Category: Seinfeld

  • The Greatest American Hero
    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…

  • Say That One More Time
    Say That One More Time

    There’s something glorious about Julia Louis-Dreyfus corpsing.

  • SNL’s Seinfeld Crime Scene
    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,…

  • Seinovirus
    Seinovirus

    I might be having a brain block, but I can’t think of many other sitcoms that feature hygiene and sickness in quite the same amount as Seinfeld did. It all seems rather apropos at the moment.

  • Stay Inside
    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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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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