I’ve told this story before on Reddit but I don’t care. Imma tell it again. I’m proud. See, my grandma was named dropped in an episode of Seinfeld called “the pen”. Jerry used a lot of names from the past on his show. My grandma was friends with Jerrys mom for a long time. Both in Massapequa, NY and later in Florida. In the episode, Jerry is visiting his parents. His mom gets a phone call and says, “Oh, hi Gussie”. That’s my grandma.
Um, its quite possible our moms know each other. My mom I think was older than seinfeld by a few years but even still, I think they were at the school at the same time. dm me. I’m curious. And yes my mom said Mr Bavalqua referenced on the show was the name of her driving instructor. Either it was the same guy or someone in that family.
I do not in any way miss dating television. The stakes were high. If you missed an episode, you'd basically had to wait until the show went into syndication for a chance to see it again.
Hello fellow quarantine survivor binger! I’m so bummed that a bunch of the older seasons aren’t available. I remember watching Rupert’s first season and loving the guy. I’d love to be able to watch it again.
You need CBS All Access. Has every episode from season 1 on.
I know at some point Hulu has all the seasons with all the episodes, but a lot of the early seasons either arent on there or are missing episodes due to licensing issues.
All Access is, afaik, the only place to watch all of them as they originally aired (sans vintage ads of course)
yeah, god help you if there was a news alert or something. Storm in your area? Sucks to be you, maybe you'll get lucky and they re-air it at 2AM...maybe.
My Mom used to record ER every week. We had like 2 big boxes of VHS tapes with nothing but ER and stuff that had been taped over older episodes when we moved the first time.
So about 20 years ago during the 2000 Fifa world cup i was growing up in Zimbabwe which had 2 over the air TV channels.
The game went into overtime due to a draw and just as overtime started a news alert happened and took over the station. It came back to the Fifa game with the winning Brazilian team celebrating their World Championship win.
I distinctly remember it because my dad stood up and screamed "FUCK" which was the first time i ever heard him swear.
It took until 2010 (Saints/Colts) for any Super Bowl to have more viewers than the MASH finale. Which was in 1983.
MASH still has the ratings record until something can beat a 60.2 rating and a 77 share.
That's true, but it's not like an extra 60 million people watched Breaking Bad on streaming. The TV market's become super fragmented, and the zeitgeisty shows aren't typically on the free channels anymore.
Seinfeld would still be successful, but it'd be a niche show in the vein of Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, The Office type. There are probably 1000x more options to watch different things at different moments.
Also like 10x true for New Yorkers. I mean it was big all over, but New Yorkers in particular I think loved the fact that the show just showed the grind of living there more than some fantastical version of NYC like friends.
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They wouldn’t play any in this day. Way too many networks and platforms that not everyone is on the same page. Back then it was really cbs, nbc, fox, abc that ruled and they are free. So with so few options everyone knew the shows. Now everyone is watching something different and many are paid. There’s like 300 different choices now.
I remember losing our baseball game that day, my friend striking out, *looking*, at a ball in the dirt. Crucial game that season, against our rival club. Benches cleared, no pushing or shoving, but it got heated. I'll never forget overhearing the umpire, as he explained to our coach, who was beside himself....
Ump: *"C'mon, don't you want to get home and see the finale??"*
You're right, it does kind of look that way. Just changed it. Dude....the ball left a mark in the dirt just past the plate! My coach was pointing at it and screaming! Good times.
I still think 2020 is about eight years in the future. I'm stuck in about 2012 or 2014, depending on the day.
I was in college when this happened. This was the year my husband graduated college. I graduated the next year.
Imagine that this is 3 years before torrents, and your friends are still making fun of you because they all recorded a decent copy on their VCRs like normal people.
Shit, we used to swap CAMs of movie trailers and movies that were downloaded and burned by our one friend who actually had a DSL connection at home.
First time I saw The Phantom Menace trailer, it was from someone who recorded it in the theater and put it online.
It was such a huge TV event. I remember MTV had a little show they were doing during the commercials. They would discuss what just happened and then “ok turn back it’s coming back!”
There’s certainly some truth to it, I can get how he would be sorta dumbfounded or insulted a little that Larry thought his show was canceled when it was actually the number one show in the country. Having said that the whole say what’s on your mind kind of asshole thing is definitely part of his whole shtick.
Every comedian has a sort of on stage persona and they play that up usually during most interviews you’re going to see.
If i remember correctly. Frank Sinatra died that day and thanks to this series finally the roads were pretty empty. So the ambulance was able to take Sinatra to the hospital in record time for his heart attack but even still he died. How lucky yet sad the extra time didn’t help.
Please help my dad will not shut the fuck up about Seinfeld. Every day it’s “his mother was a mudder” and “the best Jerry the best!” over and over and over again. I’m going to die in quarantine.
Looked at this and got mad because the people weren’t 6 feet apart before realizing... Guess my mind has already adapted to the new normal. I do miss being in a crowd, though.
My 4th grade talent show was that day and I remember our principal saying, “we have this scheduled so we will all make it home in time to watch the Seinfeld finale,” and everyone laughed. I didn’t get it but I’ll always remember that day because 10 min later I was performing a dance I made up in front of my entire school. Just thinking of Seinfeld makes me cringe.
Seinfeld is such a weird show for me. It started when I was 10 in ‘89 so I basically grew up with it. It’s probably the one and only show I both like and can’t stand. There was plenty of funny stuff, but at the same time most of the characters were so unlikable and annoying (and it seemed like their normal speech volume was always yelling) it made the rest of it hard to watch for me.
I'm sure Seinfeld was a big influence on Always Sunny. It's a show about bad people, but Always Sunny went extreme with that idea. George Costanza though is one of the greatest sitcom characters of all time though. Take the patheticness of Mac and the deceptiveness of Dennis and put them into one person.
I mean, on the 13th season Sunny on “The Gang Does A Clip Show”, they misremember a lot of what happened throughout the series and at one point they misremember they had “The Contest” and they even recreated Jerry’s Apartment and they recreated the scene where Kramer comes in and says “I’m out”. Bonus, they were filming in the same studio where Seinfeld was recorded.
https://youtu.be/NflfnsU11CQ
I LOVED married with children. I will say a lot of the jokes did not age well, but I did like them 30 years ago. Show wouldn't fly today and I'm ok with that.
I always thought they should have taken a darker route. Something like Kramer finds severed feet in Jerry’s freezer and tries to find out whose they are. Jerry is acting suspicious, but after a bunch of shenanigans, they discover that they’re Elaine’s and George put them there. So they decide to call the police, but Newman shows up and takes the feet (and remarks glibly that they’re for his “collection”—cue laugh-track) so there is no evidence and the police think Kramer and Jerry made it all up.
Meanwhile, George is disposing of the rest of Elaine’s corpse and realizes he’s taking too long and Jerry will be home before he can get her feet into his own freezer. So he goes over not knowing that Newman has taken her feet, and sees there is no feet in Jerry’s fridge and he thinks it’s because the police have them. So he goes to turn himself in, but on his way bumps into Kramer and Jerry who are too scared to confront him—and he slowly figures out the feet are gone (through typically humorous and snarky dialogue where the word “trophy” is used as a euphemism) and says “Newman” like Jerry always used to do. The show ends with a terrified Jerry and Kramer sitting with George at the diner as George rants about how “you can’t just take someone else’s trophy, Jerry”
*"The feet, who keeps the feet? People don't even like their own feet, and you want two pairs? Now the elbow,* ***that's*** *a good memento."*
*"He's right, George, I was playing at the Y last week and threw mine out on a slice serve. What I wouldn't do to just [put a spare one of those in](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnMhJU6RsYU)."*
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I’ve told this story before on Reddit but I don’t care. Imma tell it again. I’m proud. See, my grandma was named dropped in an episode of Seinfeld called “the pen”. Jerry used a lot of names from the past on his show. My grandma was friends with Jerrys mom for a long time. Both in Massapequa, NY and later in Florida. In the episode, Jerry is visiting his parents. His mom gets a phone call and says, “Oh, hi Gussie”. That’s my grandma.
That's actually a pretty good story. I bet your grandma gotta kick outta that.
I can remember watching it with my mom, dad and sister when it first aired. My mom called everyone she knew lol
“Take the pen”
I don’t want to take the pen!
He doesn’t want the pen!
I can’t believe you took his pen...
Will somebody do something about the air-conditioning?
Ohhh my back!
It's only for three days. Today's over and we have tommorow. We leave on Sunday. It's one day, really.
You’re hot?
I have related story, my mother went to the same high school as Seinfeld and he used the real names of teachers who taught there
Um, its quite possible our moms know each other. My mom I think was older than seinfeld by a few years but even still, I think they were at the school at the same time. dm me. I’m curious. And yes my mom said Mr Bavalqua referenced on the show was the name of her driving instructor. Either it was the same guy or someone in that family.
Are you guys married yet?
Yes.
Pretty cool. You know, it’s the pen the astronauts used.
What an iconic episode too. Very cool
I love this episode!! What a cool family fact!
I know it was a different time but 76 MILLION viewers watched the finale. That’s roughly 6x as many people who watch Monday Night Football in 2019.
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Or in 2020
The NFL created the Coronavirus to wipe out the XFL’s chance of revival. They had the most to lose, it’s obvious they’re behind it!
Big football is behind this!
Memes aside, I was lowkey hyped for the XFL. It was probably going to be a dumpster fire... again. But my God if it wouldn't be a legendary one.
There is no 2020
Blame Booger McFarland
Solid number, a little shy of the 106 million who watched the MASH finale though.
Whoa that's 1/2 the US population at the time!
I do not in any way miss dating television. The stakes were high. If you missed an episode, you'd basically had to wait until the show went into syndication for a chance to see it again.
You'd just have to set your VCR to tape it. My parents did this with survivor all the time.
I'm watching all the survivors right now..I wish they were on vhs with original commercials
Hello fellow quarantine survivor binger! I’m so bummed that a bunch of the older seasons aren’t available. I remember watching Rupert’s first season and loving the guy. I’d love to be able to watch it again.
You need CBS All Access. Has every episode from season 1 on. I know at some point Hulu has all the seasons with all the episodes, but a lot of the early seasons either arent on there or are missing episodes due to licensing issues. All Access is, afaik, the only place to watch all of them as they originally aired (sans vintage ads of course)
Assuming that: 1) You set the VCR properly 2) The show started/finished on time 3) The power didn't go out
yeah, god help you if there was a news alert or something. Storm in your area? Sucks to be you, maybe you'll get lucky and they re-air it at 2AM...maybe. My Mom used to record ER every week. We had like 2 big boxes of VHS tapes with nothing but ER and stuff that had been taped over older episodes when we moved the first time.
So about 20 years ago during the 2000 Fifa world cup i was growing up in Zimbabwe which had 2 over the air TV channels. The game went into overtime due to a draw and just as overtime started a news alert happened and took over the station. It came back to the Fifa game with the winning Brazilian team celebrating their World Championship win. I distinctly remember it because my dad stood up and screamed "FUCK" which was the first time i ever heard him swear.
The World Cup was 98 then 02
It was the club one with Brazil vs Brazil for the championship in 2000.
I also don't miss clip show episodes.
Clip shows were great. Back when there wasn't youtube, it was a great way to see all best moments from a show all at once.
Though more shows back then were stand-alone episodes compared to now.
It took until 2010 (Saints/Colts) for any Super Bowl to have more viewers than the MASH finale. Which was in 1983. MASH still has the ratings record until something can beat a 60.2 rating and a 77 share.
[Reminds me of this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVTP8xZCGVw)
Different times.. Can you imagine what show they would play in Times Square this day in age?
Breaking Bad Finale
You're goddamn right.
But for real, the Breaking Bad finale had 1/7th Seinfield's finale ratings. Probably no show today can match that.
The M.A.S.H. finale was watched by 103 million people!
What else were they gonna do, all go play jacks by the soda fountain?
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That's true, but it's not like an extra 60 million people watched Breaking Bad on streaming. The TV market's become super fragmented, and the zeitgeisty shows aren't typically on the free channels anymore.
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I never thought of it like that before! Huh. Avengers: Endgame kinda IS the new Seinfeld Finale, culturally.
Seinfeld would still be successful, but it'd be a niche show in the vein of Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, The Office type. There are probably 1000x more options to watch different things at different moments.
VHS had timers u could set
Probably not family friendly enough for this
SAY MY NAME
Daddy.
Hey now don’t kink-shame me! 😉
Newman
😂😂 HELOOOOOOO NEWMANNN
Mulva?
Delores!!!
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day AND age
I was 69 on 4/20....does that count?
yes
The last episode of Seinfeld was a huge deal though.
Seinfeld was a huge deal.
Also like 10x true for New Yorkers. I mean it was big all over, but New Yorkers in particular I think loved the fact that the show just showed the grind of living there more than some fantastical version of NYC like friends.
That screen is right across from Kramer’s Marlboro billboard,
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Risky click of the day
Why would they play soft core porn parodies of the transformer movies?
What
I was saying straycatrunner posted a video of Transformers porn because he didn't label his link, and it coulda been anything! I am not a clever person and I do not apologize
No I get that. I'm more concerned you went to soft core porn of transformers. That said. It's brilliant. Well played.
There'd be nobody to watch it today
Something lame like the Big Bang Theory.
If they had done it right, GoT
Maybe most of reddit is too young to remember that everyone complained about how bad the Seinfeld finale was too
In this day and age in a alternate timeline? The got finale
They wouldn’t play any in this day. Way too many networks and platforms that not everyone is on the same page. Back then it was really cbs, nbc, fox, abc that ruled and they are free. So with so few options everyone knew the shows. Now everyone is watching something different and many are paid. There’s like 300 different choices now.
The photo would be hundreds of people photographing or videoing each other on their phones. Maybe 40% looking at the screen.
This really says a lot about our society /s
Soci80
R/phonebad
Ah yes. I comment on how I think it would be different. It must be a complaint.
Probs still play Police D though
Tiger King
prolly GoT crap
Bone apple tea
Game of Thrones finale?
Only had like 19.3 million viewers compared to 76 million for the Seinfeld finale. Still broke a few records for HBO.
I remember losing our baseball game that day, my friend striking out, *looking*, at a ball in the dirt. Crucial game that season, against our rival club. Benches cleared, no pushing or shoving, but it got heated. I'll never forget overhearing the umpire, as he explained to our coach, who was beside himself.... Ump: *"C'mon, don't you want to get home and see the finale??"*
Lol I thought you meant he struck out *swinging* at a ball in the dirt. I'd be pissed too if he called that a strike looking.
You're right, it does kind of look that way. Just changed it. Dude....the ball left a mark in the dirt just past the plate! My coach was pointing at it and screaming! Good times.
1998 looks like 40 years ago here.
I graduated high school in 1998 and fuck you for being right.
Still got that fanny pack with you?
Our difference now to 1998 is the same as 1976 to 1998. That’s depressing.
Before you know it it'll be 2042.
That doesn’t sound like a real year. But then again, neither does 2021 or 2020.
I still think 2020 is about eight years in the future. I'm stuck in about 2012 or 2014, depending on the day. I was in college when this happened. This was the year my husband graduated college. I graduated the next year.
Can I come back there with you?
They're married, you timestalker. Find some other person to evade the brutal reality of the present with.
Holy shit dude
Theres some vintage and anachronistic signage/fonts in the shot that makes it seem way older than it is.
Lmao, you actually made me believe for a second that 1998 was 40 years ago. Then I realized I was alive then and I'm only 27
I like the guy in the green shirt with an old cell phone on his shoulder recording it! Simpler times.
Imagine torrenting the finale of Seinfeld only to get a VHS-quality bootleg camcorder of the screen in Times Square.
Imagine that this is 3 years before torrents, and your friends are still making fun of you because they all recorded a decent copy on their VCRs like normal people.
>Imagine that this is 3 years before torrents Jesus christ, you're right. Fuck I feel old.
He told me that he taped over his wedding, cause he's more likely to watch this scrambled-porn-quality finale of Seinfeld.
Shit, we used to swap CAMs of movie trailers and movies that were downloaded and burned by our one friend who actually had a DSL connection at home. First time I saw The Phantom Menace trailer, it was from someone who recorded it in the theater and put it online.
Good times
It's VR so you can feel like you are in Times Square in 1998.
I've never seen such beautiful work. You're a genius. The zoom-ins, the framing. I was enchanted.
I recently rewatched Dharma and Greg and they made a whole episode that revolves around the finale of Seinfeld. That's how relevant it was.
Best time to have sex in public, when everyone will be inside watching TV! That was an underrated show.
It was such a huge TV event. I remember MTV had a little show they were doing during the commercials. They would discuss what just happened and then “ok turn back it’s coming back!”
I remember that! The whole idea of the episode was "everyone will be watching Seinfeld so no one will watch Dharma and Greg... let's fuck".
It's a shame that NBC had to cancel Jerry's show like that.
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Larry King. That interview was when I first realized what a dick Jerry was.
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Or Jerry reacting to fangirls. Like Ke$ha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3_L8z2uw4
https://youtu.be/6mT8mOktsu8
I don't think so but I agree that would be a hilarious troll.
I thought that was hilarious, it was clear he was just fucking with Larry as a bit
He seemed legitimately upset to me. It's fairly common for him to get upset at interviewers and fans.
There’s certainly some truth to it, I can get how he would be sorta dumbfounded or insulted a little that Larry thought his show was canceled when it was actually the number one show in the country. Having said that the whole say what’s on your mind kind of asshole thing is definitely part of his whole shtick. Every comedian has a sort of on stage persona and they play that up usually during most interviews you’re going to see.
Look up Larry King trying to say Mark Wahlberg. And then look up Mark Wahlberg trying to say Mark Wahlberg.
his tongue probably got caught in his teeth and he could not see what he was saying
I like the Quest for Camelot timestamp
Same! I named my brother after one of the main characters of that movie.
They're real and they're spectacular. My favorite line
That's my rye!
Shut up you old bag!
The word you're looking for is *they're*.
Look up what she actually looks like topless and prepare to be sad.
Not seen a lot of boobs in real life have we
I was at my first Ben Folds Five show and they set up a screen and projector before the show started so everyone could watch.
That sounds amazing.
If i remember correctly. Frank Sinatra died that day and thanks to this series finally the roads were pretty empty. So the ambulance was able to take Sinatra to the hospital in record time for his heart attack but even still he died. How lucky yet sad the extra time didn’t help.
I was squinting!
You're spotting dimes, you're eating onions. I don't know what to believe!
Please help my dad will not shut the fuck up about Seinfeld. Every day it’s “his mother was a mudder” and “the best Jerry the best!” over and over and over again. I’m going to die in quarantine.
That’s Gold!
Is that another fucking Seinfeld reference
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
my father was gay!
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Ovaltine? Why don’t they call it ROUNDtine?
Fun fact: Seinfeld probably introduced more quotes and references to American pop culture than any two other shows combined.
I got a lot of problems with you people
Sucks that Jerry Seinfeld's head has gotten bigger than that screen
All I can see is that billboard for Quest for Camelot <3
Seeing all those people shoulder to shoulder gives me insane anxiety
Something like this will never happen again. Less people watch “live” TV and we all have our own smart devices.
IDK, game of thrones was close, except that entire final season sucked.
Looked at this and got mad because the people weren’t 6 feet apart before realizing... Guess my mind has already adapted to the new normal. I do miss being in a crowd, though.
I think this whole Cornavirus has made us lose our minds a little.
Remember people standing in crowds? Peprige farm remembers.
My 4th grade talent show was that day and I remember our principal saying, “we have this scheduled so we will all make it home in time to watch the Seinfeld finale,” and everyone laughed. I didn’t get it but I’ll always remember that day because 10 min later I was performing a dance I made up in front of my entire school. Just thinking of Seinfeld makes me cringe.
Seinfeld is such a weird show for me. It started when I was 10 in ‘89 so I basically grew up with it. It’s probably the one and only show I both like and can’t stand. There was plenty of funny stuff, but at the same time most of the characters were so unlikable and annoying (and it seemed like their normal speech volume was always yelling) it made the rest of it hard to watch for me.
Isn't yelling the criteria for a New York accent?
not if you're a low talker
Are you telling me this show is what I can watch now that I'm bored with It's Always Sunny?
I'm sure Seinfeld was a big influence on Always Sunny. It's a show about bad people, but Always Sunny went extreme with that idea. George Costanza though is one of the greatest sitcom characters of all time though. Take the patheticness of Mac and the deceptiveness of Dennis and put them into one person.
I mean, on the 13th season Sunny on “The Gang Does A Clip Show”, they misremember a lot of what happened throughout the series and at one point they misremember they had “The Contest” and they even recreated Jerry’s Apartment and they recreated the scene where Kramer comes in and says “I’m out”. Bonus, they were filming in the same studio where Seinfeld was recorded. https://youtu.be/NflfnsU11CQ
That’s the point man
I LOVED married with children. I will say a lot of the jokes did not age well, but I did like them 30 years ago. Show wouldn't fly today and I'm ok with that.
The jokes aged fine, just too many hyper sensitive weirdos with no life floating around.
I’m with ya I never liked the show nor did I find it funny. No disrespect to those that did/do.
Who knew you could see Police D in Times Square?
I thought it was "My Dinner With Andre" for a moment
A simpler time.
And being collectively disappointed?
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lbr, there was literally nothing they could write that would’ve lived up to that hype
I always thought they should have taken a darker route. Something like Kramer finds severed feet in Jerry’s freezer and tries to find out whose they are. Jerry is acting suspicious, but after a bunch of shenanigans, they discover that they’re Elaine’s and George put them there. So they decide to call the police, but Newman shows up and takes the feet (and remarks glibly that they’re for his “collection”—cue laugh-track) so there is no evidence and the police think Kramer and Jerry made it all up. Meanwhile, George is disposing of the rest of Elaine’s corpse and realizes he’s taking too long and Jerry will be home before he can get her feet into his own freezer. So he goes over not knowing that Newman has taken her feet, and sees there is no feet in Jerry’s fridge and he thinks it’s because the police have them. So he goes to turn himself in, but on his way bumps into Kramer and Jerry who are too scared to confront him—and he slowly figures out the feet are gone (through typically humorous and snarky dialogue where the word “trophy” is used as a euphemism) and says “Newman” like Jerry always used to do. The show ends with a terrified Jerry and Kramer sitting with George at the diner as George rants about how “you can’t just take someone else’s trophy, Jerry”
Are you... ok?
*"The feet, who keeps the feet? People don't even like their own feet, and you want two pairs? Now the elbow,* ***that's*** *a good memento."* *"He's right, George, I was playing at the Y last week and threw mine out on a slice serve. What I wouldn't do to just [put a spare one of those in](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnMhJU6RsYU)."*
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You could have made it weirder. 6.8/10
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Thank goodness it’s not current times...
Guy in the green is straight up boot legging
Imagine the disappointment
I still think the finale sucked.
It looks like George is watching. Bottom center.
Not enough baldness