Found this: Larry David [writer] had a policy of "no hugging, no learning," the show must avoid sentimentality and moral lessons, and characters must never learn or grow from their wrongdoings. 😁👍 Excellent.
In some ways I can't really describe, I like Kramer the apartment hermit more than the hipster-doofus he became later on. I mean, look at his smiling mug after he tells Jerry that he better believe he was "this" close to becoming a lawyer (which we all know is ludicrous). Or when in all seriousness he offers to talk to the woman on Jerry's behalf. Sure, Richard's as Kramer is still a work in progress, but that he didn't fully retain the subtle yet hilarious aspects of his early character is in my opinion a shame.
@sstills951 I agree. The "Gilligan of Seinfeld" is an apt characterization: he's silly to the point of being cringeworthy, yet funny only sometimes, in my opinion.
wow, Season 1 Episode 1 - The pilot episode! Jerry's flat and clothing look really different, like a cheap version of what came later, while Kramer looks more of a bum. 😯 But Elaine and George are exactly the same. 😁
I'm sorry but there is just one part of this episode that really rubbed me the wrong way. Elaine goes after Jerry about letting the cable man install cable during the shower. Okay, let's start from the beginning. Jerry allowed you to have this baby shower in his apartment while he was away. His show gets canceled, and he comes back to his home. Yes, he told Kramer to have the Cable Guy install the cable while he was away. It should not have interfered with the baby shower whatsoever. But even if it did for some reason, we all need to remember that this is Jerry's apartment. Schedule and have things done there whenever he wants. He let Elaine have a baby shower in his apartment when he was gone, he also allowed a cable guy to come in and install the table which doesn't take very long into his apartment when he was gone. He has every right to do that. And when Jerry shows up and all three meet, Elaine gets all whiny and butt hurt, like her thing was the most important part of that situation. That has always really pissed me off for some reason over all of these years. Elaine, you should be so fortunate that Jerry allowed you to use his apartment for this stupid, worthless baby shower. While he is gone, if a cable guy shows up, who was scheduled to be there that weekend to do a job, you should just shut your mouth and let them do their job, so they can be in and out. But she made such a huge deal out of something stupid, Jerry was able to come back home to his place and find the baby shower and the cable guys both trying to do their own things. But because Elaine is such a baby, she blew it out of proportion and made a huge deal about all of it. This scene has always really pissed me off over the years, every time I see it. She is so entitled that it makes me sick to my stomach. And she is too much of a narcissist to realize it, and Jerry won't point it out to her. There are multiple times any different scenario, wear multiple characters of the show are so self-absorbed, narcissistic and egotistical, that I really think the show would be better if when those points came up, other characters directly called them out and shut them down about their ridiculous behaviors. Seinfeld is a good show, but I think if they wouldn't have let all of that self-righteous BS slide under the radar, and they called it out, it would have been an even better show. Watch the series and think about that, where they each call out each other's narcissism, and just imagine how the show would have progressed. It would have been 10 times better than the nonsense, passive BS we were forced to watch and love.
George getting blamed for Leslie slamming a piece of cake into his chest, the best!
Jerry dressed like papa smurf in the first clip
Found this: Larry David [writer] had a policy of "no hugging, no learning," the show must avoid sentimentality and moral lessons, and characters must never learn or grow from their wrongdoings. 😁👍 Excellent.
That was happy days
If he knocks and asks for food then he’s not Kramer, he’s still Stanley Spudowski.
In some ways I can't really describe, I like Kramer the apartment hermit more than the hipster-doofus he became later on. I mean, look at his smiling mug after he tells Jerry that he better believe he was "this" close to becoming a lawyer (which we all know is ludicrous). Or when in all seriousness he offers to talk to the woman on Jerry's behalf. Sure, Richard's as Kramer is still a work in progress, but that he didn't fully retain the subtle yet hilarious aspects of his early character is in my opinion a shame.
I agree and have said it many times that they turned Kramer into too much of a doofus in the later seasons. The Gilligan of Seinfeld, if you will.
@sstills951 I agree. The "Gilligan of Seinfeld" is an apt characterization: he's silly to the point of being cringeworthy, yet funny only sometimes, in my opinion.
Way to go, Michael!
Keep it piffy
wow, Season 1 Episode 1 - The pilot episode!
Jerry's flat and clothing look really different, like a cheap version of what came later, while Kramer looks more of a bum. 😯 But Elaine and George are exactly the same. 😁
......" A groveling worm....". On the money there..
Kramer is One A-H.
Man...the original set sucked lol
I'm sorry but there is just one part of this episode that really rubbed me the wrong way. Elaine goes after Jerry about letting the cable man install cable during the shower. Okay, let's start from the beginning. Jerry allowed you to have this baby shower in his apartment while he was away. His show gets canceled, and he comes back to his home. Yes, he told Kramer to have the Cable Guy install the cable while he was away. It should not have interfered with the baby shower whatsoever. But even if it did for some reason, we all need to remember that this is Jerry's apartment. Schedule and have things done there whenever he wants. He let Elaine have a baby shower in his apartment when he was gone, he also allowed a cable guy to come in and install the table which doesn't take very long into his apartment when he was gone. He has every right to do that. And when Jerry shows up and all three meet, Elaine gets all whiny and butt hurt, like her thing was the most important part of that situation. That has always really pissed me off for some reason over all of these years. Elaine, you should be so fortunate that Jerry allowed you to use his apartment for this stupid, worthless baby shower. While he is gone, if a cable guy shows up, who was scheduled to be there that weekend to do a job, you should just shut your mouth and let them do their job, so they can be in and out. But she made such a huge deal out of something stupid, Jerry was able to come back home to his place and find the baby shower and the cable guys both trying to do their own things. But because Elaine is such a baby, she blew it out of proportion and made a huge deal about all of it. This scene has always really pissed me off over the years, every time I see it. She is so entitled that it makes me sick to my stomach. And she is too much of a narcissist to realize it, and Jerry won't point it out to her. There are multiple times any different scenario, wear multiple characters of the show are so self-absorbed, narcissistic and egotistical, that I really think the show would be better if when those points came up, other characters directly called them out and shut them down about their ridiculous behaviors. Seinfeld is a good show, but I think if they wouldn't have let all of that self-righteous BS slide under the radar, and they called it out, it would have been an even better show. Watch the series and think about that, where they each call out each other's narcissism, and just imagine how the show would have progressed. It would have been 10 times better than the nonsense, passive BS we were forced to watch and love.