Category: Seinfeld
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Stay Inside
If you’re not familiar with the term ‘bottle episode’, you will certainly understand the sentiment. This is when a show spends a whole episode stuck in one place. Sometimes they’re made to save money that can be spent on bigger budget episodes. Seinfeld’s more famous one is The Chinese Restaurant. What makes this episode so…
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Dog Steals Heart
I was going to write a ponderous lot of waffle today, wondering inarticulately if The Office, Parks & Recreation, Brooklyn 99, and The Good Place all share a fictional universe. Would it be called the Schurniverse? And then I saw this. That’s a clip from One Tree Hill, a show I have never seen, created…
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Sitcom Reunions
With the misleading news that the cast of Friends are reuniting for a new episode (they’re not, it’s just the actors sitting on a stage and talking), what better time to look at a few other US sitcom reunions? At least Seinfeld did theirs in a unique and interesting way – using a season of…
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A Fish In The Percolator
I have finally started watching Twin Peaks for the first time. I bought it a few years ago when the definitive edition came out on DVD (no longer definitive, thanks a lot new season), and never got round to watching it. I have no idea why I didn’t watch it when it first aired either.…
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Oatmeal Month
During this week’s recording of setisoppO, we learned that it’s Oatmeal Month. I have no idea what this actually means, other than it has put this ear worm in my head. Of course, there was a time when we were flogged porridge as a way of nuclear radiating our kids. Or as a way to…
