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January 14, 2021 1:48 PM   Subscribe

A trailer for The Nothing.
posted by chavenet (21 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
Excellent usage of Costanza saying "We live in a society!"
posted by shenkerism at 2:15 PM on January 14, 2021 [4 favorites]


For more Seinfeld remix goodness, there's Seinfeld: The Return (episode 1 of ??) and Seinpeaks (be sure to read their scripts for "Seinfeld: The Darkness")
posted by Saxon Kane at 2:35 PM on January 14, 2021 [4 favorites]


that was breathtaking
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 2:42 PM on January 14, 2021 [3 favorites]


I sit transfixed. This is subtle beauty on a grand scale.
posted by deadaluspark at 3:18 PM on January 14, 2021 [1 favorite]


somebody has watched a lot of Seinfeld.
posted by philip-random at 3:36 PM on January 14, 2021 [4 favorites]


I think I've seen about one or two episodes, but was impressed. Was all of that footage from the show? Nothing else cut in beyond titles?
posted by doctornemo at 4:22 PM on January 14, 2021 [2 favorites]


OK, who’s the Rockbiter? And George would be the little man, but Kramer seems like the type to have a racing snail. 🐌
posted by Huffy Puffy at 7:11 PM on January 14, 2021 [2 favorites]


Well, that was something.
posted by Reverend John at 10:11 PM on January 14, 2021 [1 favorite]


Can someone explain to me how this is different than plain old regular Seinfeld?

I mean I might have spent a lot of the 90s exceptionally high but this is exactly how I remember viewing that awful show the first time around, though I think I remember Kramer having more knives back then. That show was incredibly dark.

I only recently discovered that American Psycho was originally based on Jerry Seinfeld and that Dexter was actually a spin off.

Which reminds me of Friends. Did anyone else remember the lost episode called "The One Where Phoebe Finally Had Enough of Everyone's Trivially Stupid Bullshit." and she hacked them all up with nothing more than an old guitar string?

That episode was so good!
posted by loquacious at 10:32 PM on January 14, 2021 [3 favorites]


Was all of that footage from the show? Nothing else cut in beyond titles?

yes, pretty much all show footage though some of it was messed with a bit -- switches to negative etc.

Based on only one viewing.

I only recently discovered that American Psycho was originally based on Jerry Seinfeld and that Dexter was actually a spin off.

this is news to me. Care to elaborate.
posted by philip-random at 10:56 PM on January 14, 2021 [3 favorites]


That episode was so good!

For my 80's/90's trippy, surreal nostalgia, I prefer "Too many cooks", with of course an advertising interlude of "Unedited Footage of a Bear"...
posted by rozcakj at 6:01 AM on January 15, 2021 [3 favorites]


My wife & I really enjoyed this. My oldest son did not get it. We told him it was based on a show made before he was born; made before his parents had even met in fact. I paused and then added "back when we were masters of our own domains." Which prompted more laughter that we couldn't explain.

I feel old.
posted by nubs at 6:26 AM on January 15, 2021 [6 favorites]


With enough editing, almost every story exists within the many years of "Seinfeld" footage -- and also in other long-running shows. You could probably get a murder mystery out of "Eight Is Enough" and a musical out of "Little House on the Prairie."
posted by wenestvedt at 6:43 AM on January 15, 2021 [3 favorites]


I didn't watch or enjoy Seinfeld, however I don't recall any moments with police, guns, or murder scenes - were those in there, too?
posted by abulafa at 7:26 AM on January 15, 2021 [1 favorite]


There was an arc of two or three shows which had Kramer moving to LA where he got mixed up in a serial killer case. That's certainly where they got the cops. Was there a gun shown in the mugging that led to them all being jailed in the final show? I can't remember.

[I'm just surprised they didn't squeeze Library Cop into the Clowns trailer somewhere.]
posted by Paul Slade at 7:54 AM on January 15, 2021 [3 favorites]


You could probably get a murder mystery out of "Eight Is Enough"

watching that crowd get murdered one at a time would be sheer bliss for this refugee from the late 1970s, the worst era of television ever ... until maybe the early and mid and later eighties.

and a musical out of "Little House on the Prairie."

this would make me the murderer.
posted by philip-random at 8:40 AM on January 15, 2021 [5 favorites]


1: I only recently discovered that American Psycho was originally based on Jerry Seinfeld and that Dexter was actually a spin off.

2: this is news to me. Care to elaborate.

Methinks they are pulling thine leg.
posted by Saxon Kane at 8:55 AM on January 15, 2021 [3 favorites]


With enough editing, almost every story exists within the many years of "Seinfeld" footage -- and also in other long-running shows.

More proof that, given enough data and a free hand in how to manipulate it, you can produce any result you want.
posted by Paul Slade at 10:44 AM on January 15, 2021 [2 favorites]


this would make me the murderer

It's Nellie, who definitely would have framed Laura...

It's always Nellie.
posted by rozcakj at 12:03 PM on January 15, 2021 [1 favorite]


With enough editing, almost every story exists within the many years of "Seinfeld" footage -- and also in other long-running shows.

I actually think we could write a proof that Seinfield is Turing Complete.
posted by alex_skazat at 12:52 AM on January 16, 2021


Yeah, the serial killer bits were from a couple of episodes where Kramer moved to LA. The scene with a bunch of cops shooting in Jerry's apartment are from a dream sequence after Jerry was convinced to have a pirate cable TV hookup installed. Clown stuff comes from an extended storyline involving Jerry having unintentionally offended fellow comedian "Crazy" Joe Davola. Oh, and George was also attacked on an airplane by somebody clearly modelled after the Unabomber. And they spent a whole episode in a limo with neo-Nazis. Lots of elements that you wouldn't have expected in a sitcom over the years.
posted by Ipsifendus at 6:22 AM on January 16, 2021


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