# New things you notice in Seinfeld **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445 "2007-02-01T19:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/121 "2009-08-28T22:20:46Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Jerry: Brains? Newman, you wouldn’t eat brains if it was deep-fried in chocolate sauce! > Newman: I love brains. They’re…good for you. > Jerry: Then maybe you’d like to try a piece? > Newman: Gladly. [chews brains, then spits it out] VILE OFFAL! It wasn’t brains, it was broccoli. Kathy Griffin appears a few times as Susan Ross’s old college roommate. She brings Jerry an unfunny bottle of BBQ sauce and ruins his interview with Charles Grodin ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/122 "2009-08-29T05:28:05Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Jerry: Brains? Newman, you wouldn’t eat brains if it was deep-fried in chocolate sauce! > Newman: I love brains. They’re…good for you. > Jerry: Then maybe you’d like to try a piece? > Newman: Gladly. [chews brains, then spits it out] VILE OFFAL! > [@YogSosoth](#): > > It wasn’t brains, it was broccoli. Whoosh! **Elendil’s Heir** had revived a zombie thread in post #92. **Archive Guy** was going along with the zombie theme. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/123 "2009-08-29T06:53:17Z")
Color me whooshed! ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/124 "2009-08-29T18:56:29Z")
One thing I never noticed until the show was in reruns is the tremendous number of cereal boxes that Jerry keeps on that shelf in the kitchen. There must be at least 10-12 boxes there. Even a large family would not have that many boxes of cereal at once, much less a single man. ---
**Author:** ![paddywaggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@paddywaggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paddywaggy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/125 "2017-06-01T20:38:57Z")
Just found this through google Great to read and think about where some of those actors are now/stories/seinfeld in genral ---
**Author:** ![paddywaggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@paddywaggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paddywaggy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/126 "2017-06-01T20:40:00Z")
> [@Jayrot](#): > > When it was originally running, I was a HUUGE Seinfeld fan. Taped them all off the TV and watched them over and over and over. Well after the series ended I got a little burned out and moved on to my other television obsessions (Simpsons, Futurama, Red Dwarf, Curb, etc.) > > Well I’ve now acquired the complete set of Seinfeld eps. in a different format and have been watching and loving them all over again. Since it’s now been several years later, I notice a lot of things I didn’t notice the first time around. One such example are the various Larry David sightings. Now becoming so much more familiar with him from watching Curb YE, I notice that he’s all over the place in Seinfeld, whether it’s the voice of the car thief on the car phone, the store clerk who won’t accept the $20 bill with pink lips, or the mysterious man in the cape. > > Yeah sure in this day and age you can just read the wikipedia article for [every documented appearance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_David#Larry_David.27s_appearances_on_Seinfeld), but I feel a little good about noticing these things myself without any prompting. > > Any little stuff you’ve noticed the second, third, or 50th time around? Doesn’t have to be just jokes or appearances. Anything! > > Another one: > (while going through security at the airport) “Ladies and gentleman…I implore you.” We’ve come a long way since then, huh? > [@Tamex](#): > > One thing I never noticed until the show was in reruns is the tremendous number of cereal boxes that Jerry keeps on that shelf in the kitchen. There must be at least 10-12 boxes there. Even a large family would not have that many boxes of cereal at once, much less a single man. Jerry loves cereal ---
**Author:** ![paddywaggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@paddywaggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paddywaggy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/127 "2017-06-01T20:41:00Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > It wasn’t brains, it was broccoli. > > Kathy Griffin appears a few times as Susan Ross’s old college roommate. She brings Jerry an unfunny bottle of BBQ sauce and ruins his interview with Charles Grodin Kathy griffin just did a photo shoot holding donald trumps severed head ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/128 "2017-06-01T21:34:13Z")
Peter Stormare was in the episode about stealing the Frogger game. He was Steve Buscemi’s sidekick in ‘Fargo’ (the movie). One thing I noticed in one of the episodes was the moving glass of wine. It’s a heavily edited scene, and the wine glass keeps jumping around on the counter and changing liquid levels. Aaaaand shit, it’s a zombie. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/129 "2017-06-01T22:48:14Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > Tim DeKay AKA Bizarro Jerry was “Jonesy” on Carnivale. Cotton Hill (from King of the Hill) was played by Toby Huss, who was also on Carnivale, but was the character who ran the Cootchie show. Toby Huss was on an episode of Seinfeld, though: he was the boyfriend who fascinated Elaine but she couldn’t figure out why (later she finds out it’s because he was in a bunch of “Nobody beats The Wiz!” commercials). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/130 "2017-06-02T04:43:30Z")
This is the kind of zombie I love. Fun to relive a show that holds up. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/131 "2017-06-02T07:17:57Z")
Both Wendie Malick and Lisa Edelstein were in _ **Frasier** _, Wendie as Ronnie, the lounge singer who eventually married Martin, and Lisa as Frasier’s freaky hippie-artist-nymphomaniac girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/132 "2017-06-02T10:25:50Z")
It took me a while to realize that the venture capitalist Laurie Bream on “Silicon Valley” is played by the same actress as the “yada yada yada” woman from “Seinfeld” (Suzanne Cryer). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/133 "2017-06-02T11:22:58Z")
Just last month, I idly wondered, _hey, the actress who played Man Hands – whatever happened to her?_ Was stunned to find out she’s Maleficent on **Once Upon A Time**. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/134 "2017-06-02T12:43:24Z")
> [@digs](#): > > This is the kind of zombie I love. Fun to relive a show that holds up. But it can get weird. Before I realized it was a zombie, I read this: > [@Rodgers01](#): > > Speaking of “Seinfeld” extras who went on to become famous in other things, the episode with Tim Watley, the re-gifting dentist who later became Malcom’s dad, is on TV behind me… …and thought, “Yeah, he also has that little role in _Breaking Bad_…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/135 "2017-06-02T12:44:36Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > It took me a while to realize that the venture capitalist Laurie Bream on “Silicon Valley” is played by the same actress as the “yada yada yada” woman from “Seinfeld” (Suzanne Cryer). Pay attention to the credits for _Silicon Valley_. You’ll see a certain very “John Houseman name”. We watched the whole run of the series a while ago. The multiple changes to Jerry’s apartment at the beginning are quite noticeable. I also wonder how Kramer hadn’t left the building in 10 years and still had all the adventures that are later alluded to in that time span. And since he moved into Paul Buchman’s apartment fairly recently at the start of the show, where was he living in the building before that? Roomies with Newman? Oh, and it’s clear the “Kramer” actor really did steal the raisins. Jerk. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/136 "2017-06-02T12:57:57Z")
And Brian George, who played Babu Bhatt (restaurant owner who got deported), now plays Raj’s father on _The Big Bang Theory._ ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/137 "2017-06-02T14:03:38Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > Tim DeKay AKA Bizarro Jerry was “Jonesy” on Carnivale. Cotton Hill (from King of the Hill) was played by Toby Huss, who was also on Carnivale, but was the character who ran the Cootchie show. A while back when I saw a rerun of the Bizarro Jerry episode, I noticed for the first time that he has a Bizarro Superman in his apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/138 "2017-06-02T16:56:30Z")
Recently had the episode “[The Masseuse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masseuse_(Seinfeld))” running in the background when I noticed Elaine suggesting new names for her boyfriend, who shared a name with serial killer Joel Rifkin. Increasingly desperate to ditch the tainted name of a serial killer, Elaine picks “O.J.” out of a sports magazine. I had to look it up: The episode aired **November 18, 1993**. On **June 12, 1994** , Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found stabbed to death. Pretty freaky. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/139 "2017-06-02T17:16:01Z")
This is more of a ‘changing times’ type of thing, but… A few weeks back, I happened to catch the episode in which Jerry, who’s agreed to be part of a date auction that Elaine is MC-ing, gets a [horrible haircut](http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc9jad1Wyi1qdy21r.jpg) that everybody makes fun of; Elaine says it makes him look like a little boy. I couldn’t help thinking it was actually pretty on point for fashionable men’s hairstyles in 2017 – pronounced part in the hair and all. If he’d gotten that haircut today, he’d be right in style. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445/140 "2017-06-02T17:20:45Z")
I was watching “The Deal” online the other night, and thought Elaine’s roommate Tina looked familar. I just Googled her and see she has a long filmography. The only other role I immediately recognized, however, was the school bus driver in _ **Forrest Gump** _. > **[Siobhan Fallon Hogan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siobhan_Fallon_Hogan)** > > Siobhan Fallon Hogan (pronounced /ʃəˈvɑːn/ shə-VAHN, born May 13, 1961) is an American actress and comedian. She has appeared in films such as Men in Black, Forrest Gump, The Negotiator, Holes, Daddy Day Care, Going in Style, and The House That Jack Built. > Fallon was born in Syracuse, New York, United States, the daughter of Jane (née Eagan) and William J. Fallon, an attorney. She was raised Catholic, and is of Irish descent. She graduated from Le Moyne College in 1983 and then two years later, ... For a long time, I thought the bus driver was plaved by Svetlana Kirilenko from _ **The Sopranos** _, sporting a Southern accent instead of a Russian one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-things-you-notice-in-seinfeld/390445.md?page=8)