For some reason, I never get sick of watching this show, though I’ve probably seen every episode about a million times. There are still things I notice to laugh at - throwaway lines, mostly - that I missed the first hundred times around. Like this exchange between Jerry and Kramer (which there was no audience laughter for):
Kramer: Smokers are people too, Jerry.
Jerry: They are?
I find the first two seasons a little weird and not so funny at this point, but all the later seasons are gold, Jerry! There are all sorts of absurd jokes that weren’t at all common on network sitcoms at the time. A couple favorites I can come up with off the top of my head:
Susan: I’m not an egg, George.
George: And I am not a piece of toast.
Puddy: Yeah, Koko! That chimp’s all right! High five.
(from the same episode)
Puddy (to Elaine): I’m not stupid. I’ll tell you who’s stupid: you are, stupid!
Elaine: All right. David…
Puddy: You’re the grease monkey!
Elaine: That doesn’t even make any sense.
Jerry: Have you come across this phenomenon before?
George: I have. She’s a two-face.
Jerry: Like the Batman villain?
George: If that helps you.
Newman: You’re once…twice…three times a -
(mail truck bursts into flames)
…Aaaahhhh!
I had to look it up to get the exacts. This constantly cracks me up. Even if I just think it.
Jerry: Ah, you’re crazy.
Cosmo Kramer: Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
Jerry: It’s impossible.
Cosmo Kramer: Is it? Or is it so possible that your head is spinning like a top?
Jerry: It can’t be.
Cosmo Kramer: Can’t it? Or is your entire world just crashing down all around you?
Jerry: All right, that’s enough.
Kramer: Yeaaaah!
I always liked the ending to the episode entitled, “The Marine Biologist”, how as George is telling the story about the beached whale, it encompassed the Titleist golf balls that Kramer had been driving into the ocean. At its best, the show would have each of the four principal characters involved in separate adventures, and then somehow tie everything together at the end.
