#9 – The Hamptons
#8 – The Festivus
#7 – The Boy Friend (Part 1)
#6 – The Close Talker
#5 – The Yada Yada
#4 – The Little Kicks
#3 – The Bizarro Jerry
#2 – The Puffy Shirt
#1 – The Soup Nazi
Seinfeld is my all-time favorite television comedy series and I disagree with some of the top ten choices (numbers 3 and 8, for example) and the numerical order of the top ten. (“The Soup Nazi” is good, but most of the other episodes on the top ten are better than “The Soup Nazi”).
And how can “The Chinese Restaurant” not be in the top ten?
“The Red Dot” is another episode that is top ten-worthy. Besides the humor of that episode’s plot, it also includes one of the few crossdressing references in the series when Jerry finds himself in the women’s department of a department store and he says, “I never feel comfortable in the women’s department. I feel like I’m just a little too close to trying on a dress.”
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Ninety minutes after the Seinfeld top ten, Kim Kardashian guest-hosted Saturday Night Live.
I am not a Kardashian fan, but she is Femulate Her-worthy and she fills that slot in today’s post primarily because I love her hairdo in the Lotto Drawing segment of Saturday’s broadcast.
Where can I get a wig like hers?
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| Saturday Night Live alumnus Terry Sweeney femulating Nancy Reagan at his book party. |
You see the controversy on Seinfeld? They were trimming the 4:3 aspect it was to fit 16:9 screens - in "The Pothole" most shots the pothole was entirely cut out....
ReplyDeleteIt's news to me, but now that you mention it, I did notice that the video images seemed larger than I remember,
Delete“I never feel comfortable in the women’s department. I feel like I’m just a little too close to trying on a dress.”
ReplyDeleteAnd this is what I think when I’m in the woman’s department oh I I want to try on the dress, oh I love those shoes, oh what a pretty bra , oh look at those pantyhose
So true! But it doesn't stop me looking and dreaming.
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i note that stana has made use of the TV pun for this article, whereas she normally refers to trans types as "cross dressers" as it is apparently deemed far more acceptable in this pc-mad world we have to live on today.
ReplyDeletewell, i am a cross dresser myself. that is as in a somewhat peeved one regarding the myriad of patronising labels being conceived and dished out to describe people like me by lily-livered liberals and loony lefties such as the LBGTXYZ (or whatever it is they call themselves these days). they may mean well with regard to trying to stamp out prejudice, but i have no wish whatsoever to be categorised or known as "genderfluid", "genderqueer", "non-binary", "androgyne" or even "t-girl" to try and spare my blushes. as one of the old school i simply consider myself to be a transvestite, and one who is ok with being referred to by abbreviations of that word such as tv or (preferably) tranny.
It was old school transvestites not “lily-livered liberals and looney lefties” who came up with terms like genderqueer, t-girl, genderfluid, etc. because “transvestite,” especially with its fetishistic connotations, did not describe them. They wanted to be called anything but “tranny” and that is their right no matter what their political or philosophical beliefs.
DeleteI'm not sure I could even pick a top 10 favorite list of Seinfeld episodes, no less put them in order!
ReplyDelete25 would have been a better number. And if I had to pick number 1, "The Contest" would be my choice.
Delete"The Marine Biologist" is probably my favorite, but there's something quite enticing about being Queen of the castle!
DeleteI feel like a real neophyte here. I haven't tuned into the individual program titles, much less memorized them. There are so many great ones. I rather liked the one in which Kramer and George's father invented the "Manssier". Ha! Who needs one of those things when Bali and Maidenform take care of my "girls" quite nicely??
ReplyDeleteMy all-time favorite was the Peeping Tom episode in which they were eyeballing an apparently well-endowed lady in an apartment across the street from Jerry's. George was hot to trot and they put money in a little pool to see who could last the longest before "getting off". As I recall, Kramer lasted between 15 and 30 seconds. Interesting that Elaine was the second one out. I'll bet someone knows the title of both episodes.
"The Doorman" and "The Contest," respectively.
DeleteAt least my favorite made it into the Top Ten.
DeleteI'm taking some continuing education classes here in Baltimore. One of them is about films, and we started off with films about Baltimore. We had a class full of Barry Levinson films, especially including "Diner". During lots of this film and more of Levinson's later films there's all this idle talk, especially in diners. Of course I immediately thought of the "Seinfeld diner" (forgetting another crucial detail). In our discussion we decided Seinfeld and Larry David were "direct descendants" of "Diner". Agree? Disagree?
DeleteThe Larry David - Diner connection never occurred to me, but you might be right. By the way, while drinking my first cup of coffee this morning, Comedy Central played "The Contest" and I could not look away!
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