Seinfeld - Seasons 1 & 2
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Movie Reviews of Seinfeld - Seasons 1 & 2
Movie Review: Top 10 Reasons Seinfeld Is Funniest Show Ever Made
Summary: 5 Stars
10. The Soup Nazi,("No soup for you. Next!") and Elaine getting his recipes.
9. Krammer being accused of being the Smog Strangler, but being released. ("Hey! The murderer struck again!")
8. George parking in a wheelchair space and the buying the woman a defective wheelchair.
7. Jerry burning down Leaping Larry's Hardware Store, Krammer wrecking the fire engine responding to the fire by driving the rear wheels, and George telling Mr. Peterman's mother his secret code. (Bosco! Bosco! BOSCO!)
6. George's obsession with toilets,taking his shirt off when using the bathroom, Elaine's obsession with exclamation marks and muffin tops, and Krammer building "levels" in his apartment.
5. The low talker, the close talker, Jerry making out during Schindler's List, the Schindler's List parody ("This watch could have been another dinner I could have taken them to!"), and Mr. Pitt's Hitler parody ("And our stock shall rise high!")
4. George being mistaken for a bum ("It was hovering, Jerry"), and being mistaken as being crazy and instatutionalized.
3. George and Jerry being mistaken as being gay("Not that there's anything wrong with that.")
2. George's worlds colliding theory("A George divided against itself cannot stand!") and his obsession with the name "Seven!"
1. The contest("Are you master of your domain?")
TV guide rated this show as the funniest show ever made, and I whole hartedly agree. Absolutely. Just watching the first episode with Jerry washing clothes and George complaining its boring is enough for me! I believe that this is the most intelligent and, well, perfect show out there. I think you'll agree if you've ever seen a minute! I was sad when this show went off the air in 1999, and I wish it could have went on forever. Well, when its released on DVD, (hopefully soon!!) it can. To me it'll hold up for 1000 years, and will never lose its effect. I'm looking forward to, like many other Seinfeld fanatics like myself, to watching Krammer drop in, Festivous for the rest of us, and the multitude of every other second this show has to offer. I just wish Jerry would hurry!!
Movie Review: More Than Just a Comedy Series
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're a T.V. Seinfeld fan you will absolutely love the DVD's. The scenes that were cut to insert commercials by syndicators are restored on the high quality DVD versions. I grew up in the United States and had always liked the series from television. I was married while living/working/studying in China in 2002 and bought the DVD's for my wife on our coming to the United States in 2005. She had never seen Seinfeld before and had never been exposed to this style of humor or the slice of American life that the series presents. We have watched the DVD's over and over again and they never fail to make us laugh and lift our spirits when we've had a bad day. We utilize the closed captioning option and it has been a great help for my wife in acquiring an understanding of casual English usage including slang, and idiom. On a more serious note, owning so many seasons and watching the episodes regularly makes you realize the sad truth that much of American life really is focused on the themes of myopic self-interest presented and ridiculed in this series. I sometimes worry that individuals may actually see the series as a validation of their lack of ethics, morals, and connection with the Creator instead of as a revelation and jabbing at today's inappropriate social dynamics; just as the Archie Bunker/All In the Family series did in the 1970's.
The DVD sets include great special features from "How It Began" to "Making a Seinfeld Episode", deleted scenes, behind the scenes commentary from cast and creators, never-before-seen standup footage of Jerry, original NBC promotional ads and trailers, outtakes and bloopers, and much, much more. It's obvious that a lot of thought and work went into producing the DVD sets and I can't wait until the remaining seasons come out for sale at Amazon. After all; "Who wouldn't love Jerry?"
Contrary to other reviewers' opinions I find that Seasons 1&2 are at least as enjoyable as the later seasons. Episodes included in this set are:
Season 1- The Seinfeld Chronicles, Male Un-bonding, The Stake Out, The Robbery, The Stock Tip.
Season 2 - The Ex-Girlfriend, The Pony Remark, The Busboy, The Baby Shower, The Jacket, The Chinese Restaurant, The Phone Message, The Apartment, The Stranded, The Statue, The Heart Attack, The Revenge, The Deal.
Movie Review: In The Beginning There Was Nothing.
Summary: 5 Stars
Larry David must be a modern day television Midas--though the touch didn't come to him until he was in his 40's. No matter. As the driving creative force behind "Seinfeld", as Seinfeld himself admits, he co-created, executive produced, and wrote or co-wrote the majority of the "Seinfeld" episodes from the pilot through season 7. When he left the show was never the same again. The character of George is based on him. Kramer is based on his former real-life neighbour, and Elaine's relationship with Jerry is based on his relationship with a former girlfriend. Many shows are based on David's, sometimes very odd, real-life experiences. And then he went on to the great "Curb Your Enthusiasm". But that's another review.
Of course, Larry David himself is a very odd individual. The documentary on the making of "Seinfeld" that comes with this set is, when focused on David, as funny as any of the shows themselves and the shows are great. He is an entirely unique individual which is clearly where "Seinfeld" got it's singular sensibilities from. This dvd set comes with about as many "bells and whistles" as any "Seinfeld" fan could hope for. Included is the documentary already mentioned--the best of the lot in my opinion--commentaries, line notes, Seinfeld's stand-up routine from his 1981 debut on Carson, bloopers, deleted scenes, etc...
The shows in these first two seasons are quite leisurely paced. Some fans may prefer the quicker pace that came in the following seasons. Are these two seasons the best of "Seinfeld"? I don't think so. The best was still to come. But what is that saying exactly? "Seinfeld" is the funniest series ever to come to television and if this set doesn't quite match up to the next two that doesn't mean that greatness isn't on these discs. It is. "The Chinese Restaurant" episode especially is a "Seinfeld" classic and took a series that was already delightfully novel even further into uncharted television waters. Some of my other favourite episodes are "The Pony Remark", "The Jacket", "The Heart Attack", and "The Revenge". The simple fact is that every show in this set is funny. Even more, as shown by the huge success of the show in syndication, they are rewatchable funny. Time and again. And that too is unique.
Movie Review: Sell this DVD set at the JERK STORE!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Where to even begin...... Firstly, I think whoever is in charge of making the executive decision to get all 9 beloved seasons on DVD and still has not done so should be deported to India with BaBoo Baut!! Seinfeld is undisputedly the greatest TV series ever made! My entire family adores the show.... my efforts, along with my mother and brother taped every single episode on VHS totalling 18 VHS tapes. I watch 2-3 episodes every night before I go to sleep!!Now... I know what your thinking.... "if he has every episode on VHS, why is he so adimant about getting it put on DVD?!?" Well, I will tell you why!! First, the quality between DVD and VHS is like that of cassette tapes and CD's..... there simply is no comparison. VHS tapes eventually get worn and will not play any longer... the quality has already been substantially reduced from watching them so many times! Second, I have no idea what episode I am about to watch whereas if it was on DVD.... I could go right to whatever show I wanted to see!! And last and most certainly not least.... all of the great extras and bonus material they could put on the DVD collection!!
I have put a lot of thought into this and I would be willing to pay up to [$$$] for all 9 seasons of Seinfeld on DVD.... all 9 seasons... immortalized till the end of time so that all may see the best show ever made!!
Well, I think I have made my point.... get with it you white-collared pencil necks and release the greatest show ever on DVD!! I go into Best Buy and every crappy show on the planet is now on DVD from Malcolm in the Middle to Friends! Every great series is for some reason not being put on DVD?!? I would like to see not only Seinfeld on DVD, but also Curb Your Enthusiasm (every other mediocre show on HBO has been put on DVD),GI Joe complete series (Transformers has been released... what's the deal?!?), and the Spider-Man animated series from the early 90's (Spawn has been released and Spider-Man is popular again.... Serenity NOW!!!!)
Welp... I have said more than enough... if you agree with me... drop me an email to say hi... the seinfeld fanatics and true fans of good comedy need to unite!!
Hooooocchhhiiiieeeeeeee MMMaaaaaammmmmmaaaaaaa!!
Sincerely,
Jon ...
Movie Review: Nothing is Everything (I'm sure someone said that already)
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me get straight to the point, for once. Not counting dvd's, I'm not much of a TV watcher. In fact, I don't think there's a single show on the tube I watch even occasionally. I guess the news is enough of a show to me. Do I sound like a bore? To some, I suppose. However, I am glad I'm not quite boring enough to not recognize the magic of SEINFIELD once it has stuck me in the face. I'd only watched a few episodes several years ago and found it mildly amusing when a friend of mine recently asked me to check it out a tad further. He loaned me the two first seasons. After a couple of episodes, I got addicted; and unlike if it was another show in question, I didn't feel bad about it. On the contrary.
I used the word "magic" to describe the, uh, magic of SEINFIELD, as snappy as I could do. But what is actually the magic of it all? Well, to be honest there is no magic at all. Just a few guys and one gal hanging around and throwing punch-lines at one another. That's the surface of it. If you climb down just a step underneath, however, you'll probably learn quite a few things about yourself. And if you don't, at least you'll recognize your friend. And how you relate to him.
What makes SEINFIELD great to me is that the crisp writing and frank insight into human relations and reactions is excecuted through characters which, while simply constructed, each attribute something unique into the comedy. We may not identify ourselves with the all-around loser George (thank you), but I'd be a liar if I said I've never experienced some of the humiliations he has to suffer. Eccentric Kramer adds the well-adjusted slapstick element between the dialogue, while Elaine provides the feminine touch although she always remains "one of the guys." Jerry Seinfield himself is more of an observer; after all, he is a comedian, and a damn good one at that.
These two first seasons of the show are, of course, somewhat experimental as it had not yet quite established itself. Still, many of the episodes are as hilarious as the later ones. How can anybody sit through THE PHONE MESSAGE, THE RESTURANT or THE REVENGE and not laugh? I don't know. But I know I did laugh. Till it hurt.