There's really nothing at all funny about the ongoing legal travails of the killers of Redskins star Sean Taylor. Still, a job's a job, and Seinfeld Day's stated task is to link each of SI.com's Top Stories to the legendary sitcom. Nobody ever said it would be easy.
Jail, or the threat thereof, recurs frequently on the show. The series itself ends with the four main characters imprisoned for breaking the Good Samaritan Law by not helping a heavyset man who was getting carjacked.
Other notable jail-related scenes include star-crossed restaurateur Babu Bhatt facing deportation, Kramer getting arrested with his borrowed "Technicolor dreamcoat" because he was mistaken for a pimp, and Jerry and George reminiscing about the nice Sgt. Chadway and the mean red-headed cop with the long sideburns after spending time in the same jail. (That was in The Stranded, when George was arrested for stealing from a drug store and Jerry is nabbed when he pays for the prostitute ordered by guest star Michael Chiklis, later on The Shield.)
Yet my personal favorite among Seinfeld jail scenes came in Episode 138, The Little Kicks. George is arrested for pinch-hitting for Jerry in Belichicking -- I'm sorry, illegally videotaping -- a movie. Jerry had removed himself from the project spearheaded by the shady Brody because of creative differences (as Kramer had tried to explain, "If you don't make (Jerry) happy, the work suffers, and then nobody's happy") but George was eager to step into the breach to show his new galpal that he really was a "bad seed."
Anyway, George and his girlfriend are pinched. Elaine picks up George's girlfriend (one of her employees) at the police station and runs into Frank Costanza, there to retrieve his son after first smacking him in the head. Elaine and Frank proceed to get into an argument that led to my favorite outtake of the entire series, as Jerry Stiller had everyone on the set, and especially Julia Louis-Dreyfus, struggling to keep a straight face. ("You sayin' you wanna piece of me? You got it!") Look for it when they air the occasional clip shows.
Incidentally, that was also the episode that introduced the notion that Elaine was a terrible dancer.
(Programming Note: This is a continuation of Seinfeld Day here at the 10 Spot. All day long, I will be connecting SI.com's Top Stories to specific Seinfeld episodes to mark the 10th anniversary of the show's finale. Feel free to check out today's introduction here.)
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Comments (45)
Deathblow - great movie.
Finsterbaby | 05/16/08, 02:10 PM
Report Offensive CommentWhy can't you just accet that the show is over?
BOB
MungoDM --R&R in 5 | 05/16/08, 02:12 PM
Report Offensive CommentJerry is a very very bad man!
Martel - Moopsbane | 05/16/08, 02:13 PM
Report Offensive CommentWhy can't you just accet that the show is over?
BOB
MungoDM - T minus 1 hour | 05/16/08, 02:12 PM
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I still have a "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie" poster in my condo. Some of us superfans just get it.
Anthony Verna | 05/16/08, 02:18 PM
Report Offensive CommentDeathblow - great movie.
Finsterbaby
Deathblow - what we can only hope will happen to all of this sorry arsed Seinfeldism.
(duck)
Barzhac: I'm a monster, rarr! | 05/16/08, 02:19 PM
Report Offensive CommentThey've shown the out-takes of Jerry Stiller saying "You want a piece of me, and, on the first couple takes, Julia Dreyfus absolutely loses it."
Stiller, with his wife Anne Meara, were a pretty succesful comedy duo at one time. He was definitely one of my fave's on the show.
rock_chalk | 05/16/08, 02:20 PM
Report Offensive CommentSome of us superfans just get it.
Anthony Verna |
Really? Ithought that kind of fanaticism lended itself to a life of involuntary celibacy.
Barzhac: I'm a monster, rarr! | 05/16/08, 02:20 PM
Report Offensive CommentDeathblow - great movie.
Finsterbaby
Deathblow - what we can only hope will happen to all of this sorry arsed Seinfeldism.
(duck)
Barzhac HATES ******* DETOURS | 05/16/08, 02:19 PM
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See, Barz, I'm with you. I don't find the show to be the best thing ever on TV, but hell, I'm playing along. It's a fun day and it's a change from the usual.
Anthony Verna | 05/16/08, 02:22 PM
Report Offensive CommentI still have a "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie" poster in my condo. Some of us superfans just get it.
Anthony Verna
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My office has a movie poster from the movie RAD (with Lori Laughlin and Talia Shire), classics never die.
Uncle Ben - Data Monkey | 05/16/08, 02:22 PM
Report Offensive CommentIthought that kind of fanaticism lended itself to a life of involuntary celibacy.
Barzhac HATES ******* DETOURS
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Yes, the kind that wins contests.
Martel - Moopsbane | 05/16/08, 02:22 PM
Report Offensive CommentReally? Ithought that kind of fanaticism lended itself to a life of involuntary celibacy.
Barzhac HATES ******* DETOURS | 05/16/08, 02:20 PM
That only happens 70% of the time. 30% of the time they meet up with people of similar interests and 15% of the time the celibacy is acute
Pflebeau | 05/16/08, 02:23 PM
Report Offensive CommentReally? Ithought that kind of fanaticism lended itself to a life of involuntary celibacy.
Barzhac HATES ******* DETOURS
Speaking from experience ?
rock_chalk | 05/16/08, 02:23 PM
Report Offensive CommentSee, Barz, I'm with you. I don't find the show to be the best thing ever on TV, but hell, I'm playing along. It's a fun day and it's a change from the usual.
Anthony Verna
See now why did you ahve to go and do that. Iget in a good dig, just as you'r eall nice and agreeable and stuff. THat's no fun at all. :-(
Barzhac: I'm a monster, rarr! | 05/16/08, 02:26 PM
Report Offensive CommentReally? Ithought that kind of fanaticism lended itself to a life of involuntary celibacy.
Barzhac HATES ******* DETOURS
Speaking from experience ?
rock chalk - it's Festivus
That, on the other hand, is the kind of response I've learned to expect - nay, cherish - from the 10 Spot.
Barzhac: I'm a monster, rarr! | 05/16/08, 02:27 PM
Report Offensive CommentThat only happens 70% of the time. 30% of the time they meet up with people of similar interests and 15% of the time the celibacy is acute
Pflebeau
Does that mean it's chronic 85% of the time?
Barzhac: I'm a monster, rarr! | 05/16/08, 02:27 PM
Report Offensive CommentThat, on the other hand, is the kind of response I've learned to expect - nay, cherish - from the 10 Spot.
Barzhac HATES ******* DETOURS
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Seems like "hand" would be the operative term here, for sure.
Martel - Moopsbane | 05/16/08, 02:28 PM
Report Offensive CommentIn other news, seeing the success of the Tampa MLB team after they removed the word 'Devil' from their name, the New Jersey NHL team has decided to do likewise. Beginning in the 2008-2009 season , the team shall simply be known as the New Jersey S. New uniforms and logo will be revealed at a later date.
MungoDM --R&R in 5 | 05/16/08, 02:28 PM
Report Offensive CommentThat, on the other hand, is the kind of response I've learned to expect - nay, cherish - from the 10 Spot.
Barzhac HATES ******* DETOURS
Sounds like the aforementioned 'fanaticism' ...
rock_chalk | 05/16/08, 02:28 PM
Report Offensive CommentThat, on the other hand, .......
Barzhac HATES ******* DETOURS | 05/16/08, 02:27 PM
But are you still master of your domain
Pflebeau | 05/16/08, 02:28 PM
Report Offensive CommentDoes that mean it's chronic 85% of the time?
Barzhac HATES ******* DETOURS
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No, obtuse (see math-based thread earlier this week).
Martel - Moopsbane | 05/16/08, 02:28 PM
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