"Seinfeld" gang to reunite for Thanksgiving special

How would you like to do a service for free when you know the producers will reap silly profits. The 3 supporting characters, for all intents and purposes, are what made that show great. They all got raped on syndication, as well. This is fact!

 

Come on. By the final season, those guys were pulling down at least $12 million a year. They were hardly doing it "for free". And about syndication, it's the nature of the business that the creators and producers will get the lion's share of the profits.

Now the actors from Star Wars on the other hand. . .

 

i hate to piss all over this thread but my bladder is about to explode.

 

13.2 to be exact, but that was the only season they got paid their worth. The year before was around 200 per (nothing to sneeze at but still). We're talking about a lot more than a lion's share, here.

 

If you hold it too long, you could get uromysitisis and die.....

 

Where's the exclamation point?

 

You obviously haven't had to share a meal with a lion, especially those fat ones from Hollywood.

The point is they got plenty for their efforts. Besides, I'M not saying they did those "after-Seinfeld shows" as a cash grab. They're actors. That's what they do. They act. And they probably wanted to carry their own show.

 

excellent

 

How do you explain this then

 

George is getting angry!


Man, I love that show. It's one of the few things on the networks that I watch... the freakin' reruns. I am so down for the DVD release, and this special. Anything they do is outstanding, as far as I'm concerned, as long as it's related the Seinfeld. I'm thrilled when Julia Louis-Dreyfus, or Jason Alexander are on Curb Your Enthusiasm, for crying out loud. I've watched every failed series by the members of the cast. (not all the episodes... I can stand just so much punishment!) I just wish I had a knack for rattling off quotes from the show. I'm terrible!

Seinfeld is far and away the best sitcom ever created for network TV. Hey, when I go to Houston to visit my 82 year old Mom (bless her), we watch the reruns together and laugh until we get tears in our eyes. I have a couple of friends who have never "gotten" the show, and can't stand to watch it, and I have to admit that it's a battle to keep my respect for their intelligence.

Newman!!
Yes, I've got it bad.

 

Let's just say I know what I'm talking about in regards to the Seinfeld situation. Their deal was not a good one. I guarantee the "Friends" cast got a better deal. "Plenty" is relative to a show's success, especially one as character driven as that one. Like I said, they only got paid their worth in the last, and probably first, season. They all did their cashgrab shows after, I'll give you that. I do have high hopes for Jason's new show, however.

 

hyperbole i hope.

 

i could not agree with you more. far and away the best show ever. nothing even comes close. i'd rater watch a re-run of this show i've seen a dozen times than watch a new episode of anything on the air today. anything at all.

 

Wednesdays are the best days for Seinfeld fans.

Ya'll know why.

 

Damn it! I looked at the title and thought it was one last episode which really got my hopes up. Nothing would get better ratings than a few new episodes of Seinfeld. I'll definitely try to watch that special I'm not doing anything.

SEINFELD IS THE BEST SHOW EVER!

 

If the brady bunch can come back after twenty years for a movie, why not Seinfeld.

 

"So you're enjoying the not enjoying."

"To a woman, sex is like the garbage man. You just take for granted the fact that any time you put some trash out on the street, a guy in a jumpsuit's gonna come along and pick it up. But now, it's like a garbage strike. The bags are piling up in your head. The sidewalk is blocked. Nothing's getting through. You're stupid.

"So, you're still Master of your Domain?"
"Yes, yes I am. Master of my domain. But I will tell you this: I'm going over to her apartment and I'm tellin' her to put those shades down!"
"Wait, wait wait... Whoa, whoa whoa-- what did you just say?"
"I can't take it any more! She's drivin' me crazy. I can't sleep, I can't leave the house. When I'm here I'm climbin' the walls. Meanwhile I'm datin' a virgin, I'm in this contest... something's gotta give!"
"Do you hear what you're saying? Can you hear it? This is a beautiful woman walking around naked, and you want to tell her to stop!? That's the *dumbest* thing I ever heard. I mean, it's incomprehens-- I'm not gonna let you do it!"
"Well, I'm doin' it. Get out of my way..."
"No, you can't! This is something that comes about once in a lifetime. When we were boys looking through our bedroom windows we would think, 'Why can't there be a woman out there taking her clothes off?' And now that wish has come true and you want to... pfffft... throw it away?!"

"Yeah, interest. It's an amazing thing. You make money without doing anything..."
"Y'know, I have friends who try to base their whole life on that principle."
"Really? Who?"
"Nobody you know..."

"You don't know my name, do you?"
"Yes I do."
"What is it?"
"It, uh, rhymes with a female body part."
"What is it?"
"Mulva..."

"I happen to dress based on mood."
"But you essentially wear the same thing all the time."
"Seemingly, but within that basic framework there are many subtle variations only discernible to an acute observer that reflect the many moods, the many shades, the many sides of George Costanza."
"And what mood is this?"
"This is morning mist."

"I'm not crazy. I may look weird, but I'm just like you... I'm just a regular guy."

"I'm doin' what I do, the way I've always done it, and the way I'll always do it."

"Ordinarily I wouldn't mind, but..."
"But what?"
"Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool. And the water was cold..."
"Oh, you mean... Shrinkage."
"Yes. Significant shrinkage."
"So you feel you were shortchanged."
"Yes. I mean, if she thinks that's me, she's under a complete misapprehension. That was not me, Jerry. That was not me."

"Do women know about shrinkage?"
"What do you mean, like laundry?"
"No..."
"Like when a man goes swimming... Afterwards..."
"It shrinks?"
"Like a frightened turtle."
"Why does it shrink?"
"It just does."
"I don't know how you guys walk around with those things."

"I think that you think that a certain something is not all that it could be, when, in fact, it is all that it should be... And more!"
"I'm sure it is."
"Look, you don't understand. There was shrinkage."

"Did you describe yourself to her over the phone?"
"Yes I did."
"What did you say?"
"What do you think I said?"
"I don't know."
"I told her the truth."
"As you see it?"
"Yes, as I see it."
"Did you tell her about your little hat there?"
"What hat?"
"You know, your little hair hat there."

"I feel like my old self again... Totally inadequate, completely insecure, paranoid, neurotic... It's a pleasure."

"Just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it."

"Why can't we share?"
"I told you not to say anything. You can't go in there, brazenly flaunt the rules and then think I'm gonna share with you."
"Do you hear yourself?"
"I'm sorry. This is what comes from living under a Nazi regime."

"Why did it all turn out like this for me? I had so much promise. I was personable. I was bright. Oh, maybe not academically speaking, but I was perceptive. I always know when someone's uncomfortable at a party. It all became very clear to me sitting out there today, that every decision I've ever made in my entire life has been wrong. My life is the complete opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have in every aspect of life, be it something to wear, something to eat... It's often wrong."




No, not hyperbole.

 

They just need to realize they'll be a lot richer and happier if they just freaking reunite and do the show again. Will it be the same quality, who knows, but it's gonna be hard to suck comparatively to all the other stuff that's on TV.