Does anyone know if “Newman” has a first name? Im in a heated debate with my friend. Please let me know and how you know!!
Try google with “newman’s first name” and you get a variety of answers.
IDMB.com lists him simply as “Newman”
Seems to me that we once saw his USPS business card. It said simply “NEWMAN.”
FWIW, his USPS business card says only “Newman”. We see it in the episode where he confiscates some boudoir photos of George, taken by Kramer as an enticement to the female photomat clerk George has been flirting with.
Great minds think alike, eh, Scarlett67 
I guess they do…Jerry…
Great minds think SO much alike that this frickin’ episode was on LAST NIGHT!
I’d never seen the business card before you mentioned it. And voila - I saw the episode yesterday.
:: cue freaky music ::
I’ve noticed that “Seinfeld synchronicity” – we’ll be laughing about some gag or other from the show, and that night IT’LL BE ON.
Freaky indeed.
Scarlett, great mind
Scarlett67…
I’ve noticed the same phenomenon myself, only with the Simpsons. Then again, the reruns are on 4 times a day, so what are the odds?
What if Newman’s first name is Jerry? Therefore, everyone always called him “Newman” to avoid confusion with the other, more popular Jerry. It would also make Newman Jerry’s Jungian shadow self. As opposed to his Bizarro self.
Now watch as “The Bizarro Jerry” surfaces tonight.
I have a question.
Was the show filmed before a live audience? The laughter sounds canned to me but a friend insists that the laughter is live from a studio audience.
Yes, it was filmed before a live audience. I’ve seen footage of the filming of the final show, and the four main actors are taking a bow. You wouldn’t really take a bow if there wasn’t an audience to bow to, would you? (Well, you could bow to the crew, but why?)
Also this, from a website regarding visiting Southern California, seeing-stars.com:
Yes it was live audience
But doesn’t the laughter sound fake? Maybe they had a live audience and still used canned laughter.
Naw, that one was on a couple of days ago.
I believe it’s a common practice for shows to “sweeten”:rolleyes: live audience responses with laugh tracks.
Also, the laughter seems to sound more “juiced” during the outdoor/street shots, of which Seinfeld has more than most shows. There’s likely no audience for those, but they may show these segments on video to a live audience and then tape their responses.
Have you ever noticed how George’s red telephone doesn’t have a cord, but isn’t cordless phone? I just noticed this last week.