Jay 37,373 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Once you get past seasons 1 and 2 its pretty gold from 3-7. Some people don't like 8-9 as much (Larry David left as a writer after the 7 finale but he stayed on to voice Stennbreiner), but I think it was still very good all the way to the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I like Seinfeld a lot, but I did get a little tired of the Cult of Seinfeld, if you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 It's quite cute when George complains about having to wait for a guy to get off the payphone so that he can make an urgent call. Or when he devises a plan to swap the tapes in a date's answering machine so that she can't listen to his embarrassing messages. 1991 feels like an alternate universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Yea lots of 90s sitcoms have plots that wouldn't work in the modern world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Why do people put down Seasons 1 and 2? They're my favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Jerry, if you haven't noticed yet, your personal opinions are different from the majority of the world about 95% of the time Holko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 But I still don't get why people rag on them. They're great! Just simple little funny stories, without all the convoluted conveniences of the later seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I am most certainly not the master of my domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,722 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 1 minute ago, Disco Stu said: I like Seinfeld a lot, but I did get a little tired of the Cult of Seinfeld, if you know what I mean. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 I have never ragged on them. Simply said I think 3-7 are better. I enjoy all 9 seasons a lot, personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I'm uh, just watching... TinyToons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 3rd Rock is the best 90s sitcom anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Season 2 has been worth watching, I've enjoyed it. The short first season didn't work for me though, it was a bit empty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 They were still finding their feet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Yeah, it's fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Heh the backwards blindfold greeting. That wasn't in the manual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,722 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I think it’s the funniest, most rewatchable half hour comedy ever. Followed by Curb. But comedy’s such a subjective thing. I can’t stand most sit coms but get that other people find them hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I love the canned laughter. How come they don't use that much anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Is it canned? I can't keep up with which shows use 100% canned laughs, which ones are 100% actual studio audience, and which ones are actual studio audience but "augmented" with canned laughs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,222 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I started at Season 4 when I first watched Seinfeld (excluding the occasional glimpse of those late night BBC2 broadcasts in the 90s). It was very good from there onwards, though I can't remember exactly how far I got (it would have been at least to the end of Season 7, and definitely not as far as Season 9). A friend lent me the boxed set of Seasons 1-3 afterwards and I struggled to find anything of interest in them by comparison with the later seasons; I didn't bother to watch them all. I skipped to an episode called (I think) The Pen which was particularly recommended, but even it did nothing for me. There was a real jump in quality going into the fourth season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Seinfeld was filmed in front of a live studio audience, but there are obviously sections pre-recorded that would be shown on monitors to the audience (montages, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Astronaut... hehehe... astronaut...! STELLLLAAAAA!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 That's similar to what they did with Alan Partridge, they just showed video to a room full of people and recorded the laughing. That's not a sitcom though. The laughter during Seinfeld's standup scenes really grates on me though, as it's so obviously forced and OTT. People are in absolute hysterics over his mildly amusing observations, it's just completely fake. Edit - WTF just happened? This was a reply to Jason's now deleted post about audience laughter on Seinfeld. But it's also deleted my reply to Disco Stu in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,722 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 At some point they mostly stop with the stand up bits at the beginning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 What happened to Jason's post about studio audience on Seinfeld though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 5 minutes ago, Nick1066 said: At some point they mostly stop with the stand up bits at the beginning. During seasons 4-5 they started doing it less and less, and eventually stop doing it entirely in either 6 or 7. It's definitely entirely absent from all of 8 and 9 until the Finale episode brought it back one last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,222 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 3 minutes ago, Quintus said: What happened to Jason's post about studio audience on Seinfeld though? It's vanished for me, too. But then I opened the thread in an incognito window and it's still there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 A weird bug? Or moderator tempering? Hmmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 It's obvious why he deleted it. Eh and now it's back again but out of sequence??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 I see nothing missing or out of sequence Wikipedia says the Parking Garage episode is the first episode shot without a live audience, logical since they shot the entire episode in a real parking garage. There isn't too much real location shooting on the show though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 How come you deleted it though? I knew shenanigans were afoot, because it kept merging my Alan Partridge followup reply with my own previous post, I just couldn't work out what was going wrong at the time. I tried 3 times to make it an actual individual post reply to yours but it kept merging it, making it 3 repeated paragraphs of the same thing instead. It was only when I actually refreshed the page to try resolving the problem that way that I eventually noticed your post had been removed! But now you have restored it I see... Plus you have now moved it back into correct sequence I see... Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 A surprising amount of its exteriors were shot in LA. The NY street sets were impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 I just went to check something and got distracted. No big deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Don't worry, I know exactly what was happening. LOL But tbh, I can't be arsed with mods messing with/abusing admin tools when I'm actually trying to have an active conversation with them. It's confusing and actually a waste of my time. So please don't do that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 These posts change! Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 My missus has been into Orange is the New Black lately (it's totally watchable btw) and holy shit imagine my surprise when I suddenly realised a big rough arsed prisoner with spiky red hair and a bruised eye, who was strangely familiar to me but I didn't know why, was fuckin' Janeway from Voyager! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Mmmh. Apart from the odd funny/inspired moment here and there, this satiric rendering of the Rupert Murdoch clan - the estimable Brian Cox here - doesn't really find its footing. Four silbings caballing for the media empire of the ailing patriarch has rich potential, but the result only throws in sharp relief that HBO's competitors now mostly deliver the goods, while the by-now grey eminence mostly settles for great production values. Too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 To unwind after hard days working on the new house, my wife and I have been going through the full series of Miranda. It's a pretty funny show, but the formulaic nature and catchphrases get wearing after a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 4 hours ago, Quintus said: My missus has been into Orange is the New Black lately (it's totally watchable btw) and holy shit imagine my surprise when I suddenly realised a big rough arsed prisoner with spiky red hair and a bruised eye, who was strangely familiar to me but I didn't know why, was fuckin' Janeway from Voyager! It's fucking funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 I thought Janeway was good in the episodes of OITNB I saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 The One Where Everybody Finds Out. It has everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 I think I remember that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 6 minutes ago, Alexcremers said: They'll start production next year? What do they expect us to do in the meantime? Watch Macgyver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,345 Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Over my dead body! I think I'm gonna give The Last Kingdom a try. There seems to be some appreciation for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 More fake GOT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 Netflix seems no longer the mark of quality I thought it'd be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 It never was. They're putting out so much content now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,345 Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 3 hours ago, Stefancos said: More fake GOT? It's not more GOT but more Vikings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 I don't really like fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,345 Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 It's not Fantasy. GOT is Fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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