Because he's my butler.

The Little Jerry Seinfeld cockfight episode is seriously underrated

You know Keith, what I've always wondered, with all these ball clubs flying around all season don't you think there would be a plane crash? But if you think about it...26 teams, 162 games a season, you'd think eventually an entire team would get wiped out.

CFP wrote:You know Keith, what I've always wondered, with all these ball clubs flying around all season don't you think there would be a plane crash? But if you think about it...26 teams, 162 games a season, you'd think eventually an entire team would get wiped out.

geezus

Philly the Kid wrote:geezus

WHO'S THIS CHUCKER?

yes, i'm impugning a continent.

Philly the Kid wrote:

CFP wrote:You know Keith, what I've always wondered, with all these ball clubs flying around all season don't you think there would be a plane crash? But if you think about it...26 teams, 162 games a season, you'd think eventually an entire team would get wiped out.

geezus

Each team flies an estimated 50,000 miles per season. With 30 teams (now), that's 1,500,000 air miles each year. Assuming 70 persons per flight (team, coaches, media, flight crew) that comes to 105,000,000 passenger miles per season. For the years 1992-2011 inclusive, there has been 0.000000022808 air fatalities per mile flown. To make it simpler, that's .023 deaths per millon miles flown. To simplify it even further, that's one fatality per 44,000,000 passenger miles flown. So each year, theoretically MLB would lose 2.36 passengers per season. Going back to the prior number of 70 passengers per flight, and the assumption that a crash would be fatal to all passengers, we should expect to lose an MLB team every 29.3 years. We're due. Costanza was right.

/larryliteral

Those are my everyday balloons...

I've been going through these lately. They're really great.
http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com

I can't believe that Jerry is almost 60 years old

i can't believe anyone trusts he's still funny

I've said it before -- the mistake Seinfeld made and a few other shows could have leveraged this or a variation of it -- is that it's not like series or no-series are the only options.

Seinfeld didn't really rely on story arcs. While they did self-reference and certain characters or themes appeared more than once -- it's self contained per episode.

The show ended in Spring 98. Great, take 5 years off. Note the massive syndication. Still have new people discovering it and by 2003-2004 most of the cast had tried new sit-coms that bombed. Same thing happened with Cheers cast.

The answer, was to just do 1-2-3 episodes a year. Think of the publicity and think of the spike in ratings. Imagine if every year on on Super Bowl Sunday, when the game was over, they aired a "new" episode of Seinfeld. Because of the way they lived - age doesn't matter. They could always "be them" at any age. Many shows, could have the "special 2 night whatever" or just a one-off. Seinfeld by now, in 2014 could have done say 5-10 episodes spread over 15 years … surely they could come up with stuff as they did on that sub-plot they did on Larry David where they almost made a full episode. If it's not cost effective to rebuild the sets for 1 ep, then make 3 and spread them over a year. Surely they could all show up for that.

Cheers could have done something similar too. Wait a few years, and then just do 1-2 eps. Friends, same thing. Frasier. Office. Any show that had a mass following and succeeded in syndication. I never watched Frasier when it aired - but I eventually got familiar in repeats here and there.


Another example is Star Trek. Rather than launch whole new series, just do a mini-series. 5-6 hours spread over a 1-2 week period. Or even do like HBO Showtime -- 6-8 eps for a season. But even if it was just one 3 hour arc, spread over two nights -- ALL the Star Trek heads would tune-in. Much less ambitious than trying to make a full series work and could avoid all the filler stuff.

It's an easy way to bring back "old friends". Obviously, as people age and die, you can't do it anymore. TOS without McCoy and Spok or Kirk is useless. Seinfeld without all 4 is useless. Cheers could probably get away with it as long as they had Sam, and 3-4 others …

Night Court is another one. WKRP. Taxi. (as long as most of the key actors are alive, do 1 episode and just promote it and I'd bet the ratings would be high!)

Seinfeld especially...

Or they can do one hour to an hour and a half shows like Gillian's island and the Brady bunch did back in the late 70's to early 80's every couple of years.

Seinfeld meets the Harlem Globetrotters?

ek wrote:Nick Vadala, Philly.com
POSTED: THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014, 11:26 AM
FILED UNDER: TELEVISION

When an image of Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander walking outside the iconic Tom’s Restaurant hit Twitter earlier this month, Seinfeld reunion rumors started flying—which Seinfeld initially teased with his allusion to a “secret project” in his recent Reddit AMA. Now, though, we know the truth: we’re getting a Seinfeld reunion. Of sorts.

Seinfeld appeared on WFAN’s “Boomer & Carton” show earlier this morning, sitting down to an onslaught of questions related to the above mentioned photo. When pressed, Seinfeld reluctantly gave up most of the goods, saying that he and Alexander were, in fact, filming something when the Tom’s Restaurant photo went up on January 13. Though, he does refuse to say exactly what it is.

It is not, however, a commercial, or an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but Seinfeld did say that Alexander was playing his iconic George Costanza character, and that other Seinfeld characters would be involved. The project also will be a “short-ish” form one, never to happen again, and involves Larry David. Nothing wrong with a little mystery.

Luckily, we won’t have to grapple with that mystery long. Seinfeld says the project will be released “very, very soon.”

This did in fact become a 6 min Comedians in Cars getting coffee. It's fantastic!

http://www.comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com

stevemc wrote:

ek wrote:Nick Vadala, Philly.com
POSTED: THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014, 11:26 AM
FILED UNDER: TELEVISION

When an image of Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander walking outside the iconic Tom’s Restaurant hit Twitter earlier this month, Seinfeld reunion rumors started flying—which Seinfeld initially teased with his allusion to a “secret project” in his recent Reddit AMA. Now, though, we know the truth: we’re getting a Seinfeld reunion. Of sorts.

Seinfeld appeared on WFAN’s “Boomer & Carton” show earlier this morning, sitting down to an onslaught of questions related to the above mentioned photo. When pressed, Seinfeld reluctantly gave up most of the goods, saying that he and Alexander were, in fact, filming something when the Tom’s Restaurant photo went up on January 13. Though, he does refuse to say exactly what it is.

It is not, however, a commercial, or an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but Seinfeld did say that Alexander was playing his iconic George Costanza character, and that other Seinfeld characters would be involved. The project also will be a “short-ish” form one, never to happen again, and involves Larry David. Nothing wrong with a little mystery.

Luckily, we won’t have to grapple with that mystery long. Seinfeld says the project will be released “very, very soon.”

This did in fact become a 6 min Comedians in Cars getting coffee. It's fantastic!

http://www.comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com

I wish that hadn't happened.

Where was Larry David??

I don't know. It almost seemed a little "too much" like they were caricatures of themselves. It didn't seem that genuine to me.