Was Seinfeld always called Seinfeld? Or was it called something else in the beginning?
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You heard right, Albert.\n\nThe pilot episode of the series was called 'The Seinfeld Chronicles.' And the actual script for that episode arrived at NBC from Castle Rock Studios with a show title that didn't even have the name Seinfeld in it: 'Stand-Up.'\n\n______________________
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"was" ?\n\nit still is...   the name has not changed........
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dan's close on what he has but he's a little off, probably because wikipedia is not a reliable source to get your information from...when they were showing the show to test groups of kids, they asked on what the kids wanted the name to be and sesame street came forward from that...though nobody liked the name nobody could come up with anything better so it stuck
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I'm in my 50s and this sort of inflection was rarely heard before maybe the mid 1980s. Until then, it was pretty much associated with "Valley Girl" speaking style. And yeah, it's confusing and annoying. I find myself constantly asking "Was that a question or a statement?"
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Whoa... deep, man.\nBut if you're going to go into that, then who named anything?  Who decided to use a certain word for every object that we have a name for?  Who made all the adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, etc. that we use everyday?  It started with some primative human ancestor, but how did it get to what it is today?\n\nWow, I just asked a lot more than I answered.  My bad.  Sorry.
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well it's Deutschland over here. dunno when it was named\nGermany in english. probably a long time ago
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I know that they're no longer the #1 network.  Conan always jokes around by saying their last, but I think their #4?  They used to be #1 when Friends and Seinfeld was on, but their big hits right now are The Office, and Earl.  Maybe even Heroes.
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Hmmm...I think "Frasier" (people...it's spelled with an 's' not a 'z') was the best and in some ways surpassed how great Cheers was.    \n\nAnd the worst had to be "After MASH" what were they thinking with that one?
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Highly accomplished TV composer Jonathan Wolff wrote and performed the Seinfeld theme, as well as all of the bass licks and 'pops' during intros and scene changes.  BTW, it was all done with keyboards, no real bass or drums.  And no Larry David mouth pops. :-)
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I think that somebody started saying it that way and it caught on.  I agree with you that it seems arbitrary.  It might also be that this changes over time.  Maybe a couple of decades from now, people will be saying "twenty o six".
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ur favorite shows? what shows? all i see on NBC now is crap. Its all will and grace wanna-bes, spin offs, or crappy "reality" shows. Its all stupid crap with stupid sexual inuendo's designed to get a cheap laugh, or lame ass jokes with recorded laughter. Speaking of which, heres a fact : If you take any 3 episodes from any 3 "sitcoms" made within the last 10 years, and compare the laughing, you will find out that all 3 of them are the same. The only reason they put those in there is to get another cheap laugh out of you.
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Yes I remember that show.  Norm is a comediennce and he did a sitcom, much like Seinfeld did.  I thought Norm's show was hysterical, and was sad to see it go.
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I'm teaching a class like this right now and I get sick of listening to political speeches, I'd like to see you argue that chocolate chip cookies are better than oatmeal rasin.  I heard a pretty good speech last year about why Seinfeld is the best sitcom ever - that was pretty interesting.  Have fun with it though, you don't have to pick something super heavy to persuade people of it, you just have to be professional.
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Superman.\n\nSuperman was the only character apart from the regular cast who featured in every episode of Seinfeld, either by name or in pictures which featured on Jerry's fridge, or a statue that sits on his shelf (next to the door to his bedroom/bathroom).\nSome of the numerous references to Superman and Superheros are listed below:\n\nA magnet of Superman is on Jerry's refrigerator.\n\nA Superman statue is sitting on a shelf near Jerry's stereo.\n\nJerry has referred to Elaine as Lois Lane.\n\nJerry refers to a girlfriend's apartment as the Fortress of Solitude.\n\nJerry wonders aloud if the reason one of his girlfriend's always wears the same dress is because she has a bunch of them just like Superman has a bunch of identical costumes and capes.\n\nWhen Jerry dates a woman that will not laugh at his jokes he comments that jokes bounch off of her like she is Superman.\n\nJerry refers to one of Elaine's poor boyfriends as "the got no green lantern" a reference to another DC comics character (other than Superman) Green Lantern.\n\nJerry refers to people he meets that apppear to be opposites of George and Kramer as the Bizarros.\n\nJerry refers to people's nemesis as Lex Luthor. "Who is your Lex Luthor" is a phrase Jerry uses often. Elaine's Lex Luthor is Sue Ellen the woman that wears a bra as a top for example.\n\nJerry picks the phrase Jor-El as his bank pin number.\n\nWhen one of Elaine's boyfriend "the mimbo" is in the hospital as a result of a rock climbing accident which disfigures him, George brings Superman comic books to cheer him up.\n\nJerry compares the lipreading powers of one of his girlfriend's to Superman's X-ray vision. George considers lipreading just a skill like juggling.\n\nAfter George orders a supposed cure for baldness from China, Jerry comments that a world without baldness is like a nation of Supermen.\n\nJerry wins a race against someone who thought he cheated on a race in High School to the music from "Superman: The Movie".\n\nJerry has referred to people's weaknesses as Kryptonite.
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Yes, but now I cant remember what it was called and it is really bugging me!!!
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Repeat after me:\n\n"There is no explosion in the Big Bang theory, only expansion."\n\nThe name "Big Bang" was actually originated by opponents of the theory, and unfortunate name as the theory involves no "bang" at all.
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Yes!  That's what happened to me with Will & Grace!  The show was on foreeever, and I always turned away from it.  Then one day, last year in November, I decided to see what the hoopla was all about.....and found out!  Siiiigh.  What a great show.  Ah, well.  We'll miss them.  (Also happened to me with Seinfeld and Friends)