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Another box
Finished Seinfeld Season Six last night. Quite a low-key finale, The Understudy, despite the appearance of Bette Midler, who seemed to bring out Kramer's inner gay. It's been a rollicking run (The Race, The Switch, The Doorman, The Big Salad and of course The Fusilli Jerry). Even though the hand of Larry David is ever present, it's interesting how much a raft of new writers injected into the formula. The Understudy was actually written by an all-woman team, Carole Leifer and the late Marjorie Gross, which showed in the nail salon subplot. Good to see the first appearance of J Peterman, who will become Elaine's boss in Season Seven, which I have to wait until November to buy! The decision at the beginning of the end of Season Five (The Opposite) to have George in gainful employment really opened up successive storylines. I suppose I could go back and start watching them from Season One again.
And to reiterate, these box sets are surely the finest ever put together. The extras (especially Inside Look) actually enhance the episodes, and the bloopers, which you must, by law, save up until you've seen the whole season, are a laff riot. (Interesting, too, how much less harsh and authoritarian the unseen director Andy Ackerman sounds in these outtakes. The cast used to really get told off by the original director, Tom Cherones! "Come on, guys!" Maybe the success of the show allowed everybody to relax a bit, and lean into those corpses.) Oh, and The Understudy appears to be the first ever Seinfeld that isn't topped and tailed by a stand-up routine.
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That's now cost me some money. I'd been resisting getting any more Seinfeld DVDs - after all I've seen every episode already... but it's those extras - I watched a few episodes on the series one DVD three times in a row and they were different each time. I now have to get the ones I don't have.
My new quandry is; should I get the series 3 DVD for Arrested Development? I even had it in my hand yesterday but put it back on the shelf. Will there ever be a region 2 version?
Season 6 is one of the best of the lot as far as I'm concerned - The Fusilli Jerry, The Doorman, The Kiss Hello, The Chinese Woman - I could list them all.
I still find it hard to believe that this show was so popular in the US...
And two more months until Season 7 and then what? Another year til Season 8? Nonononono, far too long.
Better than Curb Your Enthusiasm though - I just finished watching Season 5 on dvd and I now know I have to wait for 6 to be made and broadcast in US tv before I can watch it on dvd. How long is that gonna take! I can't bear it!
Curb is surely the best comedy show ever made...
Currently working my way through the season 4 box set, and it's genius. 'The Bubble Boy', 'The Contest', so many classic episodes! I can see I'm going to have to waste a lot more money in the near future.
I am currently sporting Gore-tex.
Utter genius.
I got Seasons 1, 2 and 3 for my birthday and, my god, how brilliant are they?! I also realise that my paper round money is really going to have to be invested in buying more!
It doesn't really get much better than Seinfeld. Even though it was shunted about by BBC2, at least it was shunted about with Larry Sanders, which all made for 50 minutes of brilliant comedy, and helped me cope with being stuck in a shabby bedsit in Grays some 10 years ago.
However, I won't be buying this box set just yet, not after today's phone call from the lovely people at Egg regarding my credit limit anyway.
Talking of US TV, as we are, I've just come back from Canada where I saw the first episode of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, starring Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford among others.
I thought it was great, but I'm not sure if might be a bit 'industry' for the average yank viewer. It's coming our way in January and Andrew it's got you written all over it.
Imagine The West Wing crossed with The Larry Sanders Show - I know you're going to love it.
I can't physically contain my excitement about Studio 60. It's almost painful.
Jason Alexander's ridiculous McDonalds advert from the late 80's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac
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