Category: Seinfeld
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Baddiel’s Syndrome
In the early 2000s, Sky One was attempting to simulate the US sitcoms of the time a little more than other channels. Baddiel’s Syndrome was shot to resemble one, and was given an extended run to find its feet. It was being pushed by the PR types as Britain’s answer to Seinfeld, as if that…
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Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ Dot Of Red
This one is into the weeds, even for me. If you haven’t watched Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House Of Fun, you should. Here’s a moment from episode five Night Time!. Can you see it? How about now? The red dot on Mark’s sleeve? It’s so incongruous, that it makes me think it has to be…
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The Greatest American Hero
The whole thrust of the following is this: why have I never seen the show The Greatest American Hero? But we’ll get to that in a bit. First, here’s the opening title sequence for the series. So that resolves a Seinfeld moment that I’ve never fully understood. The Greatest American Hero was a show about…
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Say That One More Time
There’s something glorious about Julia Louis-Dreyfus corpsing.
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SNL’s Seinfeld Crime Scene
I’m not sure that this sketch starts well, but as it goes on, it grows on me, and the moment when they corpse is lovely. I’m irked of course, by the lack of fidelity the set has to the real Seinfeld set. It sort of feels right, but it’s also completely wrong. It’s too wide,…
