Does housekeeping think guests can actually untuck themselves from this swaddle that could contain World’s Strongest Man Hafthor Bjornsson? George then forgets to leave Lupe a tip. She forgets so George spends his night kicking out the tucked covers. In between all of the commotion of the LAPD looking for Kramer, who’s being sought after for strangling women, all George - who was in Los Angeles with Jerry looking for Kramer - can think about is making sure Lupe the maid untucks his bedsheets. We’ve all thought to just go up to him and say “We’re O’Brien.” He’ll never know! Leave it to the Neo-Nazis to change how airport pickups became regulated.Ĥ Season 4, Episodes 1 and 2 – “The Trip” We’ve all seen that guy at baggage claim looking like out-of-work hitman: oversized trench coat, five o’clock shadow, unkempt hair, holding a sign crookedly with your name in black that looks like a six-year-old scribbled it with a Sharpie. At least Jerry got to know Bill, possibly the last man he’d ever know. Well, in this case, the plane was making an emergency landing due to a blizzard. “What’s with this airline? What are you, cutting out the drinks now?” Talk about foreshadowing. Waking up from a nap he asks the flight attendant for something to drink and she refuses. Jerry’s gig gets cancelled due to snow so he flies back early. George explaining the tuck rule to Lupe Sony Pictures TelevisionĢ Season 2, Episode 10 – “The Baby Shower” (Who wants to date a single-faucet lover, anyway?) Those weekend trips can be sure-fire relationship killers. Unfortunately, it’s raining and Vanessa didn’t find the faucet with separate knobs for hot and cold water as charming as Jerry was hoping she would. In order to speed up the intimacy level, Jerry decides to take his girlfriend to Vermont for the weekend. After signing off 20 years ago May 14, 1998, we still remember it took us on a strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk - or did it? And to many other places. After all of the relationships and breakups, meals at Monk’s and times George was fired, Seinfeld was a lot more than nothing. It taught us about being the master of your domain, the Kelly Blue Book value of a Cadillac, that Mom and Pop weren’t even a mom and pop. With his apartment overlooking that of a female nudist, it’s hard to resist temptation.Seinfeld is considered one of the greatest television shows of all-time. The phrase is used throughout the episode to determine which characters are still in the running. It’s a delicately judged balancing act, and one that saw David awarded the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Comedy Series.īut it’s the phrase “master of my domain” that really entrenched itself in the popular culture lexicon after the episode’s broadcast a figure of speech that perfectly encapsulates zen-like abstention from a guilty pleasure. Through deft use of euphemism, innuendo and double entrendres, David managed to keep the suggestive episode clear from the ire of the censors.Īnd somehow it worked: The Contest somehow retains an endearing innocence, while being focused almost entirely on the act of self-pleasure. “But are you still ‘Master of your Domain?'” It is co-creator Larry David’s pin-sharp writing that makes the episode one of the funniest in Seinfeld history (though admittedly the subject matter can elicit a few childish giggles in itself). He believed finding creative, alternative words and phrases throughout would improve the episode. Which is when Seinfeld quickly realised that complying with the censors would make the episode infinitely funnier. Julia Louis-Dreyfus – who played Elaine – didn’t think the episode would ever get made, given the subject matter.Ī note from the censors politely encouraged the removal of the word “masturbate”. It wasn’t until the night before the cast read-through that the actors got their hands on the original script, a version that was not quite as clean as the one that made it to air. Years later, David would draw on these events for inspiration, though he was reluctant to share his idea with Seinfeld, fearing the episode would be impossible to sum-up in an inoffensive pitch. L-R: George, Elaine, Kramer and Jerry ‘enjoy’ a subway ride in classic episode, ‘The Subway’ (Photo: NBC) Larry David allegedly took part after being convinced by his friends to do so (he didn’t think he had a chance of winning). Kenny Kramer – the inspiration behind the Kramer character – claimed that a real life Contest once took place.
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