it is a cultural thing. I never got "The office", I am ashamed to say. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 I've seen a smattering of episodes, which (whilst admittedly might not be the best way to see things) simply left me feeling irritated. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie1997 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Oh *Bob* and you thought it was bad when people simply quoted from the series on here ...Now all Seinfeld afficionados will be posting links to the "funniest" clips (eg soup episode or in my case, anything and everything to do with George) ! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Bob - if you didn't find Frasier funny you may have to just give up and admit that you'd be better off just watching Two Pints of Lager.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Try The Larry Sanders Show instead. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 david_carnell Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Bob - if you didn't find Frasier funny you may> have to just give up and admit that you'd be> better off just watching Two Pints of Lager....Believe me, it was a relief not to find Frasier funny, having seen the average Frasier fan, banging on about 'the script' and screaming with theatrical laughter at the slightly mildly risible occurrence. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atticus Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Larry Sanders is probably the funniest yet and yet, if you only opt in to just a few episodes, you'll probably and understandably fail to grasp the joke. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 Is it because the comedy is just so sophisticated that it takes at least four or five hours of it before mere mortal brains manage to distill what they can into the semblance of a laugh? I suppose it must be.That's what they say anyway. And boy do they love to say it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 For gods? sake man get a job, or a drug habit or something but lay off this Ice Station Seinfeld business it?s not good for you. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 There's a story arc, usually one in an episode and several over a series. Yes it's a bit more sophisticated than your average sitcom but that's part of the joy. Forgive us for intellectualising (sp?!) comedy or should we have a Pol Pot style attitude towards it? ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 I don't know what the definition of 'unemployable' is, but I'm probably quite close to it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 I vote Yes to Pot. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atticus Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Not at all Bob, just a bit of development in each character episode by episode allows you to gradually become in on the joke. There is nothing intellectually superior about this at all. It's just a little more subtle and requires patience and time, not brains. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Bit like the subtle charater development in thisYou can laugh now Bob. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17069-seinfeld-can-someone-help-me-out/#findComment-432613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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