So you think that Kramer is more believable then George? 
George: Serenity now!!!
I don’t know about believeable, but George is by far the least funny character on TV, played by the least talented actor, a man who has the talent to ruin anything he touches. He was the reason I quit watching Seinfeld early on and whenever I happen to catch an episode and see George I want to kick his teeth down his throat.
That’s pretty harsh criticism there, RealityChuck. I think Jason Alexander is not a bad actor and I think he played George quite well. I’m not sure why you hate him so. Elaine/Julia Louis-Dreyfus always annoyed the hell out of me. My least favorite character.
George: Kramer at a fantasy camp? His whole life is a fantasy camp. He doesn’t work, goes to bed with beautiful woman, and falls ass-backward in money. People should pay $1,500 to live like him for a week.
George: Unbelievable. I drive them to lesbianism and Kramer brings them back.
It’s hard to say ‘least believable’ when you have witches, aliens, talking horses and sentient cars to choose from. He tended to be a little over the top – as they all were, as the series aged.
You want to see the real Costanza? Watch “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on HBO.
It’s a half hour of George. Albeit a rich, successful, Hollywood George, but it’s still George.
I think the line was “He doesn’t work, has sex without dating, and falls ass-backward into money,” which is arguably much better than simply bedding beautiful women (if you have to date them).
On the pilot for “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Jason Alexander said that once during the filming of Seinfeld he said regarding his character , “This is ridiculous, no one would EVER act this way in this situation.” Larry David, on whom the character was based, said, “Well, actually that situation DID happen to me and that’s exactly how I acted.”
That is something that really bothers me-when the adorable kids look nothing like their tv parents though in Ray’s defence his real life daughter has blond hair. The children on the show are actually real life siblings so maybe that played a part in casting the blond boys.
Someone once asked Jerry Seinfeld about George’s women in an interview and he said something like, “You don’t dissect the frog to see how it jumps!”
I find George hilarious and completely believable in an oversize kind of way. Kramer is 100 times less believable (and, IMHO, not as funny either).
Seinfeld will go down in history as the most perfectly cast program ever. They’re all believeable to me. I’ve known Georges and Kramers (and Elaines) in my life. In fact, the least believable would be Jerry himself. His friends are way too weird for him to be that tight with in real life (except I think his friends really ARE like that…but most of us wouldn’t go there.)
I’ve found that attractive women don’t have particularly higher standards than unattractive women, and George is not exactly unattractive…balding, a little overweight, but I’d say his facial features are more attractive than mine and I’ve got a few hot women over the years, and I’m overweight and balding too. I’ve also known some really unattractive men with really high standards who somehow manage to always have attractive girlfriends. I don’t find that element of George unrealistic at all.
As far as the unbelievability of a character in a sitcom like George Costanza getting babes goes, it isn’t any more unbelieveable than louts like that guy in the “King of Queens” getting Leah Remini, or the untalented Jim Belushi getting Courtney Thorne-Smith in “According to Jim”, or the aforementioned Drew Carey. It is in fact a standard rule of sitcoms that male characters, no matter how ugly, can regularly date and marry hot chicks who are way out of their league. Even that Urkel dude was chased - CHASED - by a babe, the dearly departed Michelle Thomas.
Actually, I think Jason Alexander is a pretty good actor. I just saw him in a bit part in Jacob’s Ladder and he was so unlike George Costanza that it was amusing.
My favorite Costanza quote, and the one I use frequently is, "Why is what I do so important? Why must I always be the focal point of attention? Let me just be. Let me live. "
Or the time he came out of the bathroom trying to tell Kramer that Jerry’s number was “Vandalay Industries” and his pants were around his ankles. Jerry comes in, sees George on the floor, and says, “And you want to be my latex salesman.”
George: I happen to dress based on mood.
Jerry: But you essentially wear the same thing all the time.
George: Seemingly, but within that basic framework there are many subtle variations only discernible to an acute observer that reflect the many moods, the many shades, the many sides of George Costanza.
Jerry: And what mood is this?
George: This is morning mist.
One thing about George that makes him unbelievable -and it goes for the other characters in Sienfeld as well -is that he can be devious and merciless in one episode and numb-skulled and anxious in the next. The characters who worried about trivial niceties also shrug their shoulders at death and laugh while somebody is getting mugged -including Kramer, who is painted as some sort of Dudley Do-Right in most eps.
Well his poor-man’s Woody Allen schtick was annoying from the get-go and got worse as time went on.
As far as acting, he was absolutely terrible in “Bye Bye Birdie,” and the less said about “Bob Patterson,” the better. He is incapably of delivering a line except in a smug and whiney tone that makes you want to smash his ugly little face.
There are more talented slime molds. Ed Wood’s chiropractor has more range. He’s about as funny as a rotting corpse.
There are more obnoxious actors, of course (Tom Green, Carrot Top, etc.), but few have his talent to ruin anything he touches.
I think her name is Heidi Swedeberg (sp?). She also played the mother of the kid with “smallpox” in last season’s ER finale.
God I can remember the most useless crap… :rolleyes:
The fact that Alexander was able to breath life into such a broadly drawn character is a credit to his ability as an actor.
Elaine is a far less believable. I have yet to see a woman in real life who lives with a fill light constantly shining in her face to conceal her age.