This episode of Seinfeld is awesome!

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I've never seen it - it's the limo episode in which george is mistaken for O'Brien, the head of the midwest Aryan nation.

[flamingyouth]

1. Oh, I love that episode!!!

I'll have to watch it tonight when it's on in my time zone. Thanks for the heads up. :D

[Archae]

2. Seinfeld is crap.

It never was even margianlly funny, and ended with a collective thud.

[progmom]

4. bah humbug nt

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5. No, it was consistently brilliant!

But I think you also need to be a younger person to get it. It's really designed for its generation, and for those of this generation who have lived in NYC or other large city, and have a lot of Jewish knowledge.

If you don't have those, I don't think you'll ever "get" Seinfeld!

[sendero]

6. Oh come on....

.... I'm pushing 50 hard and I love Seinfeld. Not every episode was great, and Jerry's silly mugging was off-putting at times, but overall Seinfeld deserves it's place in the top 5 sitcoms of all times.

I don't think anyone's inability to "get it" can be blamed on age :)

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11. Whoops! sorry to you and Muserider! I didn't mean to imply

that older people couldn't get it. I meant to say that older people, in general, probably didn't get it - but of course, those older people who are smart, and are worldly, certainly can get it.

Apologies, since I wasn't clear on that, and my post really did imply that anyone older than Seinfeld wouldn't get it at all.

Damn!! You offer the corrective that sometimes I am not as clear and precise as I think I am.

[1monster]

12. Ahem! Did you just suggest that pushing fifty means that one is an

"older" person?

Surely, you misspoke or I have misunderstood your meaning. I'll be eligible for the Red Hat and Purple Dress in just under thirteen months and I don't consider myself an "older" person at all. In fact, I can't wait till my twelve year old kid leaves the nest so that I can figure out what I want to be when I grow up and go back to school to make it happen. So there! :P

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18. Not "older" (that is, in quotes) but older

Meaning, older than the generation contemporaneous with Seinfeld himself. Seinfeld is my generation. And since I'd mentioned the generational importance of Seinfeld, I wanted to differentiate between Seinfeld's generation and the generations older than Seinfeld.

Sorry! :P

[MuseRider]

7. No I am way over

that age and I thought it was fabulous. I have to admit I never watched it when it was new and fresh but my kids introduced me to it when it started up in syndication and I love it. Small city girl but my husband is Jewish so maybe that helps.

[HeyManThatsCool]

16. My grandfather is 84

and Seinfeld is his favorite show ever.
It's great that it is on so much every day so that he can watch it.
It totally cracks him up

[blue sky at night]

14. i bow to your superior knowledge about comedy........

could you give me a few examples of shows that were better than or at least marginally funny?? I don't want to sound like a dick, but you sure are.....I don't watch much TV, but I do enjoy Seinfeld; I am not saying it means anything or is the greatest, but it has shown the test of time. I was just wondering... and by the way,funny may just be subjective. Blanket statements are marginally stupid, IN MY OPINION.

[Archae]

15. Easy answer:

MASH (until Radar left)

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21. I know this might sound strange........

I agree...it was awesome, but worn out man. Seinfeld at least gets us up to the last decade. Give a current example.....I guess Everyone Loves Raymond, and few others are good, but like Mash it is going to be over the long haul.

[njdemocrat106]

25. Not even marginally funny?

How come I still laugh hysterically at episodes I've seen a few million times? Seinfeld is one-of-a-kind, and it is genius.

[Catch22Dem]

3. Great episode...

Kramer: "I bet Jerry's with the 'company'" HAHAHA

[B Calm]

8. It was the first time I seen this one. I thought it was funny..

[B Calm]

9. It was the first time I seen this one. I thought it was funny..

[Skink]

10. She's a Nazi George!!!

Kind of a cute Nazi.

[Sporadicus]

13. I've Only Seen That Episode Once

I've read since that one of the Nazis is Peter Krause, who plays Nate Fisher in 'Six Feet Under.' I regret missing it tonight.

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17. Seinfeld is much more than a sitcom.

IMO, Seinfeld meets all the criteria for great art: it offered honest, unapologetic, relevant socio-political critique, and did so in a very unique and brilliant fashion. It embodied the 90's: the decade about nothing that was really about something; the "" decade.

Ultimately, Seinfeld is about people.. about society - from the perspective of self absorbed, self-centered NY yuppies.

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19. Excellently said!

:yourock:

[Archae]

20. Yeah right.

Seinfeld's own comment about the show:

"It's a show about nothing."

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22. Just like Kurt Cobain said his music was about nothing

Everything in the 90s was like that: a jaded, elitist "been there done that" facade hiding an idealistic, immature, vulnerable core.

It's not that Seinfeld has any overt political statement to make; rather, it's more that he himself is the statement.

[Lexingtonian]

26. kinda true

It isn't about the past in any obvious way, but indirectly it does feature a lot of Old World Jewish cultural typology that has been vanishing from distinctiveness in New York. Played out against each other in the form of the characters, of course. In that way it's beautiful, really.

I shouldn't get too technical about it. But when Seinfeld himself called it 'a show about nothing', he was saying that it wasn't about factual things- it was about imagination and hope and awaiting, about lives not forced in some direction by tragedy.

[kayleybeth]

23. Great episode!

It's one of very few Seinfeld episodes that I haven't seen a million times.

[mitchum]

24. It's my favorite episode (and I was thinking about it last night)

Another example of Larry David's genius: Take the formulaic sitcom set-up of a mix-up and subvert it by adding neo-nazis. Lucy and Ethel, eat your hearts out.