Jerry becomes apprehensive when he and George buy stock and the price falls while the person who suggested the stock is in hospital and can't tell them when to sell.Jerry becomes apprehensive when he and George buy stock and the price falls while the person who suggested the stock is in hospital and can't tell them when to sell.Jerry becomes apprehensive when he and George buy stock and the price falls while the person who suggested the stock is in hospital and can't tell them when to sell.
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- TriviaThis episode is notable for the fact that it's one of the few where George (Jason Alexander) ends up on top after the events of the episode have transpired.
- GoofsIn the beginning when George (Jason Alexander), Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) are first talking at Monk's about the stock, George's drink fluctuates from cut to cut from half full to full.
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Jerry Seinfeld: Went out to dinner the other night. Check came at the end of the meal, as it always does. Never liked the "check at the end of the meal" system, because money's a very different thing before and after you eat. Before you eat, money has no value. You don't care about money when you're hungry. You sit down in a restaurant and you're like the ruler of an empire... "More drinks! Appetizers! Quickly, quickly! It will be the greatest meal of our lives." Then after the meal, you know, you got the pants open, you got the napkins destroyed, cigarette butt in the mashed potatoes. Then the check comes at that moment. People are always upset, you know. They're mystified by the check. They're... "What is this? How could this be?" They start passing it around the table. "Does this look right to you? We're not hungry now. Why are we buying all this food?"
- ConnectionsFeatured in Seinfeld: Highlights of a Hundred (1995)
- SoundtracksSeinfeld Theme Song
Written by Jonathan Wolff
The "pilot" episode--aired in 1989, a year before the show actually got rolling on NBC--is more a triviality than anything. Besides the very "bare bones", it isn't all that indicative of what the show would become in the summer of '90 or beyond.
The other four episodes? The characters of Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss), George (Jason Alexander), and Kramer (Michael Richards) are certainly present and being established. The same can be said for Larry David's (show creator) observational humor. But this is a show that relies on character quirks and longform familiarity and such things don't happen overnight. From snippets of reruns and here-say, I know that the core characters--and many more--become iconic later on down the show's road--but it hasn't happened as of yet in this batch.
Basically everything I read about Seinfeld cautions that the first mini-season is the "worst"--least funny, least quirky, and least-established (obviously). I very much hope this is the case, as over this short stretch the show--while not an atrocity--simply isn't all that funny or endearing.
- zkonedog
- May 14, 2022
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