Which Seinfeld episode is your favorite?

These are all great episodes, fun to re-live some of these on a boring morning at work.

Surprised there has been little love (or if there has, I missed it in my skimming) for the "Magic Loogie" sequence. So perfectly written and timed, Kramer and Newman over-acting during the re-enactment, grainy footage.

Today's favorite "The Library"

The Nose Job

George's Girlfriend (with huge nose): "There are so many pretty girls in the city. I get so intimidated."

Kramer: "Why you're no less pretty than any of them, you just need a nosejob."

Jerry and Elaine are flying home from St. Louis to New York after Jerry has performed a show and Elaine has visited her sister. When their flight to JFK Airport gets cancelled, Jerry and Elaine rebook on another flight to LaGuardia Airport, with one seat left in first class and one in coach. After a brief tense moment during which Jerry explains that he cannot fly coach since he's flown first class before while Elaine hasn't and so cannot miss it, Elaine gets cramped into coach and Jerry parties in first class with a sexy model, Tia Van Camp (Jennifer Campbell).

Due to their having to rebook and a rerouting of their flight, George and Kramer go between JFK and LaGuardia to pick them up. Once they settle on an airport, George meets a convict, and takes the last Time Magazine available. The convict asks for it, but George refuses, saying he has a "blurb" in it. The convict tells him to look at the cover, which shows the convict's face and the headline "Caught!". George still refuses to hand over the magazine, despite threats from the convict. Kramer sees a former roommate of his (Grossbard) who owes him $240 from twenty years ago ($1241 in 2009 dollars, according to the CPI Inflation Calculator, BLS.gov). Kramer hatches a scheme to get the money back that involves him and George buying tickets for the man's flight and boarding it, Kramer receiving his money and then they get off the plane and return the tickets. George buys into the scheme, as he decides it will give him more frequent flier miles, and he will just get his money back, he asks Kramer to buy two tickets. Kramer buys non-refundable tickets, claiming the woman who sold them convinced him it was a good deal, to George's dismay. They board the plane and Kramer confronts Grossbard, asking him for the money, when Grossbard claims he does not know who Kramer is, Kramer attempts to reach into his pocket and grab his wallet, which creates a scene. During this, George is waiting for the bathroom, and when the door opens up, it is the convict, unshackled, inside. He grabs George, pulls him into the bathroom and locks the door, and then continues to beat up George. Kramer is arrested and apparently in "serious trouble", but he escapes the security guard's grasp and runs away.

When Jerry and Elaine land, the model says goodbye to Jerry, and claims she will call him, while she is being followed by paparazzi. Elaine's bag never arrives (This was due to an earlier scene where Elaine complains to a man who handles their baggage that he does not deserve to be tipped. In revenge, he sends her luggage on a different flight to Honolulu.), and Kramer comes sliding down the baggage chute, as his escape was successful. The three of them leave, while George is seen in on a seat in the airplane, flying to an unknown location, letting out a scream of exasperation (directed at Kramer), as the episode ends.

Merv Griffin - probably the best job of tying up all 3 storylines in one final moment. The line "Hawks eat squirrels, you idiot" sets up the ending perfectly.

Not to mention, everyone who had one pulled out their Mattel Football game after seeing that on TV again.

Little Jerry Seinfeld

the one where Elaine contracts with Newman to 'off' the barking do

"The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man returning soup at a diner."

Has anyone mentioned the Pensky file?

Shrinkage?

Surprised nobody mentioned my favorite, or one of them: The Blood.

George incorporates food (Pastrami on rye) into lovemaking, without his GF knowing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHchl4AxsE0

"I find Pastrami to be the most sensual of all the salted cured meats".

Kramer - takes his blood out of a blood bank. Makes sausage at Jerry's place:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAUP1wsmqUU

Elaine babysits, and Jerry trains with that old guy thats friends with his parents, mr mandulbum.

CTA wrote:

Shrinkage?

Oh, shrinkage......

I don't have a specific fave, but the episode where Terry Hatcher appears. and the cast gets fixated on her mammaries

("...they're real and they're spectacular!")

puzzled me then, and now, as She is not generously endowed, albeit attractive without question.

They should have casted differently, but I Do enjoy Hatcher as an actress.

Mr. Mandelbaum: "All aboard the pain train!"

George: "Tippy toe, tippy toe, lemon tree, lemon tree!"

Jerry: "That hook is too small, it's for a muffin or something."

Mr. Bookman

Mr. Steinbrenner: "Just empty calories and male curosity, eh George?"

Elaine: "I don't know how you guys walk around with those things."

George: "Mr. Pensky? Of the Pensky file?"

Mr. Lipman: "It has come to my attention that you sex with the cleaning lady on your desk."

George: "Who told you that?"

Mr. Lipman: "She did."

Mr. Bookman: "Well, let me tell you something, funny boy. Y'know that little stamp,the one that says "New York Public Library"? Well that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole hell of a lot.

Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before: Flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. What's this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without

libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue

fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or: maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld; maybe that's how y'get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time

is over. Y'got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!"

Another classic scene: When Jerry and George meet Elaine's tough guy Dad in the hotel lobby.

I don't know if I have a single favorite, so here's one that hasn't been mentioned yet.

The one where Jerry has to guard the game of Risk so Kramer and Newman can't move pieces around while the other one isn't looking.

Then Jerry and Kramer catch Newman and as he's running up the fire escape to the roof, Kramer yells, "I'm takin' the Congo as a penalty!!"

Then at the end:

Kramer: "Ukraine is weak..."

Guy in Russian hat on subway: "Hey, Ukraine not weak... I come from Ukraine!"

Kramer: "Yeah well we're playin a game here pal, so beat it."

Then the guy says something like "I show you who is weak" and he smashes the board and the pieces fly everywhere.

Then there's the one where Newman and Kramer decide to bring rickshaws to New York. Jerry: "Yes, the city needs more slow moving, wicker vehicles."

Then Kramer has to pull Newman uptown in the Rickshaw they recovered from the homeless guy.

Newman: "Don't tarry... Mind your pace boy, I'm behind schedule already."

And then Kramer lets the rickshaw go...

The library is probably my all time favorite. The actor that plays bookman is just excellent, I don't know how he can stay so serious.

I also like the marine biologist because George telling the story at the end is probably my favorite scene.

Oh and the "day of the big race" where everything is superman themed is pretty good.

Really they're all good, I've seen everyone of them probably 10 times and I still laugh everytime.

I can't believe no one mentioned (but maybe i missed it)

one of the funniest scenes:

Cosmo Kramer: [phone rings, Kramer picks up the phone] Hello... What Delay Industries?

George Costanza: [yelling from the bathroom] Vandelay! Say Vandelay!

Cosmo Kramer: No, you're way, way, way off. Well yeah, that's the right number, but this is an apartment.

George Costanza: [rushes out of the toilet with his pants on his knees] Vandelay! Say Vandelay Industries! [falls down]

After watching the Larry David Show I would say 90% of Seinfeld material was written (or conceived) by Larry David.

And then Jerry comes in and sees George lying face down on the floor with his pants around his knees and says, "And YOU want to be my latex salesman!"

CTA wrote:

I can't believe no one mentioned (but maybe i missed it)

one of the funniest scenes:

Cosmo Kramer: [phone rings, Kramer picks up the phone] Hello... What Delay Industries?

George Costanza: [yelling from the bathroom] Vandelay! Say Vandelay!

Cosmo Kramer: No, you're way, way, way off. Well yeah, that's the right number, but this is an apartment.

George Costanza: [rushes out of the toilet with his pants on his knees] Vandelay! Say Vandelay Industries! [falls down]

Is it just me or is this the only thread on this entire messageboard that is 100% about the topic at hand and all serious posts? Happy Festivus!